Collection by jewellery designer Karen Fly. Photo Ole Akhøj

Theme:
Diversity versus Standard

What does diversity mean for Danish crafts and design? Alongside the personal desire to express one’s own identity and heritage, there is a societal need to create universal design that can include everyone regardless of physical and mental limitations.

Formkraft puts on the glasses of diversity and examines Diversity versus Standard.

Interview

Karen Fly is a Greenlandic jewellery designer: “I’m honoured by that and I try to live up to it.”

By Mette Kierstein, journalist

Once upon a time, she held Greenland "outstretched". But then Karen Fly visited her mother's homeland for the first time. It was a life-changing journey that changed her view of Greenland - and of herself. Formkraft met the jewellery designer, who is currently exhibiting in Denmark, for a chat about what encountering her Greenlandic origins has meant for her artistic work.

Karen Fly. Strandfund og Sære Former. Galleri Rummet. Fotograf Ole Akhøj

Article

Inclusivity in Design: Is there a Recipe?

By Pınar Kaygan, Senior researcher, Art Academy of Latvia; External lecturer, University of Southern Denmark

How can design be inclusive in practice? Is inclusive design synonymous with ‘design for all’?

Pinar Kaygan

Speakers Corner

Democratic art scene called for in Sweden

By Evelina C. Sandell, art student

In Sweden, there is a call for art in public spaces to include disabled citizens to a greater extent. Art student from the Glass and Ceramics programme at Konstfack in Stockholm explain why it is problematic that this focus is missing.

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Evelina C. Sandell

Exhibition reviews

Clay. Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl

A rich world of (many) hybrid bodies and wow effect

By Annette Svaneklink Jakobsen, lektor, SDU

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Young ceramics at Clay – an insight with breadth and spatial differences

By Annette Svaneklink Jakobsen, lektor, SDU