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RUSLFEST

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RUSL is a sustainable design festival focusing on circular thinking and its application within art, design and culture. The festival is held within the new creative neighborhood of Gufunes. A week-long event with workshops, lectures, exhibitions, dinners and social gatherings. 








27. JULY – 02. JUNE  

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 PROGRAM  

Monday 27.06

10-17
Workshops

17-19
Trash Talks
(Food)
Bambahús,

Julia Miriam (Jarðgerðarfélagið),

Kjartan Óli Guðmundsson (Borðhald),
Pola Sutryk

19:00
Plastikman(Katie Hitchcock)

21-00
Opening party
TBA
Tuesday 28.06

10-17
Workshops

17-19
Trash Talks
(Design)
Björn Steinar Blumenstein (Plastplan),
Valdís Steinars,

Studio Flétta,
Berglind Ósk,
Digital Sigga,

Tobia Zambotti

19-21
FlæðiVernissage

21-23
Movie Screening Riff takeover @ RVK Studios
Wednesday 29.06

10-16 
Workshops

16-19
Trash Talks
(Cultural Platforms)
Institut For (X),
Flæði,
Blivande,

Post-Hús,
Andrými,
LungA,
FÚSK

19-21
Flæði exhibition open

20-00
Post Takeover
Bart
Zaar
Flaaryr
Glupsk
Ægir
Ronja
Thursday 30.06

10-17
Workshops

17-19
Trash Talks 
(Architecture)
Narfi,

SAP arkitektar,
Sara Jónsdóttir (On To Something),
Slökkvistöðin,
Andri Snær Magnason

20-01

Flæði exhibition open

SKRATTAR
CYBER
RUSSIAN.GIRLS (live)


Massage
Trash Sounds
DVDJ NNS
Sideproject

Pellegrina

8228
Friday 01.07

10-17
Workshops

17-19
Trash Talks
(Sound)
Intelligent
Instument Lab
,
Arnljótur
(Kraftgalli),
Radio Gufan,
Janus Rasmussen

19-23

Flæðiexhibition open

Workshops finale
Curated Walk Around Gufunes


Saturday 02.07

15-03
BUXUR

Steffi 
Árni B2B Bjarki
Ása Kolla
russian.girls (dj set)
Volruptus (live)
dj Sley & Jamesendir 
Charles Green


EXHIBITION

Krot & Krass,
Brák Jónsdóttir, 
Ýmir Grönvold,
Kristín Morthens,
Narfi,
Atli Bolla,
Natka Klimowicz,

Edda Karólína










Included in your ticket is a workshop, daily lunch & dinner, lectures, events over the week and access to the final event BUXUR.

Festival pass is 25.000 isk.



















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TRASH SOUNDS


Hosted by:
Jack Armitage, Sigríður Birna Matthíasdóttir, Karl Jóhann Jóhannsso, Robin Morabito and Sean Patrick O’Brien from the Intelligent Instrument Lab.

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The Intelligent Instruments Lab presents Trash Sounds, a week-long intensive workshop on designing and performing with intelligent musical instruments made from discarded materials.

In this workshop, you will gain hands-on experience with the cutting edge of musical instrument design, learning from scratch techniques for real-time audio programming, creative AI for gesture-sound mapping, sonic interaction design, physical instrument craft, and speculative design.

Each day you will receive direct instruction in one of the topics above, using your new skills to rehabilitate waste materials into living musical objects, and to collectively improvise music daily at one of the many unique sites at FÚSK Gufunes.

We welcome beginners, musicians, makers and everyone in between, and especially those who are not well represented in music technology today. Together we will cultivate a friendly environment where everyone listens to and learns from each other.






Trash Sounds is an intensive workshop on designing & performing with intelligent musical instruments made from used materials. You will learn techniques for real-time audio programming, creative AI for gesture-sound mapping, sonic interaction design, physical instrument craft, & speculative design.



FOOD


Hosted by:
Pola Sutryk.

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During this workshop we’ll cook with ingredients saved from the dumpster, as a way to give back value to food considered “waste”. We’ll learn about the abundance of wild food available in Iceland (think foraging for wild herbs and greens, seaweed, and city crops) and different ways of food preservation (fermentation, pickling, drying). We'll also touch topics such as composting, permaculture and urban gardening.

Together we’ll look into our possibilities, think about our specific local situation and what we can do, as individuals and as a society to prevent food waste, achieve a more sustainable food future and more food sovereignty for Iceland.

Workshop is going to take place in a kitchen on site,  as well as the beautiful area surrounding FÚSK Gufunes and is intended for everyone interested in the topics, regardless of profession and experience. We will work and learn together, in a respectful, judgment free environment. We want participants to have an active impact on the program of the workshops, so it is prone to changes.










FOOD is a laboratory focused on alternative ways of producing, preparing and consuming food. With hands-on learning of foraging, fermenting or composting, we will get to know the Icelandic food system and collectively think about a more sustainable food future. The outcome of this workshop is a dinner for participants and their guests on Friday night, no waste.


TOMORROW, AS THE SNOW MELTS AWAY, IT REVEALS $$$


Hosted by:
Sindri Sigurðsson (architect), Auður Inez Sellgren (designer), Gunnar Örn Egilsson (architect), Anton Svanur Guðmundsson  (architect), 
Óskar Örn Arnórsson  (architect)
Kateřina Blahutová (architect).

Architectural collective Slökkvistöðin invites everyone interested in architecture and sustainability to join for a creative and hands-on workshop during Rusl Festival.

Each participant or team will develop their own unique design. They will build a physical model for material reuse in full scale (a floor or ceiling system, a chair or a facade). By creating valuables from materials otherwise discarded as trash, participants will leave the workshop with a concept ready for application in future projects, complete with documentation and carbon footprint comparison to conventional methods.

A workshop focused on architecture and sustainability in which we will repurpose discarded materials for speculative building components.


SCRAP FEST


Hosted by:
FÚSK, Institut for (X) (DK) and Blivande (SE).


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The workshop revolves around building, using hands-on solutions whilst repurposing materials from the building- and film industry for changing our local area of Gufunes. With focus on the building industry being the cause of one of the biggest carbon footprint in the world. The workshop is held in collaboration with the cultural platforms Institut for X (DK) and Blivande (SE).


“Don’t accept the city as it is. Create your own spaces and environments and make the city your own” (This is X, 2015: 387).





The FÚSK project space is a socially-driven laboratory for urban experiments and culture. Lets revitalize our own environment and make an impact on our own surroundings.