Kivik Pavilions is a project by Kivik Art Centre that combines architecture with art and design. Fundamental are issues of environmental solutions, a symbiosis of the landscape and the pavilion, local materials, and corporate partnership with industries in the region. The 2007 pavilion, called ‘Mother Ship’, was designed by Norwegian architects Snohetta, in conjunction with the photographer Tom Sandberg (here are some nice pictures).

The 2008 pavilion for Kivik Art Centre in southeast Sweden has been designed by David Chipperfield and Antony Gormley. The pavilion, which was constructed in only two months, is a sculpture entirely in concrete. Formed of three interlocked 100 m3 volumes – ‘The Cave’, ‘The Stage’ and ‘The Tower’ – the pavilion offers three different ways of experiencing the nature and landscapes around Kivik.

‘The Cave’ – a solid, dormant space in the base of the sculpture where one can rest on a wall-fixed bench, offers the enclosed feeling of being in the dark forest. Stairs then take the visitor up to the first floor – ‘The Stage’ – a horizontal volume open to the landscape, where one looks out but is also exposed. The third volume – ‘The Tower’ – takes the visitor up spiral stairs to a platform almost 18 metres above the ground, where one is rewarded with a spectacular view over the trees towards the Baltic Sea.

The pavilion will be open to the public from 19 July – 28 September 2008.

P.s Maybe some of you remember I wrote about a minimalistic John Pawson house in Scania in southern Sweden a while ago. It’s actually situated quite close to Kivik Art Centre, in the same area of Scania called Österlen.

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Andra bloggar om: David Chipperfield, Antony Gormley, konst, arkitektur, design, kivik art

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec has just opened the étapes exhibition at  Villa Noailles in Hyères. It will run until 21st of September.

This exhibition will also travel to the following places:

L’elac, L’espace Lausannois d’art contemporain in Lausanne, Switzerland 2nd October – 22nd November 2008 and Grand Hornu in Hornu, Belgium 8th March – 31st May 2009.

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Andra bloggar om: design, bouroullec, utställning

Every year I’m hosting a rose event called Rosor på Falsterbonäset (Roses at the Falsterbo Peninsula) in my hometown Falsterbo. I’m doing it together with the local nature preservation organisation (where I’m the vice president) and it concerns old roses, one thing I would not like to live my life without. This years event takes place June 26th at 5pm and we start in my own garden.

We will also visit a couple of other gardens which concentrates on old and English roses. The Scania Rose Society is co-organising the event and Monica Bäckström will talk about (and answering questions) concerning roses and cultivation.

If you are not able to come I’m adding some snapshots from my garden which I took this morning. Just let me know if you are in Falsterbo during the rose season (June-July) and a will happily show you my garden.

p.s My cat’s name is Måns…

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Andra bloggar om: rosor, gamla rosor, trädgård, odla

Level Vodka invited star fashion designer and artist Hussein Chalayan to create a pioneering work of art with a focus on taste. He was given completely free rein. The result is The Level Tunnel – a 15 meters long and 5 meters high travelling installation that captures the essence of Level Vodka. But the road leading there was anything but straight. Follow The Level Tunnel Team’s blog on the daily twists and turns of this spectacular project (the blog will only be updated during the tunnel events).

After the premiere in Mexico, The Level Tunnel will continue to Athens and Paris. It will visit each city for 1-2 weeks and is partly open to the general public. The visitors will experience the taste of Level Vodka with all their senses but one - sight. They wander blindfolded through the tunnel as they hear music from flutes made out of Level bottles, inhale scents of the super premium vodka, and are enclosed by the soft leather of the railing. And when they climb out, it all ends with a tasting event.

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Andra bloggar om: level vodka, hussein chalayan, reklam, marknadsföring, kreativitet

At the same time as Milan is opening the doors to the crowded Design Week, Gothenburg is opening the annual International Science Festival. This year the theme is play in all its forms and well-attended game events are taken place all over the city. But in an almost empty conference hall, far away from the public game activities in Gothenburg or the media spotlight and the well-visited arenas in Milan, I have the opportunity to listen to some of Scandinavia’s most renowned computer game researchers discussing our virtual future.

Game Studies is still a young, but growing, field of research, where we get a new understanding of the area and a hint of future expectations of interface design and possible user groups. Their reports indeed indicates highly interesting facts when looking for patterns amongst the next generation of consumers, such as ways of communicating in relation to the screen while playing, factors that may stimulate the never ending hunt for game rewards, or questions about gender and identity.

Even if the discussion mostly is focusing on the game design development – with questions like why replicating the real world, with structures in economy, religion, market, laws, etc., when we are free to create our experimental world in the virtual, or the facts that we see a growing professional sport field in computer gaming – the most interesting questions would be raised if we could combine the reports with ambitions of developing our society in large.
For example, millions of gamers are playing a considerable part of their spare time to get game points – and higher status in the game community. How can we use this knowledge of the power of motivation when discussing how to change behaviours for other purposes, such as sustainable lifestyle changes?

New interfaces mean new challenges. What is a computer tomorrow? And in what kind of situations do we play? The transformation from leisure to work, from play to industry, takes different shapes, but the trend is strong: We have only seen the very beginning of the impact from computer games – the blooming game era is to come, and in areas we have not yet imagined!

