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Design Seminars
The Design Seminars aim to introduce contemporary research and professionally work in the field of design. The Seminars are arranged as a course for the Master Students in textile and fashion design and are open for teachers and students from other programs. Responsible for the seminars is Anna Persson.
Location and time
Tuesdays at 13-15 in room 473 on the 4:th floor at the Swedish School of Textiles (if nothing else is said in the program).
Address: Textilhögskolan, Bryggaregatan 17, Borås. Find Textilhögskolan and enter the entrance at Bryggaregatan 17. Take the stairs or the elevator to the 4:th floor. Take a long hall until it ends. Turn left and walk some 5 meters and take right. There the room 473 should be. Click on the map for a larger version.
PROGRAM AUTUMN 2010
The program updates continuously, look out for changes!
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SEPTEMBER 14
Introduction for Master Students
SEPTEMBER 21
Linnéa Nilsson
Report from Milano
SEPTEMBER 28
Hedvig af Ekenstam
Many design problems carry a textile solution.
In my work I turn the tables by employing "soft" materials for stereotypical industrial design products. Inspired from the knit technique I use the floor heating cables as a potential thread to create a new type of radiator. The Knitted Radiator is a light heater to bring with you were you need heat and you may form it any shape you want.
Why does the vacuum cleaner need to be a hard ungainly machine in a shape of a car, let it be a light, soft machine that slides around in your home soundless.
The materials textile is a tool for me to think outside the borders in the field of industrial design.
OCTOBER 5
Anna Maria Orru
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OCTOBER 12
Johan Öberg
Writing exercises for Master Students
OCTOBER 19
To Be Announced
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OCTOBER 26
To Be Announced
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NOVEMBER 2
Veera Suvalo Grimberg and SPINN!
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NOVEMBER 9
To Be Announced
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NOVEMBER 16
To Be Announced
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NOVEMBER 23
To Be Announced
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DECEMBER 7
To Be Announced
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DECEMBER 14
To Be Announced
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PREVIOUS PROGRAM (SPRING 2010)
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JANUARY 19
Ted Hesselbom
When ends the modernism? and other topical issues in a design museum.
“I'm the manager at the Röhsska Museum of Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts in Göteborg since January 2007 and have a change in mission. Our discipline areas include fashion, design and crafts and I'll talk about history and future of the issues I think are relevant to these topics from our perspective. Topics as collecting, history and style of knowledge.”
JANUARY 26
Bradley Quinn
Bradley Quinn is an author, journalist, and independent scholar with expertise in fashion, textiles, and design. His books include Techno Fashion, The Fashion of Architecture, Chinese Style, Scandinavian Style, and Mid-Century Modern.
FEBRUARY 2
There is no design seminar this week.
Instead you are welcome to a lecture on Thursday this week at Espira at 13.00 (February 4) held by Syntjuntan (www.syntjuntan.se).
You are also welcome to the CONCERT that will be held on Friday this week at 15.00, also at Espira (February 5), where participants from the workshop with Syntjuntan will perform on there newly designed textile synthesizers.
FEBRUARY 9
Annika Ekdahl
Understand, innovate, manage?
Annika Ekdahl discusses a possible relation to culture heritage, on the basis of her practice as a textile artists and as visiting professor at HDK in textile art.
"I am, and have probably always been, rooted in the classical textile art. Quite voluntarily. I appreciate and encourage talented and honest experiments. But I think we many times, in our eagerness to be innovative, get a tunnel vision that is restricting, not liberating. The textile art genre is alive and diverse. Searching. Asking questions about human life. It also tells tales about spectacle and clownery – if we listen carefully to stitch after stitch, or weft after weft. Just as when we read, word after word. Or just live life, breath after breath after breath ... "
FEBRUARY 16
Andreas Jacobsson
Andreas has a PhD in film studies and defended his dissertation on the theme of death on film in February 2009. He will give a introductory talk about filmic representation. He will illustrate with extracts from a variety of films from different parts of the world.
FEBRUARY 23
This week there is no design seminar due to a clash with Hanna Bolin's Master Examination in the gallery.
MARCH 2
CANCELLED! Lena has unfortunately become sick and will come another time instead. Lena Bergstrom received her art education at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and studied at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. After coming to Orrefors in 1993-1994 to participate in a special design project, Lena was captivated by glass and has been affiliated with Orrefors ever since. Her creations, which are soft of line yet graphically eloquent, represent a new generation of expression. Lena has always seen her work in glass in relationship to a tabletop, which determines the form, dimensions and proportions.
MARCH 9
Pernilla Dahlman
Pernilla Dahlman from SVID (the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation), will come and inform about the Summer Design Office. The Summer Design Office generally consists of 4-8 students who work on short, concept-oriented assignments, primarily for small companies. Assignments can also be for municipalities; for example, how a specific location can be made more attractive. The aim is to bring about creative settings that arise when different types of competencies “meet”. Thus, applicants should be prepared to work in groups, learn from others and help clients gain an increased understanding of what design work is and how it can create advantage.
SVID aims to improve the awareness within the private and public sectors of the importance of design as a competitive tool and to encourage the integration of design methodology into their activities.
MARCH 16
Rickard Widerberg
Richard Widerberg is a sound and media artist living in Gothenburg Sweden. He is in his work mainly investigating locative and social dimensions of listening to the environment. Related is his work with solutions to share and publish sounds, for example web based sound maps. Richard is also an active musician playing in different constellations ranging from pop to noise. He develops new interfaces for musical expression for both himself and others, for example a simple loop sampler for mobile phones for improvising with environmental sounds. Richard is teaching sound and new media production at Valand school of Fine Arts at University of Gothenburg and sound art at Media Lab Helsinki at School of Art and Design of Aalto University. He is also regurlarly running experimental sound workshops for young people in various schools. Richard is also part of the media art collective Dånk! based in Göteborg.
Richard will show some of his projects and talk about how to work creatively with technology and interaction as well as collaborations between different disciplines.
www.riwid.net
MARCH 23
Mika Sutomi
Mika is originally from Japan, currently based in Linz, Austria. Her current interest leads her to explore the concept of an urban body extension in the realm of wearable technology. She is one of the designers of the studio KOBAKANT, which collaborations explore the realm of wearable technology as a medium for commenting on technological and social aspects. "Throughout our projects we are conscious of wearability and functionality. We believe in the spirit of humoring technology and a twisted criticism toward the stereotypes it creates. For us, technology is to be hacked, DIYed and modified by everyone to fit our needs and desires."
MARCH 30
Masayo Ave
NOTE: This seminar starts 14.00 - 16.00
Masayo is an architect and designer born in Tokyo and currently based in Berlin.
After collecting many years of experiences in the international design sector, Masayo took over the leadership of an international design workshop that focuses on "Haptic" - the value of tactile sensitivity, and sensorial aspects in material, working for and with young creators, craftsmen, professionals as well as children from a variety of areas and countries.
APRIL 6
Sus Lundgren
This seminar will be about about design critics.
Sus is a teacher and PhD-student at the interaction design collegium at the It-university in Gothenburg. For example, Sus has developed the course "Aesthetics of Interaction Design". On her website she asks:
"What is aesthetics? The word means “that which can be experienced with the senses”, so it must not necessarily be about beauty, as many think. The Bauhaus, for instance, proposed aesthetics very focused towards functionalism. Undoubtedly designing functionality is an important part of the interaction designer’s work, but should it be the only aesthetic ideal? What does it mean to talk about the aesthetics of interaction? Even if functionality is a goal for the artifact itself, should that include the interaction with it too, or can other parameters be of importance here? If so, which ones? And finally, how can this, the aesthetics of interaction, be discussed, analyzed and taught? That, my friends are the main questions in my Ph.D-thesis."
For more info about Sus, visit her website at www.cs.chalmers.se/~lundsus/
APRIL 13
Sofia K A Hedman
Sofia Hedman’s central area of interest and expertise is conceptual fashion and art combined with a keen commitment to experimental fashion curation. She has been dedicated to trying to define, or name, and find characteristics of this constantly moving and shifting part of the fashion system that is dysfunctional in its own system. She has further investigated what can be deemed characteristics and codes for avant-garde fashion curation and their implications for contemporary exhibitions.
This seminar will explore what fashion curation is and what can be seen as avant-garde within fashion curation today. It will detail what to consider when curating a fashion exhibition or a group exhibition; how to build up a curatorial narrative and how curators have broken down complex ideas and translated them visually into a three dimensional experimental exhibition design. It will focus on the differences between commercial, museum and art gallery aesthetics.
APRIL 20
Rasmus Wingårdh
Rasmus is head of the design department at Filippa K.
APRIL 27
Anna Vallgårda
Anna just started a Post Doc at the Swedsih School of Textiles. She has a PhD in interaction design and study the computer as a material for design.
"Computers, however, have no expression in and by themselves so in order to study and work with them I develop various "computational composites." The vision is that we through understanding the materiality of computers at some point will be able to work with computers in the same way we work with other more traditional materials like textile, glass, or wood. Current experiments evolve around textiles exploring the possibilities in the structures of textiles."
http://akav.dk/
MAY 4
Laura Barüel
Visions of the North
Laura is an fashion designer educated at the Danish Design school in Copenhagen. Her work focuses on the relation between the modern man and nature.She sees herself as a scientist in a undefined area between design, craft, set design and art. The outcome is experimental fashion design raging from one off exhibition pieces to ready to wear dresses.
In her talk she will focus on themes in relation to life in the nordic countries and the dress and textile tradition of the region.
MAY 11
Surplus Wonder
NOTICE: THIS SEMINAR IS IN HÖRSALEN (T436)
Based in Copenhagen, Surplus Wonder is a creative design studio with the core belief that designs with strong concepts generates both economic surplus and creative wonders. There ambition is to move brands and companies forward by creating distinct design solutions that are engaging, demanding and wondrous. They are determined to take design further and therefore launch self-initiated projects that create new answers through critical questioning.
MAY 18
Design Seminar Examination DesMa2
13-17 in room T216
MAY 25
Design Seminar Examination DesMa1
13-17 in room T216
PREVIOUS PROGRAM (AUTUMN 2009)
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SEPTEMBER 2
Presentation of the design seminar program, autumn 2009. The PhD-students in textile and fashion design are invited to introduce themselves and their work.
SEPTEMBER 9
Otto Von Busch
Otto von Busch is a Swedish artist, activist, fashion theorist and designer. The Fashion System has traditionally been understood as a hierarchical and centralized "cathedral" model of fashion, where the chosen few inside are active and the fashion believers, or consumers, are left passive worshipers. Over the last decade we have witnessed how a new series of small scale fashion ecologies, or "bazaars? are emerging, where a multitude of actors interact and operate in new "molecular" ways. How can fashion learn from these actors?
SEPTEMBER 16
Johan Redström
Johan is the design director of the Interactive Institute, Sweden, and the research leader of one of its research groups, the Design Research Unit. Johan’s research aims at combining philosophical and artistic approaches with focus on experimental interaction design. Research programs include Slow Technology on designing for reflection rather than efficiency in use, IT+Textiles on combining traditional design and new technologies, Static! and more recently Switch! on increasing energy awareness through critical and conceptual design.
SEPTEMBER 23
Palle Dahlstedt
As a composer, improviser and researcher into computational creativity, Palle Dahlstedt has examined creativity in its depths. He tries to understand the process from idea to artwork, and how it is affected by our tools, by cognition, perception and by cultural heritage. In this lecture, he will present a spatial theory of creative processes, and show examples of computer-based creative systems. In real life, Palle is assoc. senior lecturer in computer-aided creativity at the Dept. Of Applied Information Technology, and lecturer in composition at the Academy of Music and Drama, both at the University of Gothenburg.
SEPTEMBER 30
Monica Sand
- Getting lost as research methods
Monica Sand, artist, teacher and researcher at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), Stockholm. Her thesis, based on site-specific art projects and work-shops, was produced at the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Space in Motion – The Art of Activating Space In-Between (Konsten att gunga – experiment som aktiverar mellanrum (2008). Her post doc project Out of Place with Punctuality and Precision,(Gå vilse med punktlighet och precision) is founded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) 2009-2011.In daily life getting lost is involuntary, while, in this project, processes of "displacement" serve as tools to explore how fear of being “out of place” organize the city aesthetically, geographically and technically. By the research complex spatial relationships between the body’s rhythmic movement and a place, between mapping and new technology, and between actions and theory are actively produced. Ontologically, this means a specific way of conducting research; the researcher becomes both a producer of new empiricism and an agent in these new events.
OCTOBER 7 (CANCELLED)
Keri Ingvarsson
Keri is the Executive Producer for Fashion Weeks by Berns (Berns Salonger).
OCTOBER 14
Clemens Thornquist
Clemens Thornquist, Associate Professor in fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles, will come and present his different research projects.
OCTOBER 21
Workshop with Silja Puranen at the Textile Museum 10-13
The biggest textile prize in the Nordic countries, the Nordic Award in Textiles was 2009 awarded to Finnish textile artist Silja Puranen, operating within the borderlands of textile and visual art.
The workshop with Silja Puranen will not be practical but will focus on visualization, so bring your favourite sketching equipment (whatever you prefer to sketch on, sketchbook & pencils or your computer etc.).
OCTOBER 28
Monica Billger
Monica holds a position as Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. She is also the Academic Leader for Center of Visualization Göteborg (CVG), one of three national Knowledge Arenas within the network VISARD, /Visualisation in Sweden - Arenas for Research and Development/ (http://www.center-of-visualization.org).
In her talk she will focus on the importance of colour appearance in digital modeling and highlight the problems of simulating spatial colour phenomena. The presentation is based upon architectural colour research comparing real rooms to virtual reality simulations. She will also discuss the development of the Virtual Colour Laboratory, a project aiming to demonstrate existing research results on spatial colour phenomena for educational purposes.
NOVEMBER 4
Sofia Arvidsson, Karin Süld and Ingrid Moldin
Library & Learning Resources, University of Borås
- Is it possible to make complex research works accessible Open Access?
The background of the pilot study A model for managing complex, digital objects in open archives within the field of art and design (2008/2009 financed by the National Library of Sweden) is the challenges connected with digital publishing and accessibility of artistic research and research findings in visualized forms. The purpose was to make a survey of existing Open Access initiatives handling this kind of objects within the academic field of art and design as well as a draft to a model with the School of Textiles, as an example. The material that was analyzed in the project included exhibitions, material descriptions, videos and photography. The pilot study was successful and a new project financed by the National Library in Sweden is planned for 2010 in collaboration with Uppsala University.
NOVEMBER 11
CANCELLED! NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
(Henrik Wallgren Amongst a lot of other things Henrik Wallgren is a musician, writer and the manager of "Bygget", a quite unique and pretty wild project that took place this summer at the inner court of the Röhsska museum)
NOVEMBER 18
Monica Järg
Estonian textile artist Monika Järgs favorite textile subjects are carpets and rugs: In the Estonian cold climate the carpets are highly recommended interior elements. Why can not the carpet be of wood? Wood is the traditional material in building in Estonia – both outside and inside, also the floors are mostly wooden. So, I wanted to put together those two traditional materials. But what about the ornament? Some years ago I explored for myself one special croche, which have been done masterfully in one part of South-Estonia. I took from there the ornament of croche (for „FLOOR“), enlarged it enormously, changed the technique and colours. The aim of this process was to test, how little there can be textile material, to be still the carpet – a product which is traditionally textile.”
NOVEMBER 20 FRIDAY!
Henrik Vibskov
This extra design seminar is arranged as an exclusive workshop with Danish Fashion Designer Henrik Vibskov. The location is at the Factory (Espira). The seminar is arranged by Jeannine Han. Notice that the workshop is on a Friday.
NOVEMBER 25
Julian Roberts
Julian Roberts, Royal College of Art, is a fashion designer and filmmaker, who has shown 13 collections at London Fashion Week and won the British Fashion Council's New Generation Award five times.
DECEMBER 2
Åsa Unander-Scharin
- Multistable corporealities: technology and phenomenology in choreographic process.
Åsa Unander-Scharin is a Choreographer, Post-doctoral research fellow at the Dep. for Music and Media, Luleå University of Technology. Åsa creates choreographic installations and stage performances in collaboration with dancers, musicians, visual artists, computer programmers and robotic researchers. In 1999 her robot choreography “The Lamentations of Orpheus” was awarded an honorary mention from VIDA 2.0 and in 2006 Petrushkas´ Cry was awarded the special prize. In 2008 she choreographed the interactive dance video Rintrah Roars, The Crystal Cabinet at Piteå Chamber Opera, Desire, Chaos and Geometry for The Vietnam National Opera Ballet, and in February this year she was invited to present her choreographic installations in Yokohama. Her doctoral thesis: Mänsklig mekanik och besjälade maskiner (Human mechanics and soulfull machines) can be downloaded at: http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2008/24/index.html. Video excerpts from her works can be seen in the video gallery at www.scenochsinne.se
This presentation will focus on bodies and technology in a series of video excerpts from choreographic works that includes dancing robots, interactive installations and performance technologies. With Don Ihde’s experimental phenomenology as a starting point I will discuss combinations of digital technology and choreography as a variation method to challenge, deconstruct and reshape bodies and movements. Other explored areas concern how we code and read the body when the dancer is integrated with and/or disturbed by technology, and how such integration or disturbance can generate artistic concepts and new choreographic methods.
DECEMBER 9
Textile Sound Design
The invited guests will present different ways of working with sound affecting properties in textiles from different perspectives.
- Helga Aiff and Folke Sandvik - Abenitio
- Olle Holmudd – Ludvig Svensson
- Karl Tillberg – Acoustican and PhD-student
- Margareta Zetterblom – Textile Designer and PhD-student
DECEMBER 16
Ulrik Martin Larsen and Rickard Lindqvist
Rickard Lindqvist is a PhD student in fashion design at the Swedish School of Textile. He is originally trained as a men's tailor in Borås and a graduate in fashion design from the Swedish School of Textile. Rickard has throughout his career worked with pattern cutting as creative method and carries out reasearch on pattern cutting as aethetics. He will present his thought on how techniques create the design and the importance of working in a beautiful way to create beautiful and interesting garments.
Ulrik Martin Larsen, also a PhD student in fashion design at The Swedish School og Textiles. Graduated with a MA in fashion Design from The Danish Design School in 2008. He has since then worked as a photographer, costume designer, illustrator and artist on a variaty of projects.
Ulrik works with fashion as an image, with a focus on staging through installation, exhibitions, film and photography.