100 new upcoming talents. Degree Show Winter 2015
KADK’s School of Architecture and School of Design bid farewell to a new group of graduates from the schools’ six new institutes. The level of these 100 new graduates is supremely high in their vision of where the traditions of Danish architecture and design are heading in 2015.
Committed and visionary
“Design and architecture are high on the political agenda. More than ever before, these new graduates must prove their worth in terms of the economy, culture and society at large. They are more than ready to meet that challenge. Our academic programmes have imbued them with practice, art and science. On that basis, they have mastered the capacity to work practically, strategically, aesthetically and innovatively.” Lene Dammand Lund (Rector).
Architecture for extreme environments and design for the health sector
100 graduates are taking part in this exhibition. The wealth of exciting projects includes: high-risk agricultural architecture; flood areas in Mozambique; new hospital environments and public spaces; and sustainable materials for ActionAid Denmark’s centres throughout the world. The designers have worked with laboratory equipment, dissemination of schizophrenia, data visualizations, tablet games and proposals for how people can experience the sense of taste via the sense of touch in textiles. In the course of their studies, all graduates have worked with crafts, theory, aesthetics, data, innovation and much more besides. What they all have in common is commitment, bristling creativity and an ambition to create a better world.
Equipped for a broader labour market
“Our objective is not to create graduates, who can just produce solutions for a market, which has already decided exactly what it needs. We educate our students to be much more ambitious and analytical than that: to create a market for better life and sustainable living. The 100 inspiring projects reflect those ideals and show that new architects and designers have a common interest in creating dynamic dialogues with the world.” - Lene Dammand Lund.
