“The whole ‘what is really art anyway’ discussion is old, so we’ll skip it, and if you think what we do is art, then thanks we guess.
We don’t think of ourselves as artists, we come from a product/interaction design background.
What we see ourselves as is a studio that does what it very well pleases, experimenting with products and electronics and the like, not necessarily being tied to a client.

That said, it’s not like we don’t want clients, we would love to do explorative work for money.

Who we are? Lars Marcus and Theo”.

Geospire
Geospire is an installation for children visiting the Geological Museum in Oslo. The project is commissioned by and done in cooperation with Voy. Lars Marcus and Theo at Skrekkøgle were responsible for designing models and graphics. The goal was to teach children about landscapes and types of rock, using games with simplified 3D visuals. The games were enabled with small objects with an RFID chip inside, representing what’s shown onscreen. As they had to produce a bunch of these objects, Skrekkøgle decided to make molding shapes for PUR from sintered models in silicone. After research for the right material, Skrekkøgle started molding in PUR11, a polyurethane version, which is durable enough to survive kids’ play. With the result turning out successful, they assembled it all and attached the RFID chips.

Have a look at more pictures from the Geospire project-in-process.

Or check all the stunning work of Skrekkøgle:
www.skrekkogle.com

FRIDAY
11.30 Train arrives from Oslo
12.15 Train arrives from Trondheim
11.30 Registration & lunch
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13.05 – 13.50 Keetra Dean Dixon
13.50 – 14.00 Coffee break, 10 min
14.00 – 14.45 Marius Arnesen
14.45 – 15.30 Lauren Currie / We Are Snook
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break, 15 min
15.45 – 16.30 Robert L. Peters
Check in
17.00 – 18.30 Workshop with Jonathan Puckey – paper.js
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19.00 Dinner
Time to get to know people, rest and to digest – bar & music.

SATURDAY
Breakfast
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10.00 – 10.45 Moritz Stefaner
10 45 – 11 30 Cathrine Moestue
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break, 15 min
11.45 – 12.30 Lars Marcus Vedeler (Skrekkøgle)
12.30 – 12.50 Bård goes “35″
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12.50 – 14.15 Lunch
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14.15 – 15.00 Jonathan Puckey
15.00-15.15 Coffee break, 15 min
15.15 – 16.00 Kyrre Texnæs
16.00 – 16.45 Magnus Bergmark og Albert Isaksson / Doberman
17.00 – 18.30 Check Out Workshop (Doberman)
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19.30 Gala Dinner
Bar & music

SUNDAY
Breakfast
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Checkout
10.00 – 10.45 David Carlson
10.45 – 11.30 Kelli Anderson
11.30-11.45 Coffee break, 15 min
11.45 – 12.30 Lust

Good bye, see you in two years!

14.16 Train leaves for Oslo
16.27 Train leaves for Trondheim

*The program is subject to change

Confirmed Speakers

Jonathan Puckey

David Carlson

Robert L. Peters

Skrekkøgle

Moritz Stefaner

Marius Arnesen

Cathrine Moestue

We Are Snook (Lauren Currie)

Kelli Anderson

Lust

Kyrre Texnæs

Keetra Dean Dixon

Doberman
 
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Our host Bård Brænde

We are happy to announce this years host at Edit Dig; Bård Brænde. He will lead us through the program and keep us smiling happily through out the weekend
.

Bård has long experience from the digital field, working and running the company Curious. An agency that focuses on cooperation and reaching motivational goals. A multi-disciplinary agency with a focus on organizations’ most important resource: The people who work there.

Who will speak at EDIT DIG?
Magnus Bergmark has a background as entrepreneur and strategic consultant in digital media and branding. In 1996 Magnus founded one of Sweden’s most successful web agencies; Moonwalk. He has since worked as strategist an account director at the agencies Identity Works and BvD, and since 2006 at Doberman. In his role as a branding- and design strategist, Magnus has been working with clients such as Telia Sonera, Unilever, Swedish Pharmacy, Lindab, White Architects and Ericsson.
 
Albert Isaksson is Design Director at Doberman, with vast experience in digital interface design and design systems. Albert has previously worked at the agencies Starsky, Daddy and Exposure. In his role as Deisigner at Doberman, Albert has worked with clients such as: Swedish Pharmacy, Lindab, Swedish Public Service Television (SVT) and Norwegian Public Service Broadcasting (NRK).
 
Check Out

The aim of CHECK OUT is to develop a prototype of a service that helps the food consumer to take a greater environmental responsibility through offering decision support at the moment of purchase, as well as supporting consumption planning regarding more sustainable purchases and less food waste. Both climate change and other environmental problems can be dealt with through life-style changes: prior studies have shown that there is a great potential for change through using climate coaches for guiding households in their everyday decisions.
 
CHECK OUTs service prototype aims to make similar strategies available to a greater number of users in a more cost-efficient manner. The result is a unique service with a great possibility to commercialize the result through its partners consisting of: KF Mathandel (Mataffären.se) – Swedens largest internet-based food store, Doberman, an award-winning servicedesign bureau and Interactive Institute -an experimental ICT-research institute.

 
http://doberman.se/

At Røros Keetra Dean Dixon will give us a peak into her meandering methodologies via excerpts of process and short stories. Dixon will discuss the impetus and techniques utilized while attempting to encapsulate the confusion of connection; touching on attempts to leverage the unexpected in the shaping of experience, breaking as a means of making and twisting materials in the pursuit of new form. 

Methods
Think through making
Infuse the unexpected into accepted forms
Make through breaking
Embrace the unknown
Share the conversation
Invest in the fantastic and make with wonder
Make the work I wish I was making

Missions
CREATE CONNECTION BY UTILIZING THE FLICKER BETWEEN:
COMMUNICATION / MISCOMMUNICATION / DISCOMMUNICATION
Facilitate or reflect social relation
Question understood patterns & standards
Instill wonder, surprise & delight in the daily routine
Encourage patience & optimism in unexpected circumstances
Encourage an attentive community
Cultivate an openness to play & vulnerability
Twist the cynical loop

View the film Designing Minds with Keetra Dean Dixon; an online video series showcasing the creative leaders of the design industry.

This is some lines from an interview with Keetra Dean Dixon on “It’s Nice That”.
Read more here

http://fromkeetra.com/

  
He’s the publisher of The David Report, a leading trend report highlighting controversial and illuminating observation about design in our lives today. His entrepreneurial ventures include furniture and fashion brand David Design (which he left 2006) and Carlson Ahnell, a lifestyle boutique that recently was regarded as ’one of the top 10 boutiques in the world’ by The Observer. As co-founder of Designboost, he provides knowledge and connection for designers, institutions, corporations and governments.
 

  
Designboost
One amongst many of David’s projects is Designboost. It is a tool, method and initiative that envisions a holistic approach as a condition for sustainable design and boosts design competence by knowledge sharing.
 

  
He is regularly invited as a speaker, moderator and panel member at conferences worldwide. Over the past couple of years David Carlson has been doing presentations in different countries like Great Britain, France, Japan, Sweden, Iceland, Chile, Holland, Slovenia and Taiwan to mention a few. His audiences include corporations like Audi, IKEA, Lego, Volvo, Nokia, E.ON, Scania, Thule, Absolut, Sony Ericsson, Carlsberg, 3M, Campari and Samsung among others.

  
David has been playing guitar in bands for over 30 years, most recently with The Happy Four. And last, but not least, he holds a deep dedication to the conservation of nature, and more specifically, old roses.

  
Examples of talks David Carlson do about design in the perspective of:
• A Changing World – Time to Rethink Design
• Multi-disciplinary Thinking – A Changing role for the Designer
• Holistic Sustainability – The Sustainable Wheel
• Humanistic City Planning – A Wiser Urban Life
• Future Trends – 5 Key Design Trends

  
Check out more about his recent trend report, his works, what he listens to and all of his digital presence: www.david.se
  

  
Free talk: David Berman
23rd of September kl 18:00
Grafill, Rosenkrantz gate 21

DAVID BERMAN
David Berman has been described as the “David Suzuki of design”.
He helps create events where local and international audiences align their professional and personal values, equips them with strategic skills, and challenges them to apply their professional strengths to help create a more sustainable and just world.

Do Good Design: How Design Can Change the World by David Berman, with foreword by Erik Spiekermann, (Pearson/Peachpit 2009).

This book is also a movement.

“Don’t just do good design, do good!”

Have a look and get inspired:
http://www.davidberman.com/social/dogood.php?tab=2
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/dogooddesign
Twitter: http://twitter.com/davidberman

ABOUT THE BOOK
Design matters, like never before. Designers create so much of what we see, what we use, and what we experience. In this time of unprecedented environmental, social, and economic crises, designers will choose what their young profession will be about: inventing deceptions that encourage overconsumption -or helping repair the world. Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of civilization is our common design project.Design matters, like never before. Designers create so much of what we see, what we use, and what we experience. In this time of unprecedented environmental, social, and economic crises, designers will choose what their young profession will be about: inventing deceptions that encourage overconsumption — or helping repair the world.
Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of civilization is our common design project.

IN DETAIL
David’s 25 years of experience and technique have helped hundreds of organizations get great things done.
The combination of his inspiration and techniques motivate people to create unique and ecologically-responsible strategy, events, branding, design, ethics, and communications solutions.
His career as an expert speaker, facilitator, communications strategist, judge, and graphic and environmental designer has involved him in developing dozens of events in over 18 countries: Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hong Kong, Hungary, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Slovenia, UK, and USA.
His clients include IBM, International Space Station, World Bank, Norwegian Design Council, the Aga Khan Foundation, Environment Canada, Health Canada, Parks Canada, Statistics Canada, and Treasury Board.
In 1999, the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada named him a Fellow for his eco-friendly Code of Ethics. David was elected V.P. Ethics of the Society in 2000, and since has served as Ethics Chair. In 2005, he became a Vice-President of Icograda, the World body for graphic design, which organizes global conferences.
His opinions have been featured on CBC, in Financial Post and Marketing.
David is a National Professional Member of CAPS and the International Federation for Professional Speakers.

Cathrine has had many years of experience in the advertising industry before she became a Psychologist. She teaches classes on the Psychology of Perception at Westerdals School of Communication but mostly she holds seminars on ethical influence in large organizations. Cathrine Moestue is the only person in the Nordic countries who is personally certified by Robert Cialdini, the worlds most cited social psychologist and the author of the bestseller “Influence: Science & Practice”.

In the course of its existence, LUST has developed a design methodology which has been described as process-based or generative-systems based design. This entails the developing of an analytical process which leads eventually to an end-product that designs itself. Moreover, LUST is deeply interested in exploring new pathways for design at the cutting edge where new media and information technologies, architecture and urban systems, and graphic design overlap. This fascination led to establishing LUSTlab in the summer of 2010, which functions as the research lab next to LUST. LUSTlab is more than a new form of Research & Development. LUSTlab goes further than observing, inventing and producing, by means of forming a platform where knowledge, issues and ideologies can be shared.

Title of Lecture:
Digital Anthropology for Generation Random

Keywords: Generative Systems, Graphical Navigation, Database Design, Rhizomatic Systems, Code as Tool, Social Chaos, Meta Language, Process-based Design, Semantic Orientation

 
View the film Urban Echo

www.lust.nl

The Process is the Product
We start with an input. We confront the input with a set of logical constraints or rules. Then comes the process: the input interacts with, plays with or fights against the logic. Each version of the product tells the history of its process.

Scriptographer
Jonathan has been an active user and co developer of the Scriptographer platform. Scriptogra-pher is an open source platform within Adobe Illustrator which allows designers to program their own tools.
He is currently working on a research project for the ECAL University in Lausanne, Switzerland together with the main developer Jürg Lehni. The project has the aim to make it easier to teach Scriptographer to visually oriented students. They teach the use of the open source platform Scriptographer.org for teaching strategies of integrating programming based ways of working in graphic design. They develop lesson strategies, give work-shops and work on tutorials and documentation.

Artist statement
We live in a dynamic, data-driven society that is continually sparking new forms of human inter-action and social contexts. Instead of romanticizing the past, I want to adapt my way of working to coincide with these developments, and I want my work to reflect the here and now. I want to embrace the complexity of this landscape, deliver insight into it and show both its beauty and its shortcomings.

His independent graphic design studio works with clients like: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte, The Beach, Public Space With A Roof, Metropolis M, Esquire Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal.
 
WORKSHOP: Paper.js
Paper.js is a brand new web based vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. Jonathan Puckey, who developed it together with Jürg Lehni, will guide you through its rich feature set, show you some lovely examples and do a bit of live coding.
 
http://jonathanpuckey.com

Check out: Norge i Krig: Oppdrag Afganisthan (Norwegian)

Marius Arnesen works as a journalist at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s technology blog, NRKbeta. Marius has been working at the NRK since 2001, both as a journalist, video journalist, photographer and writer. Between June and November 2010 he spent 3 months together with the Norwegian Armed Forces in Afghanistan, producing a documentary series that aired on NRK in May 2011.