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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
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EXPERIMENTATION IN GRAPHICS IN MOZAMBIQUE
We had one more project in ISArC in Mozambique in the end of the year. The first week of summer holiday was damaged by our short term workshop in computer graphic design and in clothing tayloring. Håvard Steensen, a graphic designer from our school in Oslo and Dagfinn Skoglund a fashion design teacher in the […]
February 1, 2012
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ÞORPIÐ, AN EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCT WORKSHOP IN EAST ICELAND
A photo of the window of the workshop in evening with lots of snow outside. We are all there chatting, Lára, Signý and Sóley with me facing the window with the camera. Yesterday we were invited to meet Lára Vilbergsdóttir and Signý Ormarsdóttir in the workshop Þorpið. The Icelandic word Þorpið is a common name […]
January 30, 2012
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FINAL DAY IN OUR ICELAND DIALOGUE
We have so far had a fantastic final day in our project. Lots of experimental work has been done and will be posted during the coming days. Ten groups of students are presenting their ideas, results of conversations and experiments. Here is a simple photo album that will be extended as material arrives. Tweet This Post
January 27, 2012
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The project has been run for one week now and people are coming together with dialogue, finding common ways and what is worth talking about and approaching. The groups have moved around town, visited various activities locations, visited arts and design shows and basically come together. The second week is the one for more […]
January 22, 2012
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REFLECTIONS ABOUT DESIGN AND LIVING
Kristín Gunnarsdóttir, fashion designer and worker in the Iceland Design Centre giving her inspirational talk about creativity and being simple in the search. Tweet This Post
January 18, 2012
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ICELAND DIALOGUE HAS STARTED
Hanna Styrmisdóttir giving the first tutor talk in the lecture series. One of the groups doing exercise Photo Gallery from Day One click here! Today we started our dialogue about design and art in current conditions. A completely interdisciplinary work and also arrived visiting students from foreign school. I have 120 students in the course […]
January 16, 2012
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Emil makes a bike!
Family member Emil makes bikes of all types for all types of people. They run the bike shop Krian and here he is making one more bike. Tweet This Post
January 3, 2012
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CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN OSLO
Here is the program for the conference. Rather unclear so here is also the link to it. Tweet This Post
December 13, 2011
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DESIGN WORKSHOP IN MOZAMBIQUE BECOMES TRADITION
The digital class where the students experimented with layers and compositions in photoshop and illustrator. We have had regular workshop with the design students in ISArC in Maputo. This time the workshop was directed as very technical and practical, especially in fashion and graphic design. The guests from my school in Oslo this time were DAGFINN […]
December 3, 2011
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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
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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
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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
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NEW ICELAND AFTER THE FINANCE CRASH
Time for a chat and socializing while browsing the things that are available. Young people in Reykjavik, Iceland have been experimenting with town spaces for events and activities. They are mostly students from the Iceland Academy of Art, the Design Faculty that I was so fortunate to be allowed to work for during the first […]
September 10, 2011
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THE FIRST TEST RUN SAUNA IN OUR SCHOOL IN EAST ICELAND
Here on the photo is the area where the sauna is being erected and the ceremonial area for burning and thinking and communicating. The location is very close to our building and is on the other side of the fjord from the main town. Tonight is the first official test of the new sauna that […]
July 16, 2011
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