[…] Kristensen visits Maria Sparre-Petersen to discuss the potential of makers and designers stepping out into the public space to create decorative projects, installations and building-integrated art. Throughout history, crafts have played an important role in public art and decoration, and a browse through Formkraft’s archive turns up numerous articles on crafts in the public […]
[…] of the newest – instead of being limited to showing the best of the newest of the never-before-seen. The arbitrary emphasis on novelty value should not prevent the Biennale from remaining an important element in the infrastructure of Danish craft and design as a communicating, history-making and career-promoting event. Explore more about Design exhibitions here.
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The Women's Building and the original community idea The history of the building means a lot to Høstbo. The Women's Building was constructed in a functionalist style and inaugurated in 1936, but the vision dates back even further. As early as around 1900, a network of women worked to create a place where they […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Reinventing craft About the interplay of craft, design and other terms used to describe the field in Denmark. Read article by Anders V. Munch, Ph.D. Master of History of Ideas and Art History
