Building your own kayak with Nina and Nico of Yamana Boats

A new kayak building kit from Yamana Boats in Oslo beautifully embodies design ideals that are getting ever more relevant:

Local production, use of natural materials, intuitive design and infinite repairability.

As they launch their first Kickstarter, we had the chance to meet with designers Nina Havermans and Nico Ibaceta about boat building, makerspaces and finding time to spend time outdoors.

2021Nikolai Aurebekk16 March 2020Green Design, Sustainability, The Path Leads UT, Interviews

Li Edelkoort on animism and the soul in everything on the Time Sensitive Podcast

“Since a textile is a computerized thing—although it’s very, very ancient—it has to do with codes and manners of weaving. Through this you can actually read the period you’re in, because it’s always very connected to the culture it comes from, as a blueprint of society, almost.”

2021Nikolai Aurebekk1 December 2019Green Design, Sustainability, Consciousness, The Path Leads UT