Nynne Færch og Birgitte Christens

Theme:
Artist-in-residence

In the coming time, Formkraft will examine why artist in-residence partnerships between organizations and makers/designers are not more common.

What challenges do practising makers and designers face once they have been approved for a residency? How is the partnership between the maker/designer and the host organization established? What do makers and designers think of the application process? And how do the approved projects benefit makers and designers, host organizations and the children and young people they work with?

Articles are published in February – March – April 2023.

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Editorial

Where are the makers and designers?

By Anne Louise Bang and Helle Dyrlund Severinsen

Since the artist-in- residence programme was launched in 2006, visual artists in particular appear to have cracked the code for successful applications. Meanwhile, professional craft artists and designers remain poorly represented when it comes to project funding. Formkraft looks into potentials and challenges for craft artists and designers.

Sanne Ransby. Upcycling Art, Kompetencehuset, 2022. Foto: Kasper Munch Lillelund

Rune Fjord

Artists-in-residence for Young Audiences – what is it?

By Mette Mikkelsen, designer, member of the artist-in-residence committee

Nynne Færch og Birgitte Christens

Our hands can give us a break

By Lars Hedebo, journalist

Interview

Main focus on the process

By Mette Bielefeldt Bruun, kunsthistoriker

Tapestry weaver Sanne Ransby needed to ‘drop a bomb’ to pull the students away from their computer screens. Here, along with four other makers, she shares her experiences with the artist-in-residence programme.

Alikka Garder Petersen. Ler former ord.

Speakers Corner

Designskolen Kolding

Significant challenges with shorter artistic educations

By Rector of the Royal Danish Academy Lene Dammand Lund, Rector of the Aarhus School of Architecture Torben Nielsen, Rector of the Design School Kolding Lene Tanggaard

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Chris L. Halstrøm

We enjoy watching designers work for free on DR

By Chris L. Halstrøm, furniture designer

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Article

The intention – and implications – of critique

By Anders V. Munch, professor of design history, University of Southern Denmark in Kolding

For many years, crafts and design critique has been relegated to the lifestyle sections of major media outlets. What does that mean for our debate culture and the general understanding of the area? Have the focus on climate change and calls for sustainable production produced a momentum for elevating design critique to the category of societal debate?

Louise-Sass_PH-Lamper_vaerksted_Foto-Dorte-Krogh

Book Review

Design for the New World

By Niels Peter Skou, lektor, Syddansk Universitet

'To me, the strength of the book lies in its precise identification of the way the Anthropocene and the development of the concept of design raise fundamental questions about design’s role and responsibility, and one can only have respect for the impressive amount of knowledge that is synthesized in the book and the author’s willingness to think about it in relation to practice.' Niels Peter Skou reviews the book "Design for the New World" by Professor Ida Engholm

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Design for the New World. Ida Engholm