Archive for October, 2011

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

Top View of Nuuk Surroundings

Nuuk, On Top from dori gislason on Vimeo. We were invited to the top of the new building that will be the highest building for a while in central Nuuk. A very good point to see how the town is located in this amazing landscape and the type of colonial planning that has taken place […]

October 8, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, GREENLAND, PONDERINGS  No Comments

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

WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA?

Sesselja (left) and Vala (right) in their presentation in San Fransisco: Presentation here After the economic collapse of Iceland (one of the worst in global history), Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir found themselves at square one. Perhaps that very phrase (“square one”) occurred to them at that point, because their new financial strategy had them […]

October 2, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  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