Colours of designed nature: Growing seeds from a cultural think-thank, artistic readings on colour and nature in Sweden

Abstract

The research project aims to explore colour and spatial experience in green urban spaces, created and ordered by human intervention, in this case specifically avenues. It has been carried out in the Swedish Island of Öland through the observation of an attractive avenue of elm trees, with its rhythmical changes of shape and shifting of colours. The leading approach and applied methodology is through observations, photographs and reflections, the workbook method and some steps of the Identity Tool Kit (ITK). The researchers, Henriette Koblanck the Swedish creator of the project and Monica Moro, Italian-Swedish, are designers, who operate in different fields. Both are greatly interested in colour, and have worked jointly in this multi-, inter- and trans- disciplinary subject. The project is being carried out as a part of the cooperation between two cultural think-tanks, both based in Sweden. A summer Art Exhibition, named “Kulturarv – källa”, was held in Näsby, Öland in June 2017.