imagining the unimaginable
A blog on designing for sustainable lifestyles by Jesper Pagh.
I am an architect and designer living in Copenhagen. I write, talk and do consulting focused on the interaction between design, shape and space, sustainability, technology and human behavior.
I work as technology editor at the Danish journal on architecture, Arkitekten, and as an external lecturer at Roskilde University and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture.
This is my personal blog / scrapbook / pile of stuff that I find interesting / care about / get inspired by.
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Nice set of icons of modern design icons. Not sure who made these? Similar to this.
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Ha hah. Party Photos with new the new ‘Instant Designer Glasses’ photopaddle accessory - Core77. Designed by Steven Haulenbeek and just premiered...
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Damn there’s some nice stuff in this Dieter Rams photo pool on Flickr. (photo by Marcos Dopico)
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We just joined Copenhagen Food Corporation (Københavns Fødevarefællesskab) and this is the content of this weeks bag with fresh, locally produced, organic vegetables. It’s DKK 100 (€14) a week for the bag with 6-8 kg and pure logic: Supermarkets are making money on offering out-of-season-tasteless fruits and vegetables transported from polluting and destructive farming industries all over the world. Why not set up a corporation of people who want to do it differently, buy our groceries directly from local organic farmers and distribute it ourselves? Copenhagen Food Corporation is inspired by Park Slope Food Coop (which I visited myself a couple of years ago) and in three years has grown from 15 people to more than 2000.
To take care of the practical matters, apart from paying for your groceries, you have to work 3 hours a month in your local department of the corporation, which adds to the logic that it is actually creating new communities around food, work and sustainable living in the city. The economical logic in this makes sense too, as you actually pay for the products with money and contribute to the practical matters with your own work which gives you absolute transparency in the transactions and illustrates how local, personal actions can have an effect when they take place within systems and economies of scale.
Jeremy Rifkin on the empathetic civilisation. How does consciouses change in history? Is it possible that we can actually extend our empathy to the entire human race as an extended family? And to our fellow creatures as part of our evolutionary family? And to the biosphere as our common community?
(via environminimalist)
At the Future Perfect Festival last weekend at Ängsbacka Kursgård in Molkom north of Karlstad in Sweden we all had the pleasure of enjoying the most fantastic vegetarian dishes. One of the reasons for this is the permaculture that Olle Karlsson and David Göransson and their Flow Food Corporation keeps at Ängsbacka. Sunday morning I joined a tour of the garden to hear their story and learn a little about the principles of permaculture – and not at least have a close look at their beautiful garden. In this short video they present how they ‘surf their project and the opportunities”.
The Hill is “a dreamy documentary capturing the spirit of Nørrebro through the stories of its inhabitants”. With the manmade hill in the courtyard formed by Korsgade, Gartnergade, Blågardsgade and Rantzausgade as a focal point for the story and actual place for the event, Italian collective ZimmerFrei is screening the documentary on Thursday and Friday at 10 pm as one of 19 productions that make the Metropolis Biennale 2011 in Copenhagen this week.
Let’s make the future perfect
The Futureperfect Festival in Molkom, Sweden kicked off yesterday with a double rainbow over Ängsbacka, great food, art performances, Norwegian electro-pop and two interesting discussions on systems and civilization. Perhaps it was actually only one long discussion as the two announced forums merged into each other as we went along. An important part of this ‘adventure in living well’ as founder and main facilitator John Manoochehri has described the festival is to engage in conversations and discussions beyond the ‘one expert talk to the crowd’ concept, and yesterdays first encounter showed how well this can work when well facilitated.
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Another good reason for visiting NYC soon again: Talk to Me is an exhibition on the communication between people and objects that will open at The Museum of Modern Art on July 24th 2011. It will feature a wide range of objects from all over the world, from interfaces and products to diagrams, visualizations, perhaps even vehicles and furniture, by bona-fide designers, students, scientists, all designed in the past few years or currently under development.
Designprocesser i byplanlægning - nonsens eller nybrud?
(in Danish) A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by two students at Roskilde Unicersity doing their master thesis on urban design. We talked about design methods and their use in the urban design process. Lise and Louise have started a blog called “Urbane Processer* (urban processes) where you can read about their project and participate by joining the discussions. And you can read their thoughts about our conversation about design processes.
Kan arbejdsprocesser, der i dag er forbundet med produkt- og servicedesign, overføres til byplanlægningen? Ja, siger arkitekten Jesper Pagh. Det handler om at se designprocessen som en åben proces, hvor det endelig resultat ikke er defineret på forhånd.
I love project managament software that actually works (and looks good). Haven’t tested this one thoroughly yet but as Tina Roth Eisenberg aka. Swiss Miss put it: This app almost makes me want to take on clients again
