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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

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

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

FIRST EXHIBITION OF ARTISTS FROM ISARC

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November 27, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

SAMUEL DJIVE IN MAPUTO EXHIBITION

One of my students in Maputo, Samuel Djive has opened an exhibition of his work in Franco in Maputo. There is lots of entertaining work there with formal experimentation and love for mixture of objects and form. In my opinion this is one of the better exhibitions I have seen in Franco for a while. […]

November 22, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  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

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

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