Designing the Future

Orienting Studio Teaching Towards Real-World Change’, a roundtable discussion with ABM teachers who are engaging with real world projects. 

Public Defence by Alvar Zalar 

Title: Queer as a city: Unsettling coherence in ‘sustainable urban development’

A-building, Sölvegatan 24, 223 62 Lund

Lecture Hall A:C at 13:00. 

Visual Communication IV | Industrial Design Programme | Bachelor level, year 3

The course Visual Communication IV is a mandatory course in the third year on the Industrial Design Programme’s Bachelor level. The aim of the course is to enhance the students’ ability to critically reflect upon the relation between humans and our visual and material culture. This is attained mainly by practical training in working with two course assignments: the realization of a redesigned plastic chair; and a scale model in 1:5 of a sitting furniture. Through teamwork, supervision, reviews and lectures the students train their ability to take part in discussions about furniture and interior design. The course also gives practical training in poster, folder and exhibition design to improve the students’ visual communication skills.

Industrial Design students are exhibiting the course assignment Furniture in Transformation during the period of 25 September to 4October 2024 in the Exhibition Hall. The aim of the assignment is to encourage a reflection of the valuation and labelling of designed objects. This has been achieved by analysing a so-called Modern Furniture Classic and then translating this analysis to a reused plastic chair through practical design work. The common white plastic chair is a helpful starting material, in that it offers and provokes different standpoints concerning aesthetic values, functionality and material techniques. Plastic is also a debated and questioned material, yet it is a material that exists in abundance and could be taken care of and used in new ways. The transformation of the plastic chairs in this assignment should be seen an example of that.

The architectural profession is constantly trying out new approaches as each project can have different conditions. However, sometimes we need to free ourselves from conventions and our own limitations. In the Design Process and Prototype course, we will complete an idea from sketch to relatively finished result through cross-disciplinary work at a manageable scale. We will benefit from other disciplines' approaches/methodologies. Cross-border encounters can generate new unexpected results and constraints can result in more creativity than free work without a framework. Study the world around you with open eyes and learn from others' discoveries and approaches. Challenge yourself! Remember that there are no failures, only lessons learnt.

We take the opportunity when the Exhibition Hall is dressed for festivities and invite students, former students, employees, former employees and collaboration partners to our mingle 11 October from 6:30 PM.  

Exhibition Hall, A-building, Sölvegatan 24, Lund 

Fritte Fritzson, Swedish comedian and architect, trained at our school, will be our host for the evening. The programme is currently being prepared and will be presented on this page in due course.

Maybe you want to settle a class reunion with fellow students from the past? Take the opportunity to meet old and new friends!

We create the environment and the conditions, you bring out the party mood and join us.  

Industrial Design students are exhibiting the course assignment Miniatures during the period of 14 October to 16 October in the Black Box. Miniatures deals with sitting furniture in scale 1:5. The aim of the assignment is to apply an experimental approach to design method, furniture form and function, as well as furniture materials, and invent a novel piece of sitting furniture. The small scale is chosen to allow students to try out many different solutions throughout the design process. By working with a miniature furniture, the students will also improve their abilities to deal with scale models. The experimental research process and the design process are both documented and reflected upon in a folder.

More information to come. 

Housing Futures, a roundtable discussion on current housing research in the department. 

"Almost 60 years of dancing: collaborations between environmental psychology and architecture" 

Interrogating the Built Environment: New Approaches to Understanding Urban Change

Roundtable discussion with PhD students to discuss the methods they are employing to study architecture and the built environment. How do researchers understand and engage with urban dynamics in different ways?

Klas Anshelm (1914-1980), architect and since 1973 an honorary doctor at LTH, was the man commissioned to build a new technical college in Lund in a short time. He was himself an engineer's son and had some artistic dreams, trained as an architect at Chalmers.  When he set up his own architectural practice in Lund in 1947, he embraced a modern function-based style of brick and concrete. The Swedish state became a major employer and gave him large commissions for the universities in Lund and Gothenburg.

This photo exhibition has been compiled by architect Per Qvarnström, a former student at the school. Per Qvarnström has organised a number of exhibitions and written a book on Klas Anshelm's work.

You can see the exhibition, outside our library.  during the period 9 September to 20 December 2024.

With this poster exhibition we describe current research projects at our department. 

You can see the exhibition, outside our library from 9 September to 20 December 2024.