KUR10 – Danish Crafts’ New Year’s Levee 2010

From "most to best" and from "excess to moderation". Craft and craftsmanship represent a lasting value, which may take on growing importance at a time when global financial and climate crises are challenging some of our fundamental values.

For the fourth year in a row Danish Crafts will host its annual New Years' Levee called KUR. This year's KUR focuses on the value-creating qualities of craft and highlights the value that craft and craftsmanship bring to design educations, mass-produced products and the contemporary market for one-off products.

What are the challenges confronting Danish craft and design in these changing times, characterised as they are by major economic and social changes? Will reflection and moderation be the new luxury? And what opportunities will that produce for Danish craft and design in the future?

The event takes place at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek on Thursday, 14 January 2010. Four speakers from Denmark and abroad will share their perspectives on the role of craft and craftsmanship - now and in the future. The speakers are:

- Anne Mieke Eggenkamp, Chair of Board, Design Academy Eindhoven

- Fredrik Magnusson, Design Director, Iittala

- Libby Sellers, Gallerist, Gallery Libby Sellers

- Anne Skare Nielsen, Futurist, Future Navigator

Past KUR events

Tom Dixon was one of the speakers at KUR09. The seminar also featured Louise Campbell, Erik Lundh (Källemo) and Henrik Dahl.

Alexander Taylor from Established & Sons was among the speakers at KUR08. The seminar also featured Brian Mikkelsen (Danish Minister of Culture), FairTrade Designers, Eric N. Landon, Martin B. Kaldahl and Ulrik Jørring (Vækstfonden).

KUR07 presented Jan Tichelaar, Managing Director of Royal Tichelaar Makkum. The event also featured Muuto, Kvadrat, Normann Copenhagen, Mette Kargo Hvid and Lisbet Friis.