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A MEETING IN ICELAND ABOUT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

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October 25, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

THE NORDIC CIRRUS MEETING IN OSLO

Poor delegates in Oslo had to listen to me planning the next steps in our programs. We had the annual meeting of our network that covers almost all the design schools in Scandinavia and the Baltic. This is named Cirrus and one can see its site here. The normal size of this meeting that takes […]

October 21, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, 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

Two Whales on the old harbour front in Nuuk

Spent some time by the old harbour in Nuuk, Greenland watching these two whales having a mellow time. I sat outside the local cafe with my coffee and they swam around and decorated my horizon. What more can one ask for? Tweet This Post

October 8, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, GREENLAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

Top View of Nuuk Surroundings

Nuuk, On Top from dori gislason on Vimeo. We were invited to the top of the new building that will be the highest building for a while in central Nuuk. A very good point to see how the town is located in this amazing landscape and the type of colonial planning that has taken place […]

October 8, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, GREENLAND, PONDERINGS  No Comments

Small Projects and Large History

The three master students from Copenhagen on the wall. With three master students from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen I am living in a block of flats in Nuuk, Greenland. This block is going to be demolished early next year, I guess when the spring weather allows. The block has such a damaged social […]

October 3, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA?

Sesselja (left) and Vala (right) in their presentation in San Fransisco: Presentation here After the economic collapse of Iceland (one of the worst in global history), Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir found themselves at square one. Perhaps that very phrase (“square one”) occurred to them at that point, because their new financial strategy had them […]

October 2, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  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

NUUK THOUGHTS

Not different to so many other places on earth, Greenland has been a colony for hundreds of years. Directed from Denmark. It is interesting to observe how we have dealt with living under opression that considers itself a saviour in many ways. To help primitive people to survive was the opinion of the ‘developed’ nations […]

October 1, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

Block P in Nuuk, a visit

A front of the block photo. Here are a few images from the flat-fronts. Imagined space is a project about “Blok P” in Nuuk, Greenland, and the people who have or are living there. Blok P was the largest residential building in all of Greenland, and the largest building in Nuuk. It contains around 150 […]

September 30, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

PROJECT IN GREENLAND

This autumn I will continue from our earlier project in Nuuk - (and hopefully wider in Greenland at a later date). Three students from Copenhagen are in Nuuk now studying one block of apartments and they are collecting the material on one special website named IMAGINED SPACE. We made last year a special website to hold together all the […]

September 29, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

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

ARON FUNDUR Á SÓLON Á FÖSTUDAG

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September 6, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed