Archive for January, 2011

RAVE IN ICELAND

I have had great time in Iceland running the course named ‘Dialogue’. A ‘time out’ moment for the students and teachers to talk together, meet each other cross the specializations in the Iceland Academy of Art. The course and the dialogue culminated in the final presentation by Andri’s group with a Rave in a disused […]

January 31, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

ICELAND DIALOGUE – GREAT TIME RUNNING A COURSE IN ICELAND

A break exercise driven by Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir, one of the mentors in the course For two weeks in January I am running a course in the Iceland Academy of Art in Reykjavik, Iceland. The academy where I established the new Faculty of Design and Architecture ten years ago. It is always great to return and […]

January 23, 2011   Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

ART AND TOURISM OR REFLECTIONS ON IT

I went to the opening of an interesting exhibition in the Reykjavik Museum. The name of the exhibition is WITHOUT DESTINATION. The inspiration for the projecT is the ever-increasing flow of domestic and international tourists through Iceland. Numerous contemporary artists and scholars have studied the complex relationship between humans and the environment in this context, […]

January 22, 2011   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

ILHA DE MOZAMBIQUE

Ilha de Mozambique is probably the most famous place in Mozambique. It is a very small island connected to the mainland with a long causeway. The island has been a location for arrival and departure into Africa, from the Indies on the way to Europe sailing south passing Cape and then sailing up the Atlantic. […]

January 3, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed