Announcing This Year’s ‘Årets strålkastare’ Award Winners in Designed Living Environment!

*Photo: Ricard Estay. Statens konstråd. 2024.* Årets stålkastare 2024. From left. By 2030: Eva Haraldsson, city architect, Camilla Ottosson, coordinator, René Jaramillo, chair of the regional development committee, seated from left. Sunny Sandström, head of Sustainable Growth at Region Kronoberg. Hållbara hus i Västra Götaland: from left. Mats Lindström and Ulf Henningsson. Avtryck för framtiden: Rolf Anderzon and Kajsa Willemark.

Here is this year’s ‘Årets strålkastare’ award in Designed Living Environment! BY2030 from Region Kronoberg, Avtryck för Framtid, and Hållbara Hus i Västra Götaland receive the ‘Årets strålkastare’ award for 2024.

The ‘Årets strålkastare’ award was presented at the annual national conference on Designed Living Environment, co-organized by the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning ↗, the Swedish National Heritage Board ↗, ArkDes and Public Art Agency Sweden ↗. The award aims to spread knowledge, good ideas, and initiatives, and most importantly, to inspire others in the field of Designed Living Environment.

– The four agencies—the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, the Swedish National Heritage Board, ArkDes, and Public Art Agency Sweden—want to use the ‘Årets strålkastare’ award to highlight actors who, in their work, illuminate the various perspectives of designed living environments and spread knowledge and inspiration about consciously designed living environments, says Jessica Segerlund, Head of ArkDes Think Tank.