Borås Tidning 2022 https://www.bt.se/kultur/harligt-hopkok-av-utsvavande-naturmystik-och-vetenskaplig-precision-4e181555/
Borås Tidning 2022 https://www.bt.se/mark/a-monster-och-rodlistade-naturvasen-pa-rydal-6ae3cbb3/
Skimmer och Härvor 2021
https://www.skimmerochharvor.net/mathilda
Design & Posthumanism 2021
https://www.designandposthumanism.org/
Borås Tidning 2020 Hon ifrågasätter möbelindustrins skönhetsideal. Available at: https://www.bt.se/boras/hon-ifragasatter-mobelindustrins-skonhetsideal
SR P4 2018 https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=91&artikel=7086451&fbclid=IwAR3xiWk-5B5OhArBmGRNuIZHwnNi85_dbJ-sHLhP3LFNDMQBSIdmqfzXZEo
https://www.aftonbladet.se/harligthemma/a/OnroXq/har-dricker-de-mensblod--mitt-pa-mobelmassan
Barometern 2017 https://www.barometern.se/kalmar/lnu-studenter-ska-provocera-med-mensmonter-pa-mobelmassa
Ingen Å Är en Ö​
22.05.21- 22.10.9
Rydals museum
Part of the long term art project Skimmer och Härvor.
From the press release:
"We really need to talk a lot more about relationships and how to make this planet, our only home, shimmer again. In our relationships with water, animals, plants, etc. we need to relearn how we can give something back instead of just greedily taking. We need to start talking a lot more about how we can learn to live and die well together!
Based on the water body Viskan, this exhibition is an attempt to do that. Here, you’ll meet works that in different ways shed light on relationships between people and Viskan, including all the plants, animals, substances, etc. inhabiting or traveling through this geographical area."
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Originators and curators: Theo Ågren och Thomas Laurien.
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Recents
Her name is Wiska: exhibition
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21.04.24- 25
Mölarps Kvarn
"Her name is Wiska" is a project that reintroduces a place we sometimes take for granted. A place that is lifeblood, that for centuries has been polluted and used for human gain - a so-called shadow place *.
In this exhibition, the river Viskan is presented in a new light.
The aim of the exhibition is to draw attention to Viskan to create new relationships with the river and to investigate an interplay between the species that live there. "Her name is Wiska" sharpens our eyes of what lies beyond our gaze and wants to change the approach to nature in which human lives at the expense of, instead of together with nature. The exhibition offers new ways of looking at our local environment and shows how design can address a geographical location and a shadow place.
Respect and understanding of the needs of our "non-human neighbors", the river and other species, is reinforced by local nature studies. This project explores this through design and artistic methods with ideas and thoughts from posthumanism and hydrofeminism.
* refers to Val Plumwood's concept “shadow places”
Viskan water/body/workshop
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21.03.05
Viskaforsskolan
Inspired by a documented conversation with Elena Lundqvist Ortìz about hydrofeminism and a reference to Astrida Neimani's idea that “we are all bodies of water”, this workshop was designed and held in March the Third together with a group of students from Viskaforsskolan. This workshop was a curious, experimental, and open meeting for both human and non-human participants.
By mixing thoughtful conversations with practical making, the students explored their relationship to the river, the site, and the species living there. Of clay, similar to that found at the bottom of Viskan, water vessels were made at and through the site with stones, plants, and water from Viskan. Found waste was also used as a tool. In this way, the creation with moist mud worked as a method of noticing the place.
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The workshop is a part of the MFA project.
(Waste) Workshop and Lecture
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20.02.24
Marks Gymnasium
In conjunction with Marks Gymnasium's technique students having a course about product management and waste, I was invited to talk about the recent work with the project Mind the Dot. The focus of this day was to provide the students with an example of a contemporary project and how to work intersecting with design and circular economy. The workshop that followed was furthermore an encouragement to the students to work hands-on with (waste) material in a creative and innovative way with guidance from me as facilitator.
This lecture/workshop was held in English on request.
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Interested in booking something similar? Contact me to book a workshop.
Mind the dot exhibition
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20.02.03- 08
Stockholm Furniture Fair
Don't miss out on the stand Mind the dot at the Furniture and Light Fair in Stockholm, where I exhibit together with seven well-known furniture companies to challenge the beauty ideal of the furniture industry:
"Innovator Mathilda Dahlquist, design master student at HDK in Gothenburg, who organized the collaboration between the furniture companies, is responsible for designing the stand. “It is intended as a discussion forum where we encourage conversations about circularity in the furniture industry. We want to pay attention to the amount of waste generated by constructed beauty ideals, and question the plausibility of it”, she says.
The furniture companies Swedese, OFFECCT, Lammhults, EFG, Savo, Karl Andersson & Söner, and Källemo participate in the project by exhibiting a furniture of their designs, but not just any furniture. The furniture is specially produced with leather that usually gets discarded due to scars, insect bites, or other small marks that the animal received during its lifetime."
Acid Drinks with Sea Urchin
19.05.23
RE; Exhibition
During the week of the exhibition, different events and workshops were taking place in Växjö organized by the students.
Acid drinks with Sea Urchin was one event at the opening of the exhibition. In relation to the project The Sea Urchin in the Room, it was an act of taking part in the world situation of acidified oceans. The sparkling water, containing Carbon Acid, represented the acidified water in the Ocean, and the act became a criticism in which to bodily be a part of the discourse of the global ocean health.
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"Let your mind wander to the depths of the ocean and become one with the non-human lives over a glass of sparkling water."
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RE; graduation exhibition
19.05.23
Kulturparken Småland
Kulturparken Småland and Linnaeus University proudly present 28 degree projects from the three international design programs: Design + Change BA, Visual Communication + Change BA and Design + Change MA.
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"Re is a critical response, a process, and a mindset about making again, a repetition, a repositioning, a regeneration. Re acts as a link for theoretical and topical frameworks within each of our works and repositionings of design as a response to current practices and perspectives. Re is a way to show the
reworking of things, ideas and concepts, showing that our work is accumulative, building, transforming, reiterating and reappropriating what has been; our cycles of thought, behavior, and practice."
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Christmas Market
18.11.11
Kulturparken Småland
Kulturparken Småland
1-2 Dec, 10:00- 17:00
Warm welcome to Kulturparken Småland's annual Christmas market where I exhibit together with classmates from the Design + Change program.
I sell handcrafted Christmas Cards and jewelry, and Christmas ornaments made in the local glass factory Bergdalahyttan.
Note:
Christmas Cards are available to buy all year by sending me a message or email. The glass ornaments are made on request!
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Mind the dot Exhibition
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18.11.08
Wasteland, Vandalorum
In connection to the bigger exhibition Wasteland, the first exhibition with Mind the dot took place at Vandalorum.
"About 60 design students from three design schools and twelve local industries were tasked with analyzing industrial waste and finding new ways to value and use it. The result was displayed at the Vandalorum Art Museum in Värnamo." ​
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Christina Bergström, Environment & Quality Manager at Swedese about Mind the dot:
"It is incredibly valuable to raise this issue. It is natural materials we work with after all and natural materials contain natural variations, it's never 'perfect'."
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https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=91&artikel=7086451
Nordic Seminar about Reuse in Architecture & Design
18.10.23
Vandalorum
In connection to the exhibition Wasteland, a full-day seminar was held on 23 October at Vandalorum, where leading Nordic architects and designers within recycling, reusing, and upcycling talked about their pioneering projects.
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Three projects were chosen to be presented to represent the student projects and collaborations executed parallel with the Wasteland exhibition by students from Linnaeus University, HDK, and Konstfack. Mind the dot was one of the projects, presented by Mathilda Dahlquist.
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Other speakers: Anders Lendager, Ilkka Suppanen, Marit Justine Haugen, Krister Lindstedt and Malmö Upcycling Service.
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http://www.vandalorum.se/sites/default/files/wasteland_seminrium_a5.pdf
Exhibition Smål changes
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18.04.26
Växjö Stadsbibliotek
Welcome to visit the exhibition Smål Changes at Växjö Stadsbibliotek presented by the Second Year students of Design + Change students. Various results will be presented from an eight-week-long course about the urban and rural in Småland.
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Mathilda Dahlquist and Sara Larsson are showing their work Crafting Garden- a collaboration with Visionsgruppen of Råshult, the site where Carl von Linné once was born.
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Let's talk change, period.
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18.02.05- 09
Stockholm Furniture Fair
A blood-red stand with the aim to provoke on this year’s Furniture Fair. Design students from Linnaeus University exhibit at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair with a stand that sheds light on the sustainability aspects surrounding the topic of menstruation.
So, what do periods have to do with the Furniture Fair? The programs Design + Change in Växjö and Visual Communication + Change in Kalmar work with design as a tool to change mindsets, behavior and address norms.
Students at the program Design + Change have designed a stand, as well as a convivial meeting spot, in the form of a bar. With the starting point in a short movie from students at the Visual Communication + Change program, unexpected sustainability aspects are discussed around periods, ecological as well as societal, economical, cultural, and political. In the stand complex questions are mixed with a celebration of this, often tabu, subject.
