Label archive: lecture

Lecture with garden designer Simon Irvine in Örebro

Open lecture with garden designer Simon Irvine at Kulturkvarteret in Örebro (Akustiken venue).

For over 30 years, Simon Irvine worked as a garden designer and gardener in the Small Castle Garden at Läckö Castle. An ethical approach to recycling guided his work, which has inspired countless visitors over the years. Most of what was grown was edible, certified organic, and served in the castle's restaurants. Meeting visitors was important to him from an educational perspective.

Simon Irvine is an author and photographer who has also made a name for himself as an inspiring speaker. He has participated in garden projects such as Gunnebo Castle – Back to the 18th Century, Wij Gardens, Måltidens hus in Grythyttan, and created exhibition gardens at Rosendal during the European Capital of Culture year, Hedens lustgård in Gothenburg, Bo 01 in Malmö, Ulriksdals flower show, and Gothenburg Botanical Garden.

The lecture is being held in collaboration with Örebro County Handicraft Association and is open to everyone. No registration or admission fee required.

If you're hungry, we recommend arriving a little earlier and visiting Kulturbistron for an evening snack or something similar.

Monday, April 13, 6:00–7:00 p.m.

[Photo: Tina Stafrén]

The shaping team in Örebro County

FORMSLAGET at Mecano with the crowning of this year's Form Carrier (NB: time at 18:45)

During the evening, the new Mold Bearer will tell us about himself and his work. In addition, we get to participate in a workshop where we get to try to do something in his way of working.
During the evening we also offer refreshments and yellow birthday cake, as the association turns 180 years old on this day.

On October 6 at 18.45, Shape Carriers will be awarded across the country by the regional associations of Svensk Form. These are people, organizations, companies, phenomena or initiatives that have contributed to development in the region through design. The appointment takes place in connection with Svensk Form's birthday. 

Address: Näbbtorgsgatan 2, 1tr, Örebro.
All design enthusiasts welcome. Free for members, 50 SEK for others.
Registration must be made by Wednesday 1/10 to orebro@svenskform.se. Indicate veg- or special diet.

Permafrost - Mold breakfast in Örebro with Mattias Käll

(NOTE! Changed day)

Through art, Mattias explores our relationship with each other and the rest of creation. He often looks at our faltering economic system and the way we consume. It makes him think about how distance to manufacturing, lack of knowledge and social structures make us less empathetic.
What happens when we replace natural ecosystems, plants and animals shaped over tens of thousands of years with artificial, man-made systems, processes and products? And how do we mend our broken relationship with each other and nature?

Mattias often works on long projects that include reserarch and meetings with researchers from other fields. He enjoys documenting processes and procedures. Mattias often visualizes volumes, weights and quantities. Every now and then he carries things around to feel and understand. The end result is often photographic series, objects, films and sometimes performances.

Mattias has worked on topics such as food waste, packaging plastics, fast fashion, permafrost, industrial animal husbandry, biodiversity, forests as carbon sinks, migration and small-scale agriculture.

During the design breakfast, he will show a number of projects and talk about his journey from working as a graphic designer at an advertising agency to working with art with a critical perspective on consumption and growth.

Address: Näbbtorgsgatan 2, 1tr, Örebro.
All design enthusiasts welcome. Free for members, 25 SEK for others. No registration needed.

[Photo Roine Magnusson]

"Medskick" Formkvällsmacka in Örebro with Anna Maria Hellner & Veronica Hejdlelind

Formkvällsmacka at Ateljéhuset F in Örebro. Sign up for the event!

"MEDSKICK to community spaces".

Lecture and in-depth discussion about the exhibition "One last message - greetings from Varberga" by project manager Anna Maria Hellner ÖBO.

Based on the urban development project in Varberga Centrum, new questions are raised about how early art can enter a construction project.
The lecture is about site development where art, design, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and garden co-create in the public space.

The group exhibition "Ett sista medskick- hälsningar från Varberga", which runs between April 25 - May 19, is with the artists Ruben Wätte, MASU (Susanne Westerberg and Mattias Gunnarsson) Jenny Käll, Tina Macha and Sabinaz Hakimi. Curated by Veronica Hejdelind and Anna Maria Hellner. With it, they want to highlight how and why art and the artist should be involved from an early stage.

Based on the transformation of Varberga center, a number of parallel art projects have taken shape. Questions that have arisen during the work have been about: How early can art enter a construction project? And what should art do in the early stages? How should everything that is said during a citizens' dialogue, meetings with children and young people be conveyed, passed on, to other important social functions for discussion and decisions? What do we need art for?

The exhibition group invites the visitor to think, discuss and build a place together during the exhibition period and to create new solutions together with the visitor during the exhibition period's open workshops, panel discussions and lectures.

Please register no later than 24/4 to orebro@svenskform.se Also indicate any veg or special diet.
All design enthusiasts welcome! Free for members, 25 SEK for others.
Address: Fogdegatan 2, Örebro.

You are also welcome to the vernissage on April 24 at 17-20. There will be an artist talk at 17.30-18 with the artists Ruben Wätte, MASU, Jenny Käll, Sanaz Hakimi, Tina Macha and Anna Maria Hellner.
The exhibition is about how to work with art in early processes of urban development.
See the attached poster. It and the program sheet for the whole project can be found here & here.

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Annual meeting in Örebro with Birgitta Notlöf from Livstycket

Welcome to our Annual General Meeting, which will be held at ÖrebroBostäder's head office in Örebro. PLEASE NOTE! Sign up for the meeting!

First, the usual annual meeting proceedings are held. Then coffee / tea and sandwich cake are served. Then we get a talk about the business Livstycket by its engine Birgitta Notlöf.

Registration must be made by March 6 to orebro@svenskform.se. Also indicate any veg or special diet. Free for members, 50 SEK for others.
Come on time for at 18 the doors will be locked.

Can integration work?

Birgitta Notlöf talks about her book Livstycket - Hela livet i en väska. It is the story of the 27 years she worked with Livstycket in Tensta.

Thousands of women from all over the world have participated in the association's activities, designing patterns and creating textile art, while studying Swedish and social studies.

"I have seen that it is possible to feel community and belonging. That it is possible to feel welcomed and included in Swedish society. I hope the book can be an inspiration to others who want to make society better for everyone," says Birgitta Notlöf.

The bodice is a garment used in the past by women in Sweden, to provide warmth and support. This is how we wanted our association to be. A warm, safe and supportive place for women, who may not have had access to any other such place outside their own home, and sometimes not even there. We also wanted to be a bit cheeky, colorful and curvy and challenge society's view of immigrant women as a group, Birgitta writes.

Birgitta has brought her new book "Livstycket.Hela livet i en väska" for sale to interested parties.