Happy December!
December is here and the last newsletter of the year! We take the opportunity to wish you all very nice holidays and warm wishes for a great new 2012! This month you can join parties in Transplant and see Transplant designs in both Paris during the Paper Days and at Designgalleriet in Stockholm.
Paper Night 2011
The "Hover Wall" plays with an optical illusion. The paper wall gives the impression of a floating wall or being in a floating room. The effect is created by a graphic design applied on the paper wall "Pipe and Drop". The paper wall can be used to shape small rooms or to separate a room in different parts. "H[...]
Building (on) the ruins of the future
Dramatic opening for dramatic times. The weather changes, metaphorically and literally speaking. In the northern hemisphere the winter weather is slowly crawling upon us. We are unpacking the thicker clothes and preparing for the colder season. Living creatures reacts to the weather, human beings are no excep[...]
Chairmen
We have the pleasure to present Transplants newly elected chairwoman and chairman. Liv Clelia Sommerstedt presides the board of Transplant AS, the design competence company includes (from the 1st of January 2012) the Ralston & Bau designers and Nordic Materials. Vidar Grønnevik presides the board of Transpla[...]
Ideal Lab
.© Transplant 2011 / Ideal Lab´ Description The Ideal 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 Lab´ goa[...]
November News & Events
Building and using the rough space of Transplant for creative work, has given hands-on experience on the subject of collaborative spaces. Lately the team was challenged to research further the design of creative spaces. In the research, we discovered the work of the university Professors Anne-Laure Fayard an[...]
Off
Regular echoes claim that we are entering "the End of our World" as we know it. Not only concepts, but sustainable off grid strategies, are reaching our emails, homes, lives. In reaction to this, communities and individuals are proposing alternative living scenarios.
Precious Food / Eat scenario
Eat was the departure point of a workshop on eating scenarios emphasizing the the preciosity of the food. Together with Constance Gaard Kristiansen, design manager at Figgjo porcelain and the chef Christel Eide, Ralston & Bau explored scenarios of eating standing up in a social setting.
What are you building with?
What material to use in what situation? To select the perfect material for different projects can be hard. It has to respond to the environment you are going to put it in, it has to have the right properties for its use, preferably be sustainable and the last but not least; fit into your concept. The building[...]
October News & Events
Last month, we had the pleasure to host and work with the Business Model Generation author Alex Osterwalder for a week in Transplant. The job to be done was to learn his methods and use it on ourselves. At the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam in September, the Transplanteurs challenged the workshop participants,[...]
Material days at Mikkeli Polytechnic
Nordic Materials just organized a Material Day and a Material Spot in Finland. The research delivered was divided into three parts: listening, passing and carrying, all three strongly embedded with the topic of acoustics. The Material Day was organized at and with our Finnish partner Mikkeli University of App[...]
Ideal Lab’ / Use – Reuse workshop
The Transplant Ideal Lab´theme Precious Food continued with its second theme Transform at Transplant. The participants in this scenario were the Agents Marc Brétillot/ Culinary Designer [Fr], Runa Klock/ Designer [No], Anthony Quinn/ Designer and Teacher [UK] and master students in design from KHiB (Bergen[...]
September News & Events
September starts with a couple of workshops; first Alex Osterwalder, the creator of the Business Model Generation, comes to work and coach in the creative space of Transplant, then the Ideal Lab' theme and Transplanteurs goes to the PICNIC Festival in Amsterdam with a workshop about food rituals. In Transplan[...]
Transplant PhD project
Alexandre Bau and Transplant was funded by Innovation Norway and Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane to develop a PhD intention during 2011-12. The topic of the research will take as focus Transplant and its quintessence: design process and meaningful results using innovative material, process and creative methods.[...]
PICNIC Festival 2011
Birgitta Ralston, Alexandre Bau, Jan Brauer and Åshild Stav are invited as speakers at PICNIC. On Thursday September 15th they will hold a Food rituals workshop at the Artist's Studio, treating one of the most intimate daily routines. PICNIC is a connector of people, business, and ideas.
Use / Reuse Food Performance
“Of all food produced in the world, up to 35% is wasted and thrown.” This incredible fact is the starting point for a workshop lead by the Agents: Marc Bretillot / french culinary designer, Stoffel Kuenen / dutch designer and researcher and Runa Klock / norwegian designer. Marc Bretillot, who earlier made[...]
August news & events
In August and in the fall we continue to work on social problems through design, in Ideal Lab´ and its current theme Precious Food. One of the things we are organising is a vegetarian cooking course. "10 vegetarians can live on the same quantity of cereals as 1 meat eater". Eating vegetarian is not only more[...]
Business Modelled !
Alex says; a car producer sketches, prototypes and crash tests the idea before going to production, while entrepreneurs usually just drive their first business model into the wall and start over! The "bmgen" is a playful and designer friendly tool to grasp the inter-connectivity of the business idea and proto[...]
Bacterial invasion
Bacterias infiltrate our website to its own words and use it as a communication platform. Manipulated, we are the puppets charged to deliver their message: the simple desire of being visible. You don't know it probably, but bacterias have feelings, especially the complex of their profound silence and invisibi[...]
Happy December!
30 November 2011
December is here and the last newsletter of the year! We take the opportunity to wish you all very nice holidays and warm wishes for a great new 2012! This month you ca[..]
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Paper Night 2011
30 November 2011
The "Hover Wall" plays with an optical illusion. The paper wall gives the impression of a floating wall or being in a floating room. The effect is created b[..]
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Building (on) the ruins of the future
30 November 2011
Dramatic opening for dramatic times. The weather changes, metaphorically and literally speaking. In the northern hemisphere the winter weather is slowly crawling[..]
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Chairmen
30 November 2011
We have the pleasure to present Transplants newly elected chairwoman and chairman. Liv Clelia Sommerstedt presides the board of Transplant AS, the design competenc[..]
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Ideal Lab
01 November 2011
.© Transplant 2011 / Ideal Lab´ Description The Ideal 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 ind[..]
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November News & Events
31 October 2011
Building and using the rough space of Transplant for creative work, has given hands-on experience on the subject of collaborative spaces. Lately the team was chall[..]
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Off
31 October 2011
Regular echoes claim that we are entering "the End of our World" as we know it. Not only concepts, but sustainable off grid strategies, are reaching our emails,[..]
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Precious Food / Eat scenario
31 October 2011
Eat was the departure point of a workshop on eating scenarios emphasizing the the preciosity of the food. Together with Constance Gaard Kristiansen, design mana[..]
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