Archive for March, 2012

DESIGN MARCH IN ICELAND

Auður, member of the design club gang presenting new products from agriculture from BÚBÓT (farmers products) Design March! One more time the design field in Iceland ran the exhibitions, events and entertainment for the promotion of design as a tool to address world and local issues. This takes place every year in the month of […]

March 28, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND  Comments Closed

ANE MAKING PRINTS

Ane (here is her blog) and me have been in projects together and it has been interesting to follow how she has developed more and more into traditional methods in a school full of computers and clever digital things. This to me seems very much where very many of my students are going while not […]

March 19, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

STRATEGIC BREAK IN OSLO

In the workshop for the master students in Oslo. Cutting and putting together. Project in KHiO discussing strategy for the future. We are discussing design strategy and where design participates in dealing with global issues, production in industry, tourism and food – and actually many more areas. We discuss various globally active projects and go […]

March 14, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

OSLO ACADEMY WORK IN MARCH

My desk in Oslo with the Mac, textile from Mozambique and photo from the Greenland Project. It is great to come to my work place in KHiO, my academy in Norway. My desk is my place and friend and now summer is pretending to arrive. Sun and people sitting outside the school for the lunch […]

March 13, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

WORKSHOP IN DESIGN STRATEGY IN KHiO

Strategy as a term actually comes from military origin and refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal or goals. An identical definition has often been used to define design. The dictionary says for the term ‘design’: To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent: ‘design a good excuse for not […]

March 11, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

THE MONGOLIAN YURT

I have met friends in Iceland that have built a Mongolian Yurt and are doing creative projects and promotion of a different way of working and living. We had great conversation about the use of materials and the traditions that are inherent in this kind of adaptable architecture. The Mongolian Yurts are attracting interest from […]

March 8, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

BiO-SOLHEIMAR IN ICELAND

One of the greenhouses is being now used as the restaurant and presentation location. Solheimar today provides all its production to localities off the Reykjavik capital and suburbs. Here is a photo album from Sólheimar I went for a visit one more time to Sólheimar, the oldest eco farm in Iceland. They are working development […]

March 5, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed