Can you equate locally produced with sustainability? How do craft and design micro-businesses work with green solutions? And is it enough to think circular economy?
[…] interactions of materials. In her book Hvordan skaber vi bæredygtig udvikling for alle? [How do we create sustainable development for all?], Professor Katherine Richardson, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen, defines systems thinking as a way to ‘understand and act on interactions’ (p. 28). According to Richardson, modern Western […]
[…] from the Design School Kolding with a collection of recycled jewellery. Now, she works in couture for one of the world's largest luxury brands. Here, she talks about working with sustainability in a jewellery world that, at the same time, demands attachment to the products but is also influenced by the race of fashion trends.
What will a new generation of designers carry forward, and what is worth preserving? Maria Bruun and Lærke Ryom discuss materiality, sustainability and the designer’s role in an age characterised by speed and screens.
We need a new mindset to change our consumer habits. That was one of the main messages at this year’s Folkemødet, the annual democracy event on the Danish island of Bornholm, which had climate change and sustainability as lead issues on the agenda.
[…] using raw-glazing in order to skip the initial firing: a method traditionally used by many potters. A conversation developed about how we can improve our understanding of sustainability and sustainable methods in our practices and thus develop a language that helps us communicate our own approach to sustainability. Well aware of the risk of […]
Kolding School of Design combines awareness of materials, sustainability and innovation in a programme designed to equip the designers of the future to play an active role in addressing the challenges facing society and the planet. Karen Marie Hasling and Morten Krogh Petersen discuss the school’s development – and how they are preparing the […]
Social sustainability is well on its way to becoming just as crucial as green sustainability in the design of society, from urban spaces to products and human interactions. Before social sustainability became a recurring topic in the conversations that most of us engage in under headings such as equal opportunities, representation and structural barriers, […]
For Grethe Sørensen, sustainability is not a new concept that she approaches existentially in her professional life. It has, in a sense, always been part of her. It is reflected in the way she, her family and several of their friends from the art and design world have chosen to live their lives. 'My […]
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.