Siren Elise Wilhelmsen won the Time to Design award with the project Developing Time – Time Developing which is both a clock and a knitting machine.
The knitting clocks are knitting 24 hours a day and a year at a time as a physical manifestation of time. They knit one mesh every half hour all day long, and in a year they each produce a two metre long scarf. By the end of the year the yarn can be changed and a new year - and a new scarf - can begin.
For two weeks at Normann Copenhagen, Siren Elise Wilhelmsen is showing a whole family of knitting clocks, created at the Danish Art Workshops.

Designing time
Siren Elise Wilhelmsen’s first idea was to create a new experience of time. She explains: “Time connects us all and we are constantly related to its passing. But we still find it difficult to understand and explain. Therefore we use numbers, even though the nature of time does not have anything to do with numbers. Time is much more related to change, continuity, and development. No matter what day it is, if it is summer or winter, time is passing. And with time we and our surroundings change. We grow and develop but always so slowly, that we can not see the change while it is happening. Only when looking back over a period of time the change is visible.”

Siren Elise Wilhelmsen has worked on expanding the family of knitting clocks from one to three at the Danish Art Workshops since the 1st of September. Here, designers, artists, craftspeople and restorers have access to expertise, workshops and time to create large and important work.
Director Frederik Hardvendel says following about the partnership around the award and this years project: “We wish to contribute to the development of new talents with our particular strengths. With Time to Design we can offer a young designer a real chance to kickstart a career. The experience and the facilities we have here play well with the attention, that our young designer can have through our partners Normann Copenhagen and Link UP in an exhibition like this one. It is important to support new talents through both guidance in the development phase and through exposure.”
At Normann Copenhagen they are exited about this years project. Ceo Poul Madsen says: “At Normann Copenhagen we find it important to support the young design talents, who are the foundation for the design business of the future. On a daily basis we are in touch with new designers trying to get a break through and a project like Time to design – new talent award gives the winner an opportunity to make the most of her potential at the Danish Art Workshops and at the same time promote herself as a designer. It is the third year in a row that our Flagship Store is used as an exhibition platform for a new, up-and-coming talent and we are exited to show Siren Elise Wilhelmsen’s project to our guests.”

About the award
 Time to Design was established in 2008 and is an international design award focusing on young design talents in the beginning of their career. The winner is granted with three months residency at the Danish Art Workshops, 50.000 DKK donated by the Danish Ass. of Wood and Furniture Industries, a two week exhibition in Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store, and career coaching by the company OeO.

Developing time - time developing
by Siren Elise Wilhelmsen
exhibition at NormaNn Copenhagen,
25th of november – 9th of December 2010