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Just a reminder of a great place for inspiration and for financing your projects:
There is a deadline coming up March 18. The themes are mobility, energy and access.
At Material Gap the goal is clear: to bridge the gap between designers and researchers, to make it easier for designers to use the new materials that researchers develop. Design Boost is a tool according to Peer Eriksson organizer and communication strategist.
The New Material!?
The journalist Mark Isitt was moderator and starts the evening of Material Gap with stating that “we are in the plastic age, but we need to leave it, we need a new material”. That new material wasn’t invented during the evening, but glimpses of an interesting discussion took place, such as scientist Fredrika Gullfot saying that it is a myth that designers and scientists do not speak the same language, what really is the big difference is that we speak about different things. Read the rest of this entry »
The break for Saving the Planet In Style will be much shorter than advertised! From now on the website will be alive again and keep reporting on engaged design from Sweden and Scandinavia.
As an appetizer for Stockholm Design Week I will give you this photo of a lamp made by waste textiles by Egil Jansson, and after the jump products by Matilda Dominique, Egil Jansson, Anna Harbom, Julia Göransdotter, Anna Löfstrand, Rasmus Löfstrand Grip and Martina Nystrand, all coming from an exhibition in Trikåfabriken in Hammarby, south of central Stockholm. More about events during the week after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
A competition for best design of a sustainably produced T-shirt is organized by Stadsmissionen (the City Mission), Malmo City and EcoStep with a growing jury with artists from different strands. The jury is looking for an entry that will challenge, influence and inspire positive actions. It should also communicate intimacy, heart and faith in a sustainable future.
“The clothing industry is one of our biggest industries and therefore it is necessary that fashion consumption should be a naturally aware consumption. Read the rest of this entry »
Go get inspired at the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm:
Recovery and clothing is the theme when the educational organisation Studiefrämjandet Stockholm arranges an evening together with the Museum of National Antiquities.
Lånegarderoben (the clothing library) is a non-profit business run by Kulturföreningen Kreativitet, they will talk about their clothes lending that functions as a library, where it is possible to borrow clothes for a while for a fee.
Hanna Nyberg is one of the initiators of Lånegarderoben, which recently opened in Stockholm: Read the rest of this entry »
“Imagine… That you’re standing outside a house. It can be your own home or perhaps your dream home. Enter through the front door and pick a room. Go into it and consider where the energy in the room comes from and how it is used. Ask yourself how you could make the room less energy consuming, or even close to zero.” Read the rest of this entry »
Last friday Seamhack took place during Researchers Night (Forskarfredag) in Göteborg. I asked Erik Thorstensson who was taking part in the event on part of his design group Creatables about his experience from Seamhack.
Seamhack is the local term for ”taking your old textiles and stuff to an expert who helps you to make them into something new and exciting”. It was started a year ago when Lisa Brunnström at Göteborg & co got inspired by Otto von Busch and his book ”Fashion-able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design” (article about the book) and decided to make it happen. Read the rest of this entry »
An interesting seminar to listen to while eating:
Can we design peace? PhD Derek B. Miller researches how design can contribute to international peace and security. Special area is disarmament of weapons. But this is not about designing products and services but to think from a design perspective. May sound obscure or airy, but Design thinking is an established concept within research which is what Derek B. Miller uses.
He will come to ADA‘s (Association of Design and Advertising) lunch seminar to talk on the Moral hazards in Responsibility for International Peace and Security. He presents four competing factors essential to the design of peace and security processes. Law, ethics, security and strict morality. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, at least if you are a politician, company, college student or teacher or an official of some sort. Together with Vugge til Vugge in Denmark they plan to see how some of the most Cradle to Cradle adjusted companies in Holland do it. As Holland is the country where C2C is most developed and even city planning is influenced by the ideas behind the concept this can promise to be an interesting and inspiring journey.
This is a text about the earlier trip they made to Holland.
It was time for another HållBar of Svensk Form with interesting speakers, mingle and music in collaboration with the Architecture Museum on last Tuesday evening. It was a good influx of a curious audience and welcome members of Svensk Form! The evening was launched by the design strategist and industrial designer Martin Willers from PeoplePeople, whom also was initiator of the evening’s theme: Design of behavioral change.
He talked about how aware design in everyday consumer life can actively contribute to mitigating climate change by offering attractive application-friendly economic alternatives; thought through products and solutions that stimulate and encourage consumers to more environmentally friendly choices. Which was sententiously summarized by the words:
“Good (Sustainable) Design is to do more with less in-depth understanding of human situation. “ Read the rest of this entry »
