Archive for the ‘PONDERINGS’ Category

DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE – How to ask the right questions – THE NEW SCIENCE OF IMPACT

Where you are located directs how and where we operate. It is important for us to be interested in different groups of people. Something that most university members, educators, academic financers are not interested in. They seem only to know their own field. Sometimes we discard evidemce that tells something valuable. This is very common […]

February 4, 2013   Posted in: PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

”There is absolutely no economic crisis in corporate America.”

  FOUR GANGS RUN USA. The four business gangs that run the US   Military-industrial complex. Wall Street-Washington complex. Oil-transport-military complex. Health-Care-Industry. Jeffrey Sachs in his book, The Price of Civilisation, maintains that corporate wealth translates into political power. This is something I have lived all my life in my small country Iceland. This happens […]

January 16, 2013   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

HALF OF WORLD’S FOOD IS THROWN AWAY

Figures from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers show that as much as two billion tonnes of food never makes it on to a plate. The food transport and commercial system shifts food globally and large quantities become damaged. Supermarkets and transporters throw away and much is thrown away in restaurants and homes. Here are links […]

January 10, 2013   Posted in: PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

DESIGNERS ARE PARTNERSHIP BROKERS

Anne-Marie Slaughter writes about how the conditions are changing and we are designing our own profession. This might be a different condition to before. She discusses changes that have come with the digital world and then says: “many old titles and jobs no longer make sense” “A similar phenomenon is happening with traditional professions. Technologies […]

January 4, 2013   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

THE WORLD OF THE PRINTED MEDIA

I have been wondering what is happening to the newspapers. Something that I have enjoyed all my life and they are kind of dying now with the introduction of all the new ways of communicating. Most of the stuff that comes through my front door today is rubbish post with advertising for things that I […]

December 14, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

CIRRUS NETWORK – NORDIC SCHOOLS OF DESIGN

This is the front of the Cirrus Website that I made some years ago. I have posted important material from that site also here on my site so not much will go missing if this site will die. I am not responsible for running this site or network longer so the site might go missing. […]

November 22, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

EASY HAS NEVER EXISTED ABOUT LIVING ON EARTH

It is not and has never been easy to live on earth. This does not mean it should be hard and just difficult. We need art and mental stimulation to survive just like food and fresh air and water. We continue talking and writing now about how we are damaging our earth and how we […]

November 19, 2012   Posted in: PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

KINWINS HAS ARRIVED AT LAST

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 inventing a board game. Instead […]

November 15, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

WELL DONE STUFF

The title of this blog can be very arrogant. We often do not know what is well done and how to measure. I am these days using short version in measuring what and how is well done using five classes:  DIVERSITY, EARTH, ENERGY, FOOD, TECHNOLOGY. This I will explain better at a later stage, but […]

November 8, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

ICELAND AUTUMN IN MOUNTAINS

Last year I realized that I had almost lived half my time on Earth abroad and not in my natural country Iceland. But I have never seen me anything other than an Icelander, travelling all over my native grounds in tradition from my parents and family. I remember great trips with grannies in their new […]

November 5, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

REACH – BETWEEN THOSE THAT NEED TO MEET UP

To reach someone else is most important for any development. We usually never operate alone. In the Nordic Network that is named Cirrus and I have directed for over 6 years we have that aim as fundamental for designers. Institutions, teachers and above all students. The students are the people that will take over and […]

October 9, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, GENDER DESIGN, GREENLAND, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

– MUPIMUP – CREATIVITY WORKING HARD IN ICELAND -

 Mupimup.net Activity in East Iceland Patak and Rósa giving a presentation of the place and activities. A collection of images from the visit In our symposium in East Iceland we went around the region visiting various creatives. It was as always very stimulating seeing all the energy and enthusiasm that goes on all over Iceland. In […]

September 29, 2012   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, FASHION, GENDER DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

DORI TURNS SIXTY – SMALL FESTS

  A photo of me and wife Sóley. At the back are son BóBó chatting with friend Tollý and Jórunn is passing by. On the 25th I turned sixty and was lucky to have some friends and family around for celebration (although one wonders if it is a celebration event!). We had the classical family […]

August 27, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

PAOLA ANTONELLI PROPOSES DESIGN FOR THE COMING YEARS

I just have to blog this idea about the coming decades again because I am so much in agreement with Paola Antonelli about how important creative work is for the future of the world. We live in conditions that are treating the earth and our environment so badly and we have to look for different […]

June 27, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, GENDER DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

FASHION FROM AFRICA OR . . . . ICELAND?

Fashion comes from all over and goes all over. Where does it start and where does it end? On the web I see these amazing outfits from Africa. Keep it up I just say. See here Mundi, an Icelandic fashion designer. Tweet This Post

May 21, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed