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We revisited a panel discussion from the Transformation Conference in Helsinki a few weeks ago, where we discussed the opportunities and challenges for designers in a more fragmented fashion landscape.

We will hear from:

• Jenny Hytönen, designer
• Anna Semi, designer and teacher, Aalto University
• Ervin Latimer, designer & founder of Latimmier 
• Alice Bouleau, Principal & Head of Creative Pole, Sterling International.  

We also share a short introduction to the article “Nordic fashion needs a new north star,” by authors Evie Kivi and Maria Ervast.

Host:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief and Founder, Scandinavian MIND. 

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We report from Finland’s fashion week, where shows, exhibitions, awards, and our very own Transformation Conference took place last week. 

We share three conversations:

• Jani Niipola, Executive Director, Fashion Finland
• Laura Juslin & Lilli Maunula, founders of the design studio Juslin Maunula
• Sara Martinsen, Exhibition Producer and Co-curator, Designmuseo and Sofia Ilmonen, designer

We talk about:

• The importance of building bridges between commercial fashion and creatives
• How to turn ugly materials into something beautiful
• The rise of a Finnish repair movement

Hosts:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief and Founder, Scandinavian MIND. 

Johan Magnusson, senior editor

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We are reporting from the fashion’s biggest sustainability conference that took place in Copenhagen last week. 

Fashion brands, sustainability experts, and policymakers gathered in the Danish capital to discuss our industry’s pressing issues.

We were on the ground, conducting interviews and listening to the talks. 

In this episode, we will give our key takeaways from the event and discuss with Faith Robinson from Global Fashion Agenda, the organisation behind the event.

We talk about:

• What issues were most important
• How do they select their guests, and why
• Faith’s own highlights highlights

Hosts:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief and Founder, Scandinavian MIND. 

Oliver Dahle, Editor-at-large

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We are revising the latest edition of Virtual Creativity Live, which we recorded in front of a live audience at the Lynk & Co showroom in Stockholm. 

In this episode, you will hear from: 

• OLOF LINDH, Founder, Kive
• LINDA PIMMESHOFER, Founder, Change Retail
• THOMAS HANA, Co-Founder, Naughty Society

We talk about: 

• How a brand will evolve in the age of artificial intelligence 
• How creatives should use generative AI in their marketing material
• And the opportunities available for retail

Hosted by:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief and Founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

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We are speaking with Christopher Morency and Tom Garland, founders of the London-based brand consultancy Edition Partners and the insights platform and newsletter State of the Art.

We talk about: 

• The need to build a brand universe 
• What community actulally menas
• Their best examples from global fashion and entertainment brands 
• As well as their personal favourites from the Nordics

Hosted b:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief and Founder, of Scandinavian MIND. 

Erik Olofsson Havikko, Creative Director, Scandinavian MIND

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This is the first episode in a series of conversations we will publish throughout 2024 in collaboration with textile innovations company OnceMore.

We are speaking with:

Alexander Granberg, Senior Project Specialist Sustainability & Innovation, at the Danish fashion company Bestseller

Angeline Elfström, Business Development Manager, OnceMore.

We talk about: 

• Why working more sustainably is a cross-disciplinary practice within a fashion company
• Lessons learned from implementing textile innovations 
• How the collaboration between Bestseller and OnceMore started
• The need to educate the fashion industry in new technologies 

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We are speaking with Ted Persson, Partner at EQT Ventures and one of the instigators of The Climate Brick, a new framework to fast-track climate tech.

We talk about: 

• Why climate tech needs a different approach to investing and scaling than traditional software companies 
• We go through the several bricks in The Climage Brick program, including Green Deployment, Product disruption, and Moonshots.
• We also get into how AI will change creativity.

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We are reporting from the leading trade shows for the textile industry that took place in Frankfurt this week. 

You will hear from:

Dr. Ingo Rollwagen, Professor at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences

Lea Zimmermann, Textile Engineer, German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research

Lauren Davies, Senior Strategist, FranklinTill

Nanny Thorman, Textile Engineer, Lunamicro

Dirk Vantyghem, Director General, Euratex

We will talk about:

• Selfcooling textiles
• Good examples of regenerative practices
• The challenge to getting the rest of the world to follow the new EU regulations
• Amelioration – what it is, and why it matters

Hosted by:

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

Johan Magnusson, Senior editor, Scandinavian MIND

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We revisit a talk from Transformation Conference last year, with two of the Nordics’ leading sustainability experts in fashion.

Sandra Roos, Vice President Sustainability, Kappahl

Jessica Cederberg Wodmar, EVP Global Sustainability & CSR, GANT. 

We talk about:

- What they are doing to prepare for the new EU legislation

- Their view on the extended producer responsibility

- The need for new tech solutions

Host: Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and founder, Scandinavian MIND

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We are revising the latest edition of Virtual Creativity Live, which we recorded in front of a live audience at the Lynk & Co showroom in Stockholm. 

