Author: Form

With her organic powder puff furniture, Anna Aagard Jensen is challenging traditional gender roles and encouraging women to take up more space in public. By changing our body language, we can also change our way of thinking, she says. Anna Aagaard Jensen makes chairs that force women to take up more space. Her Lady Chairs are powder puff pink, organic and cheeky. Above all, they should be sat on with legs wide apart.

Designer Katja Pettersson, former member of Front, is one of the participants in the art exhibition Shapeshifters at Malmö Art Museum (on show until August 9th). The exhibition examines how the climate crisis affects human life, making it particularly relevant in these times. Digital presentations of the exhibition, which remains open to the public, are published every Wednesday and Saturday.

In a virtual hackathon on April 3-6, 7400 participants have been on a mission to design, test and execute solutions for the future of Sweden. The mission was to find and develop solutions to find new methods to be used in the ongoing resistance. Hack for Sweden was assigned to The Agency of Digitalization (DIGG) by the Swedish Government, and the first mission was to find solutions to the consequences of COVID-19.

Sponsored content: Meet the winners of The Antalis Interior Design Award. The second edition of the Antalis Interior Design Award was a huge success with 535 published projects covering home interiors, retail, hospitality, public premises and offices, as well as 3D projects on scale models in white. Meet all the winners and the jury.

Stockholmsmässan, the venue for the yearly event Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair, is now a temporary external hospital. The healthcare will be carried out in a sealed and totally separated area from the rest of the event activities, which will not be affected. "When Region Stockholm asked the question about the possibility of using Stockholmsmässan´s facility, the answer was of course yes." Stockhomsmässan states on their website.

The new COVID-19 virus is testing Sweden, our society and us as citizens. Everything normal about our daily lives has been put on hold. Life, health, and jobs are threatened.Hack the Crisis will gather all parts of our society who wants to be a part of the solutions we need for our future; the public sector, private sector, academia, non-profit organizations, and citizens are all welcome to contribute. The online hackathon will have three focus areas; to save lives, save communities and save businesses. Participate in Hack the crisis April 3-6!

The gallery CFHILL in Stockholm is open by appointment only and one of their exhibitions at the moment is 2.0 with works by glass artist Hanna Hansdotter. Check out her impressive glass sculptures!

One of Sweden's foremost designers goes sci-fi. In the exhibition Hyper Human at the Tekniska Museet in Stockholm, Monica Förster creates rooms out of artificial intelligence and the robot's cultural history. There will also be a gene lab, cyborg painting and the chance to try an exoskeleton. Due to the current situation concerning the Coronavirus Tekniska museet is closed, but the exhibition will be om view between 3 to 5 years once the museum opens again.

Sponsored content: The Antalis Interior Design Award is now closed and an impressive 535 decoration projects have been submitted before the deadline. In Scandinavia a total of 18 projects are competing for the awards. 5 from Sweden, 5 from Denmark and in Norway 8 has been submitted. See three of them below!

Sunday March 8th, on International Women’s Day, the exhibition "Signature Women – 100 Years on the Swedish Art Scene" opens at Artipelag. 50 Swedish female artists will be presented, well-known as well as previously marginalized names, active from the previous century up to current day.