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- Sustainability isn’t trendy anymore.” During my stay in Milan i get to hear this phrase several times. The first time I only get surprised and dismiss it. I know better. There are so many designers working toward a more sustainable production and consumption today – compare it with five years ago, it’s a world of difference.
Take for example Design For Us, a design studio showing a collection of furniture made in collaboration with brain scientists with the intention to make patients recover quicker through a friendly hospital environment. The chairs and table are soft and light in a Nordic way, it is only when looking closer at them that it is evident that the ideas behind this project go deep. Read the rest of this entry »
Svensk Form is exhibiting in Milan with the title Swedish Love Stories – Welcome Home!
Saving the Planet In Style will be there to report from the Swedish stand and from interesting exhibitors around the fair with a keen eye for what is pointing to the future where that future is heading.
Piteå Museum (this is where Piteå is situated) opens an exhibition with craft from the region. As this is a country of rather enormous proportions and I live in the south I won’t be able to go and see it, but I think some of the exhibitors have some very nice pictures of their work that I want to share with you.
The first picture is of a coaster by Maria Öqvist Öhman, she also has a blog called Jag Blommar (I Blossom). She works with many different materials, both within applied and fine arts. Photo by Maria Öqvist Öhman.
Engaged Scandinavian design seems to have become cosmopolite this year. The trend of natural wood, of focus on form, on seeming to be sustainable (not saying that this means that it isn’t), is not as present in Greenhouse this year as it was last. This year – at least at the Green House exhibition – all colours and a variety of materials have entered the stage and with that, I think, more ways of understanding sustainable design are also visible.
Colour potential
One designer who uses the potential visual expressions of reuse fully is Maria Westerberg (she has also made a mirror house at one of the entrances andit might even dazzle your eye). We have seen her work in used materials in different areas now, and it is relieving to see engaged design this frivolous and unrestrained. 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 »
Emma Olofsdotter is an economist specializing in design and engineering. She has studied how design organisations such as Svensk Form can be a part in spreading ideas of sustainability. Last week she visited Designgalleriet and now shares her experience with Saving the Planet In Style.
I have been a newly cut proud puffy poodle. I have had a sexy voice singing lovesongs in all my pink dresses. I have also been knitting-coffee-drinking-cookie-eating giggling granny. Like on a heroic oddessey I have met tickling sparkling poetry and fought the (my) monsters that holds the joy and freedom of creation captured.
I’m a believer. I believe design is a bearer of beliefs and a powerful master of change. Design By Leftovers talk a lot about love when they tell the stories of their reborn furniture. Love is seeing, sharing, transmitting and taking part in a memory or story. Read the rest of this entry »
From old and discarded – to exclusive and sought after, Design By Leftovers makes and tells the transformation of old furniture in a more enticing way than most.
“We believe that the old discarded and forgotten cen be reborn. That every person and everything has a story to tell.”
With intriguing stories attached to each object they take you into their universe where the visible history of a fabric or a furniture is held to the light for everyone to see and the hidden story of users and places is embellished on. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
“I wanted to take the concept of designing for clean water to a bigger scale. To make poetic water purifying for thousands of people instead of for one.” Says Jakob Uhlin about his graduation project Sweetwater. Sweetwater at first sight seems like nice drop shaped bottles, but then you see them compared to a blue whale – and you rethink.
The dilemma with graduation exhibitions is that each and every student have their own agenda and reasoning. When you look for specific criterias like design for sustainability you can easily feel a bit cheated as some of the most exciting looking things have nothing to do with sustainable thinking and will therefore be misjudged if you try to apply it.
Contemporary American green fashion is becoming hotter by the day, claims the Swedish Institute, right now setting up an exhibition about just that, the green part of fashion with a Swedish angle. The exhibition, called Eco Chic – Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion, really opened in Belgrade two years ago and is now exhibited one final time in New York during the summer. It also coincides with an exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology called Eco-fashion: Going Green, looking at the last two centuries of fashion from an ecological and ethical perspective.”With two exhibitions at the same time treating the same topic from different perspectives, we hope that no one in New York will miss that the fast fashion of today is harmful for both human and nature. “ Says Anna Maria Bernitz, project leader at the Swedish Institute. “We do not only have many good designers in Sweden with a strong ecological perspective and ethical commitment, we also have many renowned theorists in the area.”
