Archive for the ‘ARCHITECTURE’ Category

YARA PROJECT IN ICELAND SCHOOL

My student Yara is completing her project in the school in Iceland. This is a coposition of material that brings dialogue that brings information and stories about culture and visual language. The piece with the project description and text presentation. The most funamental material is the book that is being displayed with the project.   […]

April 27, 2013   Posted in: AFRICA, ARCHITECTURE, ICELAND, ISAC - KHiO  No Comments

END OF THE YEAR SHOW IN ICELAND ACADEMY

  Present operation going on The Iceland Design Faculty opened the exhibition of the student work after winter 2012-13. The school is going through fundamental changes and development this year and next so I was worried about the contents from the work but the results lifted my opinions. The students have showed that they can […]

April 23, 2013   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

DESIGNERS ARE PARTNERSHIP BROKERS

Anne-Marie Slaughter writes about how the conditions are changing and we are designing our own profession. This might be a different condition to before. She discusses changes that have come with the digital world and then says: “many old titles and jobs no longer make sense” “A similar phenomenon is happening with traditional professions. Technologies […]

January 4, 2013   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

TALLIN ACADEMY WORKS

The students finishing the work before Xmas holiday for a few days before action starts again. Lots of different work in the Academy in Tallin. Great to see architects dealing with reality and opening up potentials. Some images from the activity. Tweet This Post

December 18, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN  No Comments

CIRRUS NETWORK – NORDIC SCHOOLS OF DESIGN

This is the front of the Cirrus Website that I made some years ago. I have posted important material from that site also here on my site so not much will go missing if this site will die. I am not responsible for running this site or network longer so the site might go missing. […]

November 22, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

WELL DONE STUFF

The title of this blog can be very arrogant. We often do not know what is well done and how to measure. I am these days using short version in measuring what and how is well done using five classes:  DIVERSITY, EARTH, ENERGY, FOOD, TECHNOLOGY. This I will explain better at a later stage, but […]

November 8, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

REACH – BETWEEN THOSE THAT NEED TO MEET UP

To reach someone else is most important for any development. We usually never operate alone. In the Nordic Network that is named Cirrus and I have directed for over 6 years we have that aim as fundamental for designers. Institutions, teachers and above all students. The students are the people that will take over and […]

October 9, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, GENDER DESIGN, GREENLAND, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN EAST ICELAND

Photo collection from the event. Preparation going on for the exhibition that they organized Activists, designers, developers, politicians, public servants etc. etc. etc. spent great time together in East Iceland for the MAKE IT HAPPEN – Creative Thinking Conference on the 25th – 28th of September. It was great to meet so many people with […]

September 28, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, GENDER DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

POPTEC IN ICELAND

  Last week we had a PoPTeC conference in Iceland. A strange event but interesting and great fun. This seems a kind of an American Dream Event about development, changes and the possible future. What was stimulating was to meet the many external people and hearing their ideas about how to handle the future that […]

July 7, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

PAOLA ANTONELLI PROPOSES DESIGN FOR THE COMING YEARS

I just have to blog this idea about the coming decades again because I am so much in agreement with Paola Antonelli about how important creative work is for the future of the world. We live in conditions that are treating the earth and our environment so badly and we have to look for different […]

June 27, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, GENDER DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH-EAST ICELAND – HÖFN

  A presentation and concentration in one of the meetings in the town hall about the project. Meeting the locals The first week of June students from the Nordic design schools, under the umbrella of the Cirrus Network, have been visiting a location in South-East Iceland to inspect potential for local production and development. This […]

June 7, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

CIRRUS WORKSHOP IN ICELAND

We have Nordic Cirrus students visiting the area, meeting agitators, agriculture, local industry and fisheries and learning about innovation and development. Here is a photo album from the visit. Tweet This Post

June 5, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

THE VIGDÍS FINNBOGADÓTTIR INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Yesterday we announced the results from the Architectural Competition for a new institute at the University of Iceland. This institute is named after our ex-president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (web page here). Vigdis was the director of our City Theatre when I met her first as a kid with my father who was working there. Since I […]

May 17, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

Local Holistic Sustainability and Global Reality?

PORTHOFN IN JUNE 2012 We will be encountering a local area in Iceland that represents edge conditions. The Hornafjördur Community includes a cross section of geography, cultural context and Nordic social conditions. It is a fundamental fish industry town. It reaches from the top of the 3rd largest glacier in the world (Vatnajökull) containing various volcanoes and the district has […]

May 15, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  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