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April 30, 2010
Tags: architecture, DESIGN, development, maputo, mozambique, social design Posted in: PONDERINGS 
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DESIGN STRATEGY, WORK AND REFLECTIONS
The Notes on Design Website My work in Mozambique and various other things that I am involved in sometimes generates interest in the design community. I am myself of course very happy to tell about my projects, to promote the work of the so many people that I meet and operate with. There are such […]
April 30, 2010
Tags: academy, DESIGN, development, iceland, innovation, maputo, mozambique, norway, strategy Posted in: DESIGN No Comments
PANCHO GUEDES, ARCHITECTURE ON A GRAND SCALE
PHOTO ALBUM OF PANCHO GUEDES A collection of details from my track around Maputo on a nice rainy Sunday morning. I went last Sunday on a treasure trail to a number of the buildings designed by Pancho Guedes, the other of the two most famous Portugese architects. I actually live in a great block of […]
April 29, 2010
Tags: architecture, CIAM, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique, pancho guedes, TEAM-X Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN No Comments
PRIVATE HOUSE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
The final touches on the floor slabs, rendering the concrete so it is ready for use when the house is built, and the wooden neighbouring house in the background. Trees and mountains. Even though I am mostly working with design strategy, located in Mozambique, I still love to be an architect. My projects mostly take […]
April 29, 2010
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CREATIVE ECONOMY AND AFRICA
The Palace of the Nations in Geneva where I had a meeting with the people running the Programme on Creative Economy and Industry One part of development is culture. It is somewhat different from infrastructure and basic needs. Some time before moving to Mozambique I remember someone from Doctors Without Borders saying that those that […]
April 22, 2010
Tags: africa, creative economy, DESIGN, industry Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS No Comments
ISAC FACULTY OF ART AND DESIGN TIMETABLE
Like all schools ISAC has its timetable. It is the first proper one since this is the first year and the last semester we ran on a simpler basis. I like to post the timetable here for the record of how the first semester is run. The timetable in the latin countries (and ISAC adheres […]
April 22, 2010
Tags: academy, art, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique, timetable Posted in: ISAC - KHiO No Comments
BOOKMAKING – A METHOD FOR DESIGN
Documentation, reflection, introspection, fun. The book to the left I made for my neighbours in Benand, with the cover out of a tourist dish-towel with an image from the village. The other images show the bookmaking in progress on the kitchen table The sketch book is the most important tool that the designer has. Yes, […]
April 15, 2010
Tags: architecture, art, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique, oslo, reykjavik, sketchbook Posted in: DESIGN No Comments
OSLO NATIONAL ACADEMY DESIGN
An installation of print work done by the students and their teachers I visited my faculty in Oslo last week. Always great to be there, good teachers and absolutely great students! Once every semerster the faculty runs a cross-disciplinary week, where the students can apply for various courses that they might be especially interested in […]
April 2, 2010
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ARCHITECTURE IN TALLIN, ESTONIA
The Faculty of Architecture is in a beautiful historical building in the old town of Tallin. Should help the students appreciate good architecture I was invited to come to the Tallin Academy of the Arts to meet the Master students in architecture and landscape architecture. The students demonstrated their schemes and we discussed where they […]
April 1, 2010
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