In this episode you will hear from: 

MARCUS SÖDER, Creative Fashion Analyst

JULIA KRANTZ, founder of Magic Fabric

ROEI DERHI, fashion designer and founder, Placebo 

We talk about:

• How will creativity in fashion change in the wake of artificial intelligence? 
• What are the consumers saying about virtual worlds and digitization? 
• How to run a phygical fashion brand.

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We are joined by our new editor-at-large for beauty Selah Rui Li.

Selah will report from 

• Cosmoprof, the big trade show in Bologna 
• Her observations from the beauty tech scene 
• Lessons learned from running her own beauty tech brand Ellure 

Hosts:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief and Founder, Scandinavian MIND. 

Johan Magnusson, Senior Editor, Scandinavian MIND. 

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We are revisiting our trip to ISPO Munich last year, ahead of the German trade shows upcoming edition this summer. 

In this episode you will hear from: 

– Lena Haushofer, Exhibition manager, ISPO.  

– Kristian W. Andersen, Creative Director of Zeitgeist-ISPO

We will talk about:

– How ISPO Munch have evolved in recent years

– Connecting outdoor with sustainability and lifestyle 

– The role of trade shows in 2024 

Hosted by:

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and founder, Scandinavian MIND. 

Fredrik Ekström, editor at large

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We are reporting from D-Congress, the retail conference hosted by Svensk Handel/ Swedish Commerce at Gothia Towers in Gothenburg a couple of weeks ago. 

We will hear from:

• Magnus Nikkarinen, Director, Sustainability at Swedish Commerce
• Linn Lindfred, founder of Circularista and project manager for the Trace4Value DPP project
• Helena Waker, CEO, Stockholm Fashion District
• Per Ljungberg, Head of Innovation at Swedish Commerce and Head of D-Congress

We talk about:

• Key takeaways from the show
• Why data sharing is so crucial for a sustainable fashion future
• And take a look at the first Digital Product Passport for fashion

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We are revising the latest edition of Virtual Creativity Live, recording in front of a live audience at the Lynk & Co showroom in Stockholm. 

In this episode you will hear from: 

• MARCO CAVAZZANA, founder, Cavazzana Collection 
• HEDVIG MOBERG, founder, Pha–ny 
• CARL-AXEL WAHLSTRÖM, founder, Copy Magazine

We talk about:

• What generative AI and new digital tools will mean for the future of image creation
• The role of Open AIs new text to video model Sora
• And how to run an visually driven agency in the age of AI

Host: Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief & founder, Scandinavian MIND. 

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Our editor-at-large Fredrik Ekström sits down with the team behind Highsnobiety about their report The new outdoor.

In this episode you will hear from: 

– David Fischer, Founder, Highsnobiety 

– Harry Bainbridge, Strategy Director, Highsnobiety 

We talk about:

– The convergence lifestyle and outdoor

– The role of cultural pioneers in this development

– How Highsnobiety has collaborated with outdoor trade show ISPO

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We are visiting Swedens bigest tech event, the Tech Arena, that took place last week and the Swedish national arena in Stockholm. 

We will hear from entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors on the show floor. 

Henrik Otendal, co-founder, Reselo

Maria Smith, Secretary General, Axfoundation 

Jonatan Tullberg, CEO, GS1 Sweden

Evalina Antilla, CEO, Wellstreet Ventures. 

Jonas Kjellberg, of-founder, Nor Norm

In this episode we talk about:

• The temperature of the investment market and the struggle for startups to find capital
• The need for new solutions for the textile industry
• Why rubber is about to be revolutionised 
• And can we make the furniture industry circular? 

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We are revisiting our latest Beauty Innovation Talks, recorded in front of a live audience at Copenhagen International Fashion Fairs.

We will hear from:

Tina Dupont, Product Director, AI & Robotics, NTT Data


Adam Engelhardt, CIO, CertifyAI Institute


Danielle Watson, Senior Director Business Development, Revieve

In this conversation we talk about:

– The latest trends in generative AI

– Using data to strengthen the customer journey

– How brands can leverage new technologies like (AI), (AR), Virtual Try-On (VTO) for consumer-centric personalization

– The importance of omni-channel approach 

Host: Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and Founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

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We speak to Natasha Franck, founder and CEO of EON, a US-based traceability company that has spent the past seven years developing technologies that are now in high demand. EON is working with brands like Balenciaga and Coach on transparency projects, and with the upcoming EU requirement, they are ready to take on the wider European fashion industry. 

In this conversation we talk about:

– The commercial opportunity of digital twins

– The challenge of producing more revenue and less physical product

– Navigating the EU legislations  

– Digital Product Passports

Host: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief and Founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

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We report from Scandinavia’s largest design event that has taken place this week, both at the trade show Stockholm Furniture Fair, as well as the many events and showrooms around town.

