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[…] itself Denmark’s design memory. Embedded in the museum’s very DNA is a national responsibility to document, preserve, and communicate Danish craft, applied arts, and industrial design throughout history – for the benefit of both the present and the future. This places significant demands on how works are collected, explains Christian Holmsted Olesen, Head of […]

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[…] the scenes are handheld, sporadic and often not documented. In the absence of documentation, the exhibitions, practitioners' works and intentions do not become part of the factual history of design and thus tradition and research. This is a problem in relation to the ongoing cultural heritage and distorts the image of the field. Because […]

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[…] dear relative, or they are connected to a special event. But what happens to the jewellery when Copenhagen transforms into the City of Jewellery, when the jewellery moves from the private sphere to the public space? When we wear jewellery and talk about jewellery, they tell us stories that connect personal history with collective history.

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The open and welcoming city – an ideal that is coming under pressure? style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the history of urban planning and architecture theory, the diverse, socially inclusive and welcoming city has been the ideal for democratic city planning (Aristotle, ca. 350 BCE/1995; Jacobs, 1961; Sennett, 1990). Public spaces and city squares welcome everyone, regardless […]

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