About this course
Scandinavian furniture design has a deep history of considering people, culture, and society in design development. The course gives you the opportunity to explore this particular relationship and to grow your individual design capabilities through studio assignments, lectures, Field Studies, and workshop activity producing your own furniture prototype.
Syllabus
Prerequisites
Enrollment in a professional school or department of architecture or design. Two spatial design studios at university level. Experience with stationary power tools and hand tools.
What’s Being Designed in Studio Past & Present?
Faculty
Anne Brandhøj
MA Cand.des. (Furniture Design, The Royal Danish Academy, 2017), BA (Furniture Design, The Royal Danish Academy, 2014) Exchange student (Rhode Island School of Design, 2012), BA (Human Nutrition, Aarhus University, 2007). Teacher, The Royal Danish Academy, 2017-2025. Founding partner, BLY Studio, 2020-present. Teacher, The Forestry University – Beijing, 2018. Chairman, The Female Design Collective Rundkant, 2013-present. Teacher, Kunsthøjskolen – Holbæk, 2019-2022. Teacher, Krabbesholm Højskole – Skive, 2022-2023. With DIS since 2026.
Åsa Johansson
Furniture Designer. Cabinetmaker in 1998. Denmark’s Design School 2003. Freelance designer. Furniture and interior designer with Leif Jørgensen Architects. Lighting Designer with FLOS. With DIS since 2017.
Erling Christoffersen
Cabinetmaker (1974), Architect, M.A.A. (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1982). Own office since 1979. Professor, School of Architecture (1986-89). Professor, Denmarks Designskole (1989-2005). Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Washington. With DIS since 1998.
Peter Johansen
Peter Johansen graduated from The Danish Design School (now the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design), the line of Furniture and Spatial Design, in 2004. He has received several grants from the Danish Arts Foundation. Peter Johansen’s working process often involves modelling and experimenting in a scale of 1:1. He finds inspiration for his work in everyday life and materials and his immediate surroundings. In his own words, ’I guess I just have a habit of noticing my surroundings!’ He characterizes his own work as logical and as a flirt with banality. And as the son of a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother, Peter Johansen is a real mixture of a true Scandinavian. Scandinavian in his spirit, modern in his expression. With DIS since 2019.
Long Study Tour
