Iceland

Iceland - Neskaupstaour, sea

Iceland - Neskaupstaour, the harbor

Iceland - Vík, Reynisdrangar (trollkliff)

Iceland - Reyjkavik, Sólfar SunCraft by Jón Gunnar Árnasons

Exhibition opening

"Integrity 2010" exhibition opening on 30th of March at Another Function Gallery in Tokyo.








This event has been published also on:

http://fudeya.net/gallery/archives/1002
http://www.swedenabroad.com/CalendarView____8584.aspx?slaveid=105338
http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2010/F3E6

Svalbard

Svalbard - Longyearbyen - Björn Dalen

Svalbard - Longyearbyen - Björn Dalen

Svalbard - Longyearbyen - Björn Dalen

Svalbard - Longyearbyen - Adventalen - gruve 7

Svalbard - Longyearbyen

Svalbard - Longyearbyen - full moon

Svalbard - aerial view

Exhibition "Passage to Water" Makerere Art Gallery

On Thursday the 1st of April we will open up an exhibition that will take place at the Makerere Art Gallery.
The exhibition will start with a presentation about Smart textiles and our project and then lead into an interactive workshop.
Since the flow of water is elementary for our project the aim for the exhibition is to involve the community, in this case the art students, to collaboratively build a sculpture wich will lead the water from one point to another. This refers back to our solar water system and the community involvement. The aim for the exhibition is to show how science is leading to art.

Traditional Ugandian dance.


Solar water heating fabric.


Existing tanks for heating water.


Shanty town, Kampala.

Children collecting water in Kasubi,Kampala.

textile water cleaning system

Integrity 2010, NATURE, is pleased to announce a new context of making smart textiles useful to improve human conditions in highly urbanized areas while preserving traditional values. We are an interdisciplinary group from the Swedish School of Textiles, members Shufei Wang, Sarah Torkelsson, Jeannine Han, Marina Rehbein.

The formation of community projects in rural areas in Uganda such as womens handicraft groups is used as a role model to create a community textile solar water heating and cleaning system that makes use of the common rain falls in Uganda.
The system is based on three processes, harvesting rain water, storing it and heating it with the help the sunlight. Several parameters influencing these processes need to be taken into consideration. Height, surface, structure, weight, time, temperature, volume and gravity.
The flexibility of the textile material makes it possible to meet the demand of a highly densed urban area that quickly develops in an architectual unplanned way such as shanty towns of Kampala.
The system is based on urbanisation problems and the strong culture in african societies to build constructions which emphazise the individual and the community.

Collection

Tokyo

Air Dress