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?
Urban infrastructure and wayfinding systems are an important aspect of the city scene. Street signs, type design and characteristic objects on local street corners can serve as identity markers for cities and citizens alike. PhD fellow Matthias Horneman-Thielcke and museum curator Pernille Stockmarr offer insights into the background of Designmuseum Danmark’s new outdoor exhibition […]
[…] depends not only on the results or progress achieved, but just as much on how its achievements have been documented, interpreted and communicated. Lars Dybdahl received the Design Council's Honorary Award in 2024 for his enormous commitment to this! In this interview, Lars Dybdahl explains why Danish craft and design are an important part […]
In the summer of 2022, new design exhibitions opened in both Copenhagen and Oslo. Norway’s new National Museum seeks to embrace the full scope of the design concept, while Designmuseum Danmark focuses purely on – and renews – the aesthetic form.
For many years, crafts and design critique has been relegated to the lifestyle sections of major media outlets. What does that mean for our debate culture and the general understanding of the area? Have the focus on climate change and calls for sustainable production produced a momentum for elevating design critique to the category […]
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. Professor Ole B. Jensen of Aalborg University heads the four-year research project ‘Dark Design: Social exclusion in urban places’. In this article, he discusses the project […]
According to Marianne Skjulhaug, rector of KHiO, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norwegian design education has had good financial frameworks and working facilities until now. Additionally, the academicization of artistic design education has strengthened their status and importance, says Irene Alma Lønne, rector of AHO, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. […]
About the interplay of craft, design and other terms used to describe the field in Denmark.
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.
[…] seniors – those are just 3 of the 25 projects you can see at the Royal Danish Academy’s new exhibition ADFÆRD / VELFÆRD (Behaviour / Welfare). The show is well worth a visit and offers tangible demonstrations of the capacity of architecture and design research to improve health and welfare – potentially throughout the world.
