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Design in museums 2022: Towards an ethical design aesthetic

Review

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. In 2011, the museum changed its name to Designmuseum Denmark.

Theme:
Thriving

Subjects:
Aesthetics

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Communication

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Exhibitions
History

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Design for the New World

Book Review

It seeks to rethink design based on the coincidence of the development of the concept of design from material design to systems and organizations and the Anthropocene as a designation for the fact that human transformation of its surroundings has reached a point where humans have become the most significant geological force.

Subjects:
Climate

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Research

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Sustainability

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Norway: Craft and art education is a good investment in tolerance and democratic values

Interview

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. Formkraft has asked the two rectors to discuss the conditions for Norwegian crafts and design education.

Theme:
Education

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What you learn is how to learn

Interview

More workshop time, more in-depth learning, more specific design skills – those were the demands from the students when a revolt broke out in the Royal Danish Academy’s School of Design in the beginning of 2022. Here, the Dean of Design offers her perspectives on the source of this dissatisfaction.

Theme:
Student rebellion

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Reinventing craft

Theme article

About the interplay of craft, design and other terms used to describe the field in Denmark. Looking back over the past 50–60 years, the Danish terms kunsthåndværk (covering studio craft, decorative art and arts & crafts – literally: ‘art craft’) and design appear to have changed and ultimately switched places.

Theme:
Education

Subjects:
Craft

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Design

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History
Kunsthåndværk

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Student rebellion

Foreword

In spring 2022, growing dissatisfaction among the students in Danish design schools came to a head. At the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, the design students held a demonstration, and a lengthy letter of complaint garnered more than a hundred signatures. Education is the foundation of Danish crafts and design.

Theme:
Student rebellion

Subjects:
Design

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Design Schools

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Education
Kunsthåndværk

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Pixels, algorithms and crafts

Article

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 the future. The latter let us control every single warp thread and thus allowed a new approach to free pattern design.

Theme:
Craft in a digital age

Subjects:
ceramics

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Digital design

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History
Textile

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The intention – and implications – of critique

Article

For many years, crafts and design critique has been relegated to the lifestyle sections of major media outlets. Have the focus on climate change and calls for sustainable production produced a momentum for elevating design critique to the category of societal debate? 21-22 Jensen, Hans-Christian: “Designkritikkens hensigt.

Subjects:
Communication

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Craft

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Design

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Kunsthåndværk

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Sustainability

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A future vision with gravity and humanity

Reportage

Calm surroundings for people with dementia, houses that help prevent the spread of disease and hacked designer chairs for seniors – those are just 3 of the 25 projects you can see at the Royal Danish Academy’s new exhibition ADFÆRD / VELFÆRD (Behaviour / Welfare).

Theme:
Thriving

Subjects:
Aesthetics

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Exhibitions

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Materials

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Research
Universal design

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Henrik Vibskov: It doesn’t make sense to distinguish between Danish and foreign employees

Interview

Danish design schools have undergone several major cutbacks, reforms, and political pressure. But does this mean that Danish newly graduated designers are overlooked due to lack of qualifications? He collaborates with young designers, both as interns, assistants, and in other roles.

Theme:
Education

Subjects:
Design

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Design Schools
Politics

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