In this episode, we will hear from:

• Emma Olbers, designer and sustainability expert
• Adam Scheuring, CEO of carbon software company Variable
• Jacob Wallér, owner, Jordens Arkitekter
• Sean Barrett, Head of Innovation, and Alexander Westerlund, Head of Design, Interesting Times Gang

We talk about:

• How to develop low-carbon products
• Why hemp is the new linen 
• What does biophilic mean and why is it important 

With:

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

Johan Magnusson, senior editor, Scandinavian MIND

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We report from the Danish capital, taking the temperature of Nordics premier fashion industry event and speak to the designers and entrepreneurs that move the industry forward. Also: we visit a new show concept that has arrived in the city. 

In this episode we will hear from:

Sigurd Bank, founder and designer of Mfpen.

Gustav Kjellander and Emil Holmström, founders of Brixtol Textiles 

We talk about:

– Pushing the deadstock agenda forward 

– New material innovations 

– How to be a responsible fashion brand in 2024

Hosts:

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and Founder of Scandinavian MIND

Johan Magnusson, senior editor, Scandinavian MIND

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We travel to the French capital for the famous interior design trade show Maison&Object, where there is a strong push towards wellness. We explore what it means with leading voices. 

In this episode we hear from:

Laurence Carr, founder and CEO of circular design firm Laurence Carr Inc

Brune Ouakrat, Strategic Planner & Perspectivist, at the trend agency Peclers Paris

Mallory Huron, Beauty & Wellness Strategist, Fashion Snoops also a leading trend agency.

We talk about:

* Why every brand needs to think about wellness

* Material innovations transforming the traditional design sector

* And the next technologies that will transform the beauty and wellness industry 

With:

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and founder, Scandinavian MIND. 

Johan Magnusson, senior editor, Scandinavian MIND

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We go existential on the fashion industry with Eugene Rabkin, a New York based writer and editor and founder of the media platform StyleZeitgeist

Our editor-at-large Oliver Dahle met with Eugene at the Fashion talks event in Antwerp late last year, hosted by the flemish industry organisation Flanders DC.

In this episode we talk about:

1. The failing cultural relevance of fashion
2. How the industry can regain its stature
3. The conglomeration of fashion
4. His backhanded compliment to the Scandinavian fashion industry 

With:

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and Founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

Oliver Dahle, editor-at-large

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We travel to Florence to visit the legendary menswear trade show, and take a peak under the hood with the people responsible for the show and its activities.

In this episode we will hear from:

Giorgina Cantarini, fashion writer, with a focus on sustainability, and curator of the S Style event 

Raffaelo Napoleone, CEO, Pitti Immagine, the organisation that runs the trade show

We talk about:

— How the industry can transform to a more sustainable fashion industry

— What new technologies are needed to implement this change

— How the Pitti organisation are 

Host: Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and Founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

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We are revisiting our Beauty Innovation Talks in Stockholm a few weeks go, where we hosted a great rooster of speakers form the Nordic beauty scene. 

We hear from:

Lucas Nanini, Head of Europe & Asia, The Good Face

Johanna Gillbro, Founder, Skinome

Josefin Liljeteg, Chief Innovation Officer, Hardford

Lars Fredriksson, CEO & Founder, Verso

Leo Salvi, Head of Science, KIND TO BIOME

These were wide ranging conversations we we covered a lot of topics, including: 

– The state of science-backed beauty

– The new obligations for brands, retailers, and laboratories

– The health of the skin microbiome and barrier as key purchasing criteria

Hosts:

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief

Johan Magnusson, senior editor

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In this episode we will hear from:

Dr. Hanna Grabenhofer, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Co.

Valérie Boiten, Senior Policy Officer, Ellen MacArthur

Our editor-at-large Oliver Dahle recently traveled to Antwerp and the yearly design event Fashion talks by Flanders DC, where he met some of the fashion industry’s most forward thinking people. 

These were wide ranging conversations about the transformation in the fashion industry, covering amongst other things: 

• What new technologies you need to navigate an uncertain industry 
• A look at the recently published The State of Fashion Report 
• The new legislations from the EU, specifically eco design for sustainable products 

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We are revisiting a live talk with Gustav Winsth, a furniture designer who is exploring and pushing the boundaries for how to design, using AR and VR technology. 

In this conversation we talk about: 

• Gustav’s journey from working at truck manufacturer Scania to becoming a leading designer on the Swedish design scene, 
• His collaboration with Alexander Lervik
• How he is revolutionizing traditional prototyping and sketching processes.
• And we delve into Winsth's unique aesthetic approach

This conversation was recorded at first edition of Virtual Creatives Live, an event series we are doing in collaboration with Lynk & Co. 

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Today we will share insights from our interview series on upcycling, written by Aylin Franzon

• Lessing learned from upcycling brands ILAG, Deadwood and ARV
• The challenges and opportunities with upcycling
• Special guest is Lovisa Nolander, product manager, XV Production, a facility on the west coast of Swede, specialised in upcyclied fashion 

Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and Founder of Scandinavian MIND. 

Johan Magnusson, Senior editor 

Aylin Franzon, reporter.

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We share our insights from the industry gatherings in Sweden the past week: Natural Beauty Show & Borås Textile Days. 

From Borås, we share our thoughts on the renewed sense of collaboration in the fashion industry. 

From Natural Beauty Show in Malmö, we will hear from participating experts, including: 

• Nina Drake af Hagelsrum, CEO & co-founder, Make Notion
• Olga Ringquist, co-founder, Oquist Cosmetics
• Povilas Sugintas, Senior Consultant Beauty & Fashion, Euromonitor International

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In this episode, we revisit a live talk with Katarina Håkansson, a seasoned makeup artist and 3D animator with extensive experience in the traditional fashion industry in New York and Paris.

Katarina's journey from working with top fashion photographers to returning to school for 3D animation, using tools like Meta Human, is explored. She discusses the impact of avatars on identity and beauty standards in virtual worlds, a transition that has earned her a significant social media following.

Recorded at the inaugural Virtual Creatives Live event, co-hosted by Lynk & Co in Stockholm, this conversation delves into the intersection of technology and creativity. Join Konrad Olsson, editor-in-chief and founder of Scandinavian MIND, for this insightful dialogue with Katarina Håkansson.

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After a busy week of visiting shows and panel talks, we circle back to our HQ to summarize Fashion X, the Stockholm ”fashion week” run by the Swedish Fashion Council. We discuss the main takeaways, and share field interviews with the following industry insiders:

Chloé Mukai, Senior Programme Officer, at the Ethical Fashion Initiative.

Angeline Elfström, Business Development Manager, Oncemore.

Isobel Farmiloe, Group Strategy Director, Dazed.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder, Johan Magnusson, Senior Editor, and Aylin Franzon, Editorial Assistant.

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We give a rundown of Beauty Innovation Talks that we hosted in Stockholm last week, where two live interviews were conducted in front of a live audience.

Hear from Selah Rui Li, Founder, Ellure, and Miroslav Slavic, Chairman and Nordic CEO, FOREO, who discuss what new technologies to look out for in the future, and Miikka Mäkiö, Senior Vice President of EMEA, Revieve, and Marcus Fogel, Senior Director Global Digital Services, Oriflame Cosmetics on using data to power a customer-centric approach. These were wide-ranging conversations we we covered a lot of topics, including:

The next trends in the beauty industry.

Why diagnostics is a keyword to remember.

How beauty can move to made-to-order.

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We revisit the Transformation Conference in Stockholm this autumn, where we held a talk with two of the Nordics’ leading sustainability experts in fashion: Sandra Roos, Vice President Sustainability, Kappahl, and Jessica Cederberg Wodmar, EVP Global Sustainability & CSR, GANT. We talk about:

• What they are doing to prepare for the new EU legislation
• Their view on the extended producer responsibility
• The need for new tech solutions

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For this special episode of our weekly podcast, we go behind the scenes of Scandinavian MIND Agency. We talk about.

• The importance of being insights-driven in your communication 
• What brands can do to strengthen their trust and credibility 
• The need for community building and how editorial content can be a driver
• And the story of why we built an agency in the first place

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We take a look at the outdoor industry and its sustainability challenges — and some recent initiatives and solutions that are trying to address them. On the agenda today:

We look at some of the Nordic innovations happening in the industry today.

A field report from Gore-Tex laboratory in Germany, to hear more about their bet on durability.

We interview Eva Karlsson, CEO of Houdini Sportswear, one the Swedish brand’s new circular store in Stockholm.

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Johan Magnusson, Senior Editor, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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Today we revisit a live panel talk from CIFF, Copenhagen International Fashion Fairs, that we held in August. The panel discusses how brands need to communicate their efforts around sustainability, diversity, and innovation to spark change in the beauty industry. Panel members are:

Molly Rådberg, Head of New Markets & Relations at MANTLE

Esteban Villanueva, Beauty Writer and Nordic Beauty Director, Spalt PR

Louis Rind-Nygaard, Sustainability Specialist at Rudolph Care

Moderator: Johan Magnusson.

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Soon, every product sold in the EU will need to carry a Digital Product Passport (DPP) with information on raw materials, production, distribution, point of sales, and end-of-life scenarios. We speak to the people behind Trace4Value, which recently announced a pilot project about the development of DPPs in textiles.

We hear from Jenny Wärn, head of implementation at Trustrace, Sandra Roos, vice president of sustainability at Kappahl, and Staffan Olsson, head of public affairs at GS1 Sweden on key takeaways from the research project so far.

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We are revisiting a talk from the Transformation Conference in Stockholm last month, with insights from top fashion investors Erik Karlsson, Head of H&M Ventures, and Jessica Rameau, Partner, Wellstreet.

In order to implement new technologies and practices in the fashion ecosystem, capital is needed. We hear what Erik and Jessica are looking for when investing in the fashion and lifestyle space. The panel talk circulates around:

• The importance of capital to enable new technologies in fashion.
• How they support their portfolio companies once they have invested.
• And which technologies they are looking for today.

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We call in from Helsinki, where the 18th consecutive Helsinki Design Week took place this past week. From an action-packed couple of days, we discuss some of the collaborations, initiatives, and brands that caught our attention. Also, we will hear from four voices inside the Nordic design scene:

• Ervin Latimer, founder and creative director of Latimmier on his latest collaboration with Mifuko.
• Marianne Goebl, the managing director at design institution Artek, on the brand’s 90-year jubilee.
• Hilda Rantanen, CEO and co-founder of Materialisting, on the platform’s service to source traceable and environmentally friendly materials for brands, and the coming EU legislations.
• Casper Vissers, CEO of Basta, on the brand’s innovative approach to designing, producing, and distributing locally from the Nordics by using local ateliers. 

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Johan Magnusson, Senior Editor.

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Today we’re joined by Ola Gejde, founder of Stockholm-based consultancy Daimon Retail, an expert in beauty and retail. We discuss:

The state of Nordic beauty from a business perspective.

Lessons learned from launching several Nordic beauty brands internationally.

Why beauty has become more of an identifier for consumers

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Johan Magnusson, Senior Editor.

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We go behind the scenes of the fifth instalment of our bi-annual event Transformation Conference, which took place in Stockholm yesterday.

We hear key takeaways and listen to reactions from Sandra Roos, vice president of sustainability at Kappahl, Outi Luukko, CEO at Rester, and

Sarah Arts, the head of marketing & communications at Asket, who participated both on and off stage.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Johan Magnusson, Senior Editor.

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With the Transformation Conference in Stockholm just around the corner, we revisit a talk from the Helsinki edition held in May of this year. In this live panel talk, we speak about academia and the EU’s role in fashion’s imminent need for transformation. Talking points are:

How big the new EU legislations actually are

What organisations and academia can do to help prepare the industry for this upcoming transformation

And where you will find the best resources for understanding what’s happening in the EU right now

Speakers: Mauro Scalia, Director of Sustainable Businesses at European Apparel and Textile Federation, Marika Ollaranta, head of decarbonizing industries, Business Finland, Kirsi Niinimäki, associate professor of design and fashion research at Aalto University, and Emilia Gädda, chief advisor, sustainability and circular economy, Finnish Textile and Fashion.

Don’t miss the upcoming Stockholm edition of the Transformation Conference!

Date: 31 August 2023

Time: 09.00–13.00

Location: Snickeriet, Augustendalstorget 6, 131 52 Nacka strand

Conference entry is free of charge. Limited seats.

Register here.

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Oslo Runway is three days of shows, exhibitions and other forms of fashion expression, not including the off-schedule events. We discuss where Norwegian fashion’s recent wave of creativity comes from, the role of Norway in the Nordic fashion ecosystem, and the rise of locally produced wool. Also, we will hear from four voices inside the Norwegian fashion scene:

• Sunniva Hartgen, Head of Fashion at Oslo Runway.
• Cathrine Boerter, founder of Pearl Octopuss.y — the hottest brand in Norway right now.
• Hilde Pettersen Reljin, the co-founder of Collective Oslo which hosted several shows of up-and-coming designers.
• Kyrre Alver, founder of the renowned Blender Agency.

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The leading Nordic fashion week took place this week in a somewhat rainy Copenhagen. We were there, both as observers at the shows, but also with our own talks schedule that took place at the trade show CIFF. On top of our sharing our favourite shows and general impressions, we hear from three voices inside the fashion week:

Rose Svane, up-and-coming designer.

Alice Bouleau, Principal & Head of Creative, at the Paris-based recruiters Sterling International.

Gonzalo Catalán, Founder and CEO, of fashion and distribution company welcome.

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We revisit a talk from the Transformation Conference in Helsinki back in May of this year, where we gathered investors, innovation companies and fashion brands to hold a cross-industry conversation about the fashion industry’s most pressing issues. In this live panel talk, we discussed:

• The need for understanding the whole supply chain and end-of-life of products
• The importance and challenges of becoming a profitable brand while making progress on sustainability
• What different industries can learn from each other

Speakers: Jessica Rameau, partner, Wellstreet, Elin Silfvast, production manager and sustainability lead, Brixtol Textiles, Olli Kähkönen, founder, Nordic Bioproducts Group, Thomas Håkansson, designer for brands such as Tiger of Sweden, Fjällräven and Swims.

Don’t miss the upcoming Stockholm Edition of the Transformation Conference!

Date: 31 August 2023

Time: 09.00–13.00

Location: Snickeriet, Augustendalstorget 6, 131 52 Nacka strand

Conference entry is free of charge. Limited seats.

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Today we give an update on how EU regulations will affect the fashion industry, from the supplier to the consumers. A slew of new legislations are coming to the global textile industry in the coming years. We’ll provide an overview of these legislations, as well as give you the resources where you can find out more. We’re also going to talk about:

• Takeaways from Global Fashion Summit that took place in Copenhagen this week
• We will hear from Mauro Scalia, Director Sustainable Businesses at European Apparel and Textile Federation, EURATEX, who held a Keynote at our Transformation Conference in Helsinki earlier this summer,
• And we will provide a preview of the upcoming Stockholm edition of the Transformation Conference in August.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Johan Magnusson, Senior Editor, and Oliver Dahle, Editor-At-Large, Fashion.

