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Questions of scale sensitivity, experience and branding culture in and beyond Hans Christian Andersen's House Open

Annette Svaneklink Jakobsen, Anders V. Munch, Fátíma Pombo · 2024

With a new museum, Hans Christian Andersen's House, the Danish city of Odense has intensified the relationship between the nineteenth-century author, a son of the city, and the architectural spaces of today. The museum opened in 2021 but h…

Genopfindelser af håndværk Open

Anders V. Munch · 2024

Navigating changes: challenges in Danish crafts and design education Open

Anders V. Munch · 2024

Kritikkens hensigt – og hensyn Open

Anders V. Munch · 2023

Studenteroprøret og designskolernes historie Open

Anders V. Munch · 2022

Between Craft and Commerce Open

Tone Rasch, Trine Brun Petersen, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, Anders V. Munch · 2022

The 1960 and 1970s was a time of radical change in the fashion industry. Improved production technologies, the liberation of interstate trade and changing consumer preferences challenged the existing system of provision. The status of text…

Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980 Open

Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, Anders V. Munch · 2022

Challenging the traditional narrative, this volume argues that the roots of the most prominent features of Nordic design’s contemporary significance are not to be found amongst the objects for the home collectively branded as ‘Scandinavian…

Exhibiting New Cultures of Design Open

Peder Valle, Sabina Maria Rossau, Leena Svinhufvud, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund , et al. · 2022

This chapter presents three case studies of Nordic exhibitions that made attempts at communicating the cultural and social meanings of industrial design, which became a pressing concern also in the institutional promotion of design in the …

The Total, Global, Living ‘Environment’ Open

Anders V. Munch, Hans-Christian Jensen, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, Anders V. Munch · 2022

We have been worried for the environment for many decades now. The very same phrases are stated today as in the first, broad, public debates around 1970, but did they mean quite the same? Does ‘environment’ mean anything specific at all? T…

Introduction Open

Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, Anders V. Munch, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund , et al. · 2022

The socially, culturally, politically, and economically turbulent period between 1960 and 1980 saw profound transformations of Nordic design cultures through dramatic changes to the production systems, consumption regimes, economic policie…

Voices of Rebellion Open

Vibeke Riisberg, Anders V. Munch, Patricia Fie Nielsen, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund , et al. · 2022

The student rebellion in Copenhagen at the School of Arts and Crafts in spring 1969 consisted of extensive debate seminars with many external participants, boycott of final examinations and occupation of both the Danish Ministry of Culture…

Sewing and Sisterhood Open

Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund, Anders V. Munch · 2022

This article recounts the history of the Elverhøj craft store and collective (1971–1992), established in Copenhagen in 1971. It explores the role of women craft-makers in the 1970s and the ways in which feminine solidarity was viewed, expr…

Harmful or Useless? Victor Papanek and the Danish Design Students' Protests Open

Anders V. Munch, Alison J. Clarke, Vibeke Riisberg, Lene Kiærbye Pedersen · 2022

Victor Papanek dedicated his book, Design for the Real World, to all his students, thanking them for what they had taught him. He might have been thinking of both his American students and the Scandinavian students he met at summer schools…

Conspicuously Quotidian Open

Anders V. Munch · 2021

The international style of Bauhaus was intended as a promotion of a new lifestyle and way of thinking. This promotional character of modernism, however, was an issue of critique and debate among the Danish modernist designers and architect…

Tim Benton (essay), Nina Berre og Mari Lending (red.): asBUILT 21: Villa Stenersen /Arne Korsmo Open

Anders V. Munch · 2020

Embracing Cubism: Poul Henningsen's Negotiations of Danish National Traditions and International Modernism Open

Anders V. Munch · 2020

The Danish architect, designer and cultural critic, Poul Henningsen, 1894–1967, was one of the most internationally oriented figures in Danish modernism. His PH-lamp system was a highly praised example of industrial design, produced by Lou…

Rumsansen og livsformerne Open

Anders V. Munch · 2018

- åndshistoriske og Iivsfilosofiske grundsten til Loos' Haus Muller og Wittgensteins Palais Stonborough

New Nordic and Scandinavian retro Open

Niels Peter Skou, Anders V. Munch · 2017

On the Outskirts: the Geography of Design and the Self-exoticization of Danish Design Open

Anders V. Munch · 2016

A recurring theme of debates about Danish design is that it was largely uninfluenced by international trends and that its modern qualities are timeless virtues originating from national traditions of simple functionality and crafts-based r…

Total design of participation: Ideas of collective creativity by Tim Brown, László Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius Open

Anders V. Munch · 2016

The idea of design as an art made not only for the people, but also by the people is an old dream going back at least to William Morris. It is, however, reappearing vigoriously in many kinds of design activism and grows out of the visions …

New Nordic and Scandinavian Retro: reassessment of values and aesthetics in contemporary Nordic design Open

Niels Peter Skou, Anders V. Munch · 2016

The “New Nordic” label has spread in the design world since 2005, but it is quite difficult to distinguish from the image of “Scandinavian Design” and the heritage of values and aesthetics from the 1950s. Many designer statements and promo…

Ein rückwärts gekehrter Prophet - Adolf Loos Open

Anders V. Munch · 2016

Decoration and Durability: Ornaments and their ‘appropriateness’ from fashion and design to architecture Open

Vibeke Riisberg, Anders V. Munch · 2015

Throughout the scales of design there has been an exploding interest in the ornament that seems to be fuelled by different kinds of digital technology and media from CAD to digital printing in both 2D and 3D. In architecture and industrial…

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