Institut for Bygningskunst og Design

INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN/ IBD

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Welcome 9 IBD Connected 12 IBD and Sustainable Development 16 IBD in Society 19 IBD and Education 28

Master Programmes 31

Bachelor Programmes 54 IBD, Research and Artistic Development

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Welcome IBD – the Institute of Architecture and Design – at KADK is a cross-disciplinary Institute at the intersection between architecture and design. We are constantly exploring this field and engaging with the question of how architecture meets design and how design meets architecture. The Institute is a visionary consequence of the merger in 2011 between The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, School of Architecture and the Danish Design School. Both schools came with a strong heritage within traditional Danish disciplines such as furniture design, spatial design, lighting design and interior architecture, and shared the Danish tradition of working closely with the materials and at a 1:1 scale. The Institute has grown to embrace a larger field at the product and architectural scale – from 2017 covering also fashion and crafts. Furthermore the Institute houses a number of workshops and the department of IT and Drawing. What unites the fields is a strong sense of materiality, tactility and spatial relations as well as a focus on the user, the human body and the context we relate to.

proach to research and our engagement with society and business. But first and foremost we want to give readers an impression of the ambiance of the Institute, what it is like to work and study here.

I hope you’ll enjoy the book!

Irene Alma Lønne Head of Institute Copenhagen, January 2018

The photographs in the book depict our studios, workshops, materials and surroundings; most of them were taken in November/December 2017.

Thanks to members of the staff for contributing with text and input and to everyone at the Institute for their active participation.

In the future we plan to push this agenda further. We are currently focussing on how the different study lines can build stronger relationships by working more closely together in order to develop new meaningful and innovative solutions within design and architecture. The relationship with external partners is highly prioritised, for example in collaborations within education and research, and also in regard to internships, industrial PhDs and future employment for our students.

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IBD Connected At IBD – the Institute of Architecture and Design – we stay connected, locally and globally. We constantly seek to strengthen our ties to the world outside the school, because our goal is not only to provide high quality education but also to contribute to society through our research and innovative solutions to real life challenges.

It makes perfect sense for us to engage in collaborations with private and public partners: the students get as close to real life situations as possible and the partners are offered a brand new take on their projects: new design methods and strategies, solutions or prototypes. When we engage in collaborations it is essential that it is a genuine partnership where the students and teachers are involved in the definition of the assignment – and that everybody understands that it has an educational purpose and often involves experimenting with new materials and techniques.

We encourage and assist all our students to find internships; both traditional internships within the fields of design and architecture, but also less traditional ones where students have an opportunity to develop new sets of skills and experience collaboration with other professions.

only dedicated to educating future generations of designers and architects but they also run their own practices. The workshops are especially important to us as they provide our students with hands-on experience and the most recent techniques. We provide intensive specialisation, enabling the students to build up an educational profile which matches both their expectations and those of the industry.

Doing internships, using practitioners as teachers and engaging in private and public partnerships help us to ensure that our students are fully prepared to start life as professional designers and architects after graduating from KADK. We want our graduates not only to be experts within their field of study but also to understand how to apply their creative skills and talent in a working environment that entails project management, adaptation to different frameworks, and cooperation with a variety of professions.

IBD values close collaboration across the institutes at KADK. All research projects involve a variety of KADK participants, and we implement relevant competencies from other institutes into our educational programmes.

At the drawing board, in the workshops and in project teaching, students enjoy close contact with teachers, researchers, international guest lecturers, mentors and inspiring practitioners. Most of our teachers are not 12 – Institute of Architecture and Design – IBD

IBD and Sustainable Development Working with design and architecture closely related to the human scale also means working with some of the greatest challenges facing mankind. Therefore, sustainability and social responsibility lie at the very core of our mindset. We aim to educate experts in innovative solutions that take interaction and context, details and entirety into account.

Students and researchers are working with creative and innovative solutions to resource scarcity, sustainable development and social challenges, and they do so from the professional point of view of architects and designers taking into consideration aesthetics, materials, tactility, tectonics, context, and user experience. We believe that this approach is an important contribution to the field of sustainable development and will continue to contribute both in the education of future generations of IBD students and in our research projects, collaborations and partnerships.

IBD is actively engaged in implementing the UN’s 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development as part of the overall strategy for KADK. Every KADK student from the class of 2017 addressed the UN goals in their graduation project (see examples from IBD on page 17: Ragna Sigríður Bjarnadóttir, Fashion Design – Hysteria, Helene Christina Pedersen, Furniture & Object, Fish Skin – from Waste to Textile). In the fall of 2017, staff and future graduates were invited to a conference at UN City Copenhagen where they met several representatives from UN organisations. The conference touched upon six overall themes: Ensuring Healthy Lives for All at All Ages; Circular Economy in Architecture, Design and Conservation; Gender Equality; Sustainable Development of African Slums; Sustainable Construction; Disasters and People.

“Architecture and design can contribute by making things concrete and tangible. The students of Architecture and Design have an opportunity to make things very hands-on: how can we design a bus stop to make it safe for girls to get home from school when it’s dark? How can we design voting areas that make it easy for women to get out on the voting day and actually vote, which increases the chance of female representation in political organs?

It is very hands-on and I envy that – their opportunity to make a difference here and now.”

Agnes Klem UN Women 16 – Institute of Architecture and Design – IBD

IBD in Society At IBD, researchers and students engage in collaborations with public institutions, national and international, for the mutual benefit of students and partners. The students learn how to engage in meaningful collaboration similar to the situation in which they find themselves once they leave the school, and the partners get a brand new take on their challenges – in many cases challenges where they would not otherwise engage with designers or architects.

Dialogue through Design – a Danish-Moroccan Empowerment Project Since 2008, KADK has been engaged in a development project in Morocco, establishing close contact with Réseau Femmes Artisanes, a network of handicraft women based in Marrakech. The project is part of the Danish-Arab Partnership Programme under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The overall aim of the project is to improve the artisan women’s opportunities in Moroccan society by empowerment through design.

The project benefits both the students of IBD and the Moroccan artisan women involved.

The students get hands-on experience working with development in an international setting where participants have different cultural backgrounds, and they gain useful insights into sales, orders, costs and pricing.

The artisan women experience a significant improvement of their skills in innovation and design and their ability to develop and handle their business professionally. Many of the participating women are now role models for a new generation of handicraft women in Marrakech training artisans within their network. During the project, business experience has expanded and sales have been growing: from small exhibitions in Marrakech and local handicraft fairs to markets in Denmark and France and high-end shops around Morocco.

