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HERE WE GO AGAIN!
On Saturday, May 10, the bus heads to Bohusläns Museum in Uddevalla.
In the beautiful art hall facing the quayside, students from the master's and bachelor's programs at HDK-Valand Campus Steneby show their degree projects.
S.O.U.P. (Showcasing Odd Unfiltered Perceptions) presents 24 thesis projects that in different ways explore the potential of materials to embody and communicate in a time of climate crisis, distancing and digitization.
10.30 Assembly
NOTE! The bus departs from the front of Clarion Hotel Post, Drottningtorget
10.45 Bus departs
12.00 Estimated arrival time
15.15 Departure from Bohuslän Museum
16.30 Estimated time of return
Osa by May 8 to vast@svenskform.se
WELCOME!
The trip is a collaboration between Svensk Form Väst and HDK-Valand Campus Steneby
Vernissage program Saturday 10 May
12.00 Opening with drinks & mingle
13.00 Opening speech
Ulrika Amnefjord, Head of Unit at Bohuslän Museum
Tobias Fransson, degree student from metal design
Tom Cubbin, lecturer at HDK-Valand Campus Steneby
14.30 Performance
Michael Schoorl, graduate student from metal design
S.O.U.P. (Showcasing Odd Unfiltered Perceptions)
The exhibition title is both an acronym and a playful metaphor for the exhibition as a whole. You are invited to explore a simmering and ever-evolving meal where craft practices, materials and design methods are the main ingredients. Themes such as man's relationship with nature, care, the essence of memory and the power of collective creation are all present. The exhibition offers space for reflection, challenges our perception and opens up new possibilities of being - perhaps as a different material, creature or person. The works also testify to a longing to exist outside the traditional gallery space, to be activated in performance and move freely between materials and techniques.
Throughout all the works, making is the driving force - a making that transforms both ourselves and the world around us, with every stitch, stroke and joint.
/Curator, Helena Pernow
The degree exhibition S.O.U.P. Showcasing Odd Unfiltered Perceptions presents degree projects by students from the Bachelor's and Master's programs in Metal Design, Furniture Design specializing in wood and Textile-Body-Space.
Exhibition coordinator / Jenny Stefansdotter Stentoft
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The Ornamentation Days
When: March 15 - 16
Where: Röhsska, Studio + Architecture Hall
The Ornamentation Days are two inspirational days where we explore together the history of ornamentation, its importance in today's interior design, and how we can bring this art form into the future.
The initiators are furniture designer Matilda Hunyadi, set designer Dennis Valencia and sculptor Karl Sjögren, who will all talk about the role and possibilities of ornamentation in their respective fields.
During the days, an ornamental display curated by Dennis Valencia will also be shown, where historical objects are mixed with contemporary works from Matilda Hunyadi, Karl Siögren, Josefin Eklund, Gustav Wiik, Victoria Eyram and textile artist Julia Kylen Collins.
Program Saturday and Sunday
12.00 Lecture with Birgitta Martinius
12.45-13 Coffee break
13-13.30 Conversation with and presentation by Matilda Hunyadi
13.45- 14.15 Discussion with and presentation by Dennis Valencia
13-14.30 Sculpture demonstration with Karl Sjögren
14.30-15 Discussion with and presentation by Karl Sjögren
The talks are led by journalists Ellinor Thunberg and Helena Skoog.
Welcome to discover the world of ornamentation - a world where history meets the future, where craftsmanship and design come together to create objects that we want to cherish and pass on to future generations.
A collaboration between Röhsska, Region Västra Götaland / Konst och slöjd and Svensk Form Väst.
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Welcome to the annual meeting
and inspirational lecture
by Anna Severinsson
How does color give an extra dimension to the surface? And how to relate to surfaces with a function for a specific use.
Wednesday, March 26
17.30 - 19.00
Föreningsgatan 2, Gothenburg
After the traditional annual meeting, we get to take part in Anna Severinsson's interesting work from 1968 until today. Ms. Severinsson is an experienced textile designer with extensive knowledge of working in the textile industry for several decades.
Osa by March 23 to: vast@svenskform.se
Only members of Svensk Form.
We offer drinks and snacks.
Welcome to the website!
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Opening bus to Rian design museum in Falkenberg!
When: Saturday, February 1
Time: 10.20 - 16.30
During the day there will be a program of presentations and artist talks - see program below!
The bus departs at 10.30 from our premises at Föreningsgatan 2 in Gothenburg and stops on the way
at Kungsbacka station at about 11.00 to pick up participants. Arrive at Rian at approximately 12.00. The bus trip is organized in collaboration between Svensk Form Väst and Rian and is free of charge.
Book your seat on the bus by sending an email to malin.henningsson@falkenberg.se and indicate whether you are traveling from Gothenburg or from Kungsbacka. For those who go by bus, there is also the opportunity to pre-order a hearty, vegetarian sandwich for SEK 75 in Rian's café (no later than 30/1). The number of seats is limited.
Welcome to take part in the two exhibitions this spring
Generation Why - a collection of 34 Nordic artists and designers from Generation Y who convey the feelings, experiences and perspectives of their generation through their work.
Provotypes - Britta Teleman, industrial designer and PhD student at Halmstad University, examines the question of whether norm-critical design can contribute to more equal care.
Times for the day
10.20 Assembly Föreningsgatan 2, Gothenburg.
10.30 Departure.
11.00 (approx) Departure Kungsbacka station.
12.00 Arrival at Rian.
13.00 Welcome by museum director Erika Danker
13.10 Introduction by Nina Gresvig, Chairman of Villvin and Project Manager of Generation Why
13.20 Conversation with Vidar Koksvik, Marcia Harvey Isaksson and Charlotte Jul, curators of the exhibition Generation Why, led by Rian's curator Helena Hertov
13.40 Presentation of Ask Björlo, Milja Morseth and Maria Viftrup, participating designers in the exhibition Generation Why
14.20 Britta Teleman, industrial designer and PhD student at Halmstad University presents the exhibition Provotyper
15.00 Departure Rian towards Gothenburg
Svensk Form Väst invites you to a coffee break and tells you about what is going on during the year.
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