This is a post by David report contributor Hanna Ljungström.

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Andra bloggar om: vetenskapsfestivalen, göteborg, dataspel, samhälle, media

The David Report friend Tomoki Kusakabe visited the E&Y party in Milan the other day during the Milan Furniture Fair and sent me a couple of images which I’m posting below. Among the prominent guests were Jasper Morrison, Harri Koskinen and Ilkka Suppanen. Here’s a quote from Tomoki:

The exhibition is very nice space, clean and quiet…
There is beautiful courtyard behind.
Ilkka Suppanen said, “There is really nice small sound
too, I feel like I am in heaven…”

And here’s the images…

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Andra bloggar om: milano, möbler, inredning, jasper morrison, fest, utställning

The Milan Design Week 2008 was offering kind of sweet-sour experiences. I started to go to Milan already back in 1988 but I think I’m as curious (and critical) as I was twenty years ago. I do understand that it is maybe an utopia to expect the Milan Design Week to be better and better year after year. However, at least it should reflect current trends from the surrounding world. I’m not sure it really did that this year. But I’m not surprised, the furniture industry is normally comparatively slow. A few years ago you didn’t go to the Milan Design Week if your prime objective was to spot the latest lifestyle trends. But the event is slowly changing from being “just” a furniture fair to a wider design event with representatives from different areas like cars, jewellery and fashion.

Nowadays, at this kind of design happenings, I’m looking more at the overall appearance than on specific products itself. Kind of the total brand delivery. One conclusion was that you could really feel that we are going towards a recession. Anxious businessmen were doing their best to sell as much as possible. Of course this was affecting the total quality of the Milan Design Week. There were definitely a lack of originality and creativity this year.

But I also saw a couple of really interesting exhibitions. One was Established & Sons at Pelota, a former sports arena in Milano’s Brera area. Good show and nice to see how they are experimenting with basic materials and shapes. With a kind of idea-based simplicity as a common denominator. Another positive experience was the Japanese producer E&Y which had a qualitative exhibition with a beautiful natural light.

In the first room of Moroso’s “The little garden of love”, water was pouring down from the ceiling. A show for all your senses. I have added some pictures from the mentioned exhibitions bellow. Stay tuned, further report from the Milan Design Week tomorrow!

First eight images is from the Established & Sons exhibition.

Next two images from the E & Y exhibition, with founder Yoichi Nakamuta.

And finally the Moroso exhibition called “The little garden of love”

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Andra bloggar om: möbler, inredning, mässa, design, milano, italien

I’m off to the Milan Design Week tomorrow morning. As always it will be nice to come to Milan and meet the spring (I’m from Sweden you know…). What interests me most is to see if the DesignArt, or Vulgarism trend as I prefer to call it, from lasts years Milan Design Week is as strong this year. The invitation cards shows that designers like Studio Job and Jaime Hayon (who is responsible for the creation above) is well represented at different shows at town. Also the presence of Meta, the contemporary arm of Mallet, the London and New York antique house shows that Milan follows the trend from Art Basel Miami Beach.

I will let you know in a couple of posts from the Milan Design Week in the next couple of days.

Arrivederci!

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Andra bloggar om: milano, möbelmässa, konst, design, inredning, möbler, trender

Here follows a couple of images of new products presented at the Milan Design Week by French designer Inga Sempe. They are: Endormis plates by Domestic, Double stray paper lampshade by Artecnica and Low back Moel seat range by Ligne Roset. I especially like the plates. In the typically shrewd design style that has become Inga’s trademark.

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Andra bloggar om: design, möbler, inredning, mässa, milano, inga sempe

Here follows some images from the Designboost activites during the Hem & Villa fair in Malmö 6-9 February. All in all we produced 21 lectures, 17 workshops, 13 exhibitions, 1 concert. On top of this also a sustainable children’s house. The different activities by Designboost were based on “sustainable design” and took place as an “design orienteering” with a number of stops where the visitors got different kind of knowledge based experiences. Participants included Eero Koivisto, Thomas Sandell, Jan Boris-Möller, Stefan Nilsson, Mats Theselius and Jacques Werup among others. Partners included Alcro, Apple, Artek, Audi, Brio, City of Malmö, Electrolux and Iittala. One of the ideas behind Designboost is to help companies and organisations to conceptualise sustainable design. The different events we are performing, side by side with more regular consulting on the subject, is delivering on our vision: sharing design knowledge.

Further info at the Designboost at Hem and Villa campaign site (unfortunately only in Swedish). If you would like to see more images you can click here.

The Designboost main stage called “at home with Designboost”. It was built as a 50 meter long bamboo kitchen.

Lina Sellgren talking about Feng Shui.

The sustainable children’s house.

The exhibition “sustainable design” in the garden of the children’s house.

The power of play with Brio.

7 small environments as visualisations of the “spokes” of the “sustainable wheel”.

Presentation of the two concepts “against throwawayism” by Iittala and “2nd cycle” by Artek.

Audi as a visualisation of the holistic thoughts behind the “sustainable wheel”.

Presentation of Malmö as a sustainable city.

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Andra bloggar om: design, hållbar utveckling, miljö, mässa, inrending