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Narrowness of Freedom

"My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the claims that shackle the spirit."

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Elementa Pricelists & Literature 2017 available for download

A bit late, due to a very eventful spring season, here is finally our updated pricelists for 2017. A few items that have increased a bit in price, but a lot of the items including the UN Divided furniture system, the dB cabinets, the ON low tables, and the UT tables are actually available atlower prices now, due to bigger volumes and more efficient production.

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Aleksander Langmyhr on VR and future workflows

Dimension 10 is an Oslo-based tech startup working to revolutionize the workflow for architects, engineers and designers with an app that makes it possible to work with 3D models in a realtime virtual environment. The Elementa Blog went to meet up with founder Aleksander Langmyhr to learn about their product and the future of VR. 

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Making inclusive cities with Eriksen Skajaa

Eriksen Skajaa is a small Oslo based architecture studio founded by Joakim Skajaa and Arild Eriksen. By focusing on people in their work they have been able to create human friendly city development and living environments in both larger and smaller scale. We headed down to their beautiful office in Oslo to have a talk with Joakim and Arild about their approach to architecture.

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Shaping the future of sound with Teenage Engineering

Teenage engineering is one of the guiding stars in innovative, disruptive and quirky synthesizers and audio products. For the past 12 years they have pushed the limits for what synthesizers are and kept surprising the world with their wrinkled minds and strange creations born in a garage in the Swedish capital.

We had the honor of speaking with co-founder David Möllerstedt and pick his brain on their creative process and on the future of music.

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The Path Leads Into Nature With Nils Faarlund

Nils Faarlund is a legendary Norwegian eco-philosopher, mountaineer and a great friend of nature. We spoke to him about the Norwegian term for outdoors life, Friluftsliv, natural materials and design.

# How would you explain the Norwegian term friluftsliv to English speakers?

In my opinion, outdoor activities in modern societies are responses to the stress, boredom and effort for building identity caused by an urban lifestyle.

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Learn colours the Scandinavian way!

Farger & Frukter is a short film for small children (0-99y) aiming to introduce the Wonderful World of Colours. Directed by Ann Holmgren and produced by Elementa collaborators at ^O^, the film is a contemporary nod to the rich tradition of experimental Scandinavian children television form the 1970's

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Renewing the City with Growlab

Growlab is a small design studio truly dedicated to find new ways of making our cities better and more sustainable. Mads Pålsrud and Tabea Glahs founded Growlab in 2012 with a shared passion for solving social issues with design thinking. We went to talk to Mads and Tabea about how they use design and what they want to achieve with their approach.

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