Open Atelier People: Anna Marie Fisker

Text by Anna Marie Fisker

What do you do?

I am director of the Center for Food Science, Design & Experience at Aalborg University. Here I work with experience-based innovation, often involving our cultural heritage, design, architecture, and food. From the base in Aalborg, I love to work broadly with partners over most of Europe, especially those from the creative fields and those linked to the cultural heritage.

What part of your institution is your favourite – i.e., a painting, a view, the colleagues, or something completely different – and why?

As part of a younger Danish University with a profile of developing interdisciplinary projects together with practice, I find it unique to enter into business with the optic to blend theory and practice. The kick of having solved a problem together in an interdisciplinary academic process is rather exceptional. Often, we at the University of Aalborg have been involved in rare new development, experiences, and cases.

Why is Open Atelier important to you and what are you looking forward to?

Open Atelier was born because the visionary director at Skagen Museum wished to enter a deeply cooperative Creative European project – it became Open Atelier. To be inspired by the past and then cultivate new dynamic interactions is, and will be, fantastic, then furthermore to transform creative ideas into new experiences, will be an interactive interesting process. With co-creation methods, our cultural heritage can be a powerful point of departure to examine and develop contemporary issues to delightful innovative co-creations.