Restaurant Virketrang Case

Restaurant Virketrang is a workshop-based resident restaurant for Tingbjerg's citizens with a focus on fellowship, collaboration and learning about ingredients, cooking, meals and hospitality. Restaurant Virketrang is located in the Community Garden in Tingbjerg, where it was established in February 2020. Here, Tingbjerg's residents prepare gourmet food together with a professional chef from the Copenhagen Hospitality College and serve the food to the restaurant's guests for a cheap price. In 2020, Restaurant Virketrang was open once a week.  Restaurant Virketrang builds on good experiences from a number of food courses, which were developed and implemented by the Copenhagen Hospitility College, Steno Diabetes Center and the Comprehensive Plan in 2019.

Svanholm Case

The Svanholm project was completed in 2019 and helped to establish a village-town collaboration between the Copenhagen district of Tingbjerg and Svanholm Farm. The project's activities consisted of trips to the Svanholm Farm, where residents from Tingbjerg participated in field and stable work as well as various workshops focusing on the production and processing of raw materials. From March to October, a total of 16 activities were carried out, including three major social weekend events on Svanholm Farm. The overall purpose of the project was to strengthen social networks and well-being through active involvement in agricultural production on Svanholm. Furthermore, the Svanholm project had intentions to activate unused resources through the village-town 
collaboration and thereby create social activities and well-being among residents in Tingbjerg.

Food Courses Case

Tingbjerg has many traditions around food and social communities, and in recent years several residents have expressed interest in teaching and learning about food, good ingredients and cooking. Food courses for families have sprung from this interest among Tingbjerg's residents. The courses were developed in a co-creation process with residents in Tingbjerg as well as local and professional stakeholders. Two difference food courses were completed in five courses in the autumn of 2019. The target group was parents and children in 2nd to 4th grade. A total of 19 parents and 24 children participated in the two courses. The food courses were organized based on  four learning objectives, and during the courses, participants learned how to make tasty healthy dishes from different countries, all prepared from scratch.

The Community Garden Case

Between the apartment blocks the Community Garden, Fælleshaven, is located. A green oasis which contains a large outdoor area with resident-gardens, a greenhouse, and a fire pit. The community Garden also has indoor facilities consisting of a kitchen and several rooms where various activities are held throughout the week. The Community Garden was created by Tingbjerg's residents based on a desire to establish a physical framework and a local gathering place, where the district's residents can meet around different activities, interests and social communities. The Community Garden was established in 2019 as an attempt to give the residents a place where they can meet and work across differences, e.g. gender, age and ethnicity. Some activities are exclusively resident-run, while others are defined and developed by the various stakeholders in the community.

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes: Mobilising communities for
social and health actions

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes is a long-term community intervention initiative to promote health and prevent diabetes in the neighbourhood of Tingbjerg in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a place-based approach that includes coordinated interventions driven by a variety of stakeholders across everyday settings. The programme was initiated in 2015 by Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen and the social housing associations FSB, SAB and KAB.  In order to provide better support and services, the social housing associations wanted to better understand the social contexts and dynamics of the community, and SDCC was able to help by providing support to organise a researchbased household survey addressing these issues.