Conference 2024: Designed Living Environment – How to Count?

How much does quality cost? Do we need and can we think and calculate in new ways?

The conference brings together property owners, construction actors, municipalities, and authorities to collectively listen to inspiring examples and discuss how we create and ensure attractive living environments and manage existing values – for today’s residents and for future generations.

During the morning session, we will hear from various actors who develop and discuss how to achieve sustainable and high-quality construction that is not subordinated to short-term economic considerations. The afternoon offers several inspiring and educational examples from different parts of Sweden on how we can work consciously with both material and intangible values, all to achieve sustainability and quality in the creation of our shared living environments.

We will also broaden our perspective with two keynote speakers, one Swedish and one international, who will address the conference theme.

Plus, the winners of the ‘Årets strålkastare’ Award are announced – recognizing those who’ve set the bar high in the field of Designed Living Environments.

Watch the conference in retrospect (in Swedish):

Karin Svanborg-Sjövall, State Secretary, Ministry of Culture

Jayden Ali, architect and founder of JA Projects

Lars Strannegård, economist, President of the Stockholm School of Economics

Loulou Cherinet, Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack

Anders Lendager, architect, Creative Director and founder of Lendager Group

Maja Hallén, architect at Nordmark & Nordmark and Lecturer at Umeå University

Staffan Moberg, Chief Legal Officer at Insurance Sweden

Anna Denell, Sustainability Director at Vasakronan

Martin Rörby, architectural historian and writer

Kristina Mjörnell, Business and Innovation Area Manager at RISE

Richard Mattson, City Architect at Borås Municipality

Jonas Ward, Head of Community Planning at Borås Municipality

Cameron Bray, Urban Designer and Co Design Lead JA Projects

Helena Bjarnegård, Sweden’s National Architect, Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning

Marja-Leena Pilvesmaa, Head of the Department of Cultural Environment, Swedish National Heritage Board

Jessica Segerlund, Head of ArkDes Think Tank

Lotta Mossum, Acting Head of the Art Unit, Swedish Arts Council

Rahel Belatchew (moderator), architect and debater

About the conference

Since 2020, the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning ↗, the Swedish National Heritage Board ↗, ArkDes and Public Art Agency Sweden ↗ annually arrange a conference about Designed Living Environment. The conference is aimed at those working at municipal, regional, and national levels, within academia or as private practitioners.

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Reports and publications

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Conference 2024: Designed Living Environment – How to Count?

Speakers

About the conference

Report 2023: Sustainability, Quality and Economics