Figure 1
Introducing the Master’s course on ‘Making is Thinking. Student advertising on the ground for an exhibition on ‘Harbour Happenings’ in Nyhavna, Trondheim. [Courtesy of Johanna Gullberg. All rights reserved].
Figure 2
‘Hendelser på Nyhavna’ (’Harbour Happenings’). Cirka teater and the ‘Making is Thinking’ course turned Cirka’s production studio inside out, staging instead this giant intervention at Nyhavna in 2016. [Courtesy of Johanna Gullberg. All rights reserved].
Figure 3
Table explaining the ideas behind the ‘Making is Thinking’ course [Diagram by the authors].
Figure 4
FormLab: some first-year students working in the lab, while Master’s students work on site at Nyhavna, 2018 [Courtesy of Nina Haarsaker. All rights reserved].
Figure 5
Re-ACT by Design: International Design Workshop Week at the University of Antwerp, 2017. Here the ‘Making is Thinking’ workshop was titled: ‘DISPLACE_ PLACE_DISPLAY_PLAY’ [Courtesy of Gro Rødne and Nina Haarsaker. All rights reserved].
Figure 6
Re-ACT by Design: International Design Workshop Week, 2017. Students out ‘hunting and gathering’ on St Anna’s Beach and then working with that material back in the studio [Courtesy of Gro Rødne].
Figure 7
Some first-year students along with Master’s students working together in the sandbox [Courtesy of Gro Rødne].
Figure 8
Cirka teater and the ‘Making is Thinking’ course, ‘Harbour Happenings’, 2016. Students exhibited their proposals inside the scaffolding construction mounted on the external walls and rooftop [Courtesy of Johanna Gullberg. All rights reserved].
Figure 9
Cirka theater performers: Anne Marit Sæther in Tankelaboratoriet (The Laboratory of Thought); Pinnemannen (The Stick Man), and Østersdamen (The Oyster Lady). On the right, students from the ‘Making is Thinking’ course help to build the scaffolding construction [Courtesy of Gilles Berger, William Lee Wright and Johanna Gullberg. All rights reserved].
Figure 10
Work for the ‘Making is Thinking’ course in ‘Harbour Happenings’, 2019. Here the floating ‘Micro-Cosmos’ creates a public exhibition space, while students work on a common model for a parallel design assignment about the urban spaces in Nyhavna [Courtesy of William Lee and Paul Ratel. All rights reserved].
Figure 11
‘Harbour Happenings: The importance of being a stranger’, 2016. Students work on the scaffolding construction as part of the staging of their projects, while musicians play in the background [Photograph: Johanna Gullberg. All rights reserved].