Archive for the ‘DESIGN’ Category
FINAL DAY IN OUR ICELAND DIALOGUE
We have so far had a fantastic final day in our project. Lots of experimental work has been done and will be posted during the coming days. Ten groups of students are presenting their ideas, results of conversations and experiments. Here is a simple photo album that will be extended as material arrives. Tweet This Post
January 27, 2012
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The project has been run for one week now and people are coming together with dialogue, finding common ways and what is worth talking about and approaching. The groups have moved around town, visited various activities locations, visited arts and design shows and basically come together. The second week is the one for more [...]
January 22, 2012
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EARLY BREAKFAST
One of the groups is experimenting with dialogue and demonstrations and finding out how to present and live things. Here is a photo session from the event. Tweet This Post
January 18, 2012
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REFLECTIONS ABOUT DESIGN AND LIVING
Kristín Gunnarsdóttir, fashion designer and worker in the Iceland Design Centre giving her inspirational talk about creativity and being simple in the search. Tweet This Post
January 18, 2012
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ICELAND DIALOGUE HAS STARTED
Hanna Styrmisdóttir giving the first tutor talk in the lecture series. One of the groups doing exercise Photo Gallery from Day One click here! Today we started our dialogue about design and art in current conditions. A completely interdisciplinary work and also arrived visiting students from foreign school. I have 120 students in the course [...]
January 16, 2012
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COOPERATIVE WORKSHOP IN ICELAND
Last year we ran a cooperative workshop in Iceland that I was lucky enough to be asked to organize. All students in the Arts Academy (Listaháskóli Íslands) in one year took part so I had 110 students from all the studies, theatre, dance, music, fine arts, various design fields etc. They worked in groups and [...]
January 6, 2012
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Emil makes a bike!
Family member Emil makes bikes of all types for all types of people. They run the bike shop Krian and here he is making one more bike. Tweet This Post
January 3, 2012
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CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN OSLO
Here is the program for the conference. Rather unclear so here is also the link to it. Tweet This Post
December 13, 2011
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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT IN MOZAMBIQUE
I am returning from one more stint in Africa, or in this case Mozambique, where I came first time almost 5 years ago. I have been involved in developing and establishing the first design and art school in the country on university level, where we just finished the 5th semester of teaching aiming for the [...]
December 8, 2011
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DESIGN WORKSHOP IN MOZAMBIQUE BECOMES TRADITION
The digital class where the students experimented with layers and compositions in photoshop and illustrator. We have had regular workshop with the design students in ISArC in Maputo. This time the workshop was directed as very technical and practical, especially in fashion and graphic design. The guests from my school in Oslo this time were DAGFINN [...]
December 3, 2011
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SAMUEL DJIVE IN MAPUTO EXHIBITION
One of my students in Maputo, Samuel Djive has opened an exhibition of his work in Franco in Maputo. There is lots of entertaining work there with formal experimentation and love for mixture of objects and form. In my opinion this is one of the better exhibitions I have seen in Franco for a while. [...]
November 22, 2011
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DIG-EQUALITY PROJECT GETS FUNDING
We have spent almost 5 years on a project named DIG-Equality, meaning DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY. Me and Sóley Stefánsdóttir have made a project document that has been used to stimulate some gender driven research and action projects in design and architecture. Will post more about this later. This project is about gender issues and [...]
November 21, 2011
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ECO/BIO-PRODUCTION IN ICELAND – SÓLHEIMAR
The new and developing larger greenhouse in Sólheimar. They can not supply the demand that is coming these days from the consumer market. Icelander’s are becoming much more focused in this direction after the crash in 2008. We are a few people looking at the bio-eco game in Iceland. We are linked to the Iceland [...]
November 11, 2011
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THACKARA AND THOUGHTS
From left: Jóhannes Þórðarsson, dean of the Faculty of Design in Iceland, John Thackara, design and world developer and Sóley Stefánsdóttir, graphic designer and environmental and gender developer. All walking next to a boiling hot spring in Geysir area in Iceland. My friend John Thackara came to visit Iceland to participate in the grand [...]
November 7, 2011
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CONFERENCE ABOUT DESIGN POLICY FOR ICELAND
On my birthday in the end of August there was held a conference in Reykjavik about the first proper Design Policy Possibility for Iceland. The event was actually a fundamental step after years of hopes and attempts by architects and designers to create some kind of a comprehensive direction for their fields. It is [...]
October 28, 2011
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