The Visual Voltage world touring exhibition is now visiting Beijing.
In collaboration with China Science and Technology Museum, the Embassy of Sweden and Academy of Art & Design at Tsinghua University the Swedish Institute is proud to present the Visual Voltage Exhibition – A Design and Art Perspective - in Beijing.
The Visual Voltage exhibition has been [...]
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Micro Interventions, Energy credit systems and Energy fasting; results from the Visual Voltage workshop explorations.
All the Visual Voltage workshop exploration results, images from the Pecha Kucha and the finissage in Berlin are now available at the Visual Voltage workshop website, www.visualvoltageworkshop.de.
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Finissage in Berlin
Last weekend the exhibitions Visual Voltage and Visual Voltage Amplified celebrated a big finissage-party at Felleshuset in Berlin. Before everything was packed up and sent to Beijing, the next stop of Visual Voltage in April 2010, 150 guests followed the invitation of the Swedish Institute, Swedish Embassy and the hosts of the workshop [...]
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Opening of Visual Voltage Amplified
Visual Voltage Amplified was opened with a colorful program on January 7th and is now accompanying the Swedish “mother exhibition” Visual Voltage until January 24th 2010. Despite of the winterly weather conditions outside, more than 200 interested visitors found their way to Felleshuset of the Nordic Embassies in Berlin.
The exhibition Visual Voltage deals [...]
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Designer’s Talk
Designer’s Talk, Mats Widbom, Cultural Counselor, Moderator of this seminar
Christina Öhman, with more than 20 years of experience from the Interactive Institute in Stockholm and Craig Provost, Industrial Designer from Boston were invited to come to the House of Sweden to take part in a seminar Designer´s Talk, a popular event at the House of [...]
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Discussions are good. Action is also good.
So far, many good discussions have been taking place at House of Sweden thanks to Living Green. The exhibit, is a reason for people to meet and to stop and reflect for a moment.
In Visual Voltage, the wide range of areas opens up for various topics. The well designed Flower Lamp that “blooms” when energy [...]
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Grand opening of Living Green, House of Sweden
Ab0ut five hundred people came to the inauguration of Living Green. Visual Voltage was one of three themes in this event at House of Sweden, that will last from March 31 to June 7 2009.
The first part of the opening was held at the roof of House of Sweden. Exciting food and dance performance.
Dorothy McCoy, [...]
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Maud Olofsson at press preview
Maud Olofsson, Swedish minister for Enterprise and Energy, showed up at the press preview of Visual Voltage at Living Green. She highlighted the importance of being aware of how much energy people use in their own home, and that this exhibition is part of raising the question.
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Earth Hour at House of Sweden
08.29 PM
08.31 PM
Earth hour
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What if we were powered by batteries?
Sometimes it would be useful with an easier way of getting some extra energy. Especially when coming home after a long day at work. What if we could just plug in to the electricity outlet and skip the dinner?
We asked a associate professor Kjell Waltersson at Mälardalen University how much energy really is needed to [...]
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