Christina Christensen, No straw shortener. Photo by Dorte Krogh.

Theme:
Green Production

Humanity faces massive challenges to preserve the planet as more and more people have the opportunity to join the consumption party. Denmark is particularly weak on SDG 12: responsible consumption and production – a crucial SDG in the effort for a better climate. It is imperative that something must be done now to reduce the consequences of overconsumption and fast fashion.

Together with the Danish Institute for Cultural Studies and the Danish Design Center, Danish Craft & Design Association wants to qualify the debate on a sustainable production culture and launch a unifying effort for the craft and design field with a ‘Green Craft & Design Guide’.

Formkraft is kick-starting the project with a series of articles focusing on sustainable production, new materials and consumer behavior.

Foreword

Sustainable manufacturing now!

Does it even make sense to create new products in a world where mountains of waste shape landscapes and the planet's resources are exhausted by February? Humanity faces massive challenges to preserve the planet as more and more people have the opportunity to join the consumption party. Denmark is particularly weak on SDG 12: responsible consumption and production - a crucial SDG in the effort for a better climate. It is imperative that something must be done now to reduce the consequences of overconsumption and fast fashion.

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Article

New demands for sustainable production: The revolution of micro-companies?

By Anne Louise Bang, Docent, ph.d.

Can you equate locally produced with sustainability? How do craft and design micro-businesses work with green solutions? And is it enough to think circular economy?

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Debate

Too Good to Throw: Better consumption with crafts and design

What characterises the future of consumption? How many new things can we keep buying and owning? Join the debate at Folkemødet on Saturday 15 June.

Milk Jug af Atelier Tonni

Sustainability should be the simple choice

By Helle Dyrlund Severinsen, M.A. editor

We need a new mindset to change our consumer habits. That was one of the main messages at this year’s Folkemødet, the annual democracy event on the Danish island of Bornholm, which had climate change and sustainability as lead issues on the agenda.

Christina Shou Christensen, dirty dishes

The importance of materials

Knusningens æstetik

The Aesthetic of Crushing

By Sofie Kragh, freelance journalist

Signe Griffin

Sustainable future through sensory revolution!

By Signe Rødkjær Griffin, textile design student, Design School Kolding

CITA, Funded in part through the Ecometabolistic Architecture, European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 101019693)

Vibrant, living materials: Can we develop heightened awareness of the life of materials?

By Stine Krag, MA (Education) in Educational Philosophy

Sustainable orientation

GenJord – Sustainable Ceramic Practice

By Helle Bovbjerg, ceramic artist and project head

The GenJord (literally: re-earth) project has sparked huge interest among ceramic makers and artists, both in Denmark and abroad. In this article, ceramic artist and project head Helle Bovbjerg presents the ideas behind the project, which has developed into a movement for a more sustainable ceramic practice.

Thora Finnsdottir.- GenJord

A laboratory for future green solutions

By Helle Dyrlund Severinsen, editor. Interview with Marta Gasparin, Associate Professor, PhD at Department of Business Humanities and Law og Dorthe Møller Paulsen, head of the secretariat for Maker’s Island Bornholm.

Maker’s Island Bornholm has entered into a new, strong partnership with an EU-based research project and BOFA (Bornholm’s Waste Sorting). The goal is to create a crafts laboratory to conduct experiments related to sustainability, in a broad sense of the word that includes economic, environmental, social and cultural aspects.

Kunstprojektet Brave New World er lavet af D20 Ark Lab; Sergio Marchesini og Raffaella Rivi. (AI teknologi)

Exhibition review

Are consumers dreaming of plastic chairs?

By Torben Weirup, writer

Kasper Kyster's exhibition in Officinet is a relevant contribution to discussions about craft and industrial production and about recycling and aesthetics.