(The panel discussion is in english)

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Speakers: Nina Husted Erichsen og Petra Lilja

Meet Petra Lilja a designer, researcher (PhD), and senior lecturer based in Malmö and Stockholm, Sweden. She is program director of the Design + Change MA Program at Linnaeus University, and Nina Husted Erichsen an independent designer of glass and ceramic products. She has worked with ceramic production, crafts, design, and teaching in these fields. She organizes and facilitates teaching courses with external companies. Teaches plaster and clay processes and plans theoretical courses at the Royal Academy, Bornholm.

Panel moderator: Charlotte Jul

 

Paneldiskussion: How does the concern for sustainability affect our taste and idea of quality?” (The Panel is in english)

Meet Petra Lilja a designer, researcher (PhD), and senior lecturer based in Malmö and Stockholm, Sweden. She is program director of the Design + Change MA Program at Linnaeus University, and Nina Husted Erichsen an independent designer of glass and ceramic products. She has worked with ceramic production, crafts, design, and teaching in these fields. She organizes and facilitates teaching courses with external companies. Teaches plaster and clay processes and plans theoretical courses at the Royal Academy, Bornholm.

Topic for conversation
In this conversation we would like you have the everyday use of the term aesthetics in mind. It is not the philosophical understanding of aesthetics but the term used to describe the physical and sensuous characteristics of a design, in the same way as we characterizes a style. The conversation will focus on whether and how the issue of sustainability is visually expressed in contemporary design.

Do we in contemporary design and arts and crafts see a tendency to link the ethical and the aesthetic?

When we look back in history, it appears to us that the idea of what is good and right are expressed in design in the choice of materials as well as in the overall style and architecture. Values in life have become manifest in material culture, which retrospectively can be read as styles in the objects of everyday life.

Can we in our time a notice a tendency to combine the right/the good and the beautiful/aesthetically appealing in the same way as it appears historically?

Are we perfectly fine with everything being brown just because it’s sustainable?

Is it almost cool that you can see that it has been made in a sustainable way? And is it good or bad?

Does the care for sustainable made objects legitimize the consumers need to consume?

Is it a stylistic historical splash that will be gone in a little while?

 

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