Archive for May, 2012

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

THE VIGDÍS FINNBOGADÓTTIR INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Yesterday we announced the results from the Architectural Competition for a new institute at the University of Iceland. This institute is named after our ex-president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (web page here). Vigdis was the director of our City Theatre when I met her first as a kid with my father who was working there. Since I […]

May 17, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

Local Holistic Sustainability and Global Reality?

PORTHOFN IN JUNE 2012 We will be encountering a local area in Iceland that represents edge conditions. The Hornafjördur Community includes a cross section of geography, cultural context and Nordic social conditions. It is a fundamental fish industry town. It reaches from the top of the 3rd largest glacier in the world (Vatnajökull) containing various volcanoes and the district has […]

May 15, 2012   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

SOUTH KOREA DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY PROJECT

For a number of years we have been working on the DIG-Equality project, me and my partner Sóley Stefánsdóttir, a graphic designer with further education in gender studies. She has been instrumental in collecting material and reaching to activists, both in Iceland and globally. We wrote the project description DESIGN INNOVATION FOR GENDER EQUALITY after […]

May 14, 2012   Posted in: DESIGN, GENDER DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

DECISION TO MAKE LITTLE LESS POWER STATIONS IN ICELAND

A small change in the strategy of our country to make a little less electric power stations is good news but some people see this as very negative news. They like to make power stations all over the country although 80% of the electric power made in Iceland is actually to support international industry that […]

May 9, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

KRÝSUVÍK IN ICELAND – VISIT

The mountain above the hot springs is named Sveifluháls. There are ideas among politicians, eager to make more capitalistic money to build electric power stations all over and destroy our land. Money, money, money! Nothing else draws interest among 50% of Icelanders! There are people there walking up the mountain to the hot springs! The […]

May 1, 2012   Posted in: ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed