Design Seminars

The Design Seminars aim to introduce contemporary research and professional work within the field of design. The Seminars are arranged as a course for the Master and PhD Students in textile and fashion design but all teachers, students, and other guests are most welcome. Please contact Amy Bondesson with questions and suggestions.

Location and time

When: Tuesdays at 13-15  

Where: The Swedish School of Textiles room 473 on the 4:th floor (if nothing else is stated in the program).  

How to get there: Bryggaregatan 17, Borås. After entering, take the stairs or the elevator to the 4:th floor. Walk down the long hall and turn left at the end. Walk some 5 meters and turn right there you will find room 473. Click on the map for a larger version. 

PROGRAM SPRING 2012

The program updates continuously, look out for changes!
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JANUARY 17

Magnus Brogren

Hilleberg the tentmaker – a discussion about product development, tents and strong winds

Magnus Brogren is product manager at Hilleberg the tentmaker and he is responsible for all material development at the company. He has a background in the apparel industry and he is an educated mountain leader. He say:

We make tents. More accurately, we produce high performance back country shelter solutions. That is all we do, so all of our design and development is focused on that single idea.

For us, design always begins with a situation that requires a solution. For example,  polar scientists needed a portable laboratory that was strong enough for polar weather, light enough to be transported easily, big enough to stand in and to sleep eight or more, and easy to pitch.

JANUARY 24

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK! Individual feedback, DesMa1

JANUARY 31

Thomas Laurien

Thomas Laurien: I am a designer, lecturer and PhD-candidate at The School of Design and Crafts (HDK) in Gothenburg. My practice based artistic research is about compositional and sociocultural concepts and phenomenon of interest when working with and on the surface. During my lecture I would like to share and discuss some thoughts and experiences of different writing modes in a research and practice based context. What do I do when I write, and what do I actually want the text to do?

FEBRUARY 7

Morgan Norman

Morgan Norman is born in Stockholm. In 2002-2003 he went to Gamleby School of Photography and right after he worked as a photo assistant for the international fashion photographer Carl Bengtsson. Sense then he has freelanced for various magazines, advertising agencies and record labels. In 2008 Morgan established “Norman Cavazzana”; his own creative agency that today is situated in New York as well as Moscow. Morgan is featured in the permanent exhibition of Nationalmuseum (Stockholm) among other exhibitions and awards.

“Morgan Norman’s work is theatrical, romantic, bleak and dreamy. His images are much influenced by the location of the shoot. He allows it to define a natural relationship with the model, and from there guides the setting till it fulfills his expectation. He likes to experiment with colors, tones and structures…” (– VICTOR by Hasselblad 1 / 2009)

Morgan will talk about his work and how he became a full time photographer, and the fashion industry from a photographer perspective. www.morgannorman.com

FEBRUARY 14

Camilla Larsson

A folded logic – aspects of the use of textile in contemporary art

Through the textile figure of the fold as a mode of thinking, along with the concept of the return of the Baroque, I will closely read the work of four Swedish contemporary artist; Katarina Nitsch, Leif Holmstrand, Astrid Svangren and Maya Eizin Öijer. I will discus how the textile metaphor of the fold could be understood as a subversive power challenging conventions in theory and artistic practice. My interest in the textile as a productive and creative figure lies in its formal as well as conceptual diversity -  the textile as technique, material, aesthetic expression as well as part of a global business of trade, production and consumption, where the logic of the neo-liberal capitalism create a blinding and seductive desire.

Camilla Larsson is a curator and writer. She is currently working as a curator at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. Within the framework of Bonniers Konsthall she has worked with artists such as Gabriel Lester, Ida Ekblad, Monica Bonvicini, and Aurélien Froment. At Bonniers Konsthall she has developed the exhibition series annually taking place presenting artists “young on the Swedish art scene” adopting a curatorial method based on alteration and expansion aiming to reach beyond what is already known. Camilla is educated in Art history, Museology, and Feminist Theory at the University of Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Uppsala.

FEBRUARY 21

Elisabet Yanagisawa

More information will follow.

FEBRUARY 28

Flavia Loscialpo

Flavia Loscialpo is Doctor in Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome and alumnus of LCF (MA Fashion Curation). She is Senior Lecturer in Fashion at Solent Southampton University and as independent curator and researcher, has been collaborating with numerous institutions as Barbican Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum and London College of Fashion. Her areas of expertise are fashion theory, aesthetics, curation and avant-garde movements.

Flavia will talk about Utopian Clothing: the case of Futurist and Constructivist proposals in the early 1920s; "can fashion start from zero"? It is a question that, as observed by theorists, historians and curators, ultimately haunts those radical fashion projects embodying a "new vision" of the world. In the experimental clothing designed (at the beginning of the twentieth century) by Futurist and Constructivist artists is it possible to follow and progressively unfold the aspiration to a total renovation and re-organization of life, differently articulated by both movements.

MARCH 6

Felecia Davis

Soft Architectures

Felecia Davis is a PhD candidate in the Design and Computation Group at MIT.  She has been trained as an architect and engineer and has been exploring intersections between architecture and textiles to design soft buildings that use the pliability of fabrics.  Tents and more recently pneumatic structures, where the fabric is held in tension have a tradition and history within the realm of providing human shelter and creating space.  However, less common are strategies that could use textiles not only in tension but also in compression depending upon what state is called for at any particular time.  In addition to these structural considerations, textiles offer the potential to not only construct at the level of the fabric itself, one can also develop the stitch or structure and the blend of material in the fibers that expand and  reshape  how we conceive of buildings and ways of living.

MARCH 13

MARCH 20

Cecilia Hjelm

More information will follow.

MARCH 27

APRIL 3

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK! Deadline on the second version, DesMa1, DesMa2

APRIL 10

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK! Feedback in groups, DesMa1, DesMa2

APRIL 17

APRIL 24

MAY 1

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK! Holiday.

MAY 8

NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK!

MAY 15

Design Seminar Examination DesMa10, 13.00-17.00.

MAY 22

Design Seminar Examination DesMa11, 13.00-17.00.