A similar project is taking place in Tunisia. Contact IBD for further information on both projects.

The project establishes a forum for cultural dialogue and exchange of know-how between Moroccan artisan women and Danish design students. By engaging in networks, activities and training sessions, the women develop and expand their active roles in society and increase their autonomy. Furthermore, the workshops of the project provide the women with tools to innovate and critique new designs and in general enable them to manage all steps in the production process in a quality minded and profitable way – from development of designs and production to commercialisation. For these artisan women, design becomes a tool for empowerment.

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Vibo – KitchenStreet Students from the Master’s programme Furniture & Object collaborated with the social housing association, Vibo, in a project about cultural integration in Nivå, Denmark.

Vibo had an ambition to achieve a higher level of cultural interaction through cooking experiences and sharing of food traditions.

To make it happen, the students designed solutions that inspired the participants to move cooking out of the private sphere and into the public space. The goal was to enable communication and make the residents of the area feel safe by designing areas that invite and encourage them to arrange social gatherings in and around the outdoor kitchens.

Part of the learning experience was to create an exhibition at the Salone del Mobile in Milano 2016, where the students also cooked together with residents from Vibo.

“The sense of community in our housing associations today is challenged in many places, and there is a need to think outside the box if we are going to succeed in creating activities across diverse groups of residents. The establishment of a mobile outdoor kitchen creates a new framework for an outdoor social life and an informal community spirit that appeals to all residents, thus opening up for new communities across generations and cultures.”

Lisbeth Engelbrecht Jensen Vibo 20 – Institute of Architecture and Design – IBD

Copenhagen Municipality – Urban Regeneration in the District of Nørrebro Over a period of two years the Master’s programme in Spatial Design has been involved in a collaborative effort with Copenhagen Municipality. Students from the Master’s programme have been investigating issues of urban regeneration through topics such as renovation of social housing, urban design schemes, interior design of the local library and the cultural centre, initiatives to improve local shops and a collaborative project resulting in the inauguration of a local community facility. The students conducted an in-depth study of the existing environment in relation to the residents, their visions and their needs and gave recommendations for potential improvements.

‘Områdefornyelsen Nørrebro’ (Urban Regeneration in the district of Nørrebro) received project proposals with detailed analyses and high quality input and suggestions. The students experienced how they as spatial designers can engage in projects with both local residents and authorities in urban planning and, in addition, be the voice of a group of residents with few resources, who are rarely heard in the public discourse.

“The students’ projects are important because they materialise ideas in a context of a lot of talk.

The students are anchored and respectful of the situation whilst introducing new ideas. The images the students produce challenge our perception, imagination and the potentials for the neighbourhood.

We have had something made concrete, which others may not have dared to do had it been a commission.

The ability to translate human concerns into drawings and project proposals is utterly unique and very productive for the further development of this neighbourhood.”

Sofie Anne Andersen Urban planner at Områdefornyelsen Nørrebro IBD – Institute of Architecture and Design – 23

Ingestion – Collaboration with Kähler Design In September 2017 IBD welcomed all the new Master’s students to a two-week course developed in collaboration with the Danish design company Kähler. On this occasion the company, already famous for its design products and collaborations with designers, was not looking for product development but was merely seeking fresh approaches to “the eating experience” applied in the broadest artistic sense.

For IBD the course also launched the newly introduced study lines at the Institute, which now include Master’s programmes covering disciplines from architecture, interior design and furniture design, to product design, arts and crafts and fashion design. The title of the course was ”Ingestion – the Consumption of a Substance by an Organism.” Ten cross-disciplinary groups demonstrated new approaches to the theme and proved that there is yet unseen potential at the intersection between architecture and design.

Each group comprised designers and architects from the Master’s programmes – with a shared objective of experimenting, exploring and investigating the concept of ingestion.

The outcome was clear: There is a lot to gain from cross-disciplinary processes, where students share knowledge – and hopefully incubate future collaborations across disciplines. The final presentation demonstrated a high level of innovation and creativity.

Each project was unique and ranged from reflections of ingestion related to food waste, future global scarcity of food, food in a social context, to food as experience and food as culture. The students presented their projects in the form of films, happenings, performances and small exhibitions.

Kähler kindly contributed with funding for materials for the students’ projects; the company also gave lectures and participated in the final presentation. The external, highly profiled inspirational lectures, were funded

by Henny and Johan Richter’s Foundation.

“I feel really inspired. I hope that you all got the feeling of collaboration and know that you can use each other even if you’re not in the same programme – and that you still think of each other when you go your separate ways. I am very impressed – I have never seen anything like this. Congratulations, you did a fantastic job.”

Ane Cortzen Head of Culture, Kähler 24 – Institute of Architecture and Design – IBD

IBD and Education IBD operates in an interdisciplinary education and research environment. Based on a Danish tradition of working with design in a spatial and architectural context, the Institute’s ambition is to set a new agenda in the development of business areas and competencies for architects and designers.

Sustainability and social awareness are key elements for teaching and research at the Institute, where the subject fields are closely related to production, consumption, market and society – areas that are responsible for the daily decision-making about resources and social issues.

Students who graduate from the Institute possess strong competencies and methods of working with architectural and design problems with a special focus on anthropological methods, users, workshop skills (1:1) and knowledge of materials.

The Institute offers three Bachelor’s programmes and four Master’s programmes that are the framework of the professional research and artistic development environment across design and architecture.

being developed. The following workshops are today part of IBD: wood, metal, textile print, textile knit, fashion, weaving, SuperForm Lab, Light Lab, Material Lab, Print, Roland 3D, and the glass an ceramics workshops located on Bornholm.

IT and Drawing IBD strives to provide all students with high level drawing skills as well as digital competences. The institute houses the IT and drawing courses mandatory to all KADK students.

Being able to develop and communicate a creative intention precisely and relevant from the first outline to the final project is a fundamental academic qualification that our students acquire. Architectural representation spans a wide range of media from analogue conceptual sketches and scale models to digital construction drawings, visualisations, virtual reality and digital fabrication based on digital models.

Workshops Students at IBD know their way around the workshops. Teaching in workshops is closely linked to all the educational programmes at the institute – in an attempt to achieve a perfect combination of theoretical and practice-based teaching. The access to professional expertise as well as high-quality equipment is of great value to the students and allows them to switch between various methods in the design process.

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BACHELOR

MASTER

STRUCTURE IBD Spatial Design

Furniture & Object

Architecture, Strategic Design & Entrepreneurship

Fashion Design

Peter Thule

Nicolai de Gier

Mathilde Seerup

Ann Merete Ohrt

A+D

A+D

A+D

D

Helhed & Del

Produkt+

Crafts

Enterity & Elements

a) Fashion Design and Textiles b) Furniture, space and materials

Glass and Ceramics

Jacob Bang

Malene Kristiansen

Viki Kert/Nina Husted

A

D

D

A+D: Programmes for both architecture and design students A: Programmes for architecture students D: Programmes for design students

Master Programme

Furniture & Object Architecture + Design

Subject Field There is a strong tradition in Denmark for developing and designing furniture and objects for everyday use that in various ways complement spatial contexts and sustain a wide variety of public and private activities.

The subject area of the study programme is a world of objects, spatialities, furniture, equipment, textiles and industrial products, which we encounter and sense with our body.

The programme retains and develops this unique tradition, the deep cultural heritage and the social engagement through an exploration of the potentials of the subject field. The programme introduces assignments that are closely affiliated with the material, with the workshop and that experiment with the options inherent in the materials and the technology, while also ensuring knowledge about the creation processes of the subject area. At the programme we are working on establishing and developing the basic knowledge and cultures of the discipline but also on exchanging this knowledge and bringing it in play in novel ways and contexts.

Furniture & Object merges the Danish tradition in this field from both architecture and design. The programme focuses on the relationship of furniture and objects to the outside world – both from an architectural practice perspective, where furniture, textiles and objects are part of complex spatial contexts, and from a design practice perspective where the object itself is in focus with an ar-

tistically guided approach to the production terms of the industry. The programme offers research-based teaching within the subject area in a common programme for both architect and design master students.

Curriculum and Approaches The subject area of the Furniture & Object Programme is viewed through the following structured optics: The internal problems; knowledge about materials, production, form and tectonics, type, history, construction and statics.The external problems, in which the objects are engaged in a dialogue with the outside world; use, activity, space, society, and political, social and economic conditions, including sustainability issues. This exchange accommodates the different approaches of the programme and ensures that students acquire the necessary skills and knowledge about the subject area and understand how to exchange this knowledge with other professions. Teaching takes place in an environment closely affiliated with workshops and materials, and in global collaborations where the subject methods, specific cultures and theories are introduced.

Collaboration The programme considers collaboration with external partners as a natural part of the education, and in research as well as teaching numerous business, organisational and academic partners are associated with the Master’s programme: Fritz Hansen, Hay, Sika Design, IKEA, Montana, the social housing association, VIBO, The Danish Agency for Culture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design and Aalto University.

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“The study environment at IBD is very inspiring.

I truly value the individual guidance from highly skilled teachers as well as the daily feedback I get from my fellow students.

I love the fact that one day I am drawing sketches and the next day I am in the workshop testing my ideas and building prototypes 1:1. We have the advantage of working on a small scale with an opportunity to build our own designs. In the workshops we get an exceptional understanding of the materials, their qualities and limitations, and we bring this knowledge back to the drawing board. This enables us to switch between different methods in the design process.”

Sofie Ritz Furniture & Object

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“Working with textile design at IBD allows you to work across all of the programmes at the Institute.

Working with materials, colours and surfaces in different contexts such as space and furniture creates great confusion – and great experiences, which ultimately makes you more satisfied with your own skills. It is always interesting to collaborate across disciplines and thus create a better thought-out and appealing product.”

Anna Clarisse Holck Wæhrens Textile Design

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Master Programme

Spatial Design

Architecture + Design Subject Field The vision of Spatial Design is to reinvent the interior as a catalyst in the built environment. We are focussing on the relationship between architecture, design and man with the interior as a point of departure, which is not limited to interior design. The interior is the foundation for an exploration of specific concepts such as privacy, domesticity and territory, or physical phenomena such as threshold, niche and fabric. It cannot be viewed in isolation, but exists in relation to the rest of the world. It is important to work with the interior in a way that actuates the design of the context and the built environment in order to avoid “junk space,” where the exterior and the interior are separate and independent of context.

Today many architects and designers work specifically within the field of interior design, exhibition and textile design and design with spatial implications. An Epinion survey from 2017 showed that 18% of all KADK graduates get employed within these disciplines (excluding architectural offices). Spatial Design focusses on five fields that are relevant to the labour market and relate to the competencies of the programme: Transformation, lighting design, spaces of welfare, interior tectonics and materials, exhibition and experience design, and urban interiors.

Curriculum and Approaches Spatial Design examines the relationship between architecture, design and man from three perspectives: a historical, an anthropological and a tectonic/material perspective.

The historical perspective makes sense in a Danish context, where most tasks include reuse, and history offers a particular insight into the relationship between architecture, design, the individual and society. The anthropological perspective has a similar awareness-creating function, relating to aspects of use and power within spatial organisation. The ability to work with tectonics and materials, e.g. textiles, is a prerequisite for artistic practice within architecture as well as design. The three perspectives will be introduced through workshops, seminars and in the teaching of the two studios within the programme. The ambition is to train reflective practitioners who are able to connect design skills in praxis with academic competencies.

Collaboration Spatial Design collaborates with academic, public and private partners. The academic partners are especially associated with the programme’s research environment, in which Centre for Privacy Studies includes, among others, the University of Copenhagen, Lund University and ETH in Zurich. The research project Spaces of Danish Welfare has similar collaborative efforts with a number of Scandinavian institutions, whereas the project Universal Design collaborates with SBI and RCA in London, among others. In terms of public partners, the programme has ongoing collaborations with exhibition venues such as DAC, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Faaborg Museum and the Medical Museion. VIBO, architectural and design practices working with spatial organisation will be future private partners.

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“Spatial Design brings together students from diverse disciplines and cultural backgrounds. This creates a unique environment in which we are encouraged to learn by sharing different skill sets, and from the robust debate arising from our various individual perspectives.

What particularly attracts me is the generous and varied provision of workshops that offer students the opportunity to manifest their ideas in a physical way and gain a richer understanding of materiality through making. There is a strong sense of community at the Institute of Architecture and Design – it is a very welcoming place.”

Francesca Leibowitz Spatial Design

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Master Programme

Fashion Design Design

Subject Field The Master’s programme Fashion Design and Textiles for Fashion is rooted in the specific Danish design approach but with a distinct international outlook. The focus is to educate fashion and textile designers with a sustainable mindset for the future with respect for the past. The programme is studioand research-based and aims to combine strong material and conceptual skills with artistic and academic competencies in order to create original, innovative design products for the global market.

Curriculum and Approaches The Master’s programme offers four main pathways that are interrelated and structured around the core subjects of fashion. Students specialise in womenswear, menswear, textile print or textile knit for fashion and are given the possibility to aim their design skills towards the commercial fashion markets, tone their studies in a more conceptual and artistic direction or lean towards entrepreneurship.

ment is driven by each student’s curiosity, dedication and ambition to explore, experiment and express themselves. The focus is on developing and strengthening the students’ individual artistic and creative expression and informed professionalism through personally driven and industry oriented interdisciplinary and team-based projects.

Collaboration Fashion Design and Textiles for Fashion is supported by collaborations with the industry, by workshops, seminars, lectures and Master’s classes. Collaboration examples 2017/18: Cristobal Balenciaga Museum, Spain, The David Collection (Davids Samling), Copenhagen, Copenhagen Fashion Week and Copenhagen Fashion Festival.

Jobs and internship examples 2017/18: Dior, Balenciaga, Rick Owen, Marchesa Almeida,

By Malene Birger, Marc Jacobs, Haider Ackermann, Munthe, Barbara I Gongini.

The study environment is concentrated around the “Fashion and Textile Labs” where students, supported by the staff, develop advanced craftsmanship and technological skills combined with in-depth analytical, reflective and communicative skills.

It is the aim to educate strong, independent fashion designers who can create and manage personally driven and industry-orientated design projects to a high professional standard. The international study environ44 – Institute of Architecture and Design – IBD

“At Fashion Design, teachers consider the individual student’s potential and there is no onesize-fits-all approach. As students we are responsible for acquiring skills and knowledge, but we receive individual guidance throughout our studies.

The fact that project work is completely integrated into the programme allows us to explore our own paths while gaining experience with different techniques and design methods. The 24/7 access to workshops with high-quality equipment, as well as the trust that workshop teachers put in us offer a unique opportunity to experiment and progress.”

Emil Bang Hoffmann Fashion Design

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Master Programme

Architecture, Strategic Design & Entrepreneurship Architecture + Design

Subject Field A new Master’s degree programme in architecture and design-based business development and entrepreneurship is currently being developed in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School (CBS); admission opens in 2018. The programme focuses on processes for strategic designing and managing entrepreneurship. We see entrepreneurship and innovation as fundamental aspects of creativity and as an integrated part of the whole that architecture and design forms.

Creating value through architecture and design is a challenge that requires being organisational and business savvy as much as it requires talent and skills. In this new Master programme, students from KADK will continue to work on projects and enhance their architecture and design skills while developing an entrepreneurial mindset and learning how to utilize it.

IBD already hosts cross-disciplinary Master’s degree programmes with the School of Design and the School of Architecture, and in that capacity it will include the forthcoming programme with an extended collaboration with CBS. The programme constitutes part of the overall development of KADK’s programme landscape seeking an even closer orientation towards the outside world and the mutual interest from students and future employers.

The intention is to open new opportunities for students with future careers as architects and designers with gained knowledge and methods in business strategy, project management and entrepreneurship.

Collaboration The programme is currently building relationships with external partners within architecture, design and business, as well as stakeholders such as DAC and BLOXHUB, making sure the Master’s students will be dealing with real-life challenges and participants.

More information to come.

Curriculum and Approaches Strategic development, business plans, innovation tools and project management will be key topics, and the use of models, perspectives and theories to understand and apply design processes and methods in design-led business areas will be introduced. Based on the core subjects of architecture and design, the students will add skills such as innovation, business development and project management to their profession. The students will work across the disciplines of architecture and design, strategy and business development, and in the field of entrepreneurship.

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“Studying design business and strategy is a great opportunity to combine the creative and financial aspects of the design process and to add business and strategy to your profile as an architect or designer. You experience a dynamic environment and a steep learning curve while sharing knowledge with students of diverse educational backgrounds.

If you already have or plan to start your own business, this Master’s programme will be very rewarding, you expand your network and maybe find possible future business partners with a different set of knowledge and competences.

Ultimately, you realise that your success as a designer or architect also depends on your ability to cooperate and simply to understand the people that you are working with.”

Nick Rasmussen Furniture & Object Minor in Design Business and Strategy

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Bachelor Programme

Entirety and Elements Architecture

Subject Field The specific focus of the Bachelor’s programme is architecture and design. In terms of scale we work with the building as the central element and the architectural features, detailing and planning – in surfaces, materials and constructions – as a specific area. This programme aims at developing the field between architecture and design.

The subject areas of furniture design, spatial design and lighting design are introduced as part of the course. The programme educates architects for practice in a course that spans from experimenting work with compositional and material elements to projects directly targeted towards practice. This approach frames artistically abstract work as well as specific proposals.

Curriculum and Approaches The aim of the course is to educate critically engaged and independent architect bachelors who will contribute to creating high quality architecture in society and who are well equipped for a job within the profession of architecture. The goal is to give the students the skills to independently reflect on and propose solutions to complex issues within their profession, through a special focus on the relationship between the artistic intention of the subject and contemporary societal challenges, materials and technologies.

ture and design. The aim is to provide the student with general competencies in analysis, programming, sketching and planning, including knowledge of the tradition and history of the subject, building techniques, construction and materials, as well as drawing and IT. Furthermore specific skills in architectural processing, detailing and planning, application of design methods and digital technologies. The societal challenges of sustainable development and the digitalisation of the processes and methods of the profession are central elements in the teaching, still with the aim of achieving architectural quality, beauty and resource savings.

Collaboration The Bachelor’s programme collaborates with the other Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes at the Institute, in particular Spatial Design and Furniture & Objects. An interdisciplinary faculty has high priority and includes teaching from other fields such as engineering and art theory. The Bachelor’s programme solicits the expertise of practicing architects and drawing offices in areas such as critique, evaluation of the education, guest lecturers, consulting and internship.

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“When I decided to study at IBD, two central characteristics of the Institute were essential to me: The focus on the relationship between the smaller scale and the greater context in every-day teaching, and the interdisciplinary collaboration that enables designers and architects to share methods and knowledge. These elements reflect my ideas and expectations for studying architecture.”

Andreas Schultz Ohrt Entirety and Elements

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Bachelor Programme

Produkt+ Design

Subject Field The programme Produkt+ with the two studie lines: Furniture, Space and Materials & Fashion Design and Textiles focusses on the development of subject-specific competencies and skills as well as the ability, as a designer, to work across disciplines and participate in open interdisciplinary collaboration. Design methods are studied from critical-reflexive, artistic and theoretical perspectives at a bodily scale and a spatial context. The project assignments range from conceptual/artistic design projects to projects in collaboration with external partners in the form of competitions, internships and business collaborators. Students develop individual competency profiles aimed at the future labour market. The programme qualifies the student to practice as a designer or pursue Master’s programmes, either at KADK or at other relevant design universities at home or abroad.

Produkt+ challenges the artistic and practical hands-on exploration of shape, function and materials in the encounter with new technology, changing contexts and increased focus on sustainable production and consumption.

KADK’s workshops are actively involved in the teaching; here the material encounters theory and research, and experiments, 1:1 tests and study projects take place.

Curriculum and Approaches Fashion Design and Textile Based on the classical disciplines within design, textile print and knitwear students work with design of clothing and textiles for

apparel from practical, conceptual, theoretical and experimental perspectives, both in analogue and digital form. Students learn to work from the overall concept to the concrete design of form and materials – from fashion as a cultural phenomenon to fashion and/or textiles as a medium for communicating identity and affiliation.

Furniture Design, Space and Material Based on the design disciplines of furniture, space and materials, the programme focusses on classical disciplines such as design, ergonomics, statics, the properties of materials, construction, light and spatial comprehension. The students work with basic problems in relation to sustainability, adressing new technology, new materials and innovative design solutions in physical as well as digital media. The students learn to work from overall concept to the concrete development of form, space and material.

Collaboration Produkt+ collaborates internally with the Institute’s Master’s programmes as well as across KADK. External and internal teachers/workshop managers are affiliated with the programme and interdisciplinarity in the composition of employees has a high priority. Produkt+ strives to collaborate with design schools around the world on the exchange of knowledge as well as exchange of students and teachers. In addition, the programme participates in a network with Scandinavian design schools, implementing sustainability knowledge. Furthermore there is an ongoing collaboration with professional designers in regard to reviews, guidance, lectures, consultancies and internships.

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“At IBD, the interdisciplinary collaboration provides the students with a broader understanding of design as a profession and it establishes close ties between the different study programmes, institutes and students.

The fact that we have been admitted to the school with different qualifications has turned out to be a great advantage when working on collaborative projects – and we are happy to share our knowledge and competencies whenever a fellow student needs help. Every day during our study is an inspiration for a future project.”

Maria Holmegaard Hansen Produkt+

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Bachelor Programme

Crafts: Glass and Ceramics Design

Subject Field The English-language, international Bachelor’s programme Crafts: Glass & Ceramics, at KADK Bornholm is one of Europe’s leading educational institutions in the field of glass and ceramics. The programme strives to rethink Danish and international crafts traditions, from one-of-a-kind items to serial production. The programme enables the student to work as an independent craftsman – not only by developing the student’s technical skills and artistic expressions, but also by adding knowledge about business acumen, design methods, communication, collaboration and sustainability. The programme qualifies the student for further studies at the Master’s level at home and abroad.

Curriculum and Approaches The focal point of the study are the wellequipped ceramics and hot glass workshops. These workshops provide a unique framework for the student’s development of basic skills, a deep understanding of the materials and a unique artistic expression.

The programme emphasises the experimental aspect, provides space for ingenuity, and inspires the students to explore and develop new ideas across the materials. The cross-disciplinary teaching in design history, communication, design methods, sustainability and business acumen are anchored in a larger independent project – preferably in collaboration with external partners.

The intimate social environment is very important for the programme. Students learn to collaborate in areas such as production, the artistic process, organisation of e.g. sales

and exhibitions, and the operation of workshop facilities.

Collaboration The programme seeks internal collaborations with the programmes at IBD offering cross disciplinary development that relates crafts to design and architecture. The programme collaborates on a permanent basis in regard to student exhibitions with the Glass Museum in Ebeltoft, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark in Middelfart, as well as the local Bornholm Art Museum and Grønbechs Gård. The regional foundation on Bornholm is important for the programme, and it works closely with the many local crafts companies in the areas of internship, product development and the exchange of knowledge and experience about crafts as a business.

The collaboration with esteemed Danish companies such as Kähler, Holmegaard and Royal Copenhagen has been important for the programme, and today it is particularly relevant considering the great interest in new interpretations of established brands.

The school has a global network of contacts to leading arts and crafts companies and cultural institutions.

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“What I find incredibly inspiring about the Crafts programme at KADK is the way in which students are brought together from all over the world, with different specialisms and view points, and taught the powerful concepts of design thinking and collaboration. While at the same time allowing students to develop their independent form knowledge through a design development process rooted in the material process.”

George William Bell Crafts

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IBD, Research and Artistic Development Research at KADK is comprised of scientific research and research based on an artistic approach – we call that artistic research. At IBD we apply both approaches to research and also seek to establish collaborations and engagement across both and implementing them into our daily educational activities.

We strive to build strong relationships across disciplines both internally at KADK and externally with other research institutions and foundations as well as business and industry.

IBD is developing a new research strategy including three central research projects: Privacy, Inclusive Design, and Spaces of Danish Welfare. We strive furthermore to form clusters that will engage all the researchers from IBD around themes such as Light, Materials and Tectonics; Representation and Virtual Reality, Fashion and Identity; Co-Design; Business and Management.

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Strengthening scientific research/ artistic-sustained teaching in all programmes Encouraging inter-disciplinarity and synergy at the intersection between architecture and design Encouraging collaboration across institutes Seeking external collaborations and funding

The following pages will give some examples of how scientific and artistic research are conducted at IBD.

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Centre for Privacy Studies Centre for Privacy Studies is a new centre for basic research established in 2017 through a grant of DKK 50 million from the Danish National Research Foundation. The centre is hosted by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Faculty of Law and the School of Architecture at KADK; Professor Peter Thule Kristensen, Head of the Master’s Programme Spatial Design, is the anchor person at KADK. In architecture, privacy is a central concept, also in a contemporary context, where notions of surveillance, security and privatisation of the public spaces are being debated.

In the early days of capitalism in the 16th century, which is evident for instance in a new type of bourgeois architecture in Amsterdam, the residence is organised with various zones of privacy. This concept is further expanded in the aristocratic houses of the baroque era, which introduce private apartments and a plethora of hidden corridors and wallpaper doors. The private sphere can be juxtaposed to the public, the professional and the common spheres, and in order to understand these interrelationships one has to think of the physical spaces along with the mental spaces that are part of the religious culture among other things. Privacy is not only a matter of physical separation, but about many other aspects that are important to take into consideration when designing and organising today’s space.

understanding the relationship between the individual and society during this period and in the present as well. It is a widely accepted notion in the Western World that privacy can pose a threat to civil society, but at the same time it is an existential necessity: too much privacy can threaten society and too little can ruin the individual. It is our assumption that this dual notion of privacy was developed in the early modern era, and that the primary domains in this development are architecture, legislation, religious culture and ideas about the good society. By using history as a starting point, a detachment is created that makes it possible to better understand contexts. Eleven historical case studies, including for example Copenhagen and Amsterdam, can be compared to experimental setups in a laboratory.

Facts: Mette Birkedal Bruun, University of Copenhagen, is the Head of Centre for Privacy Studies; the other Core Scholars are Peter Thule Kristensen, IBD, Helle Vogt, University of Copenhagen, and Charlotte Christensen-Nugues, Lund University.

An additional four international Core Scholars are joining the team, including Maarten Delbeke, ETH, Zurich. The Core Scholars represent four perspectives from which privacy is investigated: Church, legal, ideological and architectural history.

Centre for Privacy Studies examines how ideas about privacy formed the relationship between the individual and society from 1500-1800. Privacy is a key concept in IBD – Institute of Architecture and Design – 77

Spaces of Danish Welfare How does architecture and design, buildings and cities, interior details and urban planning, in other words, spatial organisation, impact welfare? And how have ideas about welfare changed the spatial organisation of Denmark? That is the core question in the research project Spaces of Danish Welfare (SDW). The project has received a grant of DKK 5.4 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark and is co-funded by KADK. It runs from 2017 to 2021.

As interest in the success of Nordic welfare systems has intensified since the 2007/8 crisis, knowledge of their potentials and challenges is in high demand globally. The project seeks to analyse, visualise and discuss the spatial dynamics and effects of contemporary transformations of Danish welfare systems, with a focus on how local systems simultaneously undergo processes of dismantlement and development. Through case studies in senior-care, super-hospitals, psychiatry, primary school inclusion, and spatial structures in depopulated areas, the project addresses three focus areas: Citizens (everyday experiences with regard to the spatial aspects of welfare), scale (size of the welfare institutions and services from an architectural perspective) and distribution (distribution of institutions/services of the welfare spaces and how these are incorporated into urban networks). SDW also aims to develop analytical visualisations and a theoretical framework that will explore the specific fields and the ways in which the project can express the interdisciplinary potentials of SDW’s collaboration between architects and anthropologists.

One of SDW’s projects is shared housing for the elderly. It investigates how the interaction between man and building is expressed in everyday situations and how the house and the neighbourhood play a supportive role in the residents’ everyday lives. In addition, the shared house is seen in a larger context in terms of the scale and distribution of the shared houses and their interaction with other institutions and welfare spaces.

SDW is integrated into the teaching at all levels at KADK, and a PhD course is being developed in collaboration with the research project ‘Reconfiguring Welfare Landscapes’, at the University of Copenhagen. Several events are being planned involving universities, including KADK, as well as practicing architects, designers, journalists, and politicians. The aim is to disseminate the knowledge produced to both society at large, and to KADK.

Facts: Kirsten Marie Raahauge, grant recipient, IBD, Deane Simpson, Katrine Lotz and Louise Dedenroth Høj, IBBL, Dag Petterson, Niels Grønlund and Runa Johansson, IBK, Max Pedersen, IBD. The grant enables KADK to hire a PhD student, the supervisor Kirsten Marie Raahauge, and a post doc.

SDW is also applying for additional funding to hire more researchers and industrial PhD students.

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Universal Design and Accessibility for All: Architecture, Cities and Space The project ‘Universal Design and Accessibility for All: Architecture, Cities and Space’ was initiated in September 2016 through a grant of DKK 4.9 million from the Bevica Foundation. This funding covers a seven-year period and supports research and research-based teaching activities that contribute to maximising the independence, participation and enjoyment of disabled persons in the built environment.

We wish to design ideas and processes that promote inclusion in various spatial conditions. We look at the spatial implication of contemporary challenges aspiring for equality in relation to the built environment and study spatial conditions for inclusion through the perspective of architecture and its related design elements and contexts.

We work closely with the notion of disability and focus on a wide range of persons with reduced mobility. Yet our challenge is to widen the focus and include people regardless of age, ability and possible limitations. We engage with society’s challenging issues by taking an inclusive approach to research, and we develop research/design methods and tools that are empathic but also innovative, through which we seek an alternative insight into the way differences, vulnerability and sensitivity in design lead to environments with more potentials.

Spaces of Danish Welfare and Virtual Scenario Responder. Gained knowledge is disseminated through lectures, seminars, workshops and integrated into design teaching at both BA and MA levels. In 2017, students from the Master’s programme in Spatial Design, under the title of ‘Material Includes’, designed and built a floor and a fireplace in the garden of the Embassy of Switzerland in Copenhagen.

The students engaged with disabled persons in their design process, and accordingly their design concerned how formal, tactile and visual qualities of bricks may guide and motivate pleasure in people including those with reduced abilities. Another project, titled ‘Ageing in a Vertical City’ focusses on the issue of ageing and disability and investigates how Hong Kong residents currently engage and experience ‘home’ and ‘care home’ environments with a view to how future care homes and home care fit future needs and aspirations.

Facts: Project responsible: Masashi Kajita, IBD, Visiting Professor Rama Gheerawo, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art (UK), Olga Popovic Larsen, IBT, Jonna Majgaard Krarup IBBL, and in the future two industrial PhD students Team collaborates: Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark, the Danish Building Research Institute, SBi, Aalborg University, Force4 Architects and Schønherr A/S. Masashi Kajita is furthermore a Visiting Scholar at the HHCD at the RCA, and has undertaken research and design projects together with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Current and planned projects span the fields of the housing and care environment, sports and leisure buildings as well as historical buildings and landscapes. At KADK, we work closely with other research projects including 80 – Institute of Architecture and Design – IBD

Virtual Scenario Responder At Architectural Representation, we conduct research into Virtual Reality (VR) as a design and dialogue tool.

The idea is to develop a framework, a Virtual Scenario Responder, in which it is possible to simulate, innovate, and communicate about the experience of space, architecture and urban space as early as in the sketching phase.

This framework would be a pioneering tool for testing the effect of architecture in addition to architectural quality, wayfinding, accessibility, fire scenarios and catastrophic evacuation from a project perspective. Such a framework should be able to save the given response when experiencing a given scenario in connection with new construction as well as restoration and renovation projects.

The virtual model thus becomes an active tool for the designing architect and for the inclusion of other participants in the building process in the early phases where the project can undergo relatively inexpensive changes.

Thus VR is transformed from being a mode of representation to also being a tool that may increase the quality of our built environment.

The VR technology has reached a level of quality, where it can be applied as an active element in our everyday lives. It is an obvious idea to include this experience in KADK’s instruction in digital architectural representation, so that future architects will be able to use VR as a genuine design tool in practice and as a powerful dialogue tool between user, consultant and developer. We focus on the application of the technology within the experience of architecture in order to simulate the architectural expression of a given

construction project in order to test whether it ‘works’ as intended.

We are working on a response system for the construction industry, a system that can be used for design, modification and documentation of a construction project, including for user participation. The goal is to link the system with a wide range of different applications in broad collaboration with the construction industry. A significant part of the Virtual Scenario Responder system is a questionnaire and the subsequent studies of data from the construction industry. This matrix is created in collaboration with psychologists who focus on cognitive processes, behaviour and neurology. Eye tracking and brain scanning are used as a potential link in the feedback mechanisms.

In this context architecture can be considered primarily as an emotional and multi-sensory experience: a sensitive and appropriate response to the immediate built environments created by the human organism in its totality. Often it is exactly these subjective experiences – as opposed to the objective, measurable characteristics of the construction – that ultimately decide the final assessment of architecture and architectural projects.

Facts: Anders Hermund, Lars Klint, Ture Bundgaard, IBD. The project is funded by the Dreyer Foundation, the Bevica Foundation and the House Owners’ Investment Fund, GI.

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Filigree Robotics The research project, ‘Filigree Robotics’, investigates how digital technological developments open up for new expressions and allow rethinking of traditions in ceramics. The project is a collaboration between the field of Ceramic Design, and CITA, Centre for Information Technology and Architecture that clarifies how advances in 3D motion capture technology, digital scanning technology and 3D printing in clay create new interfaces and processes between man, space and material. Thus, Filigree Robotics is situated in a context that combines the specialised knowledge of ceramic material and architecture with digital technology.

Based on a set of experiments, which led to the development of a computational interactive system that negotiates between an input by the craftsman’s hand and 3D clay printing, we suggest people abandon thinking in diametric positions about technology and craft.

Instead, we recommend viewing technology as an enabling force and following the idea about a close connection between digital work and craft practice.

The development of design and fabrication is interwoven. The first step is based on hand-modelling of a mould as input to a specially developed computational interactive system. The interactive system is here a generative algorithm that works as a pattern generator. The 3D modelling software, Rhino and Grasshopper, provides the environment for developing the pattern generator. The mould is 3D scanned, and depending on the shape of the mould, the pattern is digitally unfolded and a path for 3D printing generated. The adapted 3D printed paths are driv-

ing the robotic movement of a clay extruder nozzle with porcelain.

In combination with the control of the robot arms’ movement, printing of clay cannot only be executed with high precision, but can also be interrupted at any moment. Overall, the fine print is able to utilise and emphasise the nature of the porcelain as a plastic material.

Spikes are characterised by the plasticity and ‘life’ of clay expressed in the layered built.

This allows for novel expressions such as the 3D print of spikes, which are later glazed with gold. The final step in the production is several layers of glazing and the firing at 1260 degrees.

The materiality of the printed porcelain is investigated and evaluated in interplay with strong light coming through the pattern as if it were light filters playing in and through the glazing. Thus, the filigranity created by the printed ceramic fulfils the performative and aesthetic investigation, which is explored through a display that has enabled the object to be viewed from both top and bottom in relation to the shadows from the pattern.

The outcome of the research is disseminated through exhibitions and conferences, and sets a base for teaching a variety of digital technology at all levels.

Facts: Flemming Tvede Hansen, IBD, and Martin Tamke, IBT. Research assistants: Henrik Leander Evers, Esben Clausen Nørgaard, Scott Leinweber, IBT. The project is funded by the project support committee of the Danish Arts Foundation and the Dreyer Foundation.

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How to Dress a Room?

‘How to Dress a Room?’ is an industrial PhD project which investigates three-dimensional seamless knitting technology and how this technology can be repositioned outside of the fashion and garment sector and implemented into the new field of interior architecture and spatial design.

This Industrial PhD is supported by the Innovation Fund, which invests in projects with the potential to grow Danish research and businesses, and is a partnership between the PhD candidate Karen Honour and the Danish textile company Kvadrat. Kvadrat is Europe’s leading manufacturer of design textiles; working with prominent designers, architects and artists to create high quality contemporary textiles and textile-related products for private and public spaces.

The project is centred within IBD and engages with many of the design disciplines within the school including textiles, fashion, spatial design, architecture and furniture design.

Furthermore, the project is supervised by CITA, the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, connecting with their research on textile processes and digital fabrications and how these can extend and challenge existing architectural practices. The external research network of this PhD also engages with leading designers, manufacturers and researchers through international state-of-the-art visits and stays at research institutions. As an Industrial PhD, the output bridges academia and practise through the creation of realistic design scenarios.

where practical experiments are undertaken to explore the materiality of knit. Design explorations are the research instruments which explore a concept that connects to the academic enquiry. Using a Research by Design methodology, experimental design acts as the research probes for the practice-based investigations. The creation of design artefacts is an integral part of the Research by Design method, where the process of designing, as well as experience gained from practice, plays a crucial role in the research allowing the project to develop holistically. New knowledge is produced through the act of designing, forming a pathway through which new insights, knowledge, practices and products come into being. The practice itself is an essential component of both the research process and the research results, generating a critical enquiry through the design work.

The realm of the body provides the scale to bridge the spatial settings between the near field of the textiles that are worn or interacted with to the far field of the space in which we stand. Textiles layer the space, creating zones which protect, manage and merge as well as adding spatial definition and atmosphere to the space. These opportunities will be explored through three-dimensionally knitted textile investigations which aim to answer the question ‘How to Dress a Room?’

PhD student: Karen Honour.

Research collaborator: Kvadrat.

Supervisors: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Paul Nicholas.

The project has received funding from

This practise based PhD is anchored in seamless and three-dimensional knitted textiles,

Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD).

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Artificial Lighting – Design for Learning Environments Understanding how our built environment impacts its users is a must for all architectural designers. This PhD project aims to grow our understanding of such influence specifically for educational buildings. It investigates how the indoor climate conditions influence students’ and teachers’ behaviour, and their use of and satisfaction with their learning environments.

One of the key elements in achieving a good indoor climate in our learning environments is light. When utilised wisely light can improve students’ functioning, health, emotional wellbeing and social behaviour; all impacting their ability for academic performance. At the same time, it can assist in reducing the level of energy consumption in the building. There are, roughly speaking, two ”kinds” of light: daylight and artificial light. Research has evidenced that the right amount of daylight helps students to learn faster and achieve better results. Daylight is also a rich qualitative resource when it comes to designing a dynamic learning environment with variations in intensity of light, colour rendering, orientation and movement of light through the space, which aids an inspiring environment. Thus, the correct use of daylight both quantitatively and qualitatively, supports students’ intellectual development.

But as the availability of natural light varies according to geographic location, building design and time of day/season, artificial lighting is most often required to complement. Its primary focus is most often to ensure that students are able to comfortably see, read and write - in other words that their visual capability is adequate - during

all hours. But it is equally found important to provide for the right, supportive luminous conditions and ambiance. And now that artificial lighting and control technology has been rapidly developing, more advanced opportunities are available for this type of lighting to play a more active role in generating “optimal” indoor conditions, that better support today’s broad array of learning activities and ultimately benefit our students’ academic performance. This research explores such potential through “live” field experiments in a selection of formal learning spaces of the newly built public primary school, Frederiksbjerg Skole in Aarhus, Denmark. New artificial lighting systems have been implemented in these spaces, and are used during the normal curricular teaching program. The impact of these new lighting conditions on student behaviour, performance and environmental satisfaction is assessed by means of quantitative and qualitative data analyses.

PhD student: Imke Wies van Mil. Research collaborator: Henning Larsen Architects Supervisor: Olga Popovic Larsen and Karina Mose.

Additional research collaborators: Aarhus University and DTU Acoustics.

The project has received funding from Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD) and Elforsk (Dansk Energy).

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challenges of significant proportions – is indeed within reach.

Over the last few decades, increasing awareness of the human impact on the natural environment has brought international attention to the importance of sustainable development resulting in a boost in research related to the subject. The PhD project investigated potential strategies for sustainable development, while maintaining consideration for aesthetic autonomy and innovation. Hence, the central issues in the research were whether and how the introduction of sustainable principles in creative processes may allow for expansion of aesthetic spaces of opportunity, and whether and how glass craft and design may contribute to sustainable development.

The project was conducted over a four-year period as a combined faculty qualification and a PhD programme, a format specific to KADK. In order to ensure relevance within this format, a premise for the project was to develop a foundation for creative experimentation using the facilities and resources available at KADK.

To connect scientific and artistic research to glass craft and design practice as well as to the education offered at KADK, a practice-based research method was applied, combined with elements of education-based research and action research. The research involved a number of activities including personal experiments, teaching, interventions in public spaces and collaborative experiments together with students, colleagues and users. The experimentation included technical as well as aesthetic investigations around techniques traditionally used in glass craft and design processes, for example replacing the crystal glass most often used in the field with recycled soda-lime glass that can be recycled at the end of the product’s lifespan.

The diversity of experimental strategies allowed for a multiplicity of different aesthetic outcomes and conveyed potential novel aesthetic forms that supported the thesis that sustainable innovation – although it presents

The contributions of the project were manifest in a range of epistemic artefacts. Some were accepted into two juried exhibitions: the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and the Copenhagen Biennale for Craft and Design.

The outcomes of the collaborative activities were displayed in a pop-up exhibition in Copenhagen and a permanent installation at the Ebeltoft Museum of Glass. The explorations led to the development of tacit as well as explicit knowledge and insight about sustainability in glass craft and design, a model for addressing issues of aesthetic content and a theoretical framework for understanding the unique qualities of scientific-artistic practice-based research.

PhD student: Maria Sparre-Petersen.

Supervisor: Per Galle.

The project was funded by KADK. Additional research partners: Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, The Glass Factory, Glass Heap Challenge. Materials were sponsored by Cerama A/S, Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH, 10TONS, Damvig Develop A/S and Reiling Glasrecycling Danmark ApS. The PhD project was finalised and defended in January 2017.

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IBD Register Fotographers Nana Reimers, main photografer Other contributers: Anders Beier, p. 67 Andreas Lund, p. 21,35 Dorthe Krogh, p.17, 46-47 Frank Cerri, p. 85 Frederik Colding Newmann, Kenneth Juul Nielsen, Jeanett Hardon og Michael Daae Christensen, p. 21 Frida Gregersen, p. 17 Helene Christina Pedersen, p. 17 Københavns Stadsarkiv, Det Harboeske Enkefruekloster, p. 76 Masashi Kajita, p. 81 Per Henriksen, p. 25 Sine Stenbek Andersen, p. 19 + 26-27 Tale Berger Træland, p. 35

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KADK The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK) was founded in 2011 on the basis of a merger between the Academy’s School of Architecture, the Danish Design School and the Academy’s School of Conservation.

approach to form can be developed and transformed into new contexts – and to enter the world with analytical, methodical and artistic skills, which empower them to create, transform and preserve the society and culture of tomorrow.

KADK is the leading academy in Scandinavia in the fields of architecture, design and conservation. Our core activities are rooted in six institutes, which generate education, research, consultancy and innovation. Today KADK has approx. 1,600 students on our Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD and Diploma programmes.

IBD - Institute of Architecture and Design is one of the six institutes at KADK and goes across The School of Architecture and The School of Design. The other five institutes are: Institute of Visuel Design (IVD) School of Design, Institute of Architecture and Technology (IBT), Institute of Architecture and Culture (IBK), Institute of Architecture, Landscape and Planning (IBBL) - School of Architecture - and Institute of Conservation at the School of Conservation.

Our mission is to produce graduates and knowledge to shape our future, society and cultural heritage, springing from a unique match between research, practice and artistic research. This happens in an international campus environment with workshops, drawing board teaching and project-based education.

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