Maker’s Island Bornholm has entered into a new, strong partnership with an EU-based research project and BOFA (Bornholm’s Waste Sorting). The goal is to create a crafts laboratory to conduct experiments related to sustainability, in a broad sense of the word that includes economic, environmental, social and cultural aspects.

The GenJord (literally: re-earth) project has sparked huge interest among ceramic makers and artists, both in Denmark and abroad. In this article, ceramic artist and project head Helle Bovbjerg presents the ideas behind the project, which has developed into a movement for a more sustainable ceramic practice.

Kasper Kyster's exhibition in Officinet is a relevant contribution to discussions about craft and industrial production and about recycling and aesthetics.

Can a sensory approach to the world be a way to create care for what surrounds us? Textile design student Signe Rødkjær Griffin explores how sensory experiences and bodily knowledge of materiality can create a foundation for a more sustainable future.

Material-based art is gaining ground. At the Skovgaard Museum in Viborg, eight young Danish artists frolic in the idiom and materials of crafts in the exhibition Hot Hands - crafts in contemporary art. The art form is actualized both by the current 'maker' trend and the necessary focus on resource awareness - but is it also about the fact that art and crafts as genres are gradually merging? Museum curator Tanja Toft Rix-Nielsen reflects on the borderland between art and crafts and the value crafts add to art.

Furniture maker Alberte Svendsen has fallen in love with straw. Here, she explains why she has chosen to revive an old, French craftsmanship, where she utilizes the properties of straw to create interplay of colors, geometric shapes, and optical illusions.