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Thorunn Arnadottir

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shut up and take my money! Kisa Cat Candle by Thorunn Arnadottir Maureen Hallett...

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connorrenwick · 7 years

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A DesignMarch Recap + Five Icelandic Designers on Our Radar

Earlier this month we traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to celebrate DesignMarch’s 10th anniversary and check out the latest and greatest on the Icelandic design scene. During these festival days, the entire city of Reykjavik was alive with excitement and pride as everyone (including the mayor of Iceland and Björk herself – true story!) traveled the design circuit to explore exhibitions, installations and showrooms. We came, we saw, we soaked. Here’s a recap of our favorite moments:

During DesignTalk, we listened to Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg who just finished her PhD and wrote her entire thesis about the idea of better. She asks: “What is better? Whose better? And who gets to decide?” At a time when designers and companies are striving to innovate for the better, create for a better future, and better today’s environmental issues, she encourages the design community to dig deep and question whether a design truly is better. For example, is a ground-breaking technologic device made in factories of poor conditions and low wages truly better? If synthetic biology can help rejuvenate forests, can we consider the industrialization of nature better for the world? An insightful talk that ended on a hopeful note, we left feeling inspired.

Paper designer Bea Szenfeld gave a delightful presentation about designing for Lady Gaga and Björk and the challenges of working with paper to create her dresses and sculptures.

MUN Studio

We stopped by DesignMUNch, an exhibition celebrating Icelandic design. MUN is run by four female designers that focus on creating beautiful objects and furniture that are designed with intention. The brands are MUN are ANNA THORUNN, bybibi, FÆRID, North Limited and IHANNA HOME, with Studio Flétta participating in DesignMarch for the first time.

Designer Chuck Mack with his ARCO desk for Design House Stockholm

At Epal Design, a home + design store in Iceland, we checked out a showcase of popular design objects and furniture that were all created by Icelandic designers, like the Notknot, the original knot pillow designed by Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir of studio Umemi.

Notknot cushion designed by Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir of studio Umemi

PyroPet candles designed by Thorunn Arnadottir

Tree coat hanger designed by Katrin Olina Petursdottir and Michael Young

The Retreat at the Blue Lagoon

No trip to Iceland is complete without a trip to the Blue Lagoon, where we learned that the popular tourist destination is expanding! Opening in May with a soft opening in April, The Retreat is a new luxury hotel that’s built right into the volcanic landscape of the surrounding lagoon. The new expansion includes a new restaurant and a new spa area that offers a more private experience as you soak in the lagoon’s geothermal seawater.

The Retreat at the Blue Lagoon

Almost every hour of the three days we were at DesignMarch was spent discovering emerging designers or new Icelandic collections. Here are five of our favorites:

Founded in 2017, FÓLK is an Icelandic design and lifestyle company founded by Ragna Sara that works with progressive designers to create modern homewares, furniture and lifestyle products focused on sustainability, responsibility and transparency. The brand unveiled their latest collaboration with designer Ólína Rögnudóttir called Living Objects, which includes stacking glass vessels and metal + stone object that can be used as a candleholder or a vase.

USEE STUDIO is a conscious creative studio founded by Halla Hákonardóttir and Helga Kjerúlf that prides itself on its focus for sustainable, eco-friendly products that are also fun and create a feel good vibe. The studio won the Reykjavik Grapevine Design Awards “Product Line of the Year” for their USEE blankets.

Copenhagen-based Icelandic designer Dögg Guðmundsdóttir of Dögg Design experiments with asymmetrical folded forms using aluminum, metal and oak to create a modern take on traditional objects, like candleholders, wall hooks and storage containers.

Inspired by Iceland’s rugged but majestic landscapes, designer Hilda Gunnarsdóttir creates womenswear that is feminine, effortless and bold for her fashion label, Milla Snorrason. For each collection, she focuses on a specific place in Iceland that inspires the graphic prints and thus, names the collection after its origin. At DesignMarch she collaborated with ceramist Hanna Whitehead to create an exhibition that showcased both their talents. Hanna also had her own exhibition at the Iceland Culture House to show her latest ceramics collection, Another Dialogue.

