The Global Seed Vault, situated deep in the permafrost of Svalbard is celebrating its 10 years aniversary this year. We have spoken to Seed Vault Coordinator Åsmund Asdal about the importance of storing original seeds safely in an unstable world.
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Nicanor Perlas is a global activist, writer and speaker and regarded as one of the most remarkable leaders of the peoples movements of today.
In the midst of his active existence Perlas graciously took the time to talk to Elementa about what he sees as being the most crucial concern of our times.
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We are very honoured to have been nominated for the Bo Bedre Design Award of 2018 - in the catogory Manufacturer Of The Year - with specific mentions of our upcoming UT series of objects.
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Oslo is one of the rare capitals in the world that have an official City Farmer. Andreas Capjon has a passion for soil. We had a talk with him about why it matters. Also for you.
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According to The New York Times List of Top New Food Words: CLIMATARIAN (n.) A diet whose primary goal is to reverse climate change. When 2017 arose, Cecilie Dawes, green entrepreneur and founder of Food Studio, had decided that she wanted to actually do it. She wanted to walk the talk.
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On this year's Milan Exhiition Elementa introduced UT - a series of objects that seek to explore new ways to interface nature. In collaboration with known and less known designers and artists the aim is to follow the Scandinavian Design tradition onto some less travelled paths.
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We are happy to invite you to the exciting Norwegian Presence exhibition in Milan 17-22 April, where we will launch the first products and proposals of our anticipated UT series. We will show new designs and proposals by designers and artists including Hallgeir Homstvedt, Kneip, Anderssen & Voll, Emma Staubo & Jomi Evers.
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The earth is alive, we know it intuitively - but can it be scientifically proved? And even more important, can it be experienced?
We have had the honor and pleasure of talking to eco scientist Stephan Harding about the present status of Gaia science and about how we can connect to the living presence of the Earth.
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The Elementa DWG / 3D libraries are updated with several new collections, including UN Divided Furniture System, O3 Floating Cabinets, A1 Angled Table and more . Happy modelling!
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During the Stockholm Design Week 2018, Massproductions will launch the Rose Chair, designed by Chris Martin. New technologies in industrial production enabled the development of the elegant lounge chair that proved challenging both in form and material.
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In collaboration with art group The Molecular Ballet Elementa have the pleasure to offer a small series of limited edition art prints from their Molecular Axes series.
The project is based on a 256 "image seeds" collected anonymously from artists and non-artists, designers, researchers, musicians and others - to produce an experimental visual language during the course of 10 years.
During Designers Saturday and Oslo Art Weekend in September we had the pleasure to host Swedish artist Roberto Peyre at Elementa - and follow his Lövaman for an adventure in the streets and galleries of Oslo.
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