Skeivetestamentet / The Queer Testament /

Skeivetestamentet / The Queer Testament /

Stained glass window depicting the hands in The Creation of Adam, surrounded by a glass rainbow. Hung from the ceiling near a window in a church..

The Stained Glass Window

Wooden closet with an ecclesiastical look, a brass cross stuck in between the handles. Situated in a church featuring wooden paneling and sunlight.

The Closet

Wooden pew with a mirror embedded in the seat, reflecting sunlight, situated near a window with a grassy outdoor view.

The Church Pew

This room holds a testament; a testament of loving someone you’re not supposed to, of living in a body that is not your
own, of trying to change everything you are, just to be less than whole.

This is The Queer Testament, a room of deep emotion, of inescapable closets, of delicate church pews, and stained glass windows
—full of hope.

The Queer Testament is a take on furniture design where feelings are deeply embedded into every piece. Evoking emotion and curiosity; the installations are meant to inspire reflection and to shed light on what has grown comfortable in the dark.

Dur / Major /

Dur / Major /

DUR (MAJOR) is the prduct of my bachelors project and is a stackable system of musical boxes.

I was working with a talented music group at home in which everyone had some sort of mental disability and I wanted to make music more accessible to them. The system can be rolled around and transported easily and is based on intuitive instruments that make for a versatile soundscape.

DUR consists of a Cajon (percussion box), a tongue drum, a storage box, and a tray with an accessible circular maraca, rainstick and tamburines.

DUR is the joy in music.

Architectural model of a circular building with a textured roof and open courtyard, placed on a crumpled paper landscape with small dried plant models.
Silhouette of a person seated on a blue cajon surrounded by other colourful wooden musical boxes.

DURHUSET (THE MAJOR HOUSE) is the second part of my bachelors project. Here I focused on giving back to the community of people with disabilites in my home town through architecture.

The building facilitates for the music group to rehearse and perform and the design is based on our natural movents of rythm, therefore parts of the floor and walls have built-in drum snares (like a Cajon).

DURHUSET encourages musical freedom but also makes it clear that the users are the instruments, so the building acts as a loudspeaker for them to be heard.

Skeive sjøfolk / Queer At Sea /

Skeive sjøfolk / Queer At Sea /

Skeive Sjøfolk (Queer at sea) was an exhibition I got to do with Bergen Maritime Museum.

In a big team of researchers, builders and a project leader, Hannah Sorrel was the graphic designer and Anne Mette Prestegård and I were the exhibition designers.
This exhibition did not exhibit many artefacts, but rather told stories about how it was like  being queer in the masculine environment of different kinds of ships during the 1950s to the early 1970s. We got to work alot with spatial design, colours and atmosphere to convey the feelings we wanted the audience to feel.

A red-lit museum exhibit with text panels in Norwegian and English, discussing a male-dominated environment. Includes industrial artifacts like pipes and a metal door, with headphones hanging nearby.
Exhibit with red walls featuring a vinyl player and album. Text on the wall reads 'The Ship As a Home.' Informational panels contain English text about living conditions on a ship.
Exhibit in a museum with textual wall displays in different languages, blue-green walls, wooden floor, and broken mirrors on the ground in the shape of waves on the shore.

The machine room represents the masculine environment, the broken mirror ocean with broken quotes represents the resistance on board, and the whole mirror ocean represents the opportunities.
These were some of the installations I got to design.

Model ship display in a museum with yellow and red walls, featuring a glass case on a red stand and blurred background posters.
Close-up of a map made of mirror with city names like Newcastle, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Antwerp, with small colored boats on the surface.

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