Scandinavian MIND

We revisit a live panel talk from the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, which was part of our activities during space week earlier this fall. The panel discusses how space can act as an accelerant for good on earth — specifically in fighting poaching. Panel members are Professor Jan Staël von Holstein, Herman Stander, Peace Parks Foundation, Cecilia Hertz, Umbilical Design, and Tina Sjögren,...

On the show today: This week’s travel guide to Sognefjorden, the breathtakingly beautiful and big fjord in Norway. Our favourite memories and projects from Virgil Abloh. How Jack Dorsey’s tech empire is accelerating with Square’s name change to Block. The future of mobility via water travel. Takeaways from Slush 2021 in Helsinki, with mini-interviews from Urho Konttori, CEO and co-founder of Varjo...

Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck has been an aeroplane pilot for more than a decade but is now taking another trajectory within aviation — airships. Lawaczeck is the CEO of OceanSky, a Swedish based aviation company that seeks to disrupt air travel through the reinvention of LTA, Lighter-than-air technology.  In this episode, Carl-Oscar talks about: The safety of lighter than air technologies How airship...

We invite Scandinavian MIND editor-at-large Fredrik Ekström to speak on The New Sustainable Consumer, to be released on December 9. In the quantitative report, Fredrik clarifies sustainability with toolkits to thrive in this time of rapid transformation, highlighting areas where brands can win, directions for success, and consumer profiles we should be talking to now, and how to speak with them. T...

Jakob Trollbäck is the founder of The New Division and Trollbäck + Company . On top of this, he is perhaps most famous as the main architect behind the communication language for the United Nation 's 17 Global Goals for sustainable development. Since its launch in 2015, the Global Goals agenda has been used by companies and organisations worldwide and has been a substantial contribution to the inc...

Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. The Startup Funding Report, which shows the inequality of how much investors invested in women versus men. Mips’ virtual testing lab for helmets. The no-brainer of investing and visiting Höga Kusten.  With: Nora Bavey, Ge...

Margot Barolo is a renowned product designer and programme director and lecturer at Beckmans College of Design. In recent years Barolo has delved into the issues of production and challenged the image of production, which has resulted in several books and projects. Most recent is the Kinship method, a book and project on changing a very stagnant and frustrating design process for designers. Talkin...

Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. How Zara Larsson’s Roblox concert revenues surprised everyone (except gamers). The four pillars of mobility, and listing groundbreaking mobility companies within the aviation industry. How Espoo, Finland’s second-biggest city, is a...

Today we revisit our interview with Karinna Nobbs and Marjorie Hernandez from June 2021. Karinna Nobbs and Marjorie Hernandez are founders of The Dematerialised. A new marketplace for digital fashion, or as they call themselves a market space. They are pioneering the world of digital style, authenticated by blockchain technology. In this conversation, Karinna and Marjorie talk about: The common mi...

Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: We go all in on the metaverse. After Facebook announcing their company name being Meta, the idea of the metaverse is entering the mainstream.  Microsoft’s recently announced debuting metaverse products&nb...

Meet three founders of forward-thinking startups, and hear them talk about how to innovate traditional industries, running a company based on Swedish values, and the need for more female entrepreneurs. This podcast was recorded on stage at the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, and is part of our Changemakers series. Speakers are: Claudia Rademaker, VP & Co-founder of Dugga Assessment. An...

Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: Did Facebook change its name to Meta to accelerate the metaverse development or to start fresh? The new Oura Ring 3 can measure and map your health 24 hours a day. What is a B-corp, and should companies even w...

Micael Dahlen is a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, with expertise in the intersecting areas of consumer behaviour, human happiness, welfare, marketing and creativity. He is also a speaker and an author, with the latest book Sifferdjur on shelves now, in which Micael and co-author Helge Thorbjørnsen discuss how numbers are running, and ruining our lives. In this episode, Micael...

Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: The possible game-changing moment for cryptocurrencies after the US ETF boost. Dissecting Expo 2020 in Dubai, and ranking the different Scandinavian pavilions. Boots on the ground reporting from GiTech, includ...

At the start of this week, Scandinavian MIND presented the launch of Space Week at the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai. On the opening day, we conducted a panel talk with Christer Fuglesang, astronaut, Cecilia Hertz, space designer and founder of Umbilical Design, and Mathias Sundin, founder of Warp Institute. In this podcast, the panel talk about: How human space flight drives technology d...

Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: We’ll talk about Swedish mobility company Lynk & Co new retail concepts. We go behind the scenes of our cover story with Google designer Isabelle Olsson. And we’ll talk about Scandinavian MINDs upcoming ac...

Today we sit down with space designer Cecilia Hertz, founder and managing director at Swedish space technology company Umbilical Design. Cecilia walks us through how space tech can give us a bird's-eye view of problems we have on the ground. She also breaks down Space Week, one of 10 thematic weeks at Expo 2020 in Dubai, where space researchers and designers from all over the world will gather to...

Our guests today are Ted Persson and Greg Bernstein, partner and venture lead at VC firm EQT Ventures. The duo dissects what frontier and deep tech mean, the responsibilities of ethics in tech, and the amazingly sustainable potential that technology can offer by making production hyperlocal again. Talking points: The building stones of EQT Dissecting frontier tech and deep tech...

Our guest today is Taras Kravtchouk — the Swedish Founder and designer at Tarform, an electric mobility company that makes the most awesome motorcycles out of Brooklyn, New York. Taras is featured in our latest print magazine, in a story photographed and written by our US contributor Agaton Ström. In this podcast, we revisit the audio interview, done by Agaton at the Tarform studio. In this e...

Ilenia Martin, our editor-at-large within design and communication, discusses the official return of the physical design week post lockdown restrictions. She recently attended the 3DaysofDesign in Copenhagen, and shares in this podcast how she thinks the future design week might look like, and what the design industry has learned from the last year and a half-long pandemic. In this conversation, N...

What can the business sector do to help improve the quality of the Baltic Sea? Three high-level professionals discuss. Speakers: Louise König, Manager Strategic Sustainability, Ramboll Management Sweden, Peter Wiwen-Nilsson, Race for the Baltic, and Emilia Molin, Managing Director, BE WTR. This podcast is an outtake from Baltic Sea Water Talks, a conference hosted by the foundation Initiativ Utö i...

The final and second part of the interview dives deeper into the artist and person that is Jacob Felländer. He explains how he has a black belt in worry and doubt, but still never worries about his art projects. How do you manage family life when you travel half the year, and why it would be impossible to solely live in Stockholm where he is based both professionally and privately? In this convers...

Season two of the Scandinavian MIND podcast commences with a two-episode long interview with issue 2 cover star and art profile Jacob Felländer. Part one of the interview touches on how to democratise art using Jacob’s new self-invented method, which teaches creativity in schools all over the world. Jacob also breaks down his recently launched project The Great Escape, landing on Mount Everest by...

Giulio Bonazzi is the CEO of Aquafil, a leading Italian producer of Nylon materials. Guilio has longstanding experience from the fashion industry and is known for spearheading ECONYL®, a recycled nylon made from industrial plastic, waste fabric, and fishing nets. In this conversation, Giulio talks about: — Why it is so complex to recycle clothing. — Why recycling should be the last resort after re...

Karinna Nobbs and Marjorie Hernandez are founders of The Dematerialised. A new marketplace for digital fashion, or as they call themselves a market space. They are pioneering the world of digital style, authenticated by blockchain technology.  In this conversation, Karinna and Marjorie talks about: — Computer-generated representation of an accessory or a garment — The common misconception tha...