ArkDes Think Tank

The Sustainable City forum communicates issues involving sustainability to all – both those who work with urban development and those who have a general interest in our physical environments.

Hållbar stad is based on collaboration with other parties who work in different ways with the development of cities. By publishing articles describing ongoing projects or new innovations on the website, collaborative partners can find inspiration and learn from each other. Today, the website has some 40 collaborative partners such as municipalities, organisations, regions, universities and authorities. Observations of the world around us and columns that debate related issues also provide a forum for conversations and social analysis that widen the debate on sustainable cities.

The website distributes information and documentation from physical and digital meetings, and reports on topical issues. The target group comprises parties working on issues relating to urban development, and the general public.

In 2014, the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the Swedish Energy Agency, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and the Swedish Transport Administration were assigned the joint task of establishing and administering a platform for issues regarding sustainable urban development – a Platform for sustainable urban development.

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The purpose of the Sustainordic network is to gather and distribute good examples of sustainable production and consumption in the Nordic countries and abroad.

Sustainordic has also produced a common Nordic manifesto based on target number 12 in Agenda 2030, to “ensure sustainable consumption and production trends” and has compiled twelve underlying sub-targets that can be linked to ongoing Nordic architecture and design projects where the expressed objective involves sustainability.

The network was established in 2015 when a number of Nordic organisations within architecture and design joined forces to reinforce their cross-border collaboration via a formalised partnership, with jointly defined visions and goals for collaboration.

Network partners include ArkDes and Form/Design Center in Sweden, in addition to Aalto University in Finland, DogA in Norway, Dansk Design Center and Iceland Design Centre.

ArkDes and Form/Design Center in Malmö took the initiative for and are project owners for Sustainordic. ArkDes is the administrative body for the project.

Sustainordic has been financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

The conference Nordic Report: Architecture and Design – the Nordic Way in spring 2018

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