Thursday, 5 March 2009

Textile, Ornament, Light & Interior Space Seminar

Design: Reiko Sudo. Entrance lobby. Photo by Tadashi Okouchi.

The background for this seminar is to present the current status of the post doc. research project: Adjusting Daylight and Solar Heating in Office Buil

dings - intiated in 2007 by Joy Boutrup and Vibeke Riisberg.

The aim of the seminar is to give a broader perspective on Textiles, Ornament, Light and Interior Space – embracing both academic and practice based ways of obtaining knowledge. To elucidate these topics, we have invited four speakers to share their insight with us.

As keynote speakers we are honoured to present Reiko Sudo, Textile Designer and Director of the Japanese company NUNO and Ellen Dissanayake, Affiliate Professor, School of Music University of Washington. Further more we have invited Mette Ramsgaard, Associate Professor, Ph.D - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen and Delia Dumitrescu Ph.D student University of Borås, Sweden.

As paticipants we invite designers, architects, crafts people, academic researchers, teachers and students from design and architect schools, the textile industry and all others with an interest in the subject. The seminar will be in english.

Time and place

Monday 23rd of March, 10am - 4pm.
At the Grand Auditorium of KUC
Aagade 27
6000 Kolding - just opposite Kolding School of Design.

The seminar has been funded by the Danish Centre for Design Research, The Danish Ministry of Culture's Research Foundation and Kolding School of Design.

Source Kolding Design School

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