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

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

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

ICELAND GLACIOLOGICAL SOCIETY CABIN REPAIRED

I have been a member of this very important society in Iceland for decades. The work done is very important in knowing the behaviour of nature and volcanoes and glaciers. But it is also a society of very close friends that travel together and get things done in Icelandic nature. Here is a simple video […]

November 6, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

SOUTH EAST ICELAND AND TOURIST DEVELOPMENT

 Attendants to the conference were over 30 participants from many of the activities that are running similar issues in Iceland. A photo album from the meeting On the 26th of October was a meeting in South-East Iceland about changes and the future of tourism and development of experiences in the region. I have kind of […]

October 27, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

MEETING IN GREENLAND

Spent part of September in Greenland where some of my students were doing a research project about one block of flats, but I also spent good time in mapping the activity that might be relevant to design education and practice. Here is a simple photo album from the visit when I looked at some of […]

October 26, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, GREENLAND, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

A MEETING IN ICELAND ABOUT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

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October 25, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

THE NORDIC CIRRUS MEETING IN OSLO

Poor delegates in Oslo had to listen to me planning the next steps in our programs. We had the annual meeting of our network that covers almost all the design schools in Scandinavia and the Baltic. This is named Cirrus and one can see its site here. The normal size of this meeting that takes […]

October 21, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

PRODUCTIONS IN GREENLAND

One of the aims of our projects by the Nordic Design Schools in Nuuk is to look at the production of local tools, clothes and food. Here is a little photo album of the things that are available in the tourist shops. After this nice second visit by the Nordic design schools we will look […]

October 9, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, GREENLAND, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

BE SENSIBLE AND LETS NOT SHUT OUR EYES

Ben McLeish talks in a sensible way about how to deal with the potential future. We all have to think about the issue: “Do we want a livable future or do we not care!?” Here is a small interview with him where he describes some ways of dealing with issues of reorientation of society to […]

October 9, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

Two Whales on the old harbour front in Nuuk

Spent some time by the old harbour in Nuuk, Greenland watching these two whales having a mellow time. I sat outside the local cafe with my coffee and they swam around and decorated my horizon. What more can one ask for? Tweet This Post

October 8, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, GREENLAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

Small Projects and Large History

The three master students from Copenhagen on the wall. With three master students from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen I am living in a block of flats in Nuuk, Greenland. This block is going to be demolished early next year, I guess when the spring weather allows. The block has such a damaged social […]

October 3, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

HERE IS A LITTLE COLLECTIVE MAPPING DONE IN NUUK

Nuuk Days 2011 Nuuk, Autumn 2011 Small Project and Large History Nuuk Babylon Play in Nuuk  Nuuk Rock Festival 2010  Rock Festival and Street Art Arctic Food Colours of Nuuk  Block P in Nuuk Nuuk, Sept 2011  Animals in Nuuk Nuuk, Oct 2011 Visual Greenland Imagined Space     Tweet This Post

October 1, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

NUUK THOUGHTS

Not different to so many other places on earth, Greenland has been a colony for hundreds of years. Directed from Denmark. It is interesting to observe how we have dealt with living under opression that considers itself a saviour in many ways. To help primitive people to survive was the opinion of the ‘developed’ nations […]

October 1, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed