Educator, facilitator, coordinator, supervisor and exam tutor at Design School KEA (PBA Communicaton Design & Media) and Design School Kolding (MA programmes). Area of study: Visual storytelling, design anthropology, photography and visual communication design. Teaching focus: Project-oriented with a focus on the involvement of external partners. Didactic focus on creating a safe space which opens up an iterative, curious and experimental exploration of subject, process and material before the final outcome.
My research is centered around visual didactics, collaborative practices and productive exchanges between social design and feminist technoscience. I am particularly interested in the relation between visual storytelling, identity and agency. I have explored the idea of “Story:labs” - inspired by the design:lab (Binder & Brandt, 2008) as social spaces where designers and participants join together around an issue to design, create and speculate. In all my projects I have a distinct focus on material oriented and visual approaches and methods.
Story:Lab is an reseach based method and proces that is developed as part of my research work and PhD project. It is a didactic approach focused on the transformational aspects of visual storytelling on both personal and collective scale.
Documentary about Jytte Rex (b. 1942), who has for more than 50 years directed short and feature films, and worked as a visual artist and writer. The film sheds light on Jytte Rex's life and artistic oeuvre. Ongoing.
Research, interview, camera, edit and production of film for “Selskabet for Kirkelig Kunst”.
“Den Blå Bog” is a project developed in collaboration with the Danish Welfare Museum in Svendborg, DK and their project "Fra Udsat Til Værdsat", where the museum collaborates with people who have experienced social vulnerability during periods of their lives. In connection with this project, Stine Behrendtzen and I were initiators and developers, as well as facilitators of a series of Story:Labs. Through evocative design tasks, the participants were invited to translate their life experiences into pictures, collages, photographs and words. One result of these story:labs was a photo book that we designed and published in collaboration with 13 of the participants. The project is a KEA research and development project.
Oda Knudsen. Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Research, interview, camera, edit and production of exhibition film. Oda Knudsen. Kredit i Flammer. Den Frie Udstillingsbygning.
Forgreninger is a research project/my post doc project from the Lab for Sustainability, DSKD in collaboration with Kolding Stadsarkiv. Based on the rich archive of the founder of Geografisk Have Aksel Olsen (which contains a wealth of evocative photographs and detailed botanical illustrations), we investigated how stories from the past can inspire sustainable and ecological action in the future. The intention was to make sustainability issues concrete via direct engagement with archival material from the past that focuses on human and plant relationships. The project was completed in the summer of 2022 with a co-curated exhibition in collaboration with Geografisk Have, Kolding Green Streets and Nicolai Kultur, as well as Kolding Stadsarkiv.
Photo project titled ARFR, which is a generally generation transcending principle for everything living, ranging from culture to biology. It is an old Norse word that means Arv in Danish - inheritance in English.