Stina Gustafsson is a curator and art strategist specialising in art and nascent technologies in relation to the public. With over 13 years of experience, she has worked with a wide range of museums, cultural organisations, artists, and companies, including the Bundeskunsthalle, Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Vincent Trasov, Hito Steyerl, and the Ethereum Foundation. She is the co-founder of the art research department for Blockchain Foundation Department of Decentralization. Irina Panovich is a strategic innovation designer. Through co-creating projects, applying strategic foresight, and writing speculative fiction and essays, she works with diverse groups, from international development teams to art and technology collectives, to design for collective intelligence and cultural change. She is the co-founder of A Digital Arts Institute, A(DAI), and a strategic innovation advisor at Future Days and at the UNDP-hosted project C3 Labs.

For their IRL Guide to Copenhagen, Stina and Irina guide us through the North: Nørrebro and Nordvest, a part of the city still becoming itself, where the art always feels the change first. Their picks run from a basement record store and an Eritrean kitchen to a reborn factory and an artist-run gallery: ten hidden gems that hold the line between what's being lost and what's growing in its place.