© 2010 Ralston & Bau / Storehagen Atrium.

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Storehagen Atrium, a 5000 m2 large governmental building, open it’s doors to the public in Førde, Norway. Constructed by Futurum, the building hosts the national Lotteri/Stiftelsestilsynet and the regional Cultural Department among other public institutions. After a competition by invitation, Ralston & Bau was chosen to design the signage of the building. The selected signage design is using the simplicity and clarity of the underground signage systems. The idea was inspired by the fact that Storehagen Atrium will be an important hub in Førde, a city with the desire to become a metropolis.

Characteristic subway lines are used all through the signage system with strong colors and graphical shapes dedicated to each floor and institution. Designed following the principles of Universal design they should make it easy for any user, like persons with visual impairment, to find their way.

The mission included designing the exterior and interior signs, from directions in the public areas to the name labeling on each office door. Each of the 200 doors in the building has an unique design pattern.

Ove Mjåtveit, projectleader of the projects says:

“Husstyret for leigetakarane i bygget ønskte forseggjorte og spesielle skilt, som signaliserte nytenking og blikk for framtida – samtidig som det også skulle uttrykke det trygge og stødige som våre statlege etatar representerer.  Vi likte Ralston & Bau sitt forslag svært godt, og valde difor dei til å gjere jobben. Prosessen med å samordne all skilting har vore meir utfodrende enn nokre av oss i husstyret hadde sett føre seg – men Ralston & Bau har heile tida vore positive og serviceinnstilt, og har ikkje minst hjelpt oss til å drive det heile framover. Arbeidet er straks gjennomført, og eg er både stolt og glad over resultatet!”

“The Tenants Council wished for bespoke signage that embodied forward thinking – as well as expressing the safe and secure values that our institutions represents. We liked Ralston & Bau’s proposition very much and choose therefore them for the assignement. The process to coordinate all signage has been more challenging then expected – but Ralston & Bau have all the time been positive and service minded and not least helped us to drive the project forward. The work is now almost done and I’m both proud and happy of the result!”

Name: Storehagen Atrium
Mission: Signage Design
Client: Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskommune/Lotteri og Stiftelsestilsynet/Bufetat
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Period: 2010
Delivery: concept, signage design, production follow-up
Production: Fluolux

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In the middle of August Transplant was transformed into a “cool kitchen” by Kvik. A team of 7 persons and extensive equipment came from Denmark for the shooting of the Kvik 2011 kitchen collection. We also thank Skigutene to select Transplant in front of any exciting capital, for their Bula design work session!
Check up the summer press coverage of the Transplanteurs.
In September 2010, Transplant is booked for the next Alkymisten workshop. We’re looking forward to receive several young entrepreneurs for this four day program organised by Innovation Norway. Last month the Ideal Lab´/ Longer participation exhibition opened, and can be visited until the 30th of September. 2010 (info about the closing event coming shortly, note the date, you’re invited!). The exhibition includes designs by Mathieu Lehanneur, psycho geographical art by Charlotte Grum, speculative design by Auger/Loizeau and photographs by Erwin Olaf.

Transplant Lunch Club

Welcome back to work! We start to serve a selection of home-cooked food and fresh bread again on working days Tuesday to Friday at 12.00. You serve yourself the portion that you desire. Call to book lunch before 09.30 at +47 5773 5200. Sign up here to get the menu sendt to you once a month or:
Download your September menu here ! (soon/ we are on it…)

04.09.2010 / Open Bar

Come and enjoy a Saturday with some friends and cool music. From 22.00 to 02.00 / min. 18 years old

09>10.09.2010 / Privatised for Coaching Days

A strategical coaching session by Ralston & Bau. Transplant is closed to the public on the 9th.

11.09.2010 / Lecture at Kvamsøy

Birgitta Ralston is invited to talk about the Ideal Lab’ Longer Participation theme at the Wood seminar organised by Tretema

17.09.2010 / Friday Quiz

Get your friends and colleagues together for the first quiz of the autumn! Doors open at 21.00, the quiz starts at 21.30. Welcome to Transplant!

25.09.2010 / Live Music bar

Live music from Trond Ole Håland, the known guitar player from the area. He will play songs that you know and make you want to dance. Doors open at 22.00. Welcome to Transplant!

28.09>01.10.2010 /  Privatised for Alkymisten 2010

The Alkymisten project is an initiative and organized by Innovation Norway. The program was invented to support young businesses that are in the period of establishing. The participants get trained during three sessions, pushing their business ideas further with the help of professionals. The exchange of experiences and building up new connections are an important part of the program. Transplant is hosting the first gathering for the 2010 edition.
Transplant is closed to the public during these days.

30.09.2010 / Closing of Longer Participation exhibition

The ending of the Ideal Lab’ Longer participation exhibition will be celebrated by a special event. Details will be communicated later in the month.

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Our mission at Nordic Materials is to collect knowledge about material technologies and processes that have the potential to evolve your design and production sustainably, formally and functionally. In our materials updates, like this one, you can read our point of view about a special theme. This time, we bring you the interesting point of view of Mathieu Lehanneur, french designer, who came to visit us in Transplant this summer.

Like a shock absorber, his work dresses the daily wounds we have in our interiors. Welcome in the 4th dimension, where the objects live like robots, using their superpowers to improve our life.

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Impregnated by his first vocation, medicine, Mathieu Lehanneur took design close to the body, primarily with drugs. Even if a drug is bearer of healing, it has also undesirable effects,  by improving the relationship people have with drugs, he aims to make them more pleasant. This studies project, still alive, is waiting patiently in the Moma, New York, to find a place in the pharmaceutical industry.

What would humans need inside their house, more than the ergonomics? Let’s not forget that our five senses and our immune system make the link with our exterior, and not only the touch through direct contact. Everything which is in contact with us or around us has an effect and affects us. We have needs in heat, light, silence, oxygen and immunity. Study those elements and try to complement them, by emission, absorption or transformation could lead to a perfect balance. Mathieu Lehanneur brings an impalpable comfort, which acts like micro-anaesthesias on several levels of our perception.

Imagining that the indoor is more polluted than the outdoor seems like a misunderstanding. Thinking that our hiding place, our cocoon, our home, is the best shelter we have, is simply a dream. Interior pollution comes from design and designers. Crazy but true, the plastics which compose our furniture liberate harmful gasses. The materials composed of polymers, glass fibers and insulating materials, expire and emit volatile components which take place in our body and poison it. NASA, following the return of its astronauts from the space, found them totally intoxicated by the emissions of the material components comprising the interior of the shuttle.

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Gardener at heart, Mathieu Lehanneur designed a solution using plants. He takes nature in its raw state for its functional aspects. As with O, the Element transmitter of oxygen containing a green alga solution, he gave birth to Bel-Air (beautiful air). A cleansing filter is associated with a depolluting plant (Clorophytum, Philodendron, Gerbera, Spatiphyllum, or Pothos) and a high tech ventilator. This prototype, was produced in pyrex (infinitely solderable) and aluminum, two materials which emit no gasses. Andrea, the produced product version stimulated our interest because of its components, polycarbonate and ABS plastics; unexpected materials for a cleansing filter. The designer explained us this choice, which goes against the concept of this object:
“The use of aluminium and pyrex would have multiplied the production price the weight and transport cost by 10. The extra weight would have largely increased the carbon footprint of the product. The plastics in comparison, is lighter and on this point of view, are more attentive to the environment. The polycarbonate component used for Andrea was initially destined to produce baby-bottles, but as it was declared toxic for food contact, the stock was in pending, waiting to be incinerated”, explains Mathieu Lehanneur.

In a sense, the use of a harmful plastic for the creation of his filter, was more respectful of the nature than the use of the ideal and obvious green material. As Andrea absorbs its own pollution, his choice doesn’t disturb the function and the utility of the product, but seeks to find it’s sustainable balance. Later, like with drugs (savers and poisonous), we’ll discover the effects of Andrea.

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We declare our love to Mother Nature, by fear of destroying our cradle, to upset the cycles of the planet or by simple awareness. We remove our pink tinted glasses and discover the world, a little dull. Let’s paint it in green with a branch in the place of a brush, just for fun. We eat green, we wear green, we sit green… and we even speak green. Sustainability, eco-friendly, we use so many words which sounds like a new way to think, is it a religion or a new trend? This way to communicate seems to be the new language of both manufacturers and designers, sprinkled on by marketeers and the media to be served on wood plates, like our buried past. Today we wish to change, but do we take the good turn ? According to Mathieu, there is a desire of simplification of a such complex problem that the designers try to resume only at the surface of the objects:

“Of course, the choice of materials has to be done in an overview of its cycle of production, of use, of life and death. Questions of energy (extraction, manufacture, transformation, recycling, transport, …), water, chemicals, quality (recycled plastics, do they perform as well a the others?), price (unfortunately), …. Yes the products have to be made with the most respect to the environment as possible. Designers follow the flow, by belief or trendy mood and give to their clients those wooden plates, but this won’t save the world. Let’s just hope it will improve a small part of it. The problem today, is when a client wants it to be seen, to develop a sustainable image because it’s “commercially correct”. Mathieu concludes:  “I am alert to never adding a varnish, a blush of sustainability for it to look eco-friendly”.

To be or to look green, that’s a question!

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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).

©2010 Transplant/Opening Longer Participation

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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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©2010 Transplant/Sensing Dale Workshop with Charlotte Grum

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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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Nordic businesses returning from holiday makes August a busy month in Transplant! This month Transplant is booked for Coaching Days, workshops and privatised for an advertising campaign photo shoot. Last month the designers and artist selected for Ideal Lab´/ Longer participation had working sessions in Transplant; the french designer Mathieu Lehanneur, elected in january the “Designer of the year”  by the Now! fair worked on a local version of his Ages of the World. Charlotte Grum had a two days workshop with local seniors from Dale. James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau had a lecture, and presented the project “Afterlife” inviting the public to participate. The results will be presented in the exhibition Longer Participation, opening the 14th August. The same week, in the “Dalsfjordveka”, will we also have Dalsfjord Dinner and a Concert with Tango Twist. We hope that some of this will inspire you to visit us soon!
Even if busy, the Transplanteurs had time in July to go on an amazing trip in the  local mountains with an overnight stay in the Nipebu cabin.

©Transplant 2010/ The Transplanteurs fresh and ready to go on a field trip among the Fossedalen mountains!.

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03- 04.08 / Privatised for Coaching Day

A strategical coaching session for a leading Norwegian furniture company by Ralston & Bau.
We are still open for the Lunsjklubb both days at 12h.

07.08 / Dalsfjord Dinner & Open bar

Dedicated to the yearly “Dalsfjordveka” we invite you to enjoy tapas food by Christel Eide from “mitt lille kjøkken”. The Saturday 7th of July 2010, from 17.00 to 19.00. Price per guest: 350,-Nok.
Please, book your table in advance (before Wednesday 04.08.2010 at 17.00): +47 57735200.
In the evening the bar is open where you can come and enjoy good music.

12.08 /  Tango Twist Concert

“From 1920 to 1950 the Argentinian Tango became very popular in Europe, America and Asia. The music was adopted by countries all over the world, and many regions developed their own tango-style. Tango Twist refreshes some of the old tangos, and among others will give you a taste of German humour, Norwegian nostalgia, Finnish melancholi, Argentinian passion and Oriental surprises…”

Tango Twist consists of Ingvild Storhaug (vocal and melodica), Tove Törngren (cello) and Marita Vårdal Igelkjøn (piano and accordion).

This event is co-produced by Fjaler Kommune and Transplant for “Dalsfjordveka 2010″.

Open doors at 20.00 / starts at 21.00
Sales in Transplant tuesday to friday, 09.00>17.00./ Dale Bok & Papir
150,-Nok / 18 years

14.08 /  Exhibition opening: Longer Participation

The design research program Ideal Lab´ relocates the meaning of design in a mutated social environment. “Longer Participation”, the first theme of Ideal Lab´ asks, how can the older generation participate longer in the community. After a life of working, and with limited experience of using modern communication tools, motivated Seniors can get isolated. Valuable knowledge is lost, which could be useful for society. The exhibition shows results of several scenarios within the theme “Longer Participation”. The exhibition is open until 30th of September.

Charlotte Grum /DK- Sensing Dale Workshop / workshop process & result
Mathieu Lehanneur / FR- The Age of the World pyramids / object
James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau / UK- Afterlife + Gadgets / objects
Erwin Olaf / NL – Mature / photography

This program is funded by: Norsk Kulturråd, Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskommune, Den Kulturelle Spaserstokk

18-19.08 /  Privatised for photo shoot

Kvik will come to use Transplant, for making a photo shoot off the new kitchen collection for their cataloges 2011.
Sorry, we are closed for the Lunsjklubb these two days.

24-26.08 /  Privatised for Design Workshop

A Norwegian ski equipment and sportswear company privatise Transplant construct their new design collection.
We are open for the Lunsjklubb both days at 12h.

28.08 /  DJ Grim

Talented DJ Grim together with Førde light and sound, play the latest hits for people who like to dance.
From 22.00 to 02.00 / min. 18 years old

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NSB and the PLT Innovation Lab’ chose Ralston & Bau to create the scenography and identity for the NSB Leader conference in May 2010. NSB is the public Norwegian train transport company.
200 participants attended to the leader conference and worked around service, customer relations and processes during two days. Ralston & Bau created the scenography design for the space, including the physical materialization of the workstations and graphical profiling for the conference.
The whole mission took one month to execute, from ordering to the opening of the event.

The project leader Bente Kristin Malo, says:

“Det har vært spennende for meg å lære av dere og se hvordan vi kan gjøre ting slik at budskap forsterkes gjennom å skape spennende omgivelser. Og ikke aller minst oppleve et unikt kvalitetsnivå på leveranser! Jeg håper vi får muligheten til å samarbeide med dere igjen.”

“It has been exciting for me to learn from you; see how we can do things in a way that strengthens messages through captivating environments and last, but not least, experience a unique level of quality when it comes to the delivery! I hope I’ll get the opportunity to work with you again.”

www.nsb.no

Name: NSB Leader Conference
Mission: Scenography Design
Client: NSB/PLT Innovation Lab
Period: 2010
Delivery: concept, space design, graphic design

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / Room impression with the team.

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / Paper workstations.

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / View into a workstation.

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / “Kundesporet” entrance area.

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / 200 participating NSB leaders.

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / Topview on workstations.

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / Member of the service team.

© 2010 Ralston & Bau / Workstations with LED lighting.

©2010 Transplant / James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau.

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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.

©2010 Transplant / Lecture Auger-Loizeau.

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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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“Everybody has the right to a cool kitchen” -states the slogan of the danish company Kvik. They are part of the Swedish group Ballingslöv, one of the leading companies in kitchen and baths in Scandinavia, as well as Great Britain. Kvik was based on sound reason, deep respect for their customers and, not least, a willingness to embrace change.
Inspired by the landscape and contemporary building, Kvik chose Transplant as the scenery for showing their collections in the next advertising campaign. In August a team of 6 people will transform the Transplant wing into a kitchen space, which is of course … cool!

Another chapter in the materials story.

There’s such a big family of composites, and with an array of applications. They are present both in our bodies and in space, they have invaded the entire world. Like in Gattaca where the doctors preselected the genes to create perfect men, we mix materials to obtain a wholesomeness of qualities hard to match without combining. Due to environmental concerns, makers have to change the way they produce, and turn in the direction of green production.

This month we present healthy sandwiches full of natural fibres, a new alternative for green teeth, instead of the bloody smile given by the glass fibres. Manufacturers of composites, in search of “authentic” components, reach out to scientists for help, who empty their pockets full of seeds. They put on blue overalls over their white smocks and sink their latex gloves into the soil, to plant a new variety of materials, the bio-composites. These new products spring into life and begin to grow like mushrooms in the rain. They emerge, giving colors and perfume to our previously less green composite garden. It is time to harvest now, take your scissors. Ready, steady, cut!•

Francisco Gallo Mejia, a Columbian architect-researcher, is working on BambHaus, a project of low-cost eco-responsible houses in Colombia, built with a bamboo composite. He based his research on an engineered bamboo, 100% natural and renewable, made from fibres of the Guadua Bamboo.

The bamboo is a resistant material that nourishes the soil. It doesn’t need water other than the rain, and requires no pesticides. As it grows quickly (around 21 cm per day), it also absorbs and stores CO2. Bamboo is a traditional and common building material in tropical areas. Fabrication of this composite requires little energy and small machinery. It will be manufactured locally, directly in the villages, near the plantations. This proposition sounds like a great idea on several points, as it will also act as a stimulant for bamboo reforestation, and will create new jobs. The houses will be equipped with a water recycling system and LEDs.

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Like the bamboo, the hemp and the flax stock CO2 and do not need any pesticides or other water than the rain, to grow. Through the manufacturing process the entire plant is used.

Lineo, an old Belgian company, specialises in flax fibres production. And today, whoever says flax, says flax composite. With their mechanical properties close to glass and carbon fibre, and lighter than those two, flax fibres absorb vibrations and are good as acoustic and heat insulators. Lineo proposes a new generation of prepreg made up of 50% of flax fibres with an epoxy resin. Applications for such a product are large: sport, packaging, transport, design, marine. This kind of composite has a lower cost than carbon fibres. The next step would be to find a new alternative for the epoxy resin.

Hemp is able to grow fast in a minimum amount of time (5 to 6 months to reach its adult size), it kills weeds and feeds naturally from the ground. Used during previous centuries for clothing and linen, hemp disappeared from the surface of the textile mills, to hide in the darkness of the streets. Its comeback to production sounds like a redeeming effort.

