Kunsthåndværk : art hand worker
Synonims : Craftworker, Artisan, Maker, Designer, Handcraft Artist, Fabricator, Porduct designer, Industrial designer, Tradespeople

Synopsis

The thesis explores the idea of how a space with a series of workshops inspires and improves the products of the daily objects we use in life. It delves into product design and craft, as the world is in a vast consumerist environment where objects are just regarded as visual objects, rather than objects with a thought, a craft and a purpose behind them,

‘ Product design has come to resemble a form of plastic surgery, something like a Botox injection to the forehead, suppressing frown lines to create a brief illusion of beauty’

Deyan Sudjic, The Language of Things.

As craft is a vast spectrum with various disciplines within it, there is a lack of spaces (outside education institutions) where different disciplined practitioners can create, collaborate and innovate. Such spaces that can individually inspire each discipline and create a collective atmosphere, also bring craft to the 21st century, with the assistance of technology.
To achieve such a space, there must be a level of flexibility,
– as to allow for future technologies and machinery to be accommodated
– allow practitioners to work from the smallest-scale objects to huge

The thesis explores the manmade island of Dokøen, previously a part of a naval base complex in the heart of Copenhagen, overlooking the Historic city and the Design Museum across the water, and the Design Academy right at its footsteps.
The site was not chosen due to its historical past, but due to its new function of hosting creatives, creating a new creative district in Copenhagen. This dynamic and tension across the water, of Denmark’s history of design (Design Museum) and the future of Danish design (Design Academy), fosters the right environment to look at the past of design, but without getting caught up in the melancholy of it, whilst the future of it is projected.