We got exciting news this month! The RECYCLE ME
project got recognition for our efforts to raise organ donation awareness
through culture and design. Together we make a difference, organ donation
includes us all.
Livet som gåva (Life as a gift) is an independent
collaboration between different patient organisations and medical profession in
Sweden that works for organ donation awareness. Read their motivation below.
Pamela Lindgren, this year’s Honorary Member of Livet
som Gåva (Life as a Gift)
Pamela Lindgren has been elected as the Honorary
Member for 2016 of Livet som Gåva (Life as a Gift). The decision
was taken by Livet som Gåva’s Executive Committee after all the nominations had
been compiled and considered together. Pamela Lindgren is a designer and
postgraduate student at the Chalmers University of Technology. For the past ten
years, she has been profoundly committed to the task of getting more people to
take a stand for organ and tissue donation, despite not having any vested
interest in this issue.
Pamela Lindgren has designed silver jewellery and
glass objects in the form of some of the organs that are possible to
transplant. She has also initiated various activities with the aim of promoting
organ donation. Her latest initiative took place during the Gothenburg Culture
Festival in August this year. Research is one of the interests dearest to
Pamela’s heart, and the profits from RECYCLE ME sales are donated continually
to the Foundation to the Memory of Professor Lars-Erik Gelin (Stiftelsen
Professor Lars-Erik Gelins Minnesfond (www.gelinfonden.org) ) for transplantation research.
Pamela Lindgren’s project RECYCLE ME is well-known not
only in Sweden but also in many other countries. Currently Pamela has started a
cultural exchange between RECYCLE ME and a group of interested stakeholders in
South Africa.
The motivation for the Honorary Award in 2016 is as
follows:
”Through design and culture, Pamela Lindgren with her
project RECYCLE ME has contributed to increasing understanding for organ and
tissue donation.”
The Honorary Award was presented to Pamela Lindgren by
the Foundation to the Memory of Professor Lars-Erik Gelin on the occasion of
the Gelin Symposium on the 7th October 2016 in Gothenburg. The Diploma and a glass ship designed by
Bertil Vallien were presented to Pamela Lindgren by Håkan Gäbel, the first
person to receive the Award in 2003.
For Livet som Gåva (Life as a Gift)
Håkan Hedman
Chairperson
of Livet som Gåva
Box 1386
172 27 SUNDBYBERG
Translated with great help from Margaret Myers,
RECYCLE ME
