Archive for the ‘PONDERINGS’ Category

THE EAST OF ICELAND!! POTENTIAL OR INDUSTRIAL DEATH?

Egilsstaðir is a small town in the Eastern part of Iceland. A very young town, I remember when I came there first in the 60’s it was very mellow commercial and school location central in the country being a link to all the fjords with very active fisheries. The main school was located close and [...]

February 3, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, MUSIC, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

  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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, MUSIC, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, ISAC - KHiO, PONDERINGS  One Comment

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   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

DR HANS ROSLING WAS A DOCTOR IN MOZAMBIQUE AND EXPLAINS

One of my favourite social workers came to Maputo and spoke about results and development changers from the time when he worked here. I recommend. Tweet This Post

November 24, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed