METTE BAK ANDERSEN
DESIGN // CREATIVITY // SUSTAINABILITY // RESEARCH
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Back in Barcelona 24.09.2009
After two months in fast forward mode in Copenhagen I am back in Barcelona.
The National Workshops for Arts and Craft was a great place to work!
The material focus has mainly been on wood fibres form pressed with natural glues, recycled glass from wine bottles, bicycle inner tubes and bio-plastics.
The designer Alejandra Parraguez joined Copenhagen Forever and made some fun material experiments
with bicycle tubes. Anke Pasold, who was participating in the start up of Barcelona Forever last year,
created the base for a 6 month research program and exhibition about the Forever Strategy.
Furthermore we have started collaboration with the The Danish Society for Nature Conservation.
In Barcelona Forever we are focusing on getting the first products on the market; - hope to see them out before Christmas.
We are also working on the next Barcelona Forever event; - I will post more information about this shortly.
Mette.
Check out some of the articles that have been published about the Forever projects:
Treehugger on Barcelona Forever
Copenhagen Mayor with Copenhagen Forever (in Danish)
Treehugger on Copenhagen Forever start up
Forever project on Link Up (in Danish)
Sustainable cities on Copenhagen Forever
Copenhagen Forever at the National Workshops for Arts and Craft.
06.06.2009
Very happy to announce that Copenhagen Forever has been given residency at the National
Workshops of Arts and Craft.
I will be there during July and August to make the first material experiments
and prototypes for Copenhagen Forever.
www.svkh.dk
New Danish phone number is 0045 29 88 27 44
Mette
Forever goes to Copenhagen 04.06.2009
During our stay in Copenhagen we had very some interesting meetings with The Danish Society for Nature Conservation;
Klaus Bondam, Mayor for the Technical and Environmental Administration Copenhagen; Waste Centre Denmark;
the architects Anke and Isak, without whom the Forever concept never would have started, and not least,
the interesting people we met at BIG's Friday afternoon bar from Sustainable Cities; Link-up and the Survival Academy.
We are moving `fast forward` and hoping to establish good working relationships with organizations,
private companies and public institutions in Copenhagen.
The next step is finding some interesting waste or by-products from which to create the first prototypes.
I will be in Copenhagen during July and August to create these.
Apart from this we are looking for funds to support our research, including a lifecycle analysis of waste and by-products in Copenhagen. This will focus on possible new materials for recycling and the designs and that could be created from them.
This should provide the basis for a design exhibition aiming to inform and involve the citizens of Copenhagen in recycling, whilst also serving as an open information source and an inspiration for architects and designers.
If you would like to participate or receive more information about Copenhagen Forever, please contact us.
Mette.
Next stop Copenhagen 12.05.2009
The first steps towards creating Copenhagen Forever have been taken.
During the coming months we will be investigating the material available
from industry and citizens of Copenhagen and meeting with possible colaborators.
The plan is to make the first prototypes during the summer.
If you with your company or as person are interested in participating or if you would just like to receive more information, please contact us.
I will be in Copenhagen next from the 27th to the 30th of May.
Mette.
