©2010 Transplant / Mathieu Lehanneur Pyramid of Age in Transplant.

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The 14th of August 2010, Transplant opened the exhibition of the first Ideal Lab´theme; Longer Participation. Longer Participation is locating design taking as a departure point the social challenge of the western world, that the elder generation might become bigger than the present working generation. After a life of working, and with little experience of using modern communication tools, motivated elders can get isolated. The exhibited designs in Transplant is proposing ways of reintegrating this valuable knowledge in our society.

The exhibition can be viewed Tuesdays to Fridays 12h-14h until the 30th of September  2010 (outside these times, visits by reservation only). The full exhibition catalog is available for downloading (pdf).

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The opening of Longer Participation attracted a wide audience. The senior visitors had the opportunity to contribute to the “Sensing Dale” project with more personal stories that were added to the dedicated blog. Inspired by the presented results, the audience opened up a frisky discussion around the urban development of the town centre. The exhibition shows projects of:
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The process and the results of the “Sensing Dale” workshop with Charlotte Grum/ artist/ Denmark
The workshop results can be followed on the Ideal Lab´Longer Participation Blog.

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©2010 Transplant/age pyramid Fjaler and Europe by Mathieu Lehanneur

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The “Age of the World Pyramids” of Fjaler, Norway and Europe by Mathieu Lehanneur/ designer/ France.

An Age Pyramid is a snapshot of the inhabitants in a specific place at a certain year. You can find yourself in the pyramid and see large social shifts and events. Mathieu Lehanneur who first developed the Age of the World Pyramids for Issey Miyake with the ceramic producer Vallauris, developed three new models for the Longer Participation exhibition; the demographic pyramids of Fjaler, Norway and Europe in 2007. The Fjaler and Europe models are presented as rendered images in the exhibition, while the age pyramid of Norway, which was produced by Shape in CNC production, is exhibited as a sculpture.

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The “Afterlife” by Auger & Loizeau/ speculative designers, UK.

The design presented are personal versions of how to use ones own residue energy in an object post mortum. The designers, James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, held a lecture about the project in Transplant in July. You can read more about the lecture here…

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The photo series “Mature” of Erwin Olaf/ photographer and movie maker/ The Netherlands.
“Mature” is a series of 10 photographies. All of them are visible in the exhibition catalog which is available for downloading as pdf below.
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The exhibition opening was covered by the local newspaper.

More projects within the Longer Participation theme will be developed until the end of the year 2010. The present exhibition will be open for visitors until the 30.09.2010.

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You can download the catalog of the exhibition in English as pdf here.

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The British design duo James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, both Transplant Coaches in Speculative Design and Robotics, take part in the Ideal Lab´ theme Longer Participation. The 26th of July 2010 they held a lecture on their work, with focus on the project “Afterlife”. The projects of Auger/Loizeau focus less on “bringing products to market, making them desirable and therefore sellable”, instead they develop and disseminate speculative and critical products and services in the hope “to instigate a broader analysis of what it means to exist in a technology rich environment both today and in the near future.”
In Transplant Auger/Loizeau worked on a new series of products within the Longer Participation theme.

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The “Afterlife” project of James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau “offers a technologically mediated service providing a tangible expression of life after death. Under normal circumstances after death, the human body would be assimilated back into the natural system. The Afterlife device intervenes during this process to harness the chemical potential and convert it into usable electrical energy via a microbial fuel cell – a device that uses an electromechanical reaction to generate electricity from organic matter.
This electricity is contained within a familiar dry cell battery.”

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During their project and the lecture, people were asked what they would run with the electricity of a loved one. The objects which people chose were shown at Transplant and opened up a discussion about the project among the participants.

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The interest in Auger/Loizeau´s project “Afterlife” was immediate and found its reflection the day after the lecture at Transplant on the front page of the regional newspaper, which at once brought the project to a bigger audience.
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The “Afterlife” project will be presented at Transplant during the exhibition of “Longer Participation”, which opens the 14.08.2010.

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Longer Participation, the first theme in the design & research program Ideal Lab’ is launched.

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About Longer Participation:
The population is aging and have longer active lives through improved health.

From a certain age, humans can be left outside of the community as well as from an economic standpoint. In this program Transplant asks: “How can we make the older generation participate longer in the community?”. In order to give an answer to this, we wish to develop the program: “Participate Longer”. Each person which has a “normal functioning” mind, also has a creative soul. This means that anyone is able to influence society, assuming that they have the technical aides and the competence to use these tools, to materialize their ideas. Senior citizens do not always have these aides nor the skills to use them, due to this they are often ignored during a creative process. Even more the main part of the senior would be in touch with technology (a survey show that between September 2008 and  March 2009 the 55-65 year old users grew more than 550%). By ignoring them, we create a deeper generational gaps and lose opportunities to develop better systems and profit from of their knowledge and life experiences.

From June 2010 until December 2010, the participants of the program will have produced a series of products/processes, answering to the theme problematics. The series will be developed as product design, space design (interior/exterior), creation of organization, service, processes… Events, exhibitions, gatherings, workshops, where most of the time the public can take part, will be organized to enrich the project. Stemming products like books or videos will be edited to keep tracks of the experiences and make the research available to a larger public.

Please contact us if you’re interested to join the program as a producer, a designer or a senior citizen.

The participants of Longer Participation are:
Charlotte Grum (artist, Dk), Mathieu Lehanneur (designer, Fr), James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau (designer & design consultants UK), Erwin Olaf (photographer, NL), invited artists from FRAC de Lorraine (Fr), Ralston & Bau (designers, No), Rainer Rosegger (sociologist, Au), Dingemoen Barneskule (No), Fjaler Kommune (No), Senior citizens of Dale i Sunnfjord and HAFS (No).

© 2010 Transplant / Introduction meeting of Ideal Lab’ Participate Longer.

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Introduction meeting about the Participating Longer theme

For the first time the Ideal Lab´and the theme Longer Participation was introduced to the public. People were informed about the Ideal Lab´and Longer Participation and about the different projects within the theme in which they can participate. This introduction meeting set the base for the two projects “Illuminate Dale” and “Craft+Design”.

Illuminate Dale/the project explores new outside lighting design solutions using the example of Dale.
Craft+Design/the project combines and explores the crafts knowledge of elders with contemporary design.

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5-7.07.2010: Mathieu Lehanneur / Fr

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The french designer Mathieu Lehanneur, known for example for his air-filter “Andrea”, will visit Transplant. He will make researches on the theme Longer Participation during his stay. Mathieu Lehanneur will be accompanied by the french magazine “Le Figaro Madame”.

13-14.07.2010: Workshop with Charlotte Grum / Dk

© 2010 Charlotte Grum / participant to Ideal Lab’.

Transplant will organize the workshop “Emotional Mapping Dale” with the danish artist Charlotte Grum.  Charlotte Grum is holding a two day workshop with citizens of Dale i Sunnfjord to define the urban space in the village. On the  first day of the workshop, participants will be asked to point out places in Dale with which they connect a personal emotional memory. On the second day of the workshop, participants will be asked to define their personal important atmospheric spots in Dale. Both workshop days will include a tour through Dale with a summarizing meeting afterward. The result will be a map of Dale which will be based on individual lives and subjective experiences rather than material functions and institutions. This insight information about the social texture of Dale can inspire town planning and design processes, such as the light project “Illuminate Dale”.

Register to participate here or at 577 352 00

26-27.07.2010: James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau / UK

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The British designer and PhD candidate at the RCA London James Auger, known for example for his work “Afterlife”,  and the design consultant Jimmy Loizeau, who teaches at Goldsmiths and the RCA, will visit Transplant. They will make design research on the theme Longer Participation during their stay.
The 26.07.2010 at 17h Auger/Loizeau will give a lecture/session. You’ll be able to participate to the design research project “Afterlife” that will be presented during the lecture. More info.

14.08.2010: Opening of the exhibition Longer Participation

The full program will follow.

This program is funded by:

© 2010 Auger Loizeau / Participants to Ideal Lab’.

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The english designers team James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau will come to Transplant in July 2010 and make design research within the theme of Longer Participation of Ideal Lab’.

26.07 / Public lecture James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau

The British designer and PHD candidate at the RCA London James Auger, known for example for his work “Afterlife”,  and the design consultant Jimmy Loizeau, who teaches at Goldsmiths and the RCA, will visit Transplant. They will make design research on the theme Longer Participation during their stay. The 26/07 at 17h Auger/Loizeau will give a lecture/session. You’ll be able to participate to the design research project “Afterlife” that will be presented during the lecture. For more info.

© 2010 Culinaire Design / by Marc Bretillot.

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We are happy to present two books just launched about the work of three of our Transplant Coaches. Former furniture designer, now head of the culinairy laboratory at the design school in Reims (ESAD), Marc Bretillot just released his first monography, ‘Culinaire design‘, by Thierry de Beaumont at Alternatives publishing house, which chronicles his projects of the past ten years for the food industry or in the contemporary art world. Marc’s Disappearance performance in Transplant august 2009 is published with four pages. Marc Bretillot is a Transplant Coach on the theme “Food design”.

© 2010 Culinaire Design / by Marc Bretillot.
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Stoffel Kuenen presented in the May 2010 newsletter, just launched his book “Metamorphosis”(metamorphic fashion design), co-writed with Ambra Trotto. This book focuses on the Italian fashion system as an example of a sector wrought with tradition, saper fare and high quality that forms a fertile ground for a human centered application of the latest technologies in all aspects of the production chain, ranging from strategic and marketing aspects, to processes and tools of production, from materials used and sustainable strategies to the skills of the designer. The user literally and figuratively forms the center of the fashion product. Hence fashion products are presented, in which a subtile application of state-of- the-art technologies extend functional, expressive and communicative properties, resulting in metamorphic fashion.

© 2010 / Editor: Stoffel Kuenen / Co Author: Ambra Trotto.

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The products we use shape the way we view the world, the way we interact and perceive it and others. This places a delicate responsibility in the hands of me as designer, as I literally and figuratively help shape the world. Not only do the function, form and behavior of the products do so; the way they are constituted, the materials used, the manufacturing techniques, the place and thus the social circumstances of manufacture, all those in many ways frame the way a user sees himself in this world. Both authors are Transplant Coaches™. Ambra Trotto on the theme “Design & Ethics” and Stoffel Kuenen “Wearable technology & interactive products”.

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27 participants from 10 different nationalities, with completely different professional backgrounds, bravely accepted to participate to this experimental Rights through Making workshop. The online workshop is an experiment that started Monday May 3rd and will finish Saturday May 8th. The theme was; “Design a wearable means dedicated to elderly people, which empowers people towards the values expressed in the article 26 of the UDHR (rights to education)”. This workshop is the start-up of the project Longer Participation, part of Transplant, Ideal Lab’.

Rights through Making is an international research project, which started in 2007 and whose founders are the Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design (the Netherlands) and the University of Florence, Department of Technologies of Architecture and Design “P. Spadolini” (Italy).  The scope is to promote a new way of thinking elicited by products that empower people towards the realization of the values expressed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By bringing together designers from different cultures, the communication about the declaration through doing, i.e. designing together, is enhanced: we believe in communication through working together. Words often divide, work unites. Improving communication is also about culture, in this case the culture of doing. We are rapidly losing essential design craftsmanship, saper fare. By using these skills in the context of the newest technology they acquire a new dimension that will safeguard their survival, and indeed, guarantee their expansion.

This experiment aims to explore and validate the Rights through Making approach in a virtual collaboration.  Instead of inviting designers to work together in a same place, we propose that the design process happens online and everybody contributes to it, by submitting his point of view to a common design space. This minimizes discussions and maximize constructiveness.

Transplant, whose design team has given a decisive contribution, hosts a preview of this event in this internet site, which will be then uploaded in the Rights through Making internet platform, to be launched in July.

by Ambra Trotto, cand. PhD, head of program/Transplant Coach

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Transplant receives national funding for Ideal Lab.
From 2010 Ideal Lab, a new research program involving contemporary art and design starts in Transplant. Ideal Lab takes the departure point in society shifts like the aging of the western world population and waste of food.

In November Transplant was granted a fund from the Norwegian Arts Council to develop the first theme Longer Participation inviting sociologists, artists and designers to reflect on how vital seniors can contribute longer and bring their knowledge to society.

One of the design projects that will result from this work is the urban development of a small Norwegian village involving seniors and youth. The goal is that several work sessions and exhibitions of concrete propositions in the subject Longer Participation will take place in 2010.

The program is open for business participation. Take contact with Birgitta Ralston for more information at: +47 577 35 200 or bra [ a t ] transplant [ d o t ] nu.

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Making good, being real: food from Stockholm

As the local food trend is hitting the supermarkets and delicatessens with fabricated authenticity around the European cities, it is really fresh to stumble on some casual yet followed through concepts. Birgitta went to Stockholm this fall and discovered some forward thinkers.

Saltå Kvarn that takes the locavore attitude to the letter assembling organic grains and cereals farmed in the region, packed in 60′s style designed packaging to be found in nordic stores (I actually found Saltå Kvarn bulgur, couscous and quinoa in Førde).
Saltå Kvarn is not for the opportunist shopper in a hurry to buy a pint of milk. This extraordinary shopping experience is hidden away over a small foot bridge. Having the feel of a well established farm shop filled with organic farmed oats and grains, Saltå Kvarn remind us of a time when life wasn’t so pressured and busy. This secret place has an excellent summer café at the factory premises in Järnia.

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With fears of a world food shortage we are starting to think about where our food is coming from. The locavores are living as they learn and eat food coming from a limited radius around thier habitat.  Matbruket is supplied with produce from local farmers. Both the smaller scale and in season products means the quality of food is far greater. Locally produced foods is no new idea, but by supporting the idea of selling in season food on a smaller scale Matbruket stands to gain a cult following, giving the big corporations a run for their money.
Its always a refreshing to see someone doing things a little different.

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. Johan & Nyström is a fairtrade coffee company which aims to teach and enrich the life of their customers. Walking into the store customers are greeted by warm and friendly staff who all play their role in providing extensive coffee knowledge as well as a great cup of coffee. Johan & Nyström source there own ingredients at the source, knowing personally the farmers and pass on the story to their customers, ensuring everyone is informed about what’s in their cup. A humble and honest way to sell coffee.

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We like to redesign old objects, but this is no news for you. The news is our new redesign series: we literally sticked a candle in the leg.

The principle is like usual simple: we took old chairs and small tables which have nicely carved legs. From these we cutted of a piece, drilled a hole and mounted it to a new plywood base – and the candle holder was ready. The attraction of this little accessories is the traditional fragment, freshed up with the shaped plate. Another nice detail is the pre-drilled spot for your fingertips, so you can easily carry the candle through your home, just like in old times.

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Make new things out of old!
That’s what 15 students and designers did during a two days workshop the 20-21/11 in Transplant. The participants got to choose whatever they wanted out of the delivery of furniture and objects provided by Fretex, to redesign or upcycle. The designers at Ralston & Bau coached the workshop and made sure everyone could bring home their finished product or furniture.
We saw floor lamps emerge out of table and stool legs, a wooden armchair dressed in jeans and another one that got 34 legs!
Please contact Maria at 577 352 00 or maria [ a t ] transplant [ d o t ] nu, if you or your company/school would like to try out upcycling design in 2010.
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© 2009 Photography by Ralston & Bau. Tekannelampe published in Krigsropet Nr. 39. 2009.

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Ralston & Bau work with material innovation to make their new products and interior sustainable, we are also interested in looking at how old objects can be transformed into contemporary designs.
In September 2009 Birgitta Ralston was asked to make a concept and trend research about the business of redesign for Fretex as part of it was the vision of the future of their re-design development. A variety of possible future scenarios including ways of realisation was presented. During the meeting re-design object samples made by Ralston & Bau where presented, showing that to re-use objects putting them in a new context, makes not only a sustainable impact, it also gives new life to objects that tell a story.

The last years the studio has collaborated with Fretex (norwegian salvation army) under the initiative of Katarina Grønmyr to create re-designs made out of collected objects. One of the first products Ralston & Bau designed is the “Tekannelampe” (tea pot light), just published in the Fretex Krigsropet magazine. To see more re-designs click here or fetch the November issue of the ICON magazine in the store: “Tekannelampe” is published there, too.

“The Cycle of Mutation” is the cycle of evolution, the cycle of life. This cycle contains 4 themes from which Transplant mutates – “Emergence”, “Growth”, “Maturation” and “Disappearance”. Each theme lasts for six months and will directly influence everything that happens in Transplant during that period (exhibitions, the design shop, concerts and other events).
The main objective of Transplant is to develop a platform for an international creative scene. Through this platform Transplant will bring people together across national borders, experiment and develop new ideas and nurture dialogue between creatives and manufacturers – a platform to think, discuss and produce. The generated ideas, works and products of the Transplant community will be discussed and exhibited in Transplant itself and beyond.

You can download the program as pdf … here

The Saturday 15th of August 2009 the Finissage (ceremonial ending of art exhibitions) the big finale of the Cycle of Mutation program took place in Transplant. Discovered for the last time the art pieces in the Disappearing theme, which marks the end of the past two years of the art program. Two special guests were making performances specially created for this event: the pionner culinary french designer Marc Bretillot (Fr) and performance artist Fanny Holmin (No). Thanks to all being there and mark this transition of Transplant.

© Photographies: Transplant  & Vasco Pinhol

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Birgitta Ralston interviewed on NRK P1 the 31th of July 2009 (© NRK 2009) Download the mp3 clicking here.

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To see the all details about the Cycle of Mutation Finissage, click here …

(photo by Hilde Aagard)

The 14th of May opened Hilde Aagard´s exhibition “To Sit Seated Sitting” at Zink gallery in Lillehammer/ Norway. The exhibition will be open until the 23rd of May 2009. We congratulate Hilde to a successful opening and wish her all the best.

(photo by Jørn Hagen)

Norwegian artist Hilde Aagard developed her “TO SIT SITTING SEATED” project at Transplant with the support of Ralston&Bau’s design team and Nordic Materials material experts.

(photos by Jørn Hagen)

The chair (or sit-able object or situation) has long been a leitmotif in Hilde Aagaard’s practice.  More than a stationary ergonomic or designer object, it embodies and amalgamates all aspects of her binary philosophies: motion versus (e)motion, transitional action versus definitive point and place, the contemplative/private versus the performing/public, and even meeting experience versus indelible memory. Aagaard’s chair is a physical and symbolic vehicle that facilitates both solitary contemplation and social interaction. It signifies the human presence in her work and, even when empty, carries a recollection or an expectation of human occupancy.
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“TO SIT SITTING SEATED”, Aagaard’s most recent project consists of three pieces of functional furniture based on a single chair type, of birch, with variations. In a row from left to right, they spell out a progression of actions and states of being and occupation. The First Chair is the simplest, in natural birch with a fat felt cushion in the same pale yellowish color. This chair is the invitation to sit down. The Second Chair, built with a lowered seat and arms, is also birch colored, but its rounded felt cushion is a fresh-pink color. This chair is occupied by a sitting body. The Third Chair has the same structure as the second, but it´s painted flesh- pink with a similarly cushion. The cushion´s seat is concave and bows over the chair’s arms; it is the ghost of the body that was seated and has left. The sequence of colors and cushion forms express the consciously intimate interaction between the body, the mind and the material of the chair of any chair. The three chairs in a row can be read as a single object or encountered in a time frame, as a series of actions that shift between active and passive, between settling (comfort) and leaving (loss). As functional chairs that allow for singular moments or group encounters, they offer the potential for personal decisions regarding not only where one sits but for how long and whether the choice relates to work, to private relaxation or to social interaction. With TO SIT SITTING SEATED Aagaard takes her outdoor productions to both a more functional and certainly more intimate level. These chairs are the domesticated and refined consequence of the public experiences. One hesitates, however, to see them as a conclusion or culmination. They are simply one more stage in the progression of questions that Aagaard poses to her audience concerning our awareness of our body in motion or repose, the spectrum of our emotions, and how we relate all this to our private and public surroundings.
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Andrea Gilbert, Art Critic, Athens, 2009.
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TO SIT SITTING SEATED is supported by The Norwegian Cultural Board.

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The Ideal Project Lab is an experimental program that relocates the meaning of design in a mutated
social environment. In collaboration with knowledge and creative fields, art, science, sociology, material innovation and industrial sustainability, the Ideal Project Lab goal is to define future needs, provide human results and future scenarios through tangible products and processes ready to be produced and used. By cycles of two years, the program will contribute in four major themes. Selected designers, artists, architects, industrials and researchers are invited to exchange visions, thoughts and co-produce meaningful projects. We call them “Cell Agents”.

Themes

The program will explore four themes during 2010 and 2011:
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Longer Participation: January 2010 to July 2010
Precious Food: August 2010 to December 2010
Rights Through Making: January 2011 to July 2011
Empathic House: August 2011 to December 2011
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Stam-Tam is a handmade stool made from Massive Birch. It was designed upon the special request of Branex Design as part of a collective experience with other international creatives.

Stam-Tam was exhibited 2003 at the “Salon de Maison et Objets” in Paris, also in Belgium, London and other destinations.

Name: Stam Tam
Mission: Collective Design
Client: Branex Design
Period: 2003
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Onini is a handcrafted sit module in laminated elm.
Onini was exhibited in 2005 in all Norway with Vestlandsustillingen.

Name: Onini
Mission: Sit Module
Period: 2003
Delivery: artwork

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Glass is a design for solar and optical glasses which won the 1st Professional Designer prize of the International ICSID Award “Lunetiers du Jura / A voir de voir” for the edition 2000.

Name: Glass
Mission: 1st prize, Design Competition ICSID Award
Year: 2000
Delivery: product concept and prototype

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Satellite telephone booth concept IN-MARSAT for satellite communications. Scale model out for stainless steel with solar energy cells.

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Name: Teleport
Mission: Satellite Telephone
Period: 1999
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September 2007 to february 2008

Emergence – was the first mutation, it`s how everything begun. Emergence led us to notice the passage of the inside to outdoors, of underground to overground, of underwater to cool air. Seeds sprouted and broke through while unseen forms and new ideas came into sight. Something new was born and alive.
The young changed the fate of the old. Emergence worked on the new, the young and the unexpected.

You can download the program as pdf here.

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This program is funded by:

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name of work: Extentions
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name of work: In Between, Emergence
type of work: photography
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The design team of the Norwegian porcelain producer Figgjo and Ralston & Bau worked together on redesign concepts for rejected porcelain goods. The porcelain which is sorted out in the production chain today is usually recycled to asphalt. The concepts were presented after the workshop in Transplant to the Figgjo management at a nearby waterfall.

name: Untitled
type of work: photography
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name: Roaming Home
type of work: installation
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name: Looping
type of work: video art
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name: Emerging Sound
type of work: music
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name: Dream Castle workshop
type of work: kids architecture workshop

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Ralston & Bau is constantly working together with FRETEX, the norwegian salvation army chain, on the redesign of goods. As a result of this collaboration, FRETEX developed a brand which is called FRETEX/ REDESIGN. It is a brand which transforms used goods into new and unique products.
The REDESIGN research program aims to find new product ideas which ultimately could be produced from out-of-use goods and as part of a series by FRETEX. See some of the results here …

name: Emerging Food
type of work: fooding
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March 2008 to August 2008

Growth – the second mutation, was the period of evolving. What had just appeared stretched and rose to take  a new shape. It was the stage of a dramatic change. The creation invaded the space as time went by. The walls were the canvas for paintings and collages which were added by different artists and designers during the theme. Vegetation was growing and mutating in niches and changed as well the face of Transplant from the spring until the late summer.

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During the Growth theme in the Cycle of Mutation Ralston & Bau worked together with Paul Lewthwaite (Uk), on the theme “Useful/Useless Tools”. A project about today’s tools and their meaning, exploring the boundaries of art and design. To see the work of Paul click here. The models are made of CNC foam & wood materials with a spray painted finish.

name: Taking Shape
type of work: sculpture
resident period: guest artists from 25th to 29th of February 2008
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During his stay at Transplant, Paul and Ralston & Bau worked together
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name: walk
type of work: shoes / video
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During his stay at Transplant, Marco Godinho realized a project called “Shoes for an experienced walker”. A pair of shoes with extraordinary soles. The best for todays nomads.

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Marco Godinho and Tomas Espedal shared at Transplant their passion for walking. Their documentation of Dales pathways is called “Something white”.
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During Growth realized Transplant together with:
Klub 7, Torsten Illner, Are Mookelbost, Genèvieve Gauckler,
Tomas Espedal and Marco Godinho the “Growing Wall – project”.
(names in the order of appearance in the video)

Watch the video bellow or click here for the direct link.

name: Growing Wall
type of work: street art, post-graffiti
exhibition period: guest artists from 25th to 29th of February 2008
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name: Growing Wall
type of work: painting
resident period: from the 1st of March to the 11th of March 2008
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name: Growing Wall
type of work: painting
resident period: guest artists from 23rd to 24th of May 2008
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type of work: graphic art
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During her stay at Transplant, Geneviève and the Transplant team experimented
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September 2008 to february 2009

Maturation – the third maturation was the phase of refinement. It was the substance ripening and defining.The materiality and presence was at it´s peak as a new esthetic impregnated the present form. Maturation was the phase of dwelling in a moment without past and future. A phase in which the dialog between  creator and viewer was intimate and personal.

You can download the program as pdf here.

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This program is funded by:

name: fishnet installation
type of work: installation
resident period: guest artists from 7th to 14th of September 2008
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During their stay in Norway, Studio Glithero worked at the “fishnet hotel” on Værlandet. The hotel is based on an island on one of the most western points of Norway – fishnets are stored and repaired there. Studio Glithero worked for some days at the hotel, to learn the net knitting technique. Afterwards they used the learned techniques to finish and present there fishnet installation at Transplant.

name: portraits
type of work: photography
resident period: guest artists from 8th to 12th of September 2008
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Sissel Myklebust worked during her resident period at Transplant on a project in which she
portrayed people from Dale. Together with other photos of hers, the results of the project were
exhibited at Transplant.

name: 13 + 35
type of work: video art

name: Blur
type of work: installation
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Nordic Materials worked together with May Elin in the development of her installation “Blur”.
Nordic Materials consulted May Elin in the choice of the material for her installation and
built up the contact to NMC, a industrial foam producer who sponsored the material.

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March 2009 to august 2009

“We die from the moment of our birth and are being born until we die.” (Martin Heidegger)

As we enter the third millennium the death instinct is the order of the day. This, our hypothesis, is in no way pessimistic or sinister: our desire for death has a teleological goal (to be reborn).

“Life is a constant struggle against extinction, a violent yet fleeting deliverance from ever-lurking night, this death is no external enemy, it is his own inner longing for the stillness and profound peace of all-knowing non-existence, for all-seeing sleep in the ocean of coming to be and passing away.”
(Carl Gustav Jung)

The death instinct does not lead necessarily or directly to self-destruction or murder. It may take unforeseen detours and pass through reversible states, if we agree that in sleep, play, dreams, or orgasm, we temporarily take leave of life.

The complex modalities of the death instinct include the power of negation, of subverting reality, the faculty of temporarily removing oneself or disconnecting from it. In this sense, artistic creation the in essence favors shadow over light and the imaginary over the real. Derives from the death instinct,- just as language and a fortiori intelligence do.

“Art begins where life leaves off.” (Richard Wagner)

Over the course of a few months (March-August 2009), we will try to assure the triumph of the death instinct which drives us to retreat, to retrench the spectacular, and to play on Maurice Blanchot’s paradox: if death is the real, and the real is the impossible, we are approaching the thought of the impossibility of death. In terms of the site, the surrounding, and the hosts will strive to curb the syndrome of Bartleby who “would prefer not to” and organized an encounter with the real based on ephemeral, yet fundamental, gestures.

Béatrice Josse
Director of Frac Lorraine / Metz, France

You can download the program as pdf here.

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name: Hammering Wall
type of work: video art
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