Archive for January, 2010

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  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

CHRISTMAS SUMMER HOLIDAY

Rejao waiting for tomorrow in London Underground This year Christmas break has been dominated by the project on sustainability that David and Rejao are doing by traveling and living with us for 5 weeks in the North. We have met great many people and are thankful for all the support that we have got. The […]

January 29, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: PONDERINGS  No Comments

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  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

I AM REDEVELOPING MY WEBSITE

These days I am redeveloping my website from the old windows based system to a wordpress platform. The aim is not to change the site much to those that visit the site, but this will simplify for me how I post material on the site. The old site will then appear in the archives if […]

January 23, 2010   Posted in: PONDERINGS  No Comments

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  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

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   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

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   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

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  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments