©Transplant 2010/ Kvik team on boat trip during their photo shoot session in Transplant in August 2010.

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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.

© 2010 Alkymisten / Innovation Norway.

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Are you between 18 and 35 years and have an idea about something that may be your own business?
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Than the Alchemist can be a good option for you! Alchemist in 2010 will be conducted between the beginning of October to mid December. The first session will take place in Transplant from the 28th of September 2010 to the 01st of October 2010.

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© Happy Metropolis Suspended monorail of Wuppertal, Germany / Photo: Dietmar Fritze.

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Transplant is a special venue inside the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial 2010, in France. There will be a permanent retransmission from the Design Centre to the Biennial during the two weeks of the event. Live conversations between designers located each in one location will occur three times during this period. The themes discussed will be Ideal Lab’ and it’s next themes Precious Food and Empathic House.
The venue is the 20.11.2010-05.12.2010. Precise live times and more information is coming soon.

©Transplant 2010/ Mathieu Lehanneur and Alexandre Bau at the Laukeland falls in Dale.

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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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“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!

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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

© 2010 Matthieu Lehanneur / Participant to Ideal Lab’
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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

© 2010 Auger Loizeau / Participants to Ideal Lab’.
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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 Transplant / NTE dinner with Transplant Coaches.

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The summer is here and soon we are the 23rd of June is Midsummer, the longest day of the year.
If you are organizing strategical meetings or a design development, do as NTE; book the space and have a work process in Transplant where the Ralston & Bau creative team and the Transplant Coaches can bring their knowledge into your project. You can reserve Transplant for bigger gatherings or meetings where we provide services including food and sleeping facilities, tailored to your needs.
There is a time to think and a time to do, this summer do it in Transplant!
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Summertime

We invite you to our summer opening hours for the café/lunch club  and events during June, July and August. If you are visiting the west-coast of Norway, come and visit cultural Dale, where Transplant is located next to the fjord. Open hours from  Tuesday to Friday: 09-17. We serve cold drink, coffee specialities, ice cream and cake. Homemade lunch is served at 12.00 sharp for the good price of 100,-nok. To reserve, call us before 09.30 the same day at +47 57735200. You can download the Lunch Club Summer menu here. If you would like to get the monthly menu sent to your e-mail, please sign up to the Lunch Club!
The June event program includes late summer nights with quiz, concerts and open bar during weekends or evenings from 22.00 to 02.00.
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11.06 / Friday Bar with Summer Quiz

Get your friends and colleagues together for the first summer quiz session. Doors open at 21.00 and quiz starts at 21.30 sharp! Welcome to Transplant.
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19.06 / Concert with Dagny Sandvik & Tina Refsnes

Transplant is happy to receive the talented Dagny and Tina for an intimate acoustic concert for our first summer event. We invite you to come to our open bar: 21.30 – 02.00. Concert start at 22.30. Tickets for sale in Dale bok og Papir or at Transplant. Entrance: 75,-nok./ min. 18 years.
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26.06 / Tribute & Open bar

We will invite you to a summer night which makes you want to dance the whole night. Bar is open from 22.00 to 02.00. Bring good mood and come!
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27.06 – 01.07 / Nordic Materials Agents

Nordic Material Agents from Denmark and Finland are coming to Transplant end of June for a strategical session. Plans will be laid for the evolution of the Nordic Materials network and 2010/11 programing.

©Transplant Coaches / Truls Paulsen (No) / Innovation strategies

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The Transplant Coaches is a network of specialists who has expertise around and within the design field. Transplant is a competence centre that is a tool in business strategy and product development processes. The Transplant coaches have a thorough experience about a specific topic and contribute as part of a complete workshop or a one-to-one business coaching in one day. The process gives insight into specific issues in a condensed time frame and help to take strategic decisions. All Transplant Coaches have senior expertise and proven experience and reputation in its field.

Transplant Coaches main categories are Design + Prospective / Business / Materials.
The detailed description of Transplant Coaches will be launched the 01th of June 2010 on www.transplant.nu. Please contact us for further information

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© Transplant Coaches / Ambra Trotto (It) / Design + Ethics

© Transplant Coaches / Julien Dossier (Fr) / Green business development

© Transplant Coaches / James Auger (Uk) / Speculative, critical and conceptual design

© Transplant Coaches / Stoffel Kuenen (Nl) / Wearable technologies

© Nordic Materials™ / C(h)ameleon in Transplant, Norway.

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Discover the latest material innovation shown for the first time in Norway. We propose to look at how objects can reinvent themselves and break the monotony. Dead, dull and colourless environments could become things of the past. Biomimicry materials follow the example of nature, which adapts, change and metamorph in order to survive. We are used to deciphering and analysing the pictorial signals that nature gives us. The yellowing of the leaves from a lack of chlorophyll announces the arrival of winter. The chameleon shows what mood it is in by changing the patterns and colouring of its skin. “Colours are the smiles of nature,” wrote the English poet Leigh Hunt. Men have always observed the ways in which nature adapts to change and it has inspired them to come up with sophisticated technologies that improve our everyday lives and make them more enjoyable. Just as a chameleon can change the colour of its skin by altering its pigment cells, so does the latest technical materials that are active and reactive. There are thermo-chrome, thermo-regulating or phase-change materials. They are also able to detect and analyse changes in their environment and adapt. Their uses in the design of our homes, our offices and our furniture, mean that we can look forward to functional improvements that would have been hard to foresee. They encourage and contribute to the emergence of an almost boundless world of design possibilities.

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© Nordic Materials™ / C(h)ameleon in Transplant, Norway.

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Created by Nordic Materials / Motivated by Alexandre Bau and Elisabeth Jacobsen Heimdal

Prospective: material and design visions, innovator, artist and scientific point of view.
Material: showcase of 10 alternative processes and material samples
Application: examples shared as case studies
Lunch: warm lunch at Transplant and networking
Opening of “C(h)ameleon”: guided tour of the exhibition containing 68 materials.

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After Finland, the latest material innovation is shown in Norway. C(h)ameleon is open to public for visit on reservation from: the 18.03.2010 10h to the 25.03.2010 16h. Visits are organized for companies, schools and institutions from 1500,-.

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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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Welcome back everybody.
We hope that you had a relaxing holiday and are full of inspiration for whatever you wish to do. We want to take the opportunity on this first day of the year to thank you: dear clients and partners – for the great projects and special moments we had in 2009! We look forward to be seeing you again soon, sharing ideas and experiences.

To have the best start into 2010, we gave some Christmas presents to Transplant which we hope you will appreciate just as much as we do. First, our meeting-room sound-curtain has been upgraded with a border lining, sealing any sound leaks. The profit is better sound, for seminars in the closed live room as well as for public events.
Secondly Transplant got a new car and you’ll see us coming! The T-Cab got a yellow and white look with logo and activity information. See you around!

Your Transplant, Ralston & Bau and Nordic Materials team

Den populære kunstnaren Oddvar Torsheim har gjett ut cd-innspeling av The Beatles og Bob Dylan på nynorsk. Han har óg fleire opptredener i fjernsyn- mellom annan var han med i serien “Norges hærligste” og “Talent 08″.

Oddvar likar å  kalle seg “sidesprangartist” Eg er litt distré, men det høyrer med når ein har passert 70, seier han. Han får i alle fall  latteren til å runge når han på sin eigen måte “tramper” i veg med munnspel , undervass- trekkspel” “dieselmotor” og gode sko.

Det er det det vert råkken råll av seier han.

Birger Meland har det musikalske ansvaret og dei to har jobba i lag i fleire år.

Meland har sjølv lang fartstid i fleire kjende band. Mellom anna i Fernando og Cheek. Men han har óg jobba saman med andre soloartistar. I år er det dessutan 40 år sidan han starta artistkariéra. Han har óg lang fartstid i NRK radio og som programleiar for Norge Rundt på TV. Dansemusikken er variert og det trøkke godt frå sena.

Dei to har hatt fulle hus i Oslo og Bergen. For ei tid tilbake gjorde dei to stor lukke framfor rundt 1300 på Periferi-festivalen på Sotra.

Under ein turnè  i Hardanger i samband med kunstveka måtte ein arrangør på bygda å låne stolar humrar dei .

Latterdøra har stått på vidt gap seier dei to som har følgande oppfordring:

“Kom å høyr for swingande” !  - Livet vert ikkje det same etterpå.

Billettpris: kr 200,- på førehand (fås kjøpt på Dale bok og papir as og Transplant) / kr 250,- i døra

Enjoy a nice time out with friends at our open bar every saturday between 10pm and 2am

Stay tuned for happenings coming up, such as concerts and quiz etc.

The students of the new practical-pedagogic education program at the Art Academy of Bergen started their term with a 2 days kick-off in Transplant in September 2009. The art academy course is for confirmed designers and artists who want to become certified teachers.
After spending the first day getting to know each other and having pedagogic sessions,
Ralston & Bau coached them in a design process workshop the second day. “Design a light” challenged participants to tell a story, get back to basics manually and come up with new solutions. All groups presented their projects and we were lightened up with portable forest lights, urban lighting for northern cities, light system for cupboards and diffusing light table for dinners with friends. During dinner the invited school principal Kari Nistad gave her side of the story on how to integrate art and design into the curriculum with success.

© 2009 White Line Hotels website.

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“White Line Hotels is delighted to announce the start of a very successful partnership with the duo behind Transplant – the design Space and architecture + design offices of Ralston & Bau based in beautiful Norway. Birgitta Ralston originally from Sweden and Alexandre (Music of the 80s lover) Bau is French – together they have one of the most progressive creative hubs.

They are both GENUINE, HUMAN, FUN and simply really nice people. Together with their team, they will be the right face of White Line Hotels in the entire Nordic region – scouting for new properties and moreover using their extensive creative networks to help position and create opportunities for our member hotels to be present in this aesthetically aware consumer market.”

Link to White Line Hotels website

“Day and Night” restless, manifesting the time, from sunset to sunrise.

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The french artist Jean-Christophe Norman will perform a 24 hour writing of hour, minute and second during his residency at Transplant.

Born in 1964 in Besançon where he lives and works, Jean-Christophe Norman has developed an artistic practice akin to performance and directly stemming from his years as professional climber. Time writings, started in 1993, are inscribed in a conceptual approach: a method, a principle hinging on a protocol or on a delimited space.

Jean-Christophe Norman systematically registers the passage of time—day, month, year, hour, minute, second—on different media filled to the point of saturation. Time accumulates and becomes tangible matter, but also sensitive matter:
its passage is tirelessly inscribed and yet destined to be progressively effaced, to disappear ineluctably.

During the 6th and the 7th of June, you will be able to experience Jean-Christophe’s work live !

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Ralston & Bau designed Transplant, a new Norwegian innovation and design center in Dale i Sunnfjord, which opened in August 2007. The building itself was developed by the former Renzo Piano architect Attila Eris who also designed the Paul Klee center in Bern, Switzerland.

The building
Ralston & Bau designed and developed the concept of Transplant, the interior of the building, the facade and the visual identity.

Paper wall
Ralston & Bau worked together with Duralmond, a Spanish based company, on the design and development of the facade of Transplant. It is inspired by stacks of paper and was designed exclusively by Ralston & Bau and for Transplant in 2006.

Think & Share
Transplant is a platform where design, art, music and new materials work in unison. This is a space for freedom of thought, experimentation and adventures involving all human senses in an unique surrounding. Ralston & Bau incorporated three wings into the design of the building, each around 200m2, to represent each aspect of their dream idea factory: one wing is to think, another one to experiment and share, and a final wing to shape.

Name: Transplant
Mission: Design Competence Centre
Period: 2005-2007
Delivery: concept development, interior design, furniture design, facade design, visual identity

photos: © 2009 Vegard Fimland

Transplant Live AS, Ralston & Bau and Nordic Materials are now united at www.transplant.nu.
From the 09th of April 2009: the events company Transplant Live AS, design studio Ralston & Bau
and the innovative material network Nordic Materials can be found collectively on the website www.transplant.nu.

The companies have been located in the same building since the opening of Transplant in 2007 and
view this conglomeration as a natural step towards greater customer accessibility.

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type of work: sculpture

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David Renaud was on a short term residency at Transplant.
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David Renaud questions geographical codifications,
through maps, relief models, or painting.

Deception Island is based on a text of Edgar Allan Poe, “The Adventure of Arthur Gordon Pym”.
In The end of his journey it ecxtends into southern seas and discovers a world entirely white.
The novel ends at this moment, the mystery remains..

name: Untitled
type of work: Food Design Performance

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Marc Bretillot designed during the finissage of Disappearance an exiting feast table. His food tricked our minds and eyes with its colors and tastes. The performance made a interesting point on the whole Cycle of Mutation. You can see more pictures of his work on the finissage section.

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Jean-Christophe Norman was on a short term residency at Transplant. During that time he realized various projects related to time and to a very personal story of himself. He performed at Transplant
“Day and Night” a 24 hour writing of day, date, hour, minute and second.

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(sequence of “Day and Night” by Jean-Christophe Norman)

” The fact that my participation omen to the “disappearance” is a personal story, a turning point
in my life that I wanted to relate with plastic means to my business as an artist.

The history of a disease that has found solution for operating a gesture.This “gesture” has its reality etched on my chest. A scar which has two half circles which decides and gives intimate view a reality, which represents an alteration of the body and a change of a practice of life.

I decided to carry tranposer and the existential moment in the Norwegian landscape. I will set out a
scale of 1 line on the map of surrounding Dale. Then he is to follow precisely the trace on the ground
in the mountains and valleys. A long road accident. The means used to realize this course has been the photography and design. All photographs focus on the midnight shift. The duration of sunshine
is very long this time of year in Norway, I opted for this time of day and night are almost indisociables and together they embody an otherness in time. The drawings are made on the basis of the impression.
They are evidenced in rubbings of the highest points of the route.
They are kind of sutures space and time.

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(graphite rubbing on paper still from “Dale Pathway”, 50x65cm, courtesy  Jean-Christophe Norman 2009)
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( photograph still from “Dale Pathway”, 18x25cm, lambda print, courtesy  Jean-Christophe Norman 2009)