Iceland University of the Arts

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The Iceland University of the Arts (IUA) is the only university in Iceland dedicated to higher education in the arts. It offers BA and MA programs in fine art, design, architecture, music, performing arts, film, and arts education. IUA supports artistic research and interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering a critical and creative environment for contemporary artistic practice.
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https://www.lhi.is/
Recent Activities
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Hljómkassar / Inorganic Resonators
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Jón Helgi Hólmgeirsson
connected to: Iceland University of the Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Hljómkassar is a project focused on developing and building innovative, directional acoustic speakers from Icelandic materials.
Inorganic Resonators were nominated for Product of the year at the Icelandic Design Awards 2024.
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Orange Work
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Adam Taylor
connected to: Iceland University of the Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Solo exhibition during DesignMarch 2024, Iceland's design week, presenting research into the history of anti-capitalist graphic design from Freetown Christiania (Copenhagen, Denmark). The installation consisted of twenty poster designs & a participatory area where guests could create their own contributions.
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Poster-making was orange work
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Adam Taylor
connected to: Iceland University of the Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Exhibition essay & reproductions of posters to accompany the exhibition "Orange Work" at Nullið Gallery during DesignMarch 2024, Iceland's design week.
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A Cosmopolitan Architectural Education
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author(s): Massimo Santanicchia
connected to: Iceland University of the Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This paper is the result of forty dialogues conducted during my PhD
research, which took place between 2018 and 2020, among students and educators’
of the Nordic Baltic Academy of Architecture. These conversations were
initiated by three questions:What skills should students have after studying architecture?
How should these skills be taught? How can architectural education be of
special importance to our society? The answers to these questions were analysed
and interpreted by following the Grounded Theory approach.What emerged from
these dialogues is the shared conviction to use architectural education as a complex
project to advance the knowledge, traits, attitudes, values, and behaviours necessary
to respond to global challenges whilst creating conditions for students and
their educators to locally engage as active citizens. This combination of global
awareness and local activism is at the base of formulating the Theory of Cosmopolitan
Citizenship in Architectural Education whose purpose is to help students
and educators cultivating a language, activating a pedagogy, and developing
a scholarship capable of advancing new political agencies to codesign healthier,
safer, and a fairer world in a changing social, ecological, and political environment.