Since the artist-in- residence programme was launched in 2006, visual artists in particular appear to have cracked the code for successful applications. Meanwhile, professional craft artists and designers remain poorly represented when it comes to project funding. Formkraft looks into potentials and challenges for craft artists and designers.
'Artistic craft is something essential and valuable that we must pass on to the next generation. Otherwise, the basic know-how and foundation for Danish design will lose its shape.' Danish Crafts & Design Association, chairperson, Hanne Brøbech Sønnichsen puts into word a central challenge for the craft and design field.
Johannes Foersom is a trained furniture maker and designer and one of Denmark’s most prolific furniture creators over the past 40 years. In this conversation, he looks back at his student days in light of the recent student rebellion at the Royal Danish Academy and argues that the academy ought to consider more practice-based research.
The tone was confrontational in April 2022, when students at Design School Kolding followed up on the rebellion among their fellow students in Copenhagen with an opinion piece titled ‘Academization is threatening our professional competence’ in the national newspaper Politiken. Ultimately, however, the article led to a broader and more inclusive dialogue between the school and its students about academization, enrolment quotas and traineeships.
The history of the design schools since 1969 is turbulent, which shows in many mergers and name changes. Which demands from students have been met over the years? What development have the programs undergone? Get an overview here.
More workshop time, more in-depth learning, more specific design skills – those were the demands from the students when a revolt broke out in the Royal Danish Academy’s School of Design in the beginning of 2022. Here, the Dean of Design offers her perspectives on the source of this dissatisfaction. What do the students actually need? What promises does design education need to keep? Can create a better design programme together? And what might the future of the profession hold? Dean Mathilde Aggebo talks about design education and student rebellion.
At the beginning of 2022, a rebellion culminated at The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. Among other things, the students were dissatisfied with the downgrading of the workshops and the content of the education. Here, two students talk about the reason for the student rebellion and the subsequent cooperation with the Academy.
Interview with Tim Ingold
Imagine education without any division between crafts and academic learning. Or how about seeing craft as poetry, whether it is expressed materially, verbally or digitally? These are some of the new ways the anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to think about education and craft. Or as he says: ‘Craft is a way of finding one’s own voice through making things together. But it’s no different with mathematics, history or geography.’
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