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CROCODILE RIVER CONCENTRATION
Buffaloes in the heat of the day I went to this river to concentrate on two projects that I have to write. It is good to know of such places with tranquillity. They give you focus. I have many favourite places in my homecountry Iceland, windows to mountains or glaciers where I have drawn pictures […]
February 12, 2010
Tags: buffaloes, crocodile, DESIGN, kruger park, south africa Posted in: PONDERINGS 
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SUMMER HOLIDAY HOBBIES AT HOME
Atanasio, Gildo, Rejao, Soley and Dagmar on the Mac that Jonni managed to get for us. Being properly back in Maputo starts off the many activities that are needed here to keep up the pressure for more results and learning. It so happened last Sunday when I went to Nucleo, a colony of artists here […]
February 5, 2010
Tags: DESIGN, film, video Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE Comments Closed
INSTITUTO SUPERIORE DE ARTE CULTURA
Karina (design), Maimuna (visual arts), Victor Sala (everything) comparing notes after the interviews with the applicants and going through marks and portfolios. INSTITUTO SUPERIORE DE ARTE CULTURA has run its semester zero and now it heads into first semester with most of the staff in place and the second intake of students is just happening. […]
February 4, 2010
Tags: art, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique Posted in: DESIGN Comments Closed
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
The house in rebuilding stage. Photo taken from the graveyard. One of my drawings of the complete project, graveyard wall on the right with a roofed gate. I have now over a year been working on a project in the north-west of Iceland, rebuilding a farm, an old concrete structure since ca 1925 and landscaping […]
January 29, 2010
Tags: architecture, DESIGN, farm, iceland, rebuild Posted in: DESIGN No Comments
CIRRUS MEETING OF TEACHERS
We had a great meeting of teachers of design and art in Reykjavik last week. It was a 3 day event with ca 40 international delegates visiting the Iceland Academy of the Arts mixing with the local academics. The meeting looked specifically at three different areas: Gender Equality and Design; Post-Crisis and Design and Common […]
January 28, 2010
Tags: baltic, DESIGN, education, master program, nordic Posted in: DESIGN Comments Closed
DIG EQUALITY WORK
We continue working on the Design Innovation for Gender Equality project, both by including it in action based projects, now more or less in development work since located mostly in Africa, and as research. There was run a parallel session in the last Meeting of Teachers that took place in The Iceland Academy of Arts […]
January 23, 2010
Tags: DESIGN, diversity, equality, gender, research Posted in: DESIGN Comments Closed
KARINA, ISAC SOUTHERN PARTNER ON OSLO VISIT
Karina and Reidar, professor of visual communication in KHiO design faculty Karina, the leader of the design department in ISAC has come for a visit to Oslo to meet the people in KHiO. We visited together all the specializations in the design faculty, fashion, furniture/product and visual communication. Karina and our work in Maputo was […]
January 15, 2010
Tags: academy, art, DESIGN, education, fredskorpset, maputo, mozambique, oslo Posted in: DESIGN No Comments
NORDIC TRAVELS AND LECTURE ABOUT DEVELOPMENT WORK
From my lecture in the Reykjavik Art Museum. I see this website is on the screen. I took a quick trip to home fields this September to confer with my people about our work here in Maputo, how the strategy is going, how to change course and what the next steps should be. I also attended […]
September 30, 2009
Tags: art, DESIGN, development, iceland, maputo, mozambique, nordic Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS Comments Closed
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IN ISAC, CONFERENCE
I decided to do some simple video documentation of our first days in ISAC. This is an interesting moment, when an academy is formed. We decided to run a simple conference so that we together can define the boundaries of the disciplines and to create a common understanding among the students and teachers of what […]
September 10, 2009
Tags: academy, art, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO Comments Closed
MAPUTO VISITED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Having interesting time in the Arts Academy in Maputo (ENAV). Looking over and discussing possibilities in development of design and the entrepreneurial activity that the Mozambican people are actually quite clever at. The people here seem to have an inner style sense. Greatly inspiring to see the school, gaining insight into the education and possibilities […]
April 16, 2007
Tags: academy, DESIGN, maputo, mozambique Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE Comments Closed
