School of Interspecies Kinship / Skolen for Mellemartsligt Slægtskab

Name
Charlotte Schibler Reim
Education degree
Kandidat
Institute
Architecture and Design
Program
Furniture Design - Products, Materials and Contexts
Year
2021

Welcome to School of Interspecies Kinship! We educate you in the arts of multi-species living and dying in Gaia. Let us generate empathy, kinship and sensibility between species, as we learn how to live on a damaged planet. As children of compost we will wave flags of Gaia, purr like cats, dance like wasps and sing like bees: Together we will make speculative fabulations about possible futures.

School of Interspecies Kinship has developed a program containing three different workshops all trying to shorten the distance between human and other-than-human critters; slowly erasing the term Human and the term Nature, from the participants minds while emphasising the possibilities for cross-species relation, friendship, kinship and understanding.
Gaiaflag, Spinderen, Summeren
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Spinderen-workshop: Participants working on their purring instruments
Summeren-workshop: Participants working on their buzzing instruments.

The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s)
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Education & Relevant Courses
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Master of Arts from The Royal Danish Akademi of Design, Furniture and Object department

Specialising in interspecies relation, speculative fabulations and the arts of living on a damaged planet.
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Bachelor from The Royal Danish Akademi of Design, Textile Design department

Specialising in colour theory, systems of power and parallel universes.
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Basic course in Global Organic Farming from Kalø Organic School of Agriculture

Learning both about vegetable production and animal production. Experiencing the depth of production of food for human beings.
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Basic course in Business economics and Marketing from Kalø Organic School of Agriculture

Focusing of the economics of organic food/plant production.

Exchange semester at Gerrit Rietveld Akademi TxT department, Amsterdam

Leaning about the power of group critique and collaborative work.
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Håndarbejdets Fremme

Learning basic skills in tailoring, embroidery, textile printing and dissemination.
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Vrå Højskole, tailoring department

Leaning basic skills in tailoring
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High School, Christianshavns Gymnasium

Major in mathematics, design and social studies.
Extracurricular Experiences & Activities

Residency at Tenjinyama Artist Residency, Sapporo Japan

Working on communication workshops between human and bird. Hosting a drop-in workshop and exhibition.

Statens Værksteder for Kunst

Hosting drop-in workshop for building communication tools relation between human and birds.
Professional Work Experience
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Co-founder of Bureau of Interspecies Communication

Co-founding the designstudio Bureau of Interspecies Communication working with Kirstine Elmhøj Hansen to shorten the distance between human and other-than-human critters, by hosting workshops and doing courses in Denmark and Japan.

Organic farmer at Jiro Yamaguchi Farm, Takamori Aso-Gun Japan

Working in organic vegetable fields in the volcano soil of Aso in Shikoku, learning about plants and their space and role in the circulating breath of the earth.

Organic farmer at Kitomari Avocados, Ngulelo Tanzania

Working with the production of organic avocados in the very different soils of the Northen Tanzania.
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Internship at Margrethe Odgaard Studioes

Primarily responsable for expanding Odgaards Popsickle index with 300 new colours.

Internship at Kira Gottlieb Studios

Working on the production and development of a massive installation of a textile pony for an architecture company.
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Maternity leave

Learning project management at high level.
IT skills
High level in Adobe InDesign
High level in Adobe Photoshop
High level in Adobe Illustrator
Medium level Premiere Pro
Medium level sound editing program Reaper
Language skills
Danish, mother tongue
English, fluent spoken and written