Sustainable Development

Form/Design Center works long-term with sustainability within the framework of a designed living environment. With a focus on cross-sectoral collaboration, our development projects contribute with forward-looking knowledge that strengthens the conditions for the UN's global sustainability goals and the EU initiative New European Bauhaus.

Från källare till kök

Hur kan källarlokaler förvandlas till prunkande mötesplatser? Innovationsmyndigheten Vinnova genom ShiftSweden har beviljat 1,2 miljoner kr till ett projekt i Rosengård i Malmö för att låta boende odla mat i källarlokaler.

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Botildenborg – SOIL

Organisationen och gården Botildenborg har tillsammans med Form/Design Center, Malmö universitet, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, LUCSUS vid Lunds universitet, Region Skåne och Malmö stad startat SOIL – ett projekt med syftet att öka forskning och kunskap kring de sociala innovationer som genomförs på gården.

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Urban Academy

Den 13 nov 2024 samlades närmare 30 aktörer på Form/Design Center för att ansluta till den branschövergripande plattformen Urban Academy. Näringsliv, akademi, civilsamhälle och offentlig sektor går samman för att agera mot bristande representation i samhällsbyggnadsbranschen.

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SPOK, a platform for local manufacturing.

SPOK

SPOK is a production platform that aims to gather and spread knowledge about local manufacturing possibilities ranging from handicrafts to industries. SPOK aims to promote the development of local production in Sweden and in the long term also more-local consumption.

SUSTAINORDIC at Almedalsveckan in Visby.

SUSTAINORDIC

SUSTAINORDIC is a Nordic platform operated by Form/Design Center that aims to promote sustainable cities and societies, as well as sustainable consumption and production in accordance with the UN’s global goals 11 and 12 in Agenda 2030.

During 2022–2024, SUSTAINORDIC will focus on sustainable building materials and architecture, as part of a Nordic initiative to strengthen sustainable and competitive construction. The Nordic countries have joined together in an effort to find new knowledge and solutions to support the construction sector in becoming more sustainable.

Conference: Place- and nature-based architecture in the Nordics

12 nov 2024 / 08.30 - 21.00

Konferens

Floor 3

A full day conference where we together explore how actors in the Nordic countries can encourage accelerate and the transformation by (re)introducing local materials, combining tradition and innovation towards building practices to keep architecture and construction within planetary boundaries.

Watch the conference online and listen to leading experts in architecture, urban design, research, policy, and industry as they explore the future of place-based architecture and nature-based construction.

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NEB Contact Points på Form/Design Center

Swedish partners to New European Bauhaus.

New European Bauhaus

Form/Design Center has been appointed official partner in the European Commission's New European Bauhaus (NEB) - an initiative that adds a cultural and creative dimension to the European green transition to encourage sustainable innovation and technology.

Skapa plats!

Residensprojekt

Tomelilla

How can areas in public space function as artistic places accessible to all? The residence Skapa Plats! (Create Space!) gives artists the opportunity to both explore and take a place, in this case at Tomelilla Square and Tomelilla Art Gallery.

Share Future Living

Share Future Living is a cross-sectoral research and collaboration project between academia, business, organisations and the public sector with a focus on housing sharing and social sustainability. The project is implemented in various phases, initially with the support of Formas, the state research council for sustainable development.

Play for Democracy

Play for Democracy is built around the plans for a new town hall in Ängelholm. The site and the municipality's plans for a new public building are the starting point for the project, which aims to develop a new interdisciplinary working method where the public space is designed based on artistic processes and children's play. Form/Design Center, Konstfrämjandet Skåne, Lund University LTH, Tankesmedjan Movium at SLU and Ängelholm Municipality have been granted a total of SEK 2.5 million for a joint multi-year research project within the framework of Forma's open call Designed Living Environment.

Foto: Fanny Hansson

What Matter_s

What Matter_s is a project that brings together designers with participants from academia and business to create new materials, innovative concepts and business opportunities based on sustainable development. The project has attracted a great deal of attention both nationally and internationally and shows the potential of interdisciplinary collaborations. Through these cross-collaborations, we can visualize complex research and advance the positions in the work for a more sustainable future.