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Denmark: Design Seminar and Workshop
This course located in the heart of Copenhagen is a three week immersion in the world of New Nordic design with a focus on Denmark. Denmark is at the forefront of design and sustainability.
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$5370About this Travel Course
This course located in the heart of Copenhagen is a three week immersion in the world of New Nordic design with a focus on Denmark. Denmark is at the forefront of design and sustainability. Through this course, students will explore the historical and current influences that helped create a culture of integrating design and sustainability into daily life.
Class time includes seminars and workshops with prominent Scandinavian designers. There will be multiple design projects and field trips to manufacturers - PP Møbler, Fritz Hansen and Ilomio - in addition to design studio visits to Hay, Normann and others. We will also visit IKEA’s headquarters in Sweden where we meet the in-house design team and see the IKEA shops and facilities.
Though the focus will be on furniture, there will be discussions and field trips that explore the influence of Danish design upon architecture, city planning, lighting, ceramics and textiles. Local explorations include recent architectural works and city sites such as Bjarke Ingles + BIG, Henning Larsen, Lungaard & Tranberg and more. Additional cultural visits include the Danish Design Museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and historical sites.
My trip with RISD Global to Copenhagen, Denmark provided me with an entirely new understanding of sustainability in design. This knowledge renewed my hopes and ambitions of designing for a cleaner, more efficient world in which nothing is wasted.
Julian O’Donnell (ID 22) GSS19 DENMARK: Design Seminar + Workshop
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