Archive for the ‘SUSTAINABILITY’ Category

WHAT IS DESIGN?

The first evening Dinner. Many ingredients but all from cod. Here is a small photo album from the event Design as a profession seems to sit in a strange determined location when we use the term. Many schools run specific courses in design: graphic, fashion, product etc. I was told last year by a friend […]

September 22, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

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

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

TOWN SQUARE IN REYKJAVIK – SUMMER JOB

  Great activity going on during day one of the market, agricultural products, design proposals, clothes and many other things for sale. Great to see the effort of all the people.      Hard working Art school (or ex art school) students changing the environment in Reykjavik centre. Wonderful work to follow and see how […]

July 16, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

AFTUR MEANS ‘AGAIN’ A SIGNIFICANT NAME FOR FASHION!

Recycle or Die says their web statement. The wonderful sisters from Neskaupsstaður a small town in Iceland that last week ran a hard core death metal music festival. The best fashion designers in Iceland are a bunch of sisters that have developed a specific fashion line and attitude over the last 15 years. Their fashion is […]

July 16, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

ORGANIC FOOD IN REYKJAVIK CENTRUM

A simple sign saying ‘ORGANIC’ in Icelandic in front of the food stand. Lovely attempt and will grow over the summer they tell me. Lovely to see the shoppers inspecting and actually buying aswell. It is lovely to follow how we are slowly moving from the madness of progress and commercial enterprises. I know it […]

July 15, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

SMALL FASHION OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT SHOP IN ICELAND

Today I went to a small outlet shop run by friends of mine, sisters Bára and gang. They do actually run the ‘RECYCLE OR DIE’ shop and label AFTUR.IS.  A great label for amazing clothing, even I have some although they do actually not produce clothes for men. I managed one jacket. Here are some […]

July 2, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

EXCELLENT CUMULUS MEETING IN PARIS, ESPECIALLY DESIS

We had an excellent meeting in Desis in Paris linked to the Cumulus meeting. Here are some images from the meeting and links. I have little time to write my thoughts at the moment but at least these links open up the news. Images from the meeting here Tweet This Post

May 30, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

MELBOURNE MORNING RADIO AT MID-NIGHT IN AFRICA

Emily (standing) during public consultation (0r human centered design) in the Docklands in Melbourne during the early stages of setting up their urban farm. When I was in Cape Town visiting the art and design schools, plus some other social innovation organizations, I was asked to talk to Emily in Melbourne on her local morning […]

April 23, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

The Balance, sustainability and controlling gestures.

Emily in Melbourne asked me a question this morning about sustainability and Iceland that starts me pondering. Sitting in Cape Town observing and thinking about sustainability I reflect about how my country Iceland somehow developed faster than we can handle. A country known for clean air, beautiful nature and ample natural resources. In my youth I […]

April 17, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

Olof Kolte on sustainability

Friend Olof Kolte was invited to Iceland to give lectures on design and sustainability. The best and most critical magazine in the country took an interview asking Olof about his position on design and sustainability. He says: At your lecture, you spoke about the Internet as the “driving force in the explosion of productivity” in […]

November 14, 2007   Posted in: DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

MY INTRO SPEECH IN KHIO WHEN I STARTED AS A DEAN

In January 2005 I was asked to make a short introductory talk in KHiO along with the other new deans that had been appointed. Here it is. “Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than seeing.”

Goethe Seeing the object – almost without thinking. Although Design is grown out of the marriage between arts […]

January 8, 2005   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed