Maria Bruun – Actar Publishers

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Furniture Designer
With her work, the Danish designer Maria Bruun joins a long-standing design tradition. With sincere respect for classic Danish furniture, Bruun builds on this foundation with an innovative approach, creating her design in close dialogue with skilled craftspeople. She often devotes her work to the refinement of the individual elements and persistently seeks out new possibilities in her field. For her collaborative methods and approach to design, Bruun was awarded the Wegner Prize in 2022, and the prestigious Danish Finn Juhl Prize in 2021.
Along with Anne Dorthe Vester, Bruun is the co-founder of MBADV, a collaboration that, from 2013-2022 created objects in the cross-field between art, architecture and design. Maria Bruun holds a MA in furniture Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design.

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Soil Lab

Eibhlín Ní Chathasaigh, James Martin, Anne Dorthe Vester, Maria BruunThis anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago.

A Built Experiment Eibhlín Ní Chathasaigh, James Albert Martin, Anne Dorthe Vester, Maria Bruun / SOIL LAB This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The pages give space to a conversation that stretches far outside both the confines of the Soil Lab’s site in North Lawndale and the short duration of the biennial. The book is a meeting place for the voices which contributed to the Soil Lab project, and maps their constellation of disciplines—across architecture, art, anthropology, ecology, craft and community work—and global geographies, including the US, Denmark, Ireland, Puerto Rico and Austria. The story of the project, and the many lives and threads that it brushed up against, is told through histories, criticism, photographic essays, instruction manuals, soil recipes and

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