Materials
Stone
Working with local stone as a material for production, producing objects out of our mountains, is for obvious reasons a delicate activity. It is our hope that with thoughtful and resourceful design solution we can bring new life to the stone workshop.
Projects
Fish Factory
The Fish Factory project is a community project in a village of two hundred people which was scarred badly when the Fish Factory which employed most of the habitants was closed some years back.
Projects
EU COLLABORATION
MAKE by Þorpið is participating in a European Union education collaboration program along with Bornholm in Denmark and Nässjö in Sveden. Operating under then name Creative Communities in East Iceland.
Projects
NA10
NORTHEAST 10
He’s predicting NORÐAUSTAN10 and you no it ain’t good. The wind that blows from NorthEast is dry and ice cold and in conjunction with a wind force of 10 it will make your eyeballs ache. You better prepare.
Projects
Central Saint Martins
A group of seventeen masters students from Central Saint Martins College of Art are collaborating on the Fish Factory project in Stöðvarfjörður.
Milestones
Hús Handanna
Art & Design
Hús Handanna is a platform for MAKE by Þorpið to bring a developed product to the market, be it product design, quality craft, jewelry, clothing, ceramics, graphics, textiles.
Profiles
Mrs. Dóra Hansen
Mrs. Hansen has for a long time been interested in Icelandic production and her furniture design has always been centred around a location specific concept.
Projects
Vötturinn
The Lost Mitten
A long time ago in a valley by Lake Lagarfljót an unfortunate Icelander must have lost a mitten.
Projects
Project Iceland – Eindhoven
Four european designers travelled to Iceland to participate in one of the first projects of MAKE by Þorpið.
Profiles
Gibbagibb
In 2009 Hulda attended a winter long workshop in design organized by MAKE by Þorpið and East Iceland Education Centre. Since then she has been developing her graduation piece which was derived from her great grandfather’s wall hanger made from lamb horns.