Reinventing Cities

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This exhibition was organised as part of the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen in October and shows the winning designs in a global competition for carbon-neutral and resilient urban regeneration.

“14 cities have identified together 31 under-utilised spaces to redevelop, including several empty plots of various sizes and abandoned buildings, historical mansions, underused markets, a former airport site, car parks to transform, and an abandoned incinerator and landfill.”

Through this competition, C40 and the participating cities invited architects, developers, environmentalists, neighbourhood groups, innovators and artists to build creative teams and to compete for the opportunity to transform these sites into new beacons of sustainability and resiliency with innovative climate solutions that combined noteworthy architecture and local community benefits.

  

Reinventing Cities continues until 15 November
DI (Dansk Industri) H C Andersens Boulevard 18, Copenhagen

Skud på Stammen

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An exhibition of furniture where newly-trained cabinetmakers have worked in collaboration with established designers to produce trial designs for furniture that would be appropriate for smaller homes. 

The exhibition showcases the work by students from NEXT– Uddannelse København who coordinate the training of both school students and vocational training for adults over the age of 25 in a wide range of work disciplines but also involved are DI - the association of Danish Industry - who have hosted the exhibition and, appropriately given this year’s theme, FDB Møbler - the furniture company of the Danish Cooperative movement who when they were first established in the late 1940s focused first on producing a range of well-designed and well-made furniture for young families setting up home and often within the limited space of a small apartment.

The other interesting aspect of the exhibition is that all the pieces had to be made in elm … a wood that in the past was used for making furniture but is a tree that in northern Europe in the late 20th century was almost-totally lost through first disease and then climate change. It is not as well known now as oak or beech for furniture making but has a distinct grain and it is good to see how the cabinetmakers have used a single type of timber to produce very different forms of joinery that exploit the unique character of the timber.

 

the exhibition continues until 6 April 2018

at DI (Dansk Industri) H C Andersens Boulevard 18, Copenhagen

AIR CHAIR
Designer: Troels Grum Schwensen
Pupils: Christoffer Andreas Rudolph and Kristina Nielsen

LÆNESTOL
Designer: Emil Reimert
Pupils: Laura Klakk, Pim van Vliet and Pernille Falsberg

TO BORDE
Designer: Åsa Alm
Pupil:  Lulu Jacobsen

EN STOL
Designer: Aske Foersom and Jesper Rosenmeier
Pupil:  Kris Vejnø

 

Danish Design Awards 2017

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Oko E-bike designed by Kibisi for Biomega

 

 

Nominated designs and the recently-announced winners for the Danish Design Awards for 2017 can now be seen in an exhibition in the entrance lobby of Industriens Hus on H.C. Andersens Boulevard in Copenhagen … the headquarters of DI or Dansk Industrie which is the Confederation of Danish Industry.

The awards were divided into an almost bewildering number of categories - including Better Learning, Daily Life, Fostering Partnerships and an award for the outstanding design for Improved Welfare - but this simply reflects a diverse range of modern products where imagination or lateral thinking and the application of good design principles can resolve a huge range of problems in modern life.

All the finalists and the winners are on the Danish Design Award site and it really is worth spending time to look at all the designs and products shown there because it does prove that good design really does matter and that the implementation of good design principles and the appreciation of well made and well designed products permeates through so many aspects of life in Denmark. 

 

note: the text of the exhibition is in English and the web site is in Danish or English.

continues until 29th September 2017

The Scandinavian range of walking frames designed by Mads Schenstrøm Stefansen and Anders Berggreen for Byacre - winner in the Improved Welfare category