Agrochanvre produces hemp composite materials. Originally specialised in wood polymer composites, this French company decided to switch to the other side, to the natural fibres. Decking, mulching, cinderblock; they specialise their production mostly to housing materials. The hemp decking is composed of 55% hemp and 45% pvc. It is durable, rot resistant, anti-slip, easy to clean, and renewable. A good alternative to polymer wood composites or tropical wood. During the manufacturing process the whole plant is used, preventing waste.
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Hemcrete is a hemp concrete for housing. Produced by Limetechnology in England, this material is the result of a special lime binder with cement and a hemp aggregate made from the stem of the hemp plant. The treatment is mechanic and uses little energy. It needs an addition of water and can be sprayed or cast around a timber or steel frame and relies on the frame. It can take any shape. Hemcrete is also available in blocks. This material is robust, fire resistant, breathable, insulating, it has high thermal and acoustic properties, and it absorbs CO2 . It can be used as roofs or walls.

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This year, during the fairs Maison et Objet and Jec Composites in Paris, French designer Francois Azambourg presented the Linen Matrix. By chance, we were there and had the opportunity to visit this giant hut, full of linen hairs, which could not help but remind us of Cousin It from the Adams family. The aim of such an installation was to promote the use of flax and hemp fibres in textile and composite industries. For this occasion the designer presented his last collection of chairs and table, LIN 94, composed of 94 % linen (fibres and resin) and epoxy. Those products were made in collaboration with Design Composites Solutions, a company specialising in carbon composite industry.

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The Nordic holiday month is here and we hope that you are enjoying the summer so far! In June Transplant received the Nordic Material partners of Denmark, Svend-Erik Nissen and Finland, Kari Kuhmonen to develop a commune Nordic strategy for transmitting knowledge about material innovation in 2010-2013. Transplant is open like usual during the summer and you can enjoy concerts such as flamenco organised by the International Førde Music Festival. Transplant are pleased to tell that we will have interesting workshops and people to participate for Ideal Lab’ – Longer participation. Things are moving forward and Transplant starts to get filled up for the Summer and Autumn with companies that are working on their strategy and design development. So, book your coaching day for the Autumn, to get started after a long Summer holiday and get ready for 2011.

Summer hours

The Transplant café with ice-cream, cake and coffee specialties is open Tuesday’s to Friday’s from 9am to 5pm. We continue our Lunch-club with homemade food and bread the same day’s. Reserve before 9:30 the same day at +47 577 35 200

Cultural Thursday in Dale

This year we are happy to be able to offer tours of the design competence centre Transplant and it’s design studio, model workshop and Norway’s only innovative material library! Every Thursday we propose a tour, homemade lunch and a tour of the Jakob Sande-Tunet. Program: Lunch at 12h at Transplant, a guided tour at 13h and a guided tour of the Jacob Sande-Tunet at 15h. Reserve before 9:30 the same day at +47 577 35 200.

03.07 / Open bar

We will invite you to open bar with good music! Bar is open from 22.00 to 02.00. Bring your friends and enjoy a saturday night!

11.07 / Førde International Music Festival Concert / Orquestra Chekara Flamenca

Passion and mystery, a violent encounter between ancient Arab and Andalusian traditions.Arabic mysticism and Andalusian passion melts together in a fiery performance in which musicians and dancers from Morocco and Spain celebrate the close ties that existed between the countries for several centuries. The cooperation between the Moroccan orchestra and Spanish flamenco artists have been around for over 20 years, and is based on music from a time when Jews, Christians and Muslims lived side by side in southern Spain. Live an intense and emotional dialogue over Gibraltar Strait. Book your tickets for the concert.

Starts at 18.30
Food and drinks available.
Bus from Førdehuset at 17.00 and returning after the concert.
Kr 200/50 incl bus (with festival pass for Kr 120/50.)
www.fordefestivalen.no

13-14.07 /  Illuminate Dale Workshop

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

16.07 / Friday Bar

Meet up with old friends and join us for summer on the terrace. Doors open at 21:00.

17.07 / Gourmet Dinner

Bring your family or friends and you are more than welcome to enjoy delicate food in Transplant from 550,-Nok per guest, the Saturday 17th of July 2010, from 18.00 to 21.30. We have invited our Chef Øystein, from To Kokker, located in Florø. Please, book your table before Wednesday 14.07: +47 57735200.

24.07 / DJ Grim

A new tradition it’s been born in Transplant. Talented DJ Grim together with Førde light and sound, play the latest hits for people who like to dance. From 22.00 to 02.00 / min. 18 years old

26.07 / 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.