(re)made – circular materials and innovation

Exhibition & Seminar

Nov 1

Written By LILLIAN AYLA ERSOY

Oslo Architecture Triennale
Oslo Innovation Week

Photos © sebastiandahl.com

How can we stimulate design with sustainable materials and apply circular practices in Norway?

The materials, design, craftspeople, technologies, and processes we choose to build our neighborhoods have a tremendous impact on our quality of life. Materials can either breathe life and energy into a space, or they can diminish our senses, connection and well-being.

Novooi, together with Æra and Oslo Business Region, hosted an inspiring exhibition and conversation between designers, manufacturers, urban planners, and startups about working together to build better neighborhoods based on circular design, innovative technologies and natural, sustainable resources. Some of the most forward-thinking actors in the industry exchanged ideas on how Norway can become a global leader in reducing carbon emissions.

The exhibition highlighted how sustainable materials are developed and how waste can be transformed into functional, handcrafted objects from a range of materials such as mycelium, wood and recycled glass to concrete and wool alternatives. Take a look at innovative circular solutions developed by local, leading edge startups, designers and manufacturers.

Press Coverage:
Forbes Magazine
Oslo Business Region
L’ADN (French)
Æra (Norwegian)

Featured designers and artists:
Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng, All Pine Press, Edvin Klasson, ESP, Hae Yoon, Kaja Dahl, Brave New Lines, Jenkins & Uhnger, Nina Havermans, Norwegian Trash, Minus, Osloleire, OA_M Studio, Rasmus Stride, Studio Sløyd

Featured startups and manufacturers:
Aion, Elementa, Høine, Loopfront, Hydro, Lundhs Real Stone, Material Mapper, Mycela, NoMy, Objekt, Saferock, Sjølingstad Uldvarefabrik, Studio Sirkel

In partnership with Oslo Business Region, Æra & Arts Council Norway

Sustainable materials from Norway

Wool, mycelium, concrete, glass, stone, aluminium, wood, plastic, bricks and clay.

The seminar Sep. 29, 2022

The seminar included inspiring talks, followed by a cross-disciplinary panel discussion with leading entrepreneurs, designers, politicians and change makers. After the talks, over 150 attendees stayed to mingle and connect at the Old Munch Museum in Tøyen which was transformed into a pop-up Neighborhood Lab at the Oslo Architecture Triennale.

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Meet the makers

Featured

Kaja Dahl

Atelier Kaja Dahl collaborates with companies on creating products and concepts based on the meeting of craft and design, sculpture and production. Kaja Dahl specializes in sensory and fragrance design.

Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng

Driven by a passion to transform imagination into form, Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng, a product designer and sculptor, merges her intuitive understanding of materials with creative vision. Her furniture and interior objects blur the line between art and function, challenging conventional boundaries and redefining the relationship between aesthetics and utility.

All Pine Press

All Pine Press  designs notebooks, calendars and other paper products with the last remaining paper mill in Norway. All of their products are designed  and printed at Hellefoss Paper in Oslo.

Brave New Lines

Brave New Lines was founded by Gunnar Eidsvik Tvedt (b. 1990) and Marius Angell Søvik (b. 1990). Driven by a desire to reduce complexity and discover the obvious, the studio aspires to create expressive, pragmatic objects with a clear-cut intent, rooted in local production and skilled trades.

Nuen

Nature Refined. Nuen is a furniture brand and manufacturer based on transparent honest production and local materials from Norway.

Osloleire

Osloleire is a wish to utilise a local resource, often treated as waste, to make everyday products that can be used by the city's inhabitants in their daily life.

Rasmus Stride

Rasmus Stride (b. 1990) is a digital artist and experience designer based in Oslo. Rasmus works at the intersection of the physical and digital. Rasmus works with digital tools such as 3D rendering and virtual reality to create compositions on the edge of reality and fantasy.

NoMy

NoMy is an Oslo-based bioscience company creating systems of production and consumption that are circular by nature. We use the transformative power and biointelligence of the fungal evolution to turn underutilized resources into regenerative and highly scalable solutions for materials and alternative proteins.

Hae Yoon

Hae Yoon is an Oslo based artist and multidisciplinary designer who has recently co-designed the permanent Edvard Munch exhibition ‘Shadows’ at the new Munch Museum in Bjørvika.

Norwegian Trash

Norwegian Trash is a design studio focusing on recycling and repurposing waste. From fish farm trash to furniture.

OA_M Studio

OA_M Studio is founded by Ole Dalheim, Arman Sellæg and Max Svendsen, who are currently studying at AHO (School of Architecture and Design in Oslo). Reuse of local resources are an important focus in their process.

Nina Havermans

Nina is a (bio) material designer and researcher. Her latest biomaterial project is design research into material ecology, and a case study for a new composite biomaterial that is fully biobased and biodegradable.

Edvin Klasson

Edvin Klasson (b. 1991) is an Oslo-based designer working in the fields of furniture and industrial design. His work is characterized by an exploration of symbolism, history and cultural heritage, designing for a wide diversity of manufacturers and craft workshops.

Studio Sirkel

Studio Sirkel is Norway's only glass studio that creates their products from 100% recycled glass. Their drinking glasses and lamps are blown from used wine bottles and jam jars.

E S P

In 2015 designer and entrepreneur Elisabeth Stray Pedersen took over a 65 year old outerwear factory situated in Oslo. The ESP Oslo brand was born. Ever since, the brand have continued evolving the factories signature style, iconic blanket-coats in pure wool.

Elementa

Elementa is a Norwegian production house working to expand the field of Interior Architecture. They aim to develop a set of “building blocks” - products, ideas and artwork to help open up new ways to approach the design of our interior worlds.

Sjølingstad Uldvarefabrik

The wool factory in Sjølingstad was built in 1894, and has been designated a national monument to the textile industry in Norway. Today the factory is a living museum, with its own power station, dye house, spinning mill, weaving mill and finishing plant.

HØINE

HØINE is an Oslo-based company, offering façade, interior and landscape products based on brick waste. Since 2019, the company has delivered reclaimed bricks to big commercial projects and is transforming local brick waste into building ready products.

Minus

Newly launched manufacturer Minus wants to change the way furniture is designed and produced. Believing in super compact value chains as a new standard for biodiversity and greenhouse gases, the founders quit their jobs in Oslo and relocated to Bjørnafjorden on Norway’s west coast to realise their ambition; to make the world’s best environmental accounting.

AION

AION is giving new life to plastic waste and helping companies dramatically reduce their Co2 footprint. With their technology platform AION LOOP, they trace and recycle industrial plastic, turning them into products that are designed to have eternal life.

Mycela

Mycela is an Oslo based mycelium studio and lab founded in 2020. By combining fungal mycelium and local waste, we develop self-growing biomaterials and design without compromising the wellbeing of people or the planet.

Jenkins & Uhnger

Based in Oslo, the duo works with established categories and challenges archetypes and constraints by bringing a new approach to creating products with identity and content.

Objekt

Objekt is an Oslo-based furniture brand established in 2018. The product range spans from furniture, lighting to small everyday products, suitable for both the home and project market. Objekt believes in local production, long-lasting materials and thorough design resulting in excellent function and appealing aesthetics in all products.

Studio Sløyd

Studio Sløyd is a young design studio based in Oslo. They work across the design landscape, from one-off conceptual pieces to more contemporary designs.

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Seminar Program, Sep. 29, 2022

Oslo Neighbourhood Lab – Former Munch Museum

14.00 Welcome

Christian Pagh, OAT
Lillian Ayla Ersoy, Novooi
Andrea Nylund, Oslo Business Region

14.10 A circular society - what does this mean?

Einar Kleppe Holthe, Natural State

14.20 How to scale innovative circular solutions.

Lightning talks from leading startups:

Jorunn Tyssø, Høine
Nikolai Handeland, Elementa
Karl Fredrick, Material Mapper
Susie Jahren, AION
Michael Anthony Curtis, Loopfront
Stian Rossi, SafeRock

15.00 Innovation with natural and recycled materials

Lightning talks from designers and manufacturers:

Sindre Rosness, Norwegian Trash
Marianne Lydersen, All Pine Press
Bobby Petersen and Tonje Paus, Osloleire
Rasmus Stride and Chris Sadler
Sylvi Sørensen, Sjølingstad Uldvarefabrik
Nina Havermans, Designer
Kristian Harnes, Minus & Nuen
Christopher Snyder, NoMy

15.45 Break

16.00 Panel conversation:
How can we scale circular solutions through
cross-collaboration, design and technology?

The neighborhood’s role
Marie Harbo Dahle,
Pådriv Oslo & SoCentral

Oscar Honeyman-Novotny,
Kroloftet

Tech and process
Susie Jahren,
Chief Circular Product Officer, Aion

Innovation new materials
Christopher Snyder,
COO NoMy (Norwegian Mycelium AS)

Circular design
Sindre Rosness,
CEO & Co-Founder, Norwegian Trash

Scaling and production
Stian Rossi
CCO, SafeRock

Moderator
Mads Bruun,
Founding Partner, Æra Strategic Innovation

16.45 Q & A

17.00 Reception, bubbles and exhibition ‘(re)made’

LILLIAN AYLA ERSOY