Bosch & Fjord create spaces where design challenges people and poses questions. The projects influence how people act and think, potentially changing the organisation, procedures and learning situations. Affecting existing structures, the projects can have thoroughgoing influence on people’s day-to-day lives. They break fixed habits and ingrained thinking and open up dialogue.
On the premise that everyone is different, thinks differently and learns differently in different situations, Bosch & Fjord have created a complete and challenging design at Ordrup School. Bosch & Fjord, working with SKUB, a school development and expansion project in Gentofte Municipality, has done away with traditional school interiors and instead created varied areas with room for differentiated teaching and creative thinking. Now there are raised window seats with a view of the outside world, green platforms with round red holes where discussions can percolate and large upholstered tubes where kids can hide with a good book or spend some time alone.
In their book, ‘The Living Workplace – 10 Dogmas’, they wish to stir debate about how to create a living workplace. A workplace that is not open to discussion and development is a dead one. A workplace, however, that is open to diversity and discussion is a living one that develops. Bosch & Fjord set out 10 dogmas for creating a living workplace. Without taking sides in favour of either superiors or subordinates, the dogmas are a tool to get a discussion started.
For Innovation Lab, Bosch & Fjord created a furniture system, on the premise of ‘innovation’, that is the ‘plug and play’ answer to furniture design. It enables an organisation to refurnish, move to another site or grow and shrink without difficulty. It consists of big shipping crates that work as modules with different things on the inside, e.g. a workstation, part of a conference room or a kitchen. The crates are designed to fit into any standard building. Each function has its own crate with its own explicit identity and design. The furniture system considers the diversity and individuality of the employees. It is a consequence of the modern corporate need for flexibility and innovation.
Bosch & Fjord springs from collaboration between the visual artists Rune Fjord Jensen and Rosan Bosch and their mutual desire to make art a vital part of our everyday lives. They create projects unifying art, design and architecture that are developed in close cooperation and dialogue with the users and the site. Art, then, slips into everyday life as a natural part of an organisation’s function and identity. The results are projects where art has a function and design has meaning.
On the premise that everyone is different, thinks differently and learns differently in different situations, Bosch & Fjord have created a complete and challenging design at Ordrup School. Bosch & Fjord, working with SKUB, a school development and expansion project in Gentofte Municipality, has done away with traditional school interiors and instead created varied areas with room for differentiated teaching and creative thinking. Now there are raised window seats with a view of the outside world, green platforms with round red holes where discussions can percolate and large upholstered tubes where kids can hide with a good book or spend some time alone.
In their book, ‘The Living Workplace – 10 Dogmas’, they wish to stir debate about how to create a living workplace. A workplace that is not open to discussion and development is a dead one. A workplace, however, that is open to diversity and discussion is a living one that develops. Bosch & Fjord set out 10 dogmas for creating a living workplace. Without taking sides in favour of either superiors or subordinates, the dogmas are a tool to get a discussion started.
For Innovation Lab, Bosch & Fjord created a furniture system, on the premise of ‘innovation’, that is the ‘plug and play’ answer to furniture design. It enables an organisation to refurnish, move to another site or grow and shrink without difficulty. It consists of big shipping crates that work as modules with different things on the inside, e.g. a workstation, part of a conference room or a kitchen. The crates are designed to fit into any standard building. Each function has its own crate with its own explicit identity and design. The furniture system considers the diversity and individuality of the employees. It is a consequence of the modern corporate need for flexibility and innovation.
Bosch & Fjord springs from collaboration between the visual artists Rune Fjord Jensen and Rosan Bosch and their mutual desire to make art a vital part of our everyday lives. They create projects unifying art, design and architecture that are developed in close cooperation and dialogue with the users and the site. Art, then, slips into everyday life as a natural part of an organisation’s function and identity. The results are projects where art has a function and design has meaning.
