CAFE PANTOPIA
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Pantopia, translates to 'the common place' – the essence of our project. The goal being a common meeting-place that traverses the vast distances of the North Atlantic Ocean. Pantopia has entrances in Nuuk, Reykjavík, Tórshavn and Copenhagen. Treat your friend in Nuuk to a cup of coffee, while you enjoy one in Copenhagen.

IDEA
The central concept behind Cafe Pantopia is to create a common meeting-place for people associated with the North Atlantic countries, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark.

Café Pantopia will champion processes that will enable the creation, maintenance and reestablishment of  human relations where physical contact is rare. Technological advancements such as; E-mail, instant messaging and mobile phones already support contacts across the Atlantic, however this excludes the change encounter with a friend – seeing and being seen. Cafe Pantopia enables both the 'contact despite the distance' as well as the intimate and casual encounters of urban life.

BACKGROUND
A large amount of Faroese, Greenlanders and Icelanders settle in Denmark, be it for educational, professional or family related reasons. Some return home and some Danes move northward, primarily for work or family related reasons. This project arose from personal experiences, of those involved, of living or having lived in different places around the North Atlantic – and having to deal with distant relationships as a natural everyday aspect.

REPORT :: DOWNLOAD (DANISH ONLY) ::
The first phase of the project is completed. The result is a report analyzing needs, technical requirements, catering and café concept, existing and potential partners, legal implications, maintenance and  kitchen prerequisites etc.

This report proposes the commencing of a pilot phase, resulting in a functional prototype between two of the four countries. Included in this pilot phase are relevant technical and social experiments and tests.