70% LESS CO2 - Conversion to a Viable Age

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An important exhibition has just opened at the Royal Academy schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation.

Students and teaching departments were asked to submit their projects for inclusion and 31 were chosen for the exhibition to illustrate how new ideas, new materials and new methods of construction or manufacturing will help to reduce global emissions of CO2 by at least 70%.

Significant levels of CO2 are produced by the fashion industries from the production of the raw materials through manufacturing and through high levels of waste and around 10% of the global emissions of CO2 are from the ubiquitous use of concrete in all forms of construction so several projects here suggest major changes to what we make and build and how we use materials.

But there are also projects on using new materials from algae, lichen and mycelium and even one project that uses pine needles for insulation.

There are short assessments of all the projects on the academy site.

70% LESS CO2
Det Kongelige Akademi
Arketektur Design Konservering
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53, København K
7 October 2021 - 14 January 2022

Absent Bodies at Designmuseum Danmark

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Amina Saada

Ishara Jayathilake

A new exhibition has opened on the entrance courtyard of Designmuseum Danmark with works selected by Designers' Nest and Designmuseum Danmark.

The museum remains closed for extensive work to the building due to be completed in 2022 but there is access to the courtyard.

the works:

the love scene & the balancing act
Courtney Makins
sugarcoated cotton houndstooth, wool tartan and ripstop

the red bride
Amina Saada
polyester satin and foam

follow4follow
Oliver Opperman
recycled polyester and dead-stock neoprene

people go to work
Fredrik Stålhandske
cardboard and polyester

east meets west
Ishara Jayathilake
screen-printed cotton canvas

 
 
 
 

Courtney Makins

 Absent Bodies continues on the entrance courtyard of
Designmuseum Danmark, Bredgade ,Copenhagen
until 22 November 2020

 

Night Fever

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A major new exhibition has opened at Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen to explore the design of nightclubs and discotheques described as "hotbeds of contemporary culture."

This is about interiors and furniture; about graphics, for posters and record covers; about the development of all the technology needed for sound systems and lighting in these venues and, of course, fashion with contemporary photographs and some outfits and with separate sections on key places through the decades since the early 1960s including Studio 54 in New York; the Hacienda in Manchester and Ministry of Sound in London along with clubs and discotheques in Italy and Berlin.

There are videos - including a long clip from Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta that was released in 1977 - and even a dance floor with music (through headphones) with play lists from early pop disco through house to techno.

The exhibition has been designed and curated by Vitra Design Museum and ADAM - Brussels Design Museum.

NIGHT FEVER. Designing Club Culture 1960-today
continues at Designmuseum Danmark until 27 September 2020