Garðar Eyjólfsson is an associate professor and the Program Director of MA Design Explorations & Translations, Design & Architecture Department at the Iceland University of the Arts. Garðar holds a B.A (Honours) degree in Product Design from Central Saint Martins, London and a M.A (Cum Laude) Contextual Design from Design Academy Eindhoven.
Garðar will give a lecture in the Department of Design and Architecture, lecture-hall A, Tuesday the 19 of March at 12:15. The lecture will be in English and all are welcome!
For his lecture Garðar will be exhibiting, screening, performing and discussing snippets from selected personal research projects that he has been working on lately. Projects where he uses narratives as a lens to explore real and fictional systematic relationships in our daily lives. Footage is taken from the short film “Barbara”. A near future speculative design fiction project recounts snippets of Barbara’s life from nine to twenty-six years old. “Barbara” is a tale of transformation, an attempt to explore future realities. To speculate and embrace the beautiful intertwining possibilities between humans, technology, culture and the environment. Fragmented translations and manifestations from the “Barbara” research will pop up here and there in the (un)foreseeable future exploring various platforms, formats and media.
In his works, Garðar mixes contextual, material and narrative research in his work as a means to explore & translate zeitgeist topics. Utilizing a variety of mediums to manifest his voice, ranging from; objects, spatial, artefacts, speculation, video, performance, talking and writing.
Balancing academia with studio practices his work ranges from developing his own projects, curating exhibitions, advising in the public and private sector, project managing and conducting workshops. Garðar also writes in various publications and gives public talks across platforms, often in the form of lectures and dialog in conferences, symposium and radio.
