Rúna Thors, assistant professor of product design, takes guests on guided photographs from an exhibition she co-directed with Hildi Steinthórsdóttir. Experiment - Æðarrækt is a research project that began in 2019. The eider and eider farmers have developed a unique relationship with each other based on friendship and mutual trust and is for the benefit of both parties. The eider farmer protects the bird against wolf and receives the reward of the down of the bird, one of the best insulating materials in the world. If the down is not picked, it goes to the fore. The artists in the exhibition had diverse backgrounds in art, design, performing arts, music and architecture.
Rúna Thors is a trained product designer from Design Academy Eindhoven, with an MA degree in Applied Cultural Media from the University of Iceland. She has taught at a program in product design at the Iceland University of the Arts since 2011 and was the subject manager of the program in the years 2017-21. Rúna approaches her subjects through experiments. In her work, she emphasizes an open and creative process and trusts the methodology to lead her to unexpected paths. She has worked on diverse design projects and curatorial management, independently and as part of the design teams Attikatta, Whitehorse and TOS.