Wjerk.

Wjerk is a climate design studio run by Kristian Bjørnard and a revolving cast of collaborators. We design for the welfare of all life — emphasizing sustainability, open access, transparency, collaboration, and social justice to point culture toward a future where we're still operating a hospitable Spaceship Earth. We can't solve climate change without social change — nay — everything change.

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Chair-ness

A chair a week from whatever's left in the shop, with Christopher Attenborough — interrogating what "chair" even means, one salvaged-material build at a time.

3P: People Processing Plastic logo

3P: People Processing Plastic

An Experiment in Plastic Reuse and Recycling: Passionate people performing practical plastic processing, producing prized products, preventing pollution proliferation, and progressing a pristine planet

Spontaneous Lamp

Spontaneous Lamp

Designing with found materials; a lamp that doesn't exist? Foraged Bamboo, found rocks, unused 5 gallon bucket, clip-on lamp, and extension cord.

Slash: MICA Graduate 2022 Program Guide

MICA Graduate Admissions Materials

Can institutional admissions materials practice open-source principles and material restraint — and teach the reader something in the process?

A Carbon Sequestering Book

A Carbon Sequestering Book

What if a book could draw down carbon from the air?

Green Acres

Two Books, One Question…

Green Acres → EcoVention Europe. Can a book about ecological art practice what it preaches? And then do it better? One got less bad. One went further.

The Sustainabilitist Principles

The Sustainabilitist Principles

What ways of thinking lead a designer to sustainable solutions?

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Contact Wjerk

  • Phone: +1 (507) 301-8402

  • Email: bjornmeansbear@pm.me

placeholder for Kristian Bjornard... A man in Viking costume holds a spear and round shield on the rocky plain at Þingvellir, Iceland, with Ármannsfell in the background. Photograph by Berit Wallenberg, 1930.

About Kristian

Kristian Bjørnard has spent twenty years asking what design owes the web of life it depends on. His practice weaves circular economies, open-source tools, and design fiction to advance ecological restoration — championing solutions that restore more than they consume, and pointing culture toward a still-hospitable Spaceship Earth.