Design duo Þórey Björk Halldórsdóttir and Baldur Björnsson of creative studio AND ANTI MATTER (&AM) explores the space between design and art. Their Modular collection puts the consumer in the designer seat by allowing him/her to create a stand/pedestal or a purely decorative object, showing that functional objects can be art and vice versa.

via http://design-milk.com/

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smartseo4you · 7 years

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New Post has been published on Ziarul tau online

Cercetători români şi islandezi, noi abordări în lupta împotriva cancerului

Aproximativ 15 milioane de cazuri noi de cancer şi peste 8 milioane de decese cauzate de această afecţiune se înregistrează anual la nivel mondial. Previziunile sunt sumbre, în contextul în care specialiştii au arătat că în următoarele două decenii aceste statistici ar putea înregistra o creştere de circa 70%, până la peste 22 de milioane de cazuri noi. În România, anual se înregistrează aproximativ 80.000 de astfel de cazuri, iar numărul deceselor cauzate de cancer a crescut cu 23% faţă de 1990, la peste 43.000.

Statisticile alarmante în ceea ce priveşte creşterea anuală a numărului de îmbolnăviri de cancer şi al deceselor cauzate de această afecţiune, atât în ţara noastră, cât şi în lume, reprezintă o continuă provocare pentru cercetarea ştiinţifică medicală, fapt pentru care 22 de specialişti din domeniul oncologic din România şi 5 lectori din Islanda se reunesc zilele acestea la Bucureşti într-o amplă dezbatere denumită generic “Factori de risc genetici, de mediu şi etnie asociaţi cancerului în România“

În România există o lipsă de date cantitative specifice.

Astfel, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie “Carol Davila” din Bucureşti, in colaborare cu Institutul deCode Genetics din Reykjavik şi Universitatea Reykjavik, Islanda, organizează în perioada 24-28 aprilie 2017 la hotelul Crowne Plaza din Bucuresti (sala Orhideea 2, deschidere luni 24.04.2017 ora 14) workshop-ul “Genetic, environment and ethnicity risk factors associated with cancer in Romania“, proiect finanţat din Fondul de Relaţii Bilaterale al Programului “Cercetare în Sectoare Prioritare”.

Potrivit organizatorilor, scopul acestui proiect este transferul de cunoştinţe şi schimbul de experienţă între cercetatorii români şi cei islandezi în vederea creşterii profilului de cercetare în domeniul oncogenomicii din România la nivel internaţional. „Ne propunem o evaluare sistematică de factori de risc genetici asociaţi cu cancerul colorectal, pulmonar, prostatic şi de sân în rândul populaţiei din România cu scopul de a defini grupurile de risc ridicat, pentru care măsurile de prevenire specifice pot fi puse în aplicare. De asemenea, ne propunem să examinăm dacă există vreo modificare a riscului genetic legată de etnie. Un alt obiectiv este să urmarim orice posibilă interacţiune gene/mediu specifică pentru populaţia noastră” spune directorul acestui grant de cercetare, conf. dr. Mariana Jinga. Potrivit acesteia „în România, există o lipsă de date cantitative specifice care să asocieze riscul de cancer al populaţiei generale cu factorii de mediu/stil de viaţă şi chiar mai puţine informaţii în ceea ce priveşte caracteristicile lor genetice, context în care vom face teste statistice pentru a descoperi asocierea dintre variantele secvenţionale şi riscul de îmbolnăvire”. “În plus faţă de diagnosticul de cancer, un accent deosebit va fi pus pe testarea asocierii variantelelor cu oricare dintre următoarele coordonate statistice: stadiul şi gradul bolii, vârsta la diagnostic, istoricul familial de boală sau expunerea la factori exogeni” a adăugat conf. dr. Mariana Jinga.

