In the Western world, we live in a culture that is not just characterized by abundance, consumption and climate and resource challenges but also has a firm belief that design is a force for good! Design promotes innovation and creativity, thus contributing to economic growth, and in addition, most of us imagine that design […]
[…] ornamentation, mass-produced matchboxes, rifles from Norwegian weapons manufacturers, Norway’s election system (service design) and video clips from digital game design. A large number of objects from visual culture serves to contextualize the design exhibits, including photographs, art, advertisements, discursive books on design and posters from design exhibitions. Most of the older objects have long […]
Buried in the soil of Jutland lies a 300,000-year-old story. For furniture designer Thomas Woltmann, ochre is not just a colour, but a link between nature, culture and industry – and the basis for a new Danish colour production.
[…] the rigor of functionalism with his imaginative and colourful approach to design. His aim of linking the sensing human being with physical spaces filled with colour, shapes, materials, sounds and scents marked a new departure, and prompted us to rephrase Panton’s question: Is good taste also a feeling of well-being? (Panton, 1980). This article […]
[…] have found that we are also capable of engaging in interesting and unconventional dialogues about difficult topics and of creating artistic form through hand-crafted processes and the materiality of textile. Trapholt has been engaging in co-created art projects since 2015: Maskernes Monument (Monument of Stitches) with Isabel Berglund (2015–16), Waste Time Home Party with […]
[…] and culture in everyday settings. With this current theme, Formkraft focuses on the atmosphere that crafts can bring to the public space by virtue of its inherent material culture, techniques and aesthetics. And why it is more relevant than ever to include craft makers and designers when state-owned buildings are renovated, when municipalities develop decorative […]
[…] between Denmark and Norway, between history and innovation and between local roots and global influences. In order to navigate in this boundary zone, Wathne uses her own hands as her ethical and aesthetic compass. Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University Ingrid Halland met Wathne for a conversation about stories, waste and surfaces.
Materials have always been a key condition of human creativity, but in recent decades, they have taken on renewed prominence in artistic practices. This article examines how today’s focus on materials relates to ideas from 16th-century understandings of nature and materials and how these connections can shed new light on the ongoing departure […]
Kolding School of Design combines awareness of materials, sustainability and innovation in a programme designed to equip the designers of the future to play an active role in addressing the challenges facing society and the planet. Karen Marie Hasling and Morten Krogh Petersen discuss the school’s development – and how they are preparing the […]
[…] 1970s led to a certain moderation. In combination with the deep-felt departure from conventions and the embrace of alternatives to ordinary jewellery conservatism, this further fuelled far-reaching material experimentation that has characterized all aspects of Danish jewellery art since the mid 1970s and the postmodernist surge of the 1980s. Gradually, everything became ‘allowed’. As […]