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New Wegner Museum with big ambitions

Portrait

However, both he and his designs and design processes have maintained their relevance for today’s world and for the future. A coming museum is going to tell one of Denmark’s most important design stories – and it is not just about chairs. A place to present his catalogue, thoughts, design process, history.

Theme:
Designudstillinger

Subjects:
Aesthetics

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Exhibitions
Utility design

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URBAN HEARTBEATS: Design that shapes urban identity

Article

Street signs, type design and characteristic objects on local street corners can serve as identity markers for cities and citizens alike. The exhibition, a co-production with Gentofte Municipality, celebrates the centenary of the Danish architect, designer and printer Knud V.

Theme:
Urban Spaces

Subjects:
History

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public design

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Research

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Street Furnishings
Urban identity

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Universal design with artistic qualities

Article

When designers and architects shape our society, universal design is the key concept that expands the ‘one size fits all’ elastic to match the full diversity of users’ sizes, needs and functioning. Universal design is the principle of accommodating everyone. But how can universal design be incorporated into art projects?

Theme:
Thriving

Subjects:
Aesthetics

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Jewellery

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Statens Kunstfond

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Sustainability
Universal design

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Dark Design: What is happening to the open and welcoming city?

Article

Dark design is not just about homeless people losing places to bed down for the night; it is equally about a loss of breathing spaces in the city. Jensen of Aalborg University heads the four-year research project ‘Dark Design: Social exclusion in urban places’. In this sense, the growing use of dark design raises concerns.

Theme:
Urban Spaces

Subjects:
Design

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Kunsthåndværk

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Materials

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Research
Universal design

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Troels Degn on the design education in Denmark: Academization is not the problem

Interview

The academization of Danish craft and design education has been met with much criticism, especially from students. For many years, he has followed both the development of craft and design education as well as the discussion and debate that has surrounded them. Education Design Schools Politics Research

Theme:
Education

Subjects:
Design Schools

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Politics
Research

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Craft and design – a velvet revolution?

Article

Craft maker and designer Helle Graabæk discusses the competencies that are developed through a craft and design practice and reflects on the capacity of craft and design to drive transformation in a time with an abundance of products but a lack of quality and sensuous qualities and sensibilities.

Theme:
Craft in a digital age

Subjects:
Design Schools

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Digital design

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Material culture
Sustainability

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Anker Bak Foldestok. Foto Bjarke Ahlstrand

Design with dignity

Interview

As I am speaking with Anker Bak about his exhibition at Officinet, it is clear to me that I am sitting across from a furniture designer with a mission. But how can design make a difference? It was important for me to make a down-to-earth presentation that doesn’t look like something out of a home interior design magazine.

Theme:
Thriving

Subjects:
Craft

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Universal design
Wood

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A historical look at the student rebellion and the design schools

Theme article

The history of the design schools since 1969 is turbulent, which shows in many mergers and name changes. Danish design schools have been leading a turbulent life since 1969. In 1989, a topic of debate was the ‘revision of craft programmes’ that began in 1990, when the Danish Design School was established through a merger.

Theme:
Student rebellion

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At Design School Kolding, the ‘rebellion’ revolves around the balance between craft and theory

Interview

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 <em>Politiken </em>.

Theme:
Student rebellion

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We enjoy watching designers work for free on DR

Speakers Corner

State-funded TV channel continues the same poor conditions that designers so often face. Furniture designer Chris L. Because it is a concrete picture of how designers' working conditions are not taken seriously. And that leads me to what many designers accept to a far too great extent: unpaid work.

Subjects:
Design

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Politics

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