ArkDes closed for reconstruction

ArkDes is now closed for reconstruction, and the journey towards the new ArkDes, set to open on June 14th 2024, has begun. The museum’s unique collection, a hidden cultural treasure consisting of four million objects, will finally be unveiled for visitors. Café Blom is open as usual.

ArkDes closed for reconstruction

The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design

Gingerbread House

GINGERBREAD HOUSE RETURNS IN 2024

ArkDes is currently closed for reconstruction, which means that the Gingerbread House exhibition will take a break in 2023, but it will return better than ever in 2024.

ArkDes

ArkDes closed for reconstruction

ArkDes is now closed for reconstruction, and the journey towards the new ArkDes, set to open on June 14th 2024, has begun. The museum’s unique collection, a hidden cultural treasure consisting of four million objects, will finally be unveiled for visitors. Café Blom is open as usual.

On display

Exhibitions

Girjegumpi by Joar Nango

For over fifteen years, architect and artist Joar Nango has been assembling an archive of books about issues relevant to Indigenous architecture. This year Nango, alongside a team of collaborators, unfolds Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library—a structure, social space, and source of knowledge around architecture in Sápmi—at the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Conference

Designed living environment 2023 – a conference about creativity, knowledge and competence

Watch the 2023 conference “Designed living environment – a conference about creativity, knowledge and competence” retrospectively. This year’s theme addressed the question: What competencies do we need to work thoughtfully with designed living environments in our time and to meet future challenges?

Explore ArkDes

ArkDes x Konstfack

How is an archive brought to life?

Sixteen students from Konstfack – the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm – have taken on the task of bringing the museum’s collections to life. Five drawings have been taken from the museum’s archives to be studied and reinterpreted. How is an almost 50-year-old hand drawing made digital? Here, you can see the drawings being transformed into something new, and hear the students talk about their journey through the ArkDes collections.

Video

Research conference: The Home, the Collective and Radical Modernism

We invited five guest researchers who raise new narratives among the museum’s more than four million objects. Watch the conference in its entirety through the link!

Call for proposals

Power of Places

In the future, development and maintenance will be two words to describe the same thing. The Power of Places call explores ideas and methods for utilizing, carefully developing and strengthening local values in the urban development process. If we would not produce new things but instead take care of the materials, opportunities and people that already exist in a place, what kind of development and aesthetics would that allow for?

Relive

The Limits of Our World

Relive a day of talks and conversation exploring live-action role-play (LARP) and its relationship to design and public life.

Talk

Amie Siegel in conversation with Theodor Ringborg

Amie Siegel, whose 2022 work The Silence is currently on view at ArkDes, in conversation with Theodor Ringborg, artistic director at Bonniers Konsthall.

Video

Watch the Lewerentz Symposium

In connection with the last days of the exhibition Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Life and Death, ArkDes acknowledged the exciting research and thinking about Lewerentz that has happened beyond the museum in a research symposium.

Article

Research at ArkDes 2017-today

In this article, our director Kieran Long brings together our research initiatives in a narrative that can describe what our ambitious programme of research has led to in the recent five years.

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