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A Wave Home : Exploring furniture for the moon
No full textIn this thesis, I have explored the possibilities of what furniture can look like on a moon base. How they will be made and what resources to use. What will the living conditions be like and why producing on a faraway place is important for future interstellar missions. By combining art and design, I will present a realistic concept that fits the need of the astronauts stationed on the moon and know what one might need when on a moon station
The Market of Happiness
No full textThe Market of Happiness is a pop-up store where consumerism meets ecosystems out of balance. At checkout a receipt of the biodiversity loss is presented. Capitalism, consumerism, and planetary boundaries is the starting point for the research. The project aims at making the correlations of consumption and biodiversity loss tangible, with the hope of getting us to think of how to navigate between nature and economy in the future.
Plating the Baltic Sea : Marine restoration with regenerative design
No full textIn collaboration with Under ytan, a company cultivating algae locally on Åland, I have designed tableware made from and for algae-based food. Using the framework of the Set Table, I explore algae in a local context and reflect upon the usage of algae in marine restoration. The Set Table is full of symbols regarding culture, history, life and festivals. By gathering around the table, we share food, stories and create consciousness of the Baltic Sea
Att tolka en folkdräkt
No full textI mötet mellan den traditionella delsbodräkten och vår samtid vill jag konkretisera en idé om att tradition är i ständig förändring och att denna förändring är en förutsättning för att folkkultur ska kunna leva vidare
Pärlan i Brunn : Historia och framtid för Folkets Hus i Hedesunda
No full textFolkets Hus i Hedesunda blev startpunkten i det här projektet som handlar om att reaktivera ett offentligt rum. En förutsättning för mig var att värna om det redan byggda och visa på potential som den befintliga inredningsarkitekturen redan har. Husets historia har verkat som främsta referens och i närstudier av lokalen har befintliga element lagt grunden för den nya inredningen. Min förhoppning är att arbetet kan bidra till kunskap om och vikten av att ta till vara på de befintliga byggnadernas kvaliteter. Istället för att inaktuella byggnader ska rivas, kan de omprogrammeras och omdefinieras och fyllas av nya sociala möjligheter. Genom den här typen av designmetodik kan vi inredningsarkitekter rädda många hus och spara på våra resurser.Folkets Hus in Hedesunda became the starting point for this project, which is about reactivating a public space. A prerequisite for me was to protect what has already been built and show the potential that the existing interior architecture already has. The history of the house has acted as the main reference and in close studies of the premises, existing elements have laid the foundation for the new interior. My hope is that the work can contribute to knowledge about and the importance of taking advantage of the qualities of the existing buildings. Instead of outdated buildings being demolished, they can be reprogrammed and redefined and filled with new social possibilities. Through this kind of design methodology, we interior designers can save many houses and save our resources
Kurita : CARING FOR SOIL
No full textSoil is one of the largest ecosystems being ignored by human activities. Our farming practices and urban constructions have contributed to its degradation, with far-reaching consequences for the water cycle’s equi- librium.Reconnect with nature and learn the methods to assist in its recovery are essential for the survival of all inhabitants on this planet. My degree project consists of a large research into the water cycle of urban areas, studying the particular case of Stockholm, that leads to the problems of degraded soil. The aim is to understand the relation- ship between water cycle and soil ecosystems and explore potential solutions. As a result, I have designed KURITA, a learning tool founded upon the ecofeminism values of care, that serves as a learning method for citi- zens to reconnect with soil values and actively participate in its restor- ative process.
Entasis
No full textThis report discusses my exam project Entasis through four short essays. Through the project I have investigated and demonstrated how knowledge of and responsiveness to the properties of wood can generate a system for design and interior architecture. Through the project, I have described this process as a formulation of a material language, vocabulary or dialect. The metaphor of the dialect is used to highlight how materials is the language through which design and interior architecture is expressed. The project aims to demonstrate how proficiency in the language of wood makes new expressions - or dialects - possible. One important theme running through the whole work is the concept of invoking design. Through describing the objects I have built as machines, i demonstrate how the properties of wood can be an active part in the genesis of design. Design is generated by the machine through the tension between its parts. The aim of this method is to find designs that cannot be planned and to demonstrate how ideas is not outside the material - they are rather invoked from inside the material. The method is applied on different scales to generate both furniture and architectural elements. Another important theme is Entasis - a word that during the project has changed meaning from historical curiosity to animating force. Through tensioning objects in various ways I try to demonstrate how objects can be simultaneously constructed and animated. The relation between the properties of the wood used and the non - material expression and atmosphere that the tension generates is demonstrated in an architectural system of long, tensioned pieces of wood used in the exhibition that the project was presented in. In the ending reflection the relation between material efficiency and aesthetics is discussed. The outcome of the project is both wood - specific constructions and expressions but also general attitudes towards materiality, in the production of interior architecture and design.
Cosmo-Techno-Poiesis : Architecture of Environmental Control
No full textArchitecture is a collective technological human practice to control local environments in order to protect the human body. Depending on the worldview and cosmology of the society which produces the architecture – increasingly the global worldview is rational, mono-technological and Western – this practice gives more or less space for nonhuman agency. This paper looks at ways to loosen the contemporary Western obsession with controlling the environment architecturally by exploring different forms of architectural memento mori (remember you must die). The act of willing (poiesis) protective-controlling architecture (technology) into the world, inside a certain worldview (cosmology), is explored through the conceptual entanglement of those three notions: cosmo-techno-poiesis. The paper concludes with an architectural example and a short summary
Rethinking the wall
No full textInterior walls are one of the biggest environmental culprits in office renovations. With this project I want to consider a new way to radically alter the layout of public spaces without producing waste. The purpose of this project is to investigate the potential for using brickwork as an inspiration for adaptable walls in offices and public spaces. I will explore how sustainable, lightweight materials such as hemp or wool can be used to create lightweight “bricks” with acoustic properties. These bricks are assembled in an accordion-like structure that allows the wall to be extended, folded and to create various shapes. By rethinking the interior wall, I have created a circular system of semi-permanent walls that can transform offices, workspaces and meeting rooms at will, and allows for an affordable and sustainable alternative to costly and disruptive renovations. With a leasing system the walls are part of a circular business model. Using brickwork as an inspiration, and a way to connect innovations to architectural history, this project explores the possibilities inherent in the modularity of bricks