Yes, we can

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• Team Razavi

  Very very gold designer Farvash Razavi is
  back – as football manager for the team
  swedish heartists. "that's what drives me, to
  find loopholes in the rules", she says.

  par BM
• One in a million

  The altruistic designer from Helsinki was chosen for the grand prize. Ilkka Suppanen
  is on his way to gothenburg this fall.

  par Salka Hallström Bornold
• Playtime in Paris

  A nordic pavilion is currently being made according to the game of whispers principle, inspired by Michel Foucault.

  par Salka Hallström Bornold
• Danish steel

  Vipp has come a long way since the first
  pedal bin was made in the thirties. Form
  visits Vipp shelter, the Danish company's
  new venture.

  par SH
• Sofia Hedman

  Futurism, Bruegel and archaic jewels - there's a new curator in town, who takes inspiration from history.

  par Sofia Hallström
• Art star on the move

  Ulrika Elovsson is leaving her position as creative director at Issey Miyake’s
  former studio Reality Lab. The curtain is going up for something new. This fall, we get
  to see the textile designer’s contribution to the exhibition Utopian Bodies, made out
  of materials that she buried around the world – from the Dead Sea to Santa Fe.

  par Nils Forsberg
• Game of stones

  A new brood of Swedish jewellery designers
  make the scene. Stina Persson Helleday and Marcus Palmqvist
  show some of their intriguing works.

• The fibre revolution

  The conventional textile industry is devastating to the environment.
  But a brighter future is approaching – fabrics that can purify water, measure
  ECG or conduct electricity. Annica Kvint tells of the revolution that is
  taking place in the School of Textiles in Borås.

  par Annica Kvint
• Gimme shelter

  Of course you can change the world with architecture.
  The Finnish firm Hollmén Reuter Sandman explains
  how and hope that others will follow.

  par Bo Madestrand
• Welcome to Metalville

  The brass foundry of Skultuna was founded by a malicious
  monarch in 1607. Today, the factory produces contemporary products
  in cooperation with the Swedish designer elite. What happened in between?
  Salka Hallström Bornold and Carl Hjelte search for Skultuna’s sinuous
  history along the riverbanks of Svartån.

  par Salka Hallström Bornold
• Starcraft

  Tribute owers, a clever necklace and zen ceramics
  – the Form team has gone news hunting again.

  par The Form Team
• We live in a political world

  The times they are a-changin’. Here’s a new generation that
  wants to make a difference in society. Students from the fashion
  and design academies in Sweden address everything from
  gender issues to meat consumption and poverty.

  par Salka Hallström Bornold
• Done in 5 seconds

  A candleholder in three to five seconds, a piece
  of furniture in three to five minutes. Bo Madestrand meets
  Jenny Nordberg, the designer who explores the
  missing link between industry and craft.

  par Bo Madestrand
• Casa mia

  She started at the top, at Jean Nouvel and Herzog & de Meuron. For the past ten years,
  she has worked under her own name, and has just been involved in completing a large
  housing complex in Paris. Bo Madestrand meets Mia Hägg, one of Sweden’s most
  successful international architects, for a conversation about Slussen, social architecture
  and how to breathe new life into the Million Programme.

  par Bo Madestrand
• Smells like Sissel’s spirit

  She has made smellscapes of cities, produced human cheeses
  and recreated the stench of male fear. Now Sissel Tolaas, smell researcher and
  designer, wants to start an institute for emotional knowledge.

  par Salka Hallström Bornold