Archive for the ‘DESIGN’ Category

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

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT IN MOZAMBIQUE

I am returning from one more stint in Africa, or in this case Mozambique, where I came first time almost 5 years ago. I have been involved in developing and establishing the first design and art school in the country on university level, where we just finished the 5th semester of teaching aiming for the […]

December 8, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

DESIGN WORKSHOP IN MOZAMBIQUE BECOMES TRADITION

The digital class where the students experimented with layers and compositions in photoshop and illustrator. We have had regular workshop with the design students in ISArC in Maputo. This time the workshop was directed as very technical and practical, especially in fashion and graphic design. The guests from my school in Oslo this time were DAGFINN […]

December 3, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, 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

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

CONFERENCE ABOUT DESIGN POLICY FOR ICELAND

  On my birthday in the end of August there was held a conference in Reykjavik about the first proper Design Policy Possibility for Iceland. The event was actually a fundamental step after years of hopes and attempts by architects and designers to create some kind of a comprehensive direction for their fields. It is […]

October 28, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

SOUTH EAST ICELAND AND TOURIST DEVELOPMENT

 Attendants to the conference were over 30 participants from many of the activities that are running similar issues in Iceland. A photo album from the meeting On the 26th of October was a meeting in South-East Iceland about changes and the future of tourism and development of experiences in the region. I have kind of […]

October 27, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

MEETING IN GREENLAND

Spent part of September in Greenland where some of my students were doing a research project about one block of flats, but I also spent good time in mapping the activity that might be relevant to design education and practice. Here is a simple photo album from the visit when I looked at some of […]

October 26, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, GREENLAND, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed