Dagny Thurmann-Moe - How does colours in the city affect our mental health and well being?

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How does colours in the city affect our mental health and well being?

In this episode of "The Sound of Colour”, I visit colour designer Dagny Thurmann-Moe. 
Dagny is one of Norway’s leading colour designers and has run her own studio KOI Colour Studio for more than a decade. She is a well-known face in the norwegian media and often comments on the use of colour, trends and the value of the proper use of colour in both architecture, interiors and fashion. 

She has designed colour schemes for a range of city facades and residential blocks, written a book on colours, and launched her very own paint range. 
In this episode Dagny tells me how her mother embraced her keen love of colour and let her decorate their entire house at the tender age of just fifteen and that the only design TV show she loves is Grand Design with Kevin McCloud. 
She has a profound interest in colour and her work focuses on how colours and materials affect our surroundings and especially our mental well being. I would say, that Dagny has made it her mission to fight the battle against an increasingly achromatic existence. In this episode we talk about the affects of the lack of colour in modern life, both in our city scapes and inside our homes. Dagny shares many insightful facts about what this can do to our mental health and how we can prevent that. 

The episode ends with the musical experiment “The Sound of a Colour”, this time it is composer and musician Sam Mumford that creates the sound of Pale Terracotta.

I found this conversation really fascinating and insightful and I very much hope you will enjoy it too. Happy listening.

For more color inspiration follow @sarah__gottlieb and this episode's guest @farge_dagny from @koicolourstudio and the episode's audio oracle Sam Mumford

This episode is sponsored by the Montana Furniture.

SHOWNOTES
You can see more about the wallpaper we talk about from the wallpaper collection by KOI Colour Studio x belarteSTUDIO here

The “Nordre Gata” project

Colour to the People Book by Dagny Thurmann-Moe

Kevin McCloud and Grand Design

Visit Sarah Gottlieb's website to see images of the projects and colours discussed in this episode

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The Sound of Colour is produced by Sarah Gottlieb, with music by Matt Motte.

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Sarah Gottlieb is a Copenhagen-based designer and art director specialising in colour and spatial design. Known for transforming environments through innovative use of colour, she is dedicated to creating public spaces that inspire connection and a deeper appreciation for design.

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