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CIRRUS WORKSHOP IN HÖFN, ICELAND

A very stimulating Cirrus development project took place in Iceland this summer where students from network schools participated with teachers from 3 different schools. This project has been posted here on the site. Here are descriptive links about the activity. Video of the week activity Video from the workshop in Höfn Students in the Iceland […]

September 3, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

DORI TURNS SIXTY – SMALL FESTS

  A photo of me and wife Sóley. At the back are son BóBó chatting with friend Tollý and Jórunn is passing by. On the 25th I turned sixty and was lucky to have some friends and family around for celebration (although one wonders if it is a celebration event!). We had the classical family […]

August 27, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, PONDERINGS  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

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

SOUTH KOREA DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY PROJECT

For a number of years we have been working on the DIG-Equality project, me and my partner Sóley Stefánsdóttir, a graphic designer with further education in gender studies. She has been instrumental in collecting material and reaching to activists, both in Iceland and globally. We wrote the project description DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY after […]

May 14, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, GENDER DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

DECISION TO MAKE LITTLE LESS POWER STATIONS IN ICELAND

A small change in the strategy of our country to make a little less electric power stations is good news but some people see this as very negative news. They like to make power stations all over the country although 80% of the electric power made in Iceland is actually to support international industry that […]

May 9, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

KRÝSUVÍK IN ICELAND – VISIT

The mountain above the hot springs is named Sveifluháls. There are ideas among politicians, eager to make more capitalistic money to build electric power stations all over and destroy our land. Money, money, money! Nothing else draws interest among 50% of Icelanders! There are people there walking up the mountain to the hot springs! The […]

May 1, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

ICELAND ASSOCIATION OF ECO CONSUMERS

THE ASSOCIATION WEBSITE IS HERE (NOT IN ENGLISH YET) Yesterday we had the first official meeting of the association that has been running of course un-officially for a year. I include here are a few photos from the meeting and a link to the website of the association. We went to the establishment of the […]

April 15, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

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

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

PROJECT IN ICELAND – ICELAND DIALOGUE

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February 5, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, MUSIC  Comments Closed