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The electrification of the sea is experiencing advancements, although much slower than the car industry. We were recently on the west coast of Sweden to test some new developments in hybrid boating, hosted by Volvo Penta and Groupe Beneteau, and in this episode, we share our experiences from the visit. We will also talk about:

• Some recent news in the boating industry
• Polestar and Candela’s new collaboration
• Why BMW is putting their i3 engines in motorboats
• And we will hear a longer interview with Johan Inden, President of Volvo Penta Marine

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Today we revisit a live talk from CIFF, Copenhagen international fashion fairs, where we held an exclusive live interview with Lars Fredriksson, the founder of Swedish beauty brand Verso Skincare. In this conversation, we touch upon:

• Why Vitamin A is key to Versos products
• Verso’s own patent, Near 1
• The role of biotech going forward
• What it means to be a responsible brand today

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Today we revisit a live talk from CIFF, Copenhagen international fashion fairs, that we held earlier this year. In this talk we sit down with Suzan Schlag, the CEO of L’Oréal Nordics, to discuss:

The biggest challenges that the beauty industry is facing right now

The most important technologies L’Oréal are working on, including AR/VR, skin scanners, and more

How L’Oréal attract talents

And the role of the Nordics on an international stage

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This Tuesday, the biannual beauty event Stockholm Beauty Week for industry and consumers was held at Berns Hotel in Stockholm. We were there to soak up the latest news and to interview industry insiders. In this episode, we get quick-fire interviews with:

Benjamin Liljeblad, product manager at Gilda Liljeblad, on the brand’s revamp and science-backed formulas.

Eylacure founder Petter Sivlér and CEO Ranjith Ravichandran on their innovative bond restoration technology

Carl Helgesson, CEO of consultancy firm Rankona Mazon, who explains why yesterday was the best day for beauty brands to go live on Amazon.

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We report from Fashion in Helsinki, one of the most important fashion events in the Nordics. We attended both as collaborators with our Transformation Conference and as reporters at various shows and presentations. In today’s episode:

• Quick-fire interviews with representatives on EU laws, Marimekko’s new innovation hub, and SPINNOVA’s commercial-scale factory.
• Finland’s best designers and their runway shows
• The lively state of Finnish fashion and its cross-industry collaborations

Interviews held with:

Mauro Scalia, Director of Sustainable Businesses at European Apparel and Textile Federation, EURATEX, who did a much-liked keynote at our conference

Suvi-Elina Enqvist, Head of Innovation Works, Marimekko, on its new innovation hub.

Diana Balanescu, Global Brand Director at the innovative fibre company SPINNOVA, who talks about their first commercial-scale factory.

Juha Vehmaanperä, last year’s Young Design of the Year, who presented their latest collection in conjunction with our conference.

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We list three major themes in the beauty industry pushing developments within science, sustainability, and retail tech. The content in this podcast is a preview of the Beauty Innovation Report which was in part published in the latest issue of Scandinavian MIND. We talk about:

• How the future of beauty is phygital
• Innovative packaging
• Biotech and studying plankton
• And the latest advances in beauty retail.

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We revisit a live talk we hosted at CIFF, Copenhagen International Fashion Fair, earlier this year. In this conversation, Jasmi Bonnén, founder, Nuori, Martin Lyne, co-founder, Woods Copenhagen, and Mats Johansson, founder, L.a Bruket, talk about being a responsible beauty brand in 2023. Talking points are:

• The latest technical innovations, and how to implement them
• How the Nordics is pushing beauty innovations
• Taking responsibility for consumers and producers

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We revisit a live talk we hosted at CIFF, Copenhagen International Fashion Fair, earlier this year. In this conversation, Marika Ollaranta, Business Finland, Olli Kähkönen, Nordic Bioproducts Group, and Jarkko Havas, Spinnova, explore technological breakthroughs in fashion. Talking points are:

• The potential of new recycling methods
• Why talking about fibres is all the rage for fashion companies
• How Marimekko, adidas, and H&M are investing in new methods
• What new directives from the EU will mean for the industry

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We invite our creative director Erik Olofsson Haavikko to break down the content behind issue 4 — our latest printed issue themed around virtual creativity. We talk about:

• The importance of printed magazines in our increasingly digitised lives
• Insights and behind the scenes from the two cover stories with creative duo DangHo and Joel Hellermark
• And a special surprise for all our listeners!

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We call up our design editor Ilenia Martini who is present at Milan Design Week to hear what she’s observed for the past week, and what she’s looking forward to for the weekend. We talk about:

• Ilenia’s favourites exhibitions and project launches across the city
• Why fashion brands like Nike, Louis Vuitton, and Hermes are still betting on design weeks
• Our impression of Euroluce, the International Lighting Exhibition.

