Lisanne Fransen

Hemma i Framtiden (SE)
Domestic Futures (EN)

A speculative exhibition about new objects and product that might enter our homes in the near future (in the next 10 - 50 years) and change our daily routines, rhythm and social interactions when at home. Initiated and curated by Lisanne Fransen in collaboration with Studio Harm Rensink. On show Fall 2015 at the National Museum, Stockholm Sweden.

The exhibition design provides acces to three possible future scenarios where we 1) long back to nature and try to withdraw ourselves from the plasticised consumer world, 2) merge our bodies and homes with the advanced discoveries in bio-technology and artificial intelligence and/or 3) start to colonise space as we have lost hope in the survival of mankind on planet earth.

www.domesticfutures.com
www.nationalmuseum.se

Curator: Lisanne Fransen
Curator Assistant: Hanna Johansson
Exhibition Design: Harm Rensink
Set Design: Studio Rene Siebum, Steven Banken, Ben van Kemenade
Copy Writer Exhibition texts: Lisanne Fransen & Niklas Lundberg
Assistance Copy Writing: Nicola Jones, Catherina Schook, Lisa Fritzell
Poster photos: 1. Naomi Kizhner,
2. Ai Hasegawa
Exhibition Photos: Linn Ahlgren/
Nationalmuseum

Närodlad Design (SE)
Local Design (EN)

A critical exhibition about our unhinged consumer behaviour and the importance of knowing how and where things are produced in a world facing environmental challenges. Curated and created by Lisanne Fransen in collaboration with Svenskt Tenn. On show Fall 2016 at the Svenskt Tenn Gallery, Stockholm Sweden.

The exhibition design provides access to five of the Swedish workshops that have collaborated with Svenskt Tenn for many decades. It reveals the manual labor behind cabinet making, pewter casting, carpet production, glass blowing and rattan furniture production in Sweden. Here you can still find the type of craftsmanship and knowledge that was once passed down from generation to generation and is now in danger of disappearing with the older generation.

www.svenskttenn.se

Curator: Lisanne Fransen
Exhibition Design: Lisanne Fransen
Creator: Karin Södergren
(Svenskt Tenn)
Producer: Svenskt Tenn
Text: Annica Kvint
Photo/Film: Erik Wåhlström
 

Kungliga Brudklänningar
1976 - 2015 (SE)
Royal Wedding Dresses
1976 - 2015 (EN)

A poetic exhibition about royal bridal couture featuring five wedding dresses worn by the Swedish Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, Princess Madeleine, Princess Sofia and Princess Lilian - created and curated by the Swedish Royal Palace.

In collaboration with the Royal Palace and Guide ID, Lisanne Fransen wrote the manuscripts for the audio tours at this exhibition. Each audio station reveals information about the design process of the gown, its material, its designer, personal memories and other historical facts. On show Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 at the Royal Palace, Stockholm Sweden.

www.kungahuset.se
www.guideid.com

River In Me

A music video for the world wide release of Trentemøller’s song “River In Me”, created and directed by duo Riton Emenius. As one of the junior art directors Lisanne Fransen worked on the props, costumes, sculptures and visualising the special - icy - effects on set.

Year: 2016
Artist: Trentemøller
Production: Camp David Film
Producer: Linnea Andersson
Art Director: Riton Emenius
Position: Junior Art Director

Breathe (EN)
Andas (SE)

A film about stress and exhaustion by Madelene Lindberg. Lisanne Fransen created and build the set design for this movie.

How does it feel when you wake up one day with the feeling of total exhaustion: when everything stops and the big struggle starts to take place inside of you. We get to follow on a inner journey. Where the movement tells us what the words can not convey.

www.filmenandas.se

Year: 2016
Director: Madelene Lindberg
Dancer: Bianca Traum
Set Designer: Lisanne Fransen

Lisanne Fransen works with several production and set designers on music videos, short movies and commercials as Art Director, Set Dresser, Prop Master and Set Designer Assistant.

Short list
Post Nord. 
Set Dresser & Set Designer Assistant
Elgiganten.
Set Dresser & Set Designer Assistant
Lind Pira, Ey Gäri.
Art Director
Tove Styrke, Number One. 
Set Designer Assistant

A selection of the Design Stories written by Lisanne Fransen, published on TheBlogazine.com.

Stories to make contemporary design and speculative design ideas more visible, known and understood. Click on the articles to read along.

www.theblogazine.com

A thesis, publication and ongoing research - in the field of product design - on speculative design and the designers and scientists who are practicing it. Lisanne Fransen’s personal interest and research on speculative design have shaped the foundations of her practice and projects. 

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. Speculative design is a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but to stage ideas, concepts, utopias or cautionary tales. In this way, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. (source: Speculative Everything, design, fiction and social dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, 2013, The MIT Press)

Book: Speculative Everything

If Willy Wonka Was a Designer (he would be one of the speakers too)

The seminar “If Willy Wonka Was a Designer” is initiated and organised by curator Lisanne Fransen for (design) students of all schools in Stockholm. In Fransen’s eyes, students are shaped during their education and when graduated they will shape our future with their visions and the products they create. Hence she dedicates and addresses this seminar especially to all the students in Stockholm, to introduce them to these three very inspiring designers: Nelly Ben Hayoun, James Auger and Ela Celary.

Through a series of three lectures, the seminar shows a non-commercial side of the design field, where designers are critical explorers who design experiences and scenarios that can have a significant impact on the world. Not because their projects are desirable and saleable, but because they carry out a strong message, shaping our ideas about the future. Their works are ‘conversation pieces’ that trigger change in our behaviour rather than being a sugar-coated cover that triggers our desire to purchase a product.

The seminar was organised at Beckmans College of Design in conjunction with the exhibition "Hemma i Framtiden" at the National Museum in Stockholm. With the support of Formmuseets Vänner and Konstfack University

From 2011 - 2015 Lisanne Fransen was part of the project team of Organisation in Design. Here she worked as assistant art director/ assistant assistant curator on, amongst others, the following projects: Ventura Lambrate in Milan, Ventura London, the Ventura Storybook and the exhibition Design Relations at the Museum for Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

The exhibition "Design Relations"
Main exhibition at the 23rd Biennial of Design in Ljubljana
Year of Realisation: 2012
Guest Curator: Organisation in Design
Position: Guest-Curator Assistant
Photos Domel Pal

The Ventura Project Storybook
Year of Publication: 2015
Publisher: Organisation in Design
Position: Author

The Ventura Projects
Ventura Lambrate, Ventura Berlin, Ventura London
Annually 2011 - 2014
Art Direction: Organisation in Design
Position: Project Management Assistant

www.venturaprojects.com
www.organisationindesign.com