Designed Living Environments for Breakfast

Meet architects, artists, cilvil servants, politicians and researchers and get a unique insight into new strategies and working methods on how different aspects of designed living environment can impact and contribute to improve conditions in our society. The webinars are held once a month during spring and fall and take place on Thursdays between 08.30-09.30. You connect through the digital plattform Teams with a link posted in calendar events in connection with the events, no pre-registration is requested.

The conversation series is organized in a collaboration between Region Uppsala, Region Halland, Region Blekinge and Region Gävleborg.

Program for Fall 2025:

September 25
Gustav Svanborg Edén – Urban development through skateboard culture

Gustav Svanborg Edén works with urban development through collaboration with skateboard culture for the Real Estate and Street Office in Malmö. Through events, activations and legacy strategies, Malmö’s skateboarding events have not only activated the city’s skateboard parks, but have also stepped out into the urban space. Malmö’s welcoming attitude has distinguished Malmö and become part of the city’s brand. Gustav talks about the development from a garage under the Triangeln shopping center to world championships, world champions, skateboarding high school.

October 16
Salad Hilowle – Public design in the National Archives in Härnösand

The artists Salad Hilowle and Johan Tirén (here in the role of curator at the Swedish Council for the Arts) discuss the artistic process that forms the basis for the public design of the National Archives in Härnösand.

November 13
Nilsmagnus Sköld – Designed living environment in healthcare environments in Skåne

How does Region Skåne work with artistic designs and designed living environment in healthcare environments? The new hospital buildings in Malmö have been a major project and Nilsmagnus Sköld has the main responsibility for the art in those buildings. “In Region Skåne, art is an obvious part of creating health-promoting and attractive premises. Both for employees and for visitors,” writes Region Skåne – which has a new art policy and guidelines in the works this autumn – on its website.

December 4
Earth Logic Design Agency – Design from an earth logic perspective

Design researchers Mathilda Tham and Åsa Ståhl and Helen Hägglund from Linnaeus University are working on an exhibition about designed environment that will grow together in co-creation with visitors from the university, organizations, companies and citizens during the period March 12 to September 19. Earth Logic Design Agency investigates and embodies what kind of transformative power and imagination an earth logic perspective, which puts the health of the earth and all species ahead of, for example, growth, can have.