Archive for the ‘ICELAND’ Category

THE EAST OF ICELAND!! POTENTIAL OR INDUSTRIAL DEATH?

Egilsstaðir is a small town in the Eastern part of Iceland. A very young town, I remember when I came there first in the 60’s it was very mellow commercial and school location central in the country being a link to all the fjords with very active fisheries. The main school was located close and […]

February 3, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

THE EASTERN ECO FARM VALLANES IN ICELAND

The beautiful landscape mid winter with the green houses waiting for the spring planting. The only eco-farm in the East of Iceland is named Vallanes. It has been in operation since early 70’s and has acquired a strong reputation in the whole country. Friends in Reykjavik buy the products, in many different forms, greens, beans, […]

January 29, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, MUSIC, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

  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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

EARLY BREAKFAST

One of the groups is experimenting with dialogue and demonstrations and finding out how to present and live things. Here is a photo session from the event. Tweet This Post

January 18, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, MUSIC  Comments Closed

COOPERATIVE WORKSHOP IN ICELAND

Last year we ran a cooperative workshop in Iceland that I was lucky enough to be asked to organize. All students in the Arts Academy (Listaháskóli Íslands) in one year took part so I had 110 students from all the studies, theatre, dance, music, fine arts, various design fields etc. They worked in groups and […]

January 6, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, MUSIC, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, ISAC - KHiO, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

DIG-EQUALITY PROJECT GETS FUNDING

We have spent almost 5 years on a project named DIG-Equality, meaning DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY. Me and Sóley Stefánsdóttir have made a project document that has been used to stimulate some gender driven research and action projects in design and architecture. Will post more about this later. This project is about gender issues and […]

November 21, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

ECO/BIO-PRODUCTION IN ICELAND – SÓLHEIMAR

The new and developing larger greenhouse in Sólheimar. They can not supply the demand that is coming these days from the consumer market. Icelander’s are becoming much more focused in this direction after the crash in 2008. We are a few people looking at the bio-eco game in Iceland. We are linked to the Iceland […]

November 11, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

THACKARA AND THOUGHTS

  From left: Jóhannes Þórðarsson, dean of the Faculty of Design in Iceland, John Thackara, design and world developer and Sóley Stefánsdóttir, graphic designer and environmental and gender developer. All walking next to a boiling hot spring in Geysir area in Iceland. My friend John Thackara came to visit Iceland to participate in the grand […]

November 7, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

ICELAND GLACIOLOGICAL SOCIETY CABIN REPAIRED

I have been a member of this very important society in Iceland for decades. The work done is very important in knowing the behaviour of nature and volcanoes and glaciers. But it is also a society of very close friends that travel together and get things done in Icelandic nature. Here is a simple video […]

November 6, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed