Researchgroups:

Materiality and Technology :

Marieke Verbiesen, Torkell Bertnsen, Kate Madsen, Magnus Nyquist, Dora Isleifdottir, Åse Huus, Gustav Kvaal, Mikkel Wettre, Taran Neckelmann

Materiality and Technology is a research group illuminates the relationship between design, technology, and materiality, and students are expected to explore technical possibilities and forms of expression in their own work through an independent project. The student will experiment and work exploratively based on self-chosen tools, materials, and forms of expression (traditional or new, analog or digital). During the course, the student will be introduced to various production methods, tools, and possibilities, and how these can be viewed in light of questions about sustainability or other value-based issues.

https://www.uib.no/en/kmd/173184/technology-and-materiality

Design in Context

Marieke Verbiesen, Åse Huus, Phillip von Hase, Albert Tang, Marte Teigen

Design in Context is a professional design framework and educational program that contains lectures and outreach related to ongoing research and design topics

Activities:

Designing Sideways - Anja Grooten / Hackers & Designers

Designing Sideways: How unreliable publishing infrastructures and awkward work-arounds shape and bind together collectives of tool-makers and experimental publishers.

Artbookfair : presentations animator Kristian Pedersen and Set Margins publisher

Presenting cultures in the margin, and how woke-cultures should reach outwards, generous, and caring, and balance visual and textual semantics with the offer they bring to wider cultures; be diplomatic without becoming revisionist and corrupted to equally try and engage families and neighbours.

Cultivating design community through local practice

Gathering the design community in Bergen, where we will hear from local designers who have established their own practices and created opportunities for their work here. This first seminar aims to illuminate various approaches to practicing design with a community-building perspective.

Radical Solidarity: The Future of Design Work