Westerdals institutt for kreativitet, fortelling og design

Forskningsprosjekter

• 21st Century Graphic Design: Practice, Industry and Society

  • Engelsk
• Designing the Future: Exploring the Role of Design in Systemic Transformations (Preproject)

  • Engelsk

  Can you touch a system? How do you change it? This interdisciplinary (pre)project explores how we learn about, represent and transform systemic issues through design of practice, organizations and policy. This exploratory study, which goes to the core of an identified paradox of system-related design and representation, has the overarching research question: “How might we address the gap between theory and practice in designing for systemic transformation?” The aim of the pre-project is to...

• Four kilos in an urn: neither here nor there, between words and music

  • Engelsk

  This project aims to investigate and challenge the space(s) between state of mind, languages, words and music through the writing, translation and rewriting of text and music. It springs out of Skoglund’s ongoing work with the poetry novel 'Four kilos in an urn'.    

• TYPOLOGY 0/ A FASHION SHOW or when architecture found fashion

  • Engelsk

  Outgoing research with the objective of the printed publication with main objective to give more weight to a fashion show as an ‘artifact’, reconnoitering this as a part of architectural practice in architectural writing. The project is documenting the inside of the collaboration process between the most remarkable creators of our time in architecture and fashion, such as Rotterdam-based architect office OMA/AMO, led by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, and Milan-based fashion house Prada, led by...