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The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space

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We share a special report from Metaverse Fashion Week, where our fashion editor Oliver Dahle for the second time shares his boots-on-the-ground observations and insights. In this episode, we discuss:

• Why legacy brands like Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger and Coach are still betting on the metaverse
• How this year’s cross-platform experience at Decentraland, Spacial, and Over enhanced last year’s version.
• How phygital has become the new buzzword in digital fashion
• And which up-and-coming designers are doing the most creative stuff

Show notes:

Is Metaverse Fashion Week here to stay? We returned for its second edition

Five industry insiders define the potential of digital fashion brands

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We continue to explore the development of AI in creative industries, this time looking at examples of when it is used in ethically questionable ways. Talking points are:

• Levis’ recent use of "artificial diversity" in their models
• What an AI drew up when we asked it to show us CEOs
• Will the new phenomenon LLMO replace SEO?

This is season 5, episode 13 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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Levis’ use of artificial diversity.

The tool we used to draw CEOs.

Roland asks GPT4 to share tips on how to use AI tools going forward.

How technology can be used to change social norms

Justin Fineberg discusses LLMO.

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Today we’re guested by Jonathan Haralambakis, owner and CEO of Stockholm-based marketplace platform xNomad, which aims to transform two innately traditional industries: real estate and physical retail. In this conversation, among much else, we talk about:

• What it’s like to digitise conservative industries
• How the pandemic accelerated digitisation across most industries
• What he does to bring data-driven decision-making to the physical space
• How his background as a banker has helped in the startup and lifestyle space

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Today we’re joined by special guest Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, serial entrepreneur and founder of the new media company Sequel.

Gustaf recently launched a new interview show featuring some of the world’s biggest personalities within business and culture, including business leader Gary Vaynerchuck, DJs Giolí & Assia, and fashion entrepreneur Matilda Djerf, as well as Joe Foster, the founder of Reebok.

Today we touch upon:

• What it means to be passion driven in the social media space.
• What you can learn from some of the biggest personalities in the world.
• The power of an audience, no matter which industry you come from.
• Celebrating people who are different, and do unusual stuff.

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This week OpenAI released GPT4, its latest language model. We break down what it means for the future of work and creativity. Also: we are joined by special guest Julia Krantz, Creative Director in the 3D space and founder of the website Magic Fabric, which covers digital fashion, AI art, and more. We talk about: 

• Our anxieties and worries about our work roles looking ahead.
• How we’re using AI in our daily work today.
• Julia’s own chatbot that works as an oracle for digital fashion

This is season 5, episode 10 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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We swung by the For Women in Science awards held in Stockholm on International Women’s Day, to hear about exciting new discoveries in the scientific world. The annual award rewards five eminent women scientists for their contributions to life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, and computer science. On today’s episode, we hear from:

• Kathlén Kohn, assistant professor in mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology and winner of the computer science award.
• Beatriz Villarroel, an astronomer at Nordita in Stockholm who leads the VASCO (Vanishing & Appearing Sources During a Century of Observations) project.
• Nina Wormbs, professor in the history of technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

This is season 5, episode 9 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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We return with part two of the Retail Tech Talks that we held at CIFF a few weeks ago. This time we share a live interview with Frederik Larsen (PhD), co-founder of In futurum, a Copenhagen-based fashion consultancy.

This fireside chat is called A new policy for fashion – how branding and production will be shaped by the ecological crisis and talking points, among much more, are:

How he helped to write the sustainability strategy for Copenhagen Fashion Week

What is happening with new EU directives

The need for clear and universal data

This is season 5, episode 8 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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Today we are revisiting our Retail Tech Talks, a live programme was hosted at CIFF, the Copenhagen International Fashion Fairs, a few weeks ago. We are going to listen to two panel talks, featuring a group of leading fashion, retail, and tech experts. These talks cover a range of topics, including:

• How new technologies can help fashion retail
• The need for data in the supply chain and beyond
• The issue of traceability and transparency
• The lack of tech knowledge at fashion brands
• How can brands help their retailers tell their story better to the customer
• The need to inspire the staff on the shop floor

First, we will hear from our partner Impulso’s CEO Viktoria Lindqvist who will give a brief introduction to our SaaS that aims to create a new circular ecosystem, benefiting all stakeholders in the supply chain.

