Industrial Design

The Industrial Design programme at Konstfack places great focus on design for sustainable development, which includes aspects such as circular design, global climate goals, sustainable materials and sustainable production. This year, we are exhibiting degree projects that highlight this in various ways, and to some extent also question prevailing norms. With creativity, curiousness and genuine knowledge, the students shed light on current challenges and explore how their proposals can function in different contexts and situations. An important part of the design process concerns ideas about how and where the design proposals should be manufactured, which materials they should be made of, how they can be stored, and how they can be reused or recycled. With consideration to nature, animals, people and places, the students make prototypes, conduct user studies, and experiment together with others. Designers can develop solutions to problems by investigating, designing and materialising proposals, but also by advancing ideas on how we can relate to our environment in different and sometimes unexpected ways

This year’s degree projects touch on a number of different topics across a broad spectrum: how furniture and products can be manufactured more sustainably and also tell a story, a protective vest tailored to a woman’s anatomy for greater protection, a lifebuoy that can be started remotely to better reach those who need it, design solutions for bars and hotels, an acoustic screen for Berwaldhallen, an urn made of wool that can challenge conventional materials in the internment process, a bra designed in a new way, a home cultivation station for mushrooms. We also have students who present their own design principles manifested in their own design proposals, who design a boat or motorcycle, and those who investigate play in design or Wabi Sabi as a philosophical approach in design proposals.

The end results have been refined through a conscious design process in which different ideas have been tested and sifted through various filters to reach the final design proposals. Often in close dialogue with both potential partners and their supervisors.

The prototypes and models that can be viewed in the exhibition space have been created in their entirety by the students themselves in Konstfack’s workshops, under the supervision of the workshop teachers.

We are proud to welcome you to discover the Industrial Design degree projects and meet the students who worked on them!
 

The teachers at the Bachelor’s programme Industrial Design