Chair-ness
Sixteen chairs and counting, from shop leftovers, each built in one session.
Solarpunk Boombox
A boombox from salvaged parts that runs on sunlight, tool batteries or the wall.
3P: People Processing Plastic
A traveling station that turns found plastic into new objects, and the spine of a MICA course.
Spontaneous Lamps
Six lamps from buckets, rubble and bamboo, built to come back apart.
MICA Graduate Admissions Materials
A mailer and a catalog for MICA’s graduate admissions, in use since 2020.
A Carbon Sequestering Book
A design fiction about a book whose ink pulls carbon from the air.
Green Acres → Ecovention Europe
Two exhibition catalogs, the second made by reusing the first.
The Sustainabilitist Principles
A 2009 manifesto of 21 principles, installed as found books strung together with thread.
The Libre Designer
A long-term performance and set of experiments in designing with free and open-source tools, since 2018.
CAPE
Content software built with Kai Curry, 2011–2023: write once, publish to the web or to print.
Drawing on Tempered Glass
An artist book of Erin Barach’s phone drawings, printed in 2025.
Wjeather
A weather app that draws twelve hours of forecast as one chart.
Contact Wjerk
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Phone: +1 (507) 301-8402
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Email: wjerkshop@pm.me
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.