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.

From the cellar to the kitchen

How can basement rooms be transformed into flamboyant meeting places? The innovation agency Vinnova, through ShiftSweden, has granted 1.2 million SEK to a project in Rosengård in Malmö to allow residents to grow food in basement premises.

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A regional knowledge center for designed living environments

Kunskapscenter för gestaltad livsmiljö "The Knowledge Center for Designed Living Environment" is an initiative from Region Skåne that is run with support and guidance from Kulturförvaltningen och Regional utveckling "the Cultural Administration and Regional Development". Since autumn 2023, the platform has been part of the Form/Design Center, which is Sweden's designated node for the national policy for designed living environments.

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Botildenborg – SOIL

The organization and farm Botildenborg, has together with the Form/Design Center, Malmö University, the Swedish Agricultural University, LUCSUS at Lund University, Region Skåne and the city of Malmö, started SOIL - a project with the aim of increasing research and knowledge about the social innovations carried out on the farm.

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Urban Academy

On Nov. 13, 2024, nearly 30 participants gathered at the Form/Design Center to connect to the cross-industry platform Urban Academy. Business, academia, civil society and the public sector are coming together to act against a lack of representation in the civil engineering industry.

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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.

Beyond zero

21 NOV 2024 – 12 JAN 2025

Exhibition

Nordic Carbon Neutral Bauhaus

Environmental degradation is a complex crisis where problems such as emissions, the depletion of virgin resources, and a socially just transition are all intertwined. To understand how architecture’s environmental impacts arise and where its potential for improving environmental conditions lies, we must focus on the processes through which the built environment is produced.

The exhibition at Form/Design Center is part of the project Nordic Carbon Neutral Bauhaus.

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.