{"id":9810,"date":"2022-05-02T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&p=9810"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:32:42","slug":"reshaping-mineral-wool-evening-opening-for-designmarch","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/reshaping-mineral-wool-evening-opening-for-designmarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Reshaping Mineral Wool \u2013 Evening Opening for DesignMarch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday May 5th at 6-8 p.m.<\/strong>, there will be a special evening opening for H\u00f6nnunarMars at the museum, where we will celebrate the opening of Fl\u00e9tta<\/strong> and Krist\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/strong>\u2018s exhibition, Reshaping Mineral Wool<\/em>, on view at Hafnarborg until May 15th. Light refreshments will be served. Entry is free and everyone welcome.<\/p>\n

Reshaping Mineral Wool<\/em><\/strong> is a collaboration between Fl\u00e9tta and Krist\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttur, where they look at ways to transform mineral wool into a new material. In their work, they make use of excess material that is generally not utilised, but instead gets sent to landfill. Moreover, mineral wool is one of the few building materials that are produced in Iceland, using locally sourced minerals. The exhibition takes an experimental approach, employing various media to shed light on the value of this material, which is otherwise disposed of as waste. Videos, photographs, samples, objects, sound and text invite the guest to explore the different possibilities for reshaping mineral wool.<\/p>\n

Krist\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (b. 1989) is a product designer living in G\u00f6teborg, Sweden. Krist\u00edn is part of Willow Project<\/em>, which has been exhibited at Dutch Design Week and Earth Matters<\/em> at TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Writings about the project can be found in the books Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future<\/em>\u00a0og\u00a0Why Materials Matter: Responsible Design for a Better World. <\/em>Krist\u00edn and Fl\u00e9tta\u2019s research, Reshaping Mineral Wool<\/em>, is a continuation of Krist\u00edn\u2019s graduation project on the transformation of mineral wool into black, vitreous material.<\/p>\n

Designers Birta R\u00f3s Brynj\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (b. 1992) and Hrefna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (b. 1989) founded Fl\u00e9tta<\/strong> in 2018, but they have been collaborating on projects related to upcycling since 2014. At first, their work shows signs of playfulness, but at a closer look, one notices an underlying, critical approach. They set boundaries for themselves in regards to methods and materials, with a view towards finding new and more sustainable solutions for design and daily use. Fl\u00e9tta seeks to give objects and materials that have either served their purpose or are no longer of use new life in a new context.<\/p>\n

The project is supported by The Design Fund, Landsbankinn’s Community Fund and the\u00a0Artists’\u00a0Salary Fund. The exhibition is a part of DesignMarch 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thursday May 5th at 6-8 p.m., there will be a special evening opening for H\u00f6nnunarMars at the museum, where we will celebrate the opening of Fl\u00e9tta and Krist\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir\u2018s exhibition, Reshaping Mineral Wool, on view at Hafnarborg until May 15th. Light refreshments will be served. Entry is free and everyone welcome. Reshaping Mineral Wool is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9506,"menu_order":157,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-9810","event","type-event","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9810\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}