Yes, we can

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.