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HARBOR-CITY The harbor has been a zone free from aesthetics and safe from the public opinion. The disappearance of the harbor industries has created great expectations for the return of urban life to the water. The recent development of the harbor has failed to meet these expectations and has turned hopes into disappointments. We believe this crisis to be the symptom of a more fundamental problem, which Copenhagen shares with most postindustrial cities in the world; the inevitable loss of freedom that occurs when the dynamic condition of moving cranes and ships is replaced by static architectural composition. In our love of the historical center with its human scale, well-defined streets and coherent architecture, we seek to replicate it on the waterfront. In doing so we miss out on the harbors untested potential for urban life. The harbor is an area where processes of production and logistics have created and recreated ever-new configurations in the urban space. Rather than conceiving the theatre as part of the replacement of harbor with urban tissue - we seek to exploit that potential.