Textile designer Dorte Østergaard Jakobsen reflects on the political system built around public art in Denmark and urges crafts people and designers to take action.
With their presence in the public space, decorative projects, art installations and building-integrated art can expose a wide audience to art and culture in everyday settings. With this current theme, Formkraft focuses on the atmosphere that crafts can bring to the public space by virtue of its inherent material culture, techniques and aesthetics. And […]
Jewellery art gets new life in Copenhagen with the gallery ‘Hello, the Roses,’ where Marie Gellert Jensen brings an international outlook to the scene. Bettina Speckner's works are presented here - delicate and thoughtful jewellery that combines old photographic techniques with found objects. With a keen eye for time, transience and materiality, Speckner creates […]
About the interplay of craft, design and other terms used to describe the field in Denmark.
[…] evne til at tænke radikale tanker og skabe designs, der ligeledes var banebrydende. Ved at undersøge Nanna Ditzels arbejdsmetoder og hendes refleksioner over evnen til at omsætte rumlige miljøer og designs, tegner der sig et billede af en designer og et menneske, der personificerede og eksemplificerede, hvordan de kritiske kompetencer i nutiden sættes i spil.
The academization of Danish craft and design education has been met with much criticism, especially from students. However, if you ask Troels Degn Johansson, former associate professor and head of department at the Royal Danish Academy, academization has improved the education in several areas.
Artist residencies, international exhibitions, inspirational travelling, jobs, and collaborative projects. Danish craft artists and designers have a great tradition of looking abroad for development, collaboration opportunities and insight. Both in their own practice and in understanding the world's different materials, techniques and cultures. As early as the 1950s, Sigvard Bernadotte and architect Acton Bjørn […]
'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.
The development of new digital tools has influenced the field of craft and its approach to materials, form and aesthetics. PhD Anne Louise Bang offers some insights into the digital journey of design education and a look at some of the methods and digital tools shaping practices and approaches in craft now and in […]
