Curated Residencies

92278
BOTSMARK
SWEDEN
floda31.com
Marije de Haas
Managing director,
artist, designer, do-er.
Richard Holland
Creative director, artist,
designer, builder, do-er.
Creativity in the Västerbotten region
What is Floda31
Why
How
Who: our background
Example projects
Residencies: Erasmus for young Entrepreneurs
Workshops: Prototyping the Future
Curated Residencies: Hill Park
What is Floda31?
Floda31 is a laboratory
for innovation and
creativity.
We provide an
environment that fosters
new connections,
networks and crossdisciplinary encounters,
in order to come up
with sustainable design
solutions.
Workshops
House
Shed 2
Summerhouse
Vegetables
Shed 1
Current set-up
Lots of space, ancient forest
all around, a workshop
full of tools, a network of
creative thinkers and doers
and plenty of time to play.
Why here?
This part of Sweden is in the last
remaining wilderness of Europe.
We are situated in the Taiga
forest, which is the largest
connected forest stretching
around the Northern
Hemisphere making up 27%
of the world’s total forest.
Why here?
Being here encourages talented
individuals from various
disciplines to collaborate and
share knowledge in order to
redefine problems and create
innovative solutions.
Why us?
Richard Holland and Marije
de Haas ran a creative agency
company called Bullet in London
from 1998-2010.
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Why us?
Working with a wide range of
clients and collaborators inspired
us use our skills and network for
‘the greater good’.
How do we stimulate
innovation?
Workshops
We host bespoke workshops.
Residencies
Year round we are open to
individual residents to work on
their own projects.
Curated Residencies
Twice a year we invite someone
to set a brief and to create a
team to fulfill this brief.
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Multi-disciplinary
We bring together specialists from different backgrounds
and get them to collaborate – to stimulate lateral thinking
and approaching problems from a new viewpoint.
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We bring together specialists from different backgrounds
and get them to collaborate – to stimulate lateral thinking
Floda31 process
and approaching problems from a new viewpoint.
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Exploration
When we have assembled a team, we set some exercises
to explore the brief, experiment and test out new theories.
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Once we have our innovative solution we implement it. Can this
solution work on different scales, do we need to change things?
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Who else
can benefit. We like to share our ideas.
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Creation
With our new thinking we get creative. You never really know if
something is going to work, unless you try. We get our hands dirty
and start prototyping.
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Implementation
Once we have our innovative solution we implement it. Can this
solution work on different scales, do we need to change things?
Who else can benefit. We like to share our ideas.
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Workshops
p Prototyping the future
p Datascapes
p Sustainable lift
Residencies
p Jody Barton (illustrator/ musician)
p Graham Mcloughlin (designer)
p Caritas Fisher (movie specialist)
p Hugo Farmer (guerilla artist/activist)
p Hannah Bird (writer)
p Iain Borden (architectural historian)
Curated Residencies
The curated residencies encourage
cross-disciplinary interaction. A
curator will set a brief, a team will
be invited to work on this brief.
The aim of the curated residency
is to generate an outcome. This
outcome won’t be prescriptive but
will evolve from the experience of
the residency.
Summer 2011: Friggebodar
Curated by Johan Berglund
This project is to design and build two sustainable
friggebodar that can house residents at Floda31.
The friggebod will serve as a sustainable prototype,
and will propose new and innovative ways of
designing with the climate in mind.
Team:
p Unit 8, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
p Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden
p Lucy Rist: Sustainable forest specialist
p Stoffel Kuenen: Interaction designer
p Martinssons: Pre-fabricated local wood (TBC)
p Plano AB: Tools
Summer 2011: Hill park
Curated by John Bassett
We will design and build a sculptural action sport park
for use summer and winter, by snowboarders & skiers,
mountainbikers & BMXers. Additionally it will function
as an architectural and engineering ‘testing ground’ for
experimental, innovative and sustainable building techniques.
Team:
p Nicolas Müller/Gigi Rüff: Professional snowboarder (TBC)
p Rowan Sorrel: Professional mountain biker
p Jakob Gate: Architectural student
p Henric Johansson: Hunter master
p Umeå University: Biologists and scientists
p The Made Up Collective: Designers
p Peter Lundstrom: Photographer
Hillpark
An innovatively constructed
and ecologically sound
action sports facility on the
hill below Floda31
Unique Facility
Nike 6.0 Tunneljam, Petersfield, UK.
An example of a previously created innovative
action sports facility
Combining an unusual
setting and experimental
structures to create a unique
location for action sports.
Lab for innovative
development
Render of design for central architectural
structure by hillpark architect Jakob Gate
An off-grid, sustainable
architectural structure with
integral ridable features
A setting for creative
expression
The hillpark will feature
bespoke interactive sculptures
Aalto, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.
An example of a previously created interactive
sculpture by the Hillpark team
Hill park
Friggebod 2
Workshops
House
Friggebod 3
Summerhouse
Shed
Friggebod 1
Future set-up
More prototyping
equipement, an extended
global network, greater
facilities for residents, an
established location for
creativity in Västerbotten.
Thank you
For more information please contact us.
Marije de Haas & Rich Holland
Floda 31
922 78 Botsmark
Sweden
+46 (0)70 2174 104
+46 (0)90 6957 631
www.floda31.com
info@floda31.com