Research

As a studio, we aim to be in touch with practices that enhance peoples' lives. We care about sustainable culture from a humanitarian and social level to individual collaborations. Here we hold a research practice that floats between academic and craft; commercial and concept. This is our area for investigation, and also most importantly a space for trials and tests.

We understand sustainability as a holistic practice that involves multiple aspects of society, we research alternative solutions to old problems, from practical to theoretical, political and creative.

Research As Ritual - Exhibition, Copenhagen

Antillanité is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Lauda Vargas, Dominique Petit-Frère, and Alice Grandoit-Šutka. It is a diasporic practice in cartography and memory formation, where we explore the philosophical work of Antilles geography that is in process, liberatory, and life affirming through somatic practices of materiality and re-spatialization. Their process AYITI is the location through which we feel into Glissant’s Caribbeanness/Antillanité — a method that is grounded concretely in the affirmation of a place, to link cultures across language borders transforming shared experience to conscious expression.

Property Rights, Citizenship and Development Issues in Indonesia

The research aims to analyse and discuss different mechanisms affecting the citizenship for rural peasants of Indonesia and takes a critical perspective on the development agenda, and how it is used to push people from their land, in the pursuit of economic growth.

Work by Ana Lumack, Sarah Strunge Albertsen, Veronika Ten and Yannik Boserup. At Roskilde University, 2019.

Artistic Thinking In Development, a sight towards to Development and Sustainable Pratice?

With the emergence of global crises such as climate and health, international development studies face new challenges. While recognizing that this is a broad topic, with many fronts to be taken into account, Lumack draw attention to how Development organizations consider art and creativity in their practices.

Zouk as Contact Zone

Interested in how dance channels cultural encounters, this project examines what the social partner dance zouk means to its participants in Denmark and Brazil and why they practice it. By applying theory by Marie Louise Pratt (1991) and Homi Bhabha (2009c in Jasen & Pramod, 2010), it asks how zouk is a contact zone and what defines the hybridity of the dance. This serves as the overall framework of the analysis and the premise of the approach to zouk. Moreover, theory on the production of stereotypes by Douglas Martin et al. (2014) is also included, as stereotypes are an underlying and reoccurring issue throughout the project.

Sustainable Event Solutions

How do you create a one-day event without generating unnecessary waste and minimising impact on the environment? How do you incorporate event design with sustainable practices?

FRAME x Montana Furniture

How does one create such a space that embraces both the existing and the new needs?

A space where you can relax, work, socialize and negotiate. Montana invites designers to create a concept that embraces the new kind of lobby, which both serves as an internal office landscape and welcomes outsiders by meeting the needs of both parties.

This hybrid lobby should include facilities that support the idea of a social and productive hub for the many different users.

TO.org x Parley for the Oceans

Development of an interactive, multi purpose event space bringing people closer together. A space that will encourage conversation and lateral thinking, creating an intimate forum for social and environmental discussion and debate. The refined Dome structure to reside in the gardens of The Alpina Gstaad Hotel, in Switzerland.

Reflecting the exterior, internally we use this Dome to showcase some of the best environmentally focused design. Championing a global network of product and furniture designers.

Innovative, demountable and 100% recyclable the Dome will stand as an example of future facing sustainable design all whilst providing an elegant backdrop for cultural programming, talks and events.