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The hand behind it all
Article

[…] Professor, University of Aberdeen (UK) Speakers: Cilla Robach, Head of design collection, National Museum, Stockholm Ingrid Halland, architecture and design historian Anne Fabricius Møller, fabric printer and textile designer Panel debate: Morten Løbner Espersen, ceramicist Vibeke Riisberg, textile designer, PhD, Design School Kolding Rebecca Uth, industriel designer Morten Riis, Deputy Mayor and Chairman of Maker’s […]

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Intense and small
Review

[…] variety of materials and formats, including Mette Colberg’s windows, Frederik Gustav’s Balancing Game with wood and pebbles, Marlene Klok Mikkelsen’s digital meditation parody and Liv Marie Rømer’s textile.  Small, hybrid forms dominate this year’s Biennale, probably as a reflection of the simultaneously physical and mental compression during a strange year, and one misses the […]

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A conversation about aesthetics in practice
Theme article

[…] initiatives, including EU directives and Danish Parliament’s decision to reduce greenhouse gases by 70 per cent by 2030. Other important initiatives are driven by the fashion and textile industry itself and by critical NGOs such as Fashion Revolution and the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. And generally, most industries are working on transitioning; however, […]

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Natural Material Studio. Projekt for pop-up restaurant NOMA i Kyoto. Fotograf Tanaka Kotaro

Material Ecologies of Design and Crafts
Conversation

[…] Special Economic Zones, it is difficult to see the material flows and their environmental impact. To take a local example: Here in Oslo, there used to be textile mills and other types of manufacturing industry along the Aker river running through the city. This meant that people had a relation to how stuff was […]

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Designmuseum Danmark

Behind the Scenes of Designmuseum Danmark’s Collections: How Are the Milestones of Design History Selected?
Interview

[…] how function, materials, and concept all play a role in the selection. One of the newest works is Sun Disc (2025), an acoustic panel by architect and textile object researcher Cecilie Bendixen. The work combines function and aesthetics and was donated by the C. L. David Foundation. Another example is the Järpen lounge chair, […]

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Plain Weavers

Reinventing craft
Theme article

[…] aspect has moved into the background in courses on form. Students from the Schools of Visual Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts work with textile and ceramics and are heirs to part of this tradition. The focus on designer-makers may have represented a reinterpretation but has only a tenuous connection to […]

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Generation Why. Rundetaarn

Generation Why isn’t trying to please us in the traditional aesthetic sense
Review

[…] 'Generation Why' exhibition unfolds as an interesting double vision of what it means to be an artisan today. Here you are not 'just' a ceramicist, glass or textile designer, for example. In a time when everything can in principle be produced by machine, expressing yourself in a craft, technique or material becomes a conceptual […]

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