Description
Issue 8 of nomad takes a look at the north. We visit Snøhetta, the globally esteemed Oslo-based architects’ office and interview one of its founders, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. In a former pumping station in Berlin, we meet with Danish-Norwegian artistic duo Elmgreen & Dragset. We talk to Sissel Tolaas, a Norwegian smell artist und olfactory researcher and Julia Lohmann, a design professor at Alvar Aalto University in Helsinki, who applies a critical design perspective to an examination of the potential of marine algae. Photographer Marzena Skubatz contributes a portrait of Brekka, a remote village in the East Fjords of Iceland and takes us to Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, a Norwegian Sámi musician who combines modernity and the traditions of the Sámi. Oliver Godow, artist, photographer and participant at the oslobiennalen 2019, photographed for nomad the series ‘New Light City’ an homage to the city of Oslo and its transformation. At the heart of traditional Aschau in Upper Bavaria, Nils Holger Moormann lives and breathes a completely different design culture with his furniture production and we learn to know his new chair “Bruto”. And Melanie Kurz, professor of design theory and design history in Aachen, portrays Swedish designer Carl Larsson and his book ‘Ett hem’ (A Home), that has been written over 100 years ago.

Contents

Sissel Tolaas: Nose is a Nose is a Nose — Elmgreen & Dragset: A Mental Tennis Game — Petrus Palmér: HEM — Andreas Murkudis: Curated Products — Julia Lohmann: Re-Design of the Ocean — Snøhetta: Kjetil Trædal Thorsen — Nils Holger Moormann: Bruto — Uwe Schneidewind: Transformation as a Cultural Project — Oliver Godow: Oslo, The New Light City — Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen: Environmental Activist, Musician, Sámi — Melanie Kurz: From Sundborn and Bullerby to Ikea — Brekka: East Fjords of Iceland — To The North: Photo Essay

Additional Information
182 pages, offset-printed and perfect bound, full color on uncoated and coated paper. Printed in Germany. Publication date: November 2019