Konstfack

20 April 2021 08:56

Two Konstfack master students among the ten artists selected to the new research-based Octopus Programme

Congratulations Alina Rentsch (Fine Art) and Sofia Priftis (Spatial Design)!
Through a unique partnership with 11 international institutions from seven countries, the Octopus Programme has selected 10 outstanding artists to take part in the programme during the academic year 2021/2022. From a rigorous, multi-institutional application process with five interconnected evaluation committees, the

21 Januari 2021 13:00

Join us at Konstfack Research Week 25–29 January, prioritizing the process of research

An amazing week is planned and many events are open to the public. Join in, have fun, spread the news and see you in the virtual realm!

7 December 2020 09:13

Erik Sandelin's 50% seminar – tracing a “trajectory of not” in post-anthropocentric design

In the future we may pride ourselves more on what we do *not* do, rather than on what we do. In his PhD project Erik Sandelin traces a “trajectory of not”, in post-anthropocentric design.

9 September 2020 08:55

Greenhouses, colonial memories and global warming – Konstfack/KTH doctoral student Luis Berríos-Negrón defends his thesis.

In the thesis "Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures: a supplement to the Arcades Project from a Caribbean Perspective [and a call for a careful practice of epistemológica]" Luis Berríos-Negrón's core question is whether colonial memory is the drive of global warming. Welcome to join on Zoom!

29 April 2020 10:14

Konstfack Research Lab – connecting with the unfamiliar at the Ethnographic Museum

The exhibition Renegotiating Material Culture is the result of a year long partnership between the Ethnographic Museum and Research Lab at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design. The collaboration saw the students select works in the museum collections from Africa and the African diaspora which connected with their practices and helped inform and inspire the new works in the exhibition.

2 Maj 2019 14:51

PLEASE NOTE: RSVP is required for the opening of Entanglements, Friday 3 May (rsvp-address below).

Entanglements is the result of a year long partnership between the Hallwyl Museum and Research Lab at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design. Five contemporary artists working with craft have investigated the house, its archives and its histories and creating new works in response; Diana Butucariu, Mike Fedak, Caitlin Heffernan, María Renée Morales Lam and Harry Parr-Young.

30 April 2019 08:30

Entanglements – Konstfack Research Lab reinterprets the Hallwyl Museum

Entanglements is the result of a year long partnership between the Hallwyl Museum and Research Lab at Konstfack. Five contemporary artists working with craft have investigated the house, its archives and its histories and creating new works in response; Diana Butucariu, Mike Fedak, Caitlin Heffernan, María Renée Morales Lam and Harry Parr-Young.

25 Mars 2019 15:38

Bordering by design – Open School lecture with post doc researcher Mahmoud Keshavarz

Borders are everywhere. Yet, not all of them are seen and sensed as borders for many. They are designed to be more visible and more violent for certain bodies on the move. This lecture brings forward different instances of how borders operate through material, visual and technical practices and how they can be possibly dismantled through the same capacity of design. Welcome 27 March.

Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Courtesy Trans-Asia Photography Review Images.

31 Januari 2019 13:20

Four new PhD students within design, narrative processes, sloyd education & critical sound practice

Petra Lilja, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Miro Sazdic Löwstedt and Cara Tolmie will be joining the transdisciplinary PhD programme Art, Technology and Design (KTD), run jointly by Konstfack and The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.

6 December 2017 09:35

How to imagine the reinvention of the world. A higher seminar at Konstfack with Professor T.J. Demos

Drawing on his recently released book, Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, UC Santa Cruz Professor and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies – T.J. Demos – will examine creative models of cultural practice modeling alternatives to the human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism, and technoscientific rationality of the Anthropocene thesis.

8 Maj 2017 12:13

Meet Loulou Cherinet, Magnus Bärtås and Behzad Khosravi Noori from Konstfack at the Venice Biennale

Welcome to Microhistories and Accessing Utopia at the Research Pavilion, Sala del Camino, inauguration event 11 May at 1–3.30 pm. And to the exhibition University of Disaster, the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Palazzo Malipiero, official Pavilion Opening 12 May, 6–10pm.

6 Mars 2015 16:25

Konstfack in Venice

Three artists with ties to Konstfack and its research will be taking part in activities during Biennale Arte 2015. Petra Bauer is contributing to the international exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor, Magnus Bärtås in the 1st Research Pavilion. Lina Selander will be representing Sweden in a separate exhibition.

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