ANNADILJASIGURDAR

These interests manifest in works such as: The graduation project from 2019 (ongoing), ‘The Rare Metal Age', where she collaborated with scientists from the Royal Institute for Sea Research in the Netherlands, to show the urgent subject of mining in the deep sea and the future resources. In 2015 with her first design project ‘Hofsjökull‘ she translated the rapid melting of glaciers in Iceland into a informatic product, where she collaborated with the Nordic project Climate and Energy (the institute of Earth Science and the Icelandic Meteorological office by using datasets and reflecting on the mathematical models. In 2019, she was nominated for the René Smeeth Award for her project ‘Earthly Delights' that explores the materiality of the element Sulphur and its image in the course of history. In 2020, Anna and her part-time collaborator Ellen Pearson received a research grant for the project ‘Beauty and the Beast' which is a study on invasive species and floral hazards with a case study..