Archive for the ‘DESIGN’ Category
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
The house in rebuilding stage. Photo taken from the graveyard. One of my drawings of the complete project, graveyard wall on the right with a roofed gate. I have now over a year been working on a project in the north-west of Iceland, rebuilding a farm, an old concrete structure since ca 1925 and landscaping […]
January 29, 2010
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CIRRUS MEETING OF TEACHERS
We had a great meeting of teachers of design and art in Reykjavik last week. It was a 3 day event with ca 40 international delegates visiting the Iceland Academy of the Arts mixing with the local academics. The meeting looked specifically at three different areas: Gender Equality and Design; Post-Crisis and Design and Common […]
January 28, 2010
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DIG EQUALITY WORK
We continue working on the Design Innovation for Gender Equality project, both by including it in action based projects, now more or less in development work since located mostly in Africa, and as research. There was run a parallel session in the last Meeting of Teachers that took place in The Iceland Academy of Arts […]
January 23, 2010
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SKETCH-BOOK WORKSHOP ICELAND
As I have maintained time and again the sketch-book is fundamental to the reflection and creative process of designers. It is the interface between thought and experiment, thought and thought and thought and others. In it we can test and store ideas. Therefore I have always tried to promote the sketch-book to students and recently […]
January 21, 2010
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HUGMYNDAHÚS HÁSKÓLANNA
There is always great excitement in more space. Activity comes after. Hugmyndahus Háskólanna is a great activity in Reykjavik, where lots of young and enterprising people converge to start up companies, run through projects and generally just be creative. The new space that has been made available for the creative enterprises Here are images from the industrial […]
January 20, 2010
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KARINA, ISAC VISITING OSLO
We had of course to visit the great Oslo Opera House by the sea. Karina was freezing, but we had manages to borrow some warm clothes for her. The temperature was down to -22 degrees while we had news of it being +43 in Maputo. Karina, with the guys from ENAV, Rejao and David have […]
January 16, 2010
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KARINA, ISAC SOUTHERN PARTNER ON OSLO VISIT
Karina and Reidar, professor of visual communication in KHiO design faculty Karina, the leader of the design department in ISAC has come for a visit to Oslo to meet the people in KHiO. We visited together all the specializations in the design faculty, fashion, furniture/product and visual communication. Karina and our work in Maputo was […]
January 15, 2010
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DETOURNAMENT IN ISAC, MAPUTO
Today we had a critique about the work the students in ISAC did for the detournament course that we have been running to develop a critical perspective to the work they might do, coinciding with the general elections here in the end of last month. The work is of various quality while the process has […]
November 9, 2009
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TOOLS OF OUR TRADE – DESIGNERS
Stones on campus were used to load the books while the glue was drying Today we had a workshop in ISAC where the students learned to make their own sketchbook/diary/reflective tool. This item is the fundamental tool of our trade, where we run our own internal dialogue with ourselves. Testing, experimenting and criticizing what we […]
October 20, 2009
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NORDIC TRAVELS AND LECTURE ABOUT DEVELOPMENT WORK
From my lecture in the Reykjavik Art Museum. I see this website is on the screen. I took a quick trip to home fields this September to confer with my people about our work here in Maputo, how the strategy is going, how to change course and what the next steps should be. I also attended […]
September 30, 2009
Tags: art, DESIGN, development, iceland, maputo, mozambique, nordic Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS Comments Closed
First Day of School Conference
I decided to do some simple video documentation of our first days in ISAC. This is an interesting moment, when an academy is formed. We decided to run a simple conference so that we together can define the boundaries of the disciplines and to create a common understanding among the students and teachers of what […]
September 10, 2009
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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IN ISAC, CONFERENCE
I decided to do some simple video documentation of our first days in ISAC. This is an interesting moment, when an academy is formed. We decided to run a simple conference so that we together can define the boundaries of the disciplines and to create a common understanding among the students and teachers of what […]
September 10, 2009
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9/9/9 First Day of School in ISAC
A conversation in plenum about art, design and production. ISAC director joined us for inspiration about ‘touching the soul’ Today on the 9th of 9th of 9 we started the first day of the university education in art and design here in Maputo. During the process of development we in the startup-group decided to begin […]
September 9, 2009
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Design and Art Linking Mozambique and Afrique
One of the reasons we decided to go to Mozambique was that there is enough of designers in the Nordic Countries and theCirrus Network. Actually all Western countries. So we decided to try and do our bit where there is need for people with knowledge about design and maybe also some knowledge about how to […]
September 7, 2009
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INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ARTES E CULTURA HAS STARTED!!
Primus Motor for ISAC, Dr. Alda Costa presents a seriograph to the Minister of Education Today, September 3rd we are very proud that the new academy is at last started here in Maputo. There was a formal ceremony in the morning with all the necessary people present, giving speeches with comments about the great future […]
September 3, 2009
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