Department of Design

Corruption

The board game Corruption plays out the Icelandic political system, how it allocates access to resources and deals with corruption. Players travel around Iceland and collect...

Valdís Mist Óðinsdóttir · 2025
Department of Design

The Disaster Guide

Iceland is a country of great natural hazards, where natural disasters are an integral part of the natural cycle of nature. Although these phenomena have shaped...

Rakel Svavarsdóttir · 2025
Department of Design

Cultivated in the pizza

The project „Grown into the pizza“ is intended to generate interest in vegetable growing As we grow our own vegetables, we get access to cleaner...

Katrín Nielsdóttir · 2025
Department of Design

TOGETHER

Together is an educational game that supports language learning and social integration of immigrants and locals in Iceland. With nearly 20,000 new residents in 2024...

Julia Kosciuczuk · 2025
Department of Design

Energy forecast

Energy forecasting is a project that sheds light on the unclear future of energy in Iceland. It consists of a hand-embroidered mural that shows the possible landscape of the future,...

Hjördís Steinarsdóttir · 2025
Department of Design

Outreach

Outreach is a service for designing spaces in schools intended for physical activity and outreach The spaces are designed in studios with and for...

Bjarndís Diljá Birgisdóttir · 2025
Department of Design

GLASS FRAGMENTS

The project Glass Brot is about working with glass that would otherwise have ended up in landfill

Birta Guðrún Karlsdóttir Andreassen · 2025
News

The University of the Arts offers practical skills assessment in graphic design and fashion design

1 June 2025
Department of Design

Following the Thread: Mycelium as a Map of the Imagination

This interactive experience is a playful initiation to reunderstand human introduction and imagination through a mycelial framework: nonlinear, collaborative, and interdependent. It...

Vala Davíðsdóttir · 2025
Department of Design

The Future is Now

The Future Is Now conflicts the instability of visual truth in the age of AI. Kate Scott Stewart's mixed-media installation invites views...

Katherine Marie Scott Stewart · 2025