„No one is an island“

Third-year students in product design at the Iceland University of the Arts open an exhibition on October 31 at Elliðaárstöð. The exhibition „No one is an island“ is the result of a group project where students explore how Iceland could operate without connection to the outside world, using resources that are already available.

Students set themselves in the role of residents in surreal reality, framed by the conditions set up by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir in his well-known novel Eylandi There, Iceland has lost all contact with the outside world for unknown reasons and throughout history we follow individuals, society and nation develop in that context. In a similar way, students have formed a small community that is brought up in the image of residents in a block and just as in a larger-scale society there are different populations with different needs and knowledge but in the same place with the same limitations. The projects are therefore different in the spirit of the population, but raise numerous questions about what is important, when and for whom.