[…] during the event: The European Environment Agency hosted workshops and debates about upcycling of textiles, including presentations of serigraphy prints on reused textiles and short talks about textile manufacturing and new EU regulations, including discouraging data about how much water is used to produce a single cotton T-shirt, plastic fibres in our clothes that […]
[…] with materials and more workshop hours. Today, materials are a complex and ever-changing concept. While earlier designers were used to relating strictly to wood, steel, glass, clay and textile, today, the range of materials has undergone explosive growth to include entirely new types that behave very differently and function across the field in unprecedented ways.
Rebellion The protests in Copenhagen began with a meeting in February 1969. The students, spearheaded by Kirsten Dehlholm from the Textile line, had invited representatives of the Directorate of Vocational Training and the design profession. Despite some concessions by the Directorate, the students subsequently staged a week-long boycott of classes. During the boycott, together […]
[…] people’s welfare. Among the examples are the three study projects Venter i Farver, Yuniform and Fra Form til Tekstil (Waiting In Colour, Yuniform and From Form To Textile), which spring from an interdisciplinary course in design methodology as part of the design programme, in which bachelor students develop innovative health projects in collaboration with […]
[…] meet in her studio in central Copenhagen to talk about arts and crafts that stimulate the senses. And how, with works ranging from ceramics to glass and textiles, she wants to bring us into contact with the childlike curiosity that we all know so well. But which we, as well-behaved adults, have learned to […]
[…] the most deserving projects receive support? Formkraft spoke with former committee chair, art historian and curator Anne Blond; chair of the three-member committee, ceramicist Peder Rasmussen; committee member, textile designer Kirsten Nissen; project funding committee member, ceramicist Morten Løbner Espersen; and current chair of the project funding committee, art historian and curator Anni Nørskov Mørch.
[…] new formats and creating a strong international foundation for their future careers. Now they are back in Denmark with visions and recklessness in their luggage. In Mexico, textile artist Vibeke Rohland not only found inspiration and work. She also learned how colours and symbols bind people together when language falls short. In Nepal and […]
The project team behind GenJord was initiated by the Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts and myself. In addition to myself, the working group included Anne Louise Bang, textile artist and researcher of sustainable textiles; Karoline Bach Larsen and Ida Fonsleth, students at the academy; and film and TV production technician Halfdan Kruse. Together, we […]