The graduating students in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design examine and materialise ideas about how we live together, in our communities, cultures and ecosystems. Anchored in Konstfack’s practical workshops and through independent work, which examines physical and digital boundaries, the students engage in everyday environments, homes and public spaces.
The students extend a hand to architecture, art and crafts, drawing methods, techniques and theories from various fields. They test encounters between form, substance and material, and seek new approaches to production in a world of finite and unique natural resources.
This year’s graduating students make furniture of agar, of thistles and bulrush, of steel industry waste products. They design based on our collective memory bank, from the patterns of sandy lake bottoms, or from suburban spatial structures. They work broadly, freely and individually, and not infrequently with transformation or translation as method. The voice of a beloved relative far away gives shape to a chair. They work in the home, with new hybrid furniture in the wake of the pandemic, and they speculate about the home’s new role as public space through digital platforms. They work experimentally, but often anchor their projects in everyday situations in the city, such as the design language and typology of the kiosk, or the café where architectural history is woven together with the present.
Together, the students create hope for the future, with a new generation of designers who engage in critical issues through artistic design processes, by being simultaneously inventors, manufacturers and communicators.
Welcome to the bachelor’s programme in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design’s Degree Exhibition 2022, where we are presenting ten projects.
Rebecca Ahlstedt, Christian Björk and Einar Rodhe, Senior Lecturers
The graduating students in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design examine and materialise ideas about how we live together, in our communities, cultures and ecosystems. Anchored in Konstfack’s practical workshops and through independent work, which examines physical and digital boundaries, the students engage in everyday environments, homes and public spaces.
The students extend a hand to architecture, art and crafts, drawing methods, techniques and theories from various fields. They test encounters between form, substance and material, and seek new approaches to production in a world of finite and unique natural resources.
This year’s graduating students make furniture of agar, of thistles and bulrush, of steel industry waste products. They design based on our collective memory bank, from the patterns of sandy lake bottoms, or from suburban spatial structures. They work broadly, freely and individually, and not infrequently with transformation or translation as method. The voice of a beloved relative far away gives shape to a chair. They work in the home, with new hybrid furniture in the wake of the pandemic, and they speculate about the home’s new role as public space through digital platforms. They work experimentally, but often anchor their projects in everyday situations in the city, such as the design language and typology of the kiosk, or the café where architectural history is woven together with the present.
Together, the students create hope for the future, with a new generation of designers who engage in critical issues through artistic design processes, by being simultaneously inventors, manufacturers and communicators.
Welcome to the bachelor’s programme in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design’s Degree Exhibition 2022, where we are presenting ten projects.
Rebecca Ahlstedt, Christian Björk and Einar Rodhe, Senior Lecturers
