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A Visual Archive With Room for Every Exhibition

Company name: Danish Architecture Center (DAC)
industry: Architecture & design
headquarters: Copenhagen, Denmark

The Danish Architecture Center (DAC) is a centre for architecture, design and cities, based in BLOX on Copenhagen’s harbour front. With Kontainer as their DAM, DAC keeps a large archive of photos and film organised, searchable and ready for exhibitions, events, learning programmes and the press.

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+33,000Files in the DAM
+1,000Videos
+650Users

DAC COMPANY PROFILE

Where Architecture, Design and City Life Meet

DAC runs exhibitions, events, guided tours and learning programmes in BLOX, and works with architects and other partners to put architecture and design on the agenda.

Behind every exhibition, workshop and press release is a lot of photography and film. That material needs to be easy to find, safe to use and ready to share with very different audiences, from school classes and event guests to journalists.

DAC has used Kontainer as its DAM for almost two years, and the library has grown into an archive of more than 33,000 photos and videos.

Sofie Bøgeren
Campaign Manager, Danish Architecture Center (DAC)

The Challenge

A Big Picture Archive, Needed in Many Places

DAC’s work spans exhibitions, events, education, press and collaboration with architects, and every area both produces and relies on large amounts of photography and film. Pictures of people and events also raise questions about consent and compliance.

On top of that, the website needs fast access to the right images, described in a way that works for everyone. The need is clear: one archive that serves all of it, without anyone having to dig.

The Solution

One Archive, Many Ways In

DAC keeps its full image and video archive in one place in Kontainer and presents it through themed views for exhibitions, tours, education, staff, signage and more. Each team sees the slice that is relevant to them, while the material itself is only stored once.

Consent and facial recognition sit on top, linking photos of people to consent agreements so the team knows what can be used, and where. Permissions and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID give colleagues, partners and press the right level of access, and video is streamed straight from the library.

The website runs on Payload CMS and fetches its images from Kontainer’s CDN. Images used on the site automatically get alt text in both English and Danish, generated by AI, so the site stays accessible without extra manual work.

Key Kontainer Features Used by DAC

Photo Consent Tool

Request and manage photo consent directly from Kontainer. One image can have several agreements.

Facial Recognition

Use facial recognition to find all images of the selected person.

Smart Folders

Save time with auto-maintained Smart Folders that display files based on predefined tagging criterias.

Video streaming

Versatile, easy and compliant video streaming directly from Kontainer DAM

AI: ALT-tekster, oversættelser og keywords: generér automatisk til brug på tværs af sprog og kanaler

AI: ALT Text, Translations & Keywords

Automatically generate ALT text, translations and relevant keywords, so content is ready to use across languages and channels.

SSO & user permissions

Secure, global differentiated access for all stakeholders

The Gains

Easy to Find, Safe to Use, Accessible by Default

The team reaches exhibition, event and education material through the views that suit them, while the archive stays in one place and keeps growing with a steady flow of new files.

Consent information follows the files, which makes it easier to use photos of people with confidence. And every image on the website comes with alt text in both Danish and English, without adding to anyone’s to-do list.