Obiective şi aşteptări în studiile de genomică a cancerului

Printre obiectivele principale ale acestui workshop se numără îmbunătăţirea competenţelor de analiză biostatistică, aplicate în studiile de genomică a cancerului; schimbul de cunoştinţe şi bune practici în domeniul analizei, interpretării şi publicării datelor din domeniul oncogenomicii şi explorarea oportunităţii de a lărgi aria colaborării bilaterale prin proiecte noi din aria cercetării, a dezvoltării resursei umane şi/sau din aria didactică. Rezultatele aşteptate în urma acestui workshop sunt implementarea în grupul de cercetare român a metodologiei practice de analiză statistică a datelor de genetică umană utilizate la deCode Genetics şi Reykjavik University, identificarea unor direcţii de analiză aprofundată ulterioare, materializate în comunicări şi articole ştiinţifice. Se vor elabora miniproiecte de către participanţii la workshop urmărindu-se creşterea nivelului de cunoştinţe teoretice şi experienţă practică în domeniul biostatisticii, lărgirea ariei de colaborare bilaterală România – Islanda în domeniul „training through research” prin elaborarea de propuneri de proiecte noi pentru programul Horizon 2020 şi accesarea fondurilor europene destinate dezvoltării resursei umane (în special tineri cercetători), capabilă să desfăşoare cercetare la nivel internaţional în genomică. La acest simpozion vor participa 22 de specialişti din România, din domenii medicale conexe oncogenomicii (genetică, genetică medicală, specialităţi clinice, biologie moleculară, biostatistică, bioinformatică şi epidemiologie), 4 lectori din Islanda (Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Brynjar Örn Jensson, Gudny A. Arnadottir, Thorunn Rafnar) şi un doctorand român în Islanda, Paul Iordache.

Sursa articol jurnalul.ro

, sursa articol http://blogville.ro/cercetatori-romani-si-islandezi-noi-abordari-in-lupta-impotriva-cancerului/

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juliandmouton30 · 8 years

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Thórunn Árnadottir creates interactive toys using traditional Icelandic materials

Reykjavík-based designer Thórunn Árnadottir has combined local Icelandic materials with broken toys to create a series of interactive devices, which she is presenting at DesignMarch 2017.

Shapes of Sound consists of four objects, each designed to offer an alternative to mass-produced electronic children's toys.

Shapes of Sounds includes a furry ball made from sheep's skin that bleats when touched

Each object is fitted with a recycled soundboard that emits an electronic sound when the user interacts with it.

Based on simple geometric shapes and raw materials, the toys are a minimalist interpretation of the sounds they make.

A cube made from lava stone was conceived as an "elf house", so emits a tinkling sound when held

There is a cube made from lava stone that was conceived as an "elf house", which emits a tinkling sound when held.

An aluminium cylinder emits a race car sound when it is rolled, while a furry ball made from sheep's skin bleats when touched.

There is also a pair of cones made of pine wood that, when stacked on top of another, form a Christmas tree that plays festive music.

When stacked on top of another, a pair of cones made of pine wood form a Christmas tree that plays festive music

To create the objects, Árnadottir used soundboards extracted from broken toys she collected at flea markets in China. "I wanted to use Icelandic materials to give the toys a second life," she told Dezeen.

"The shapes were kept as simple as possible, a simple reinterpretation of the sound. I'm fascinated by worlds that don't mix, so I was curious as to how a kitschy electronic sound would mix with natural, simple shapes."

An aluminium cylinder emits a race car sound when it is rolled

Árnadottir, who graduated from London's Royal College of Art in 2011, said she was interested in how materials from very different sources could be combined to create sustainable objects that are design-conscious.

"It's more a question of, what is a local material? When you recycle toys, that's a source of local material, too," she said.

It was created using an old race car toy

Described by the designer as sculptures rather than objects for children, Árnadottir said that her toys have the potential to be mass-produced in the future.

DesignMarch is Iceland's most important design festival. It runs from 22 to 26 March 2017 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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jeniferdlanceau · 8 years