This is season 5, episode 7 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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Last week, a fully physical Stockholm Design Week and Stockholm Furniture Fair took place for the first time in three years. This week on the podcast, we are joined by a group of insiders from the Swedish design and interior industry: Stefan Nilsson, trend expert, and Lisa Marie Mannfolk Eklund, Managing Editor, Tidskriften Rum. We talk about:

• Highlights and key trends from the week
• Top sustainability and innovation projects 
• And an analysis of the state of the design industry

This is season 5, episode 6 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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We continue to explore how AI remodels different creative industries, this time focusing on the music industry. Don’t miss this episode’s special bumper, solely AI-made! Talking points are:

• How generative AI is coming to music
• What Web3 and NFTs mean for music rights
• We also look at some of the Nordic startups in music-tech

This is season 5, episode 5 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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Calling in from Copenhagen! We share our impressions and lessons from the first couple of days at Copenhagen Fashion Week, and what we expect from the last day. On today’s show:

• The great turn-out at our live talks at CIFF
• Highlights from the shows, including Alpha, PLN, and Zalando Sustainability Awards.
• Impressions from buyers and brands, such as Bruce Pask, men’s fashion director at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman
• Plus an interview with Sofie Dolva, director at CIFF, on the recent merger with Revolver

This is season 5, episode 4 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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Today we are looking at some specific projects and phenomena that will, and are already, affecting fashion, design, art, and more. Talking points are:

• How AI can help with focus, relaxation and creativity.
• How a new generation of AI-designers is upending fashion
• How we are using AI to produce our next issue of Scandinavian MIND.
• Can an AI run an entire fashion business?

This is season 5, episode 3 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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We share a ground report from our visits to Pitti Uomo in Florence and Berlin Fashion Week. In the episode we talk about:

• The Nordic brands making a mark in Florence.
• Italian tradition versus German innovation.
• How AR and VR can be a tool for Upcycling.
• What we learned from the German company Yoona’s fashion-tech conference.
• How fashion activists took over fashion week – and fooled Adidas.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor, and Oliver Dahle, Editor-At-Large, Fashion.

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We’re finally back! We’re happy to kick off season 5 with special guest Charlotte Sundåker, CEO and co-founder of Planethon, a futures and transformation agency offering a data-driven, science-based platform and business design process framework that enable sustainable investments, transformation initiatives and partnerships. We talk about:

• Why companies and organisations need to learn to think more about their future
• The importance of storytelling to create future scenarios
• How future thinking can affect how we deal with our problems today

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In this episode of KONST, our host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar talks with LA-based Swedish art dealer Carl Larsson about how to do art business. Larsson is not only an acclaimed art advisor running one of the most inspiring art accounts on Instagram The Art Reporter — but he's also a very nice and humble guy. Talking points are:

• Running an art dealership for three generations.
• Helping Tim ”Avicii” Bergling build his art collection.
• The difference between Scandinavian and international collectors.
• How to build a presence on social media.
• A roundup of our favourite art events in 2022, and what we're looking forward to in 2023.

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND.

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Today we are revisiting a panel talk that we hosted together with Polestar in Helsinki, Finland a few weeks ago. This time we sat down with Tomek Rygalik, founder of Studio Rygalik and Design Nature and professor at Aalto University’s architecture department, as well as Petteri Masalin, the Chief Design Officer at Fiskars Group.

Together they discuss:

• The importance of values in design.
• What responsibilities do they have as designers with regard to sustainability?
• Their advice to young designers entering the business.

This podcast is produced in collaboration with Polestar. 

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Today we unwrap the recent social media craze on artificial intelligence text tool ChatGPT, and invite the creative director and founder of AI community RealDreams to get an early adopter’s views. We discuss:

• How ChatGPT can help with creativity and writer’s block.
• The current flaws and worries with the tool.
• Examples of video and image AI tools Justin uses as a filmmaker.

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Today we are revisiting a panel talk that we hosted together with Polestar in Helsinki, Finland a few weeks ago. At Polestar’s Helsinki-based showroom we hosted a panel conversation with Laura Juslin, fashion designer and founder of Juslin Maunula and Tej Chauhan, a London-born industrial designer working in his own Helsinki studio. Together they discuss :

• What responsibilities do they have as designers with regard to sustainability?
• How fashion and architecture can merge into one design experience.
• The need for emotive design.
• Their advice to young designers entering the business.

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Today we take a look at the ongoing launch of Nike’s new NFT platform .Swoosh and what it means for the future of digital fashion. We talk about:

• Why NFTs seem to thrive when crypto doesn’t.
• Are legacy brands the way forward for digital assets?
• The role of community in the digital fashion space.
• Instagram’s new NFT platform and other examples.

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Today we discuss the environmental and social effects of overproduction in the fashion industry, and try to look ahead with optimism. We discuss:

• Why overproduction occurs in the first place, and how it affects the Sell Through Rate at retailers.
• Why is it so hard to get the data? We unwrap the extensive 2022 Fashion Transparency Index report.
• The new market for discarded textiles, with oil refinery-type services in India and beyond.
• The need for recycling innovations, and our recent visit to Renewcell’s new factory.
• And our favourite initiatives from digital and physical fashion that could turn the negative trend around.

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We report live from Northern Europe’s biggest gathering of tech startups and VC investors. On top of personal observations on the state of VCs and investments in the Nordics and new announcements from the European Innovation Commission, we share insights from:

• Reetta Pesonen, head of communications at Slush, the reason why she wants fewer visitors. 

• The latest developments in the metaverse, with Zoan founders Miikka Rosendahl and Laura Olin.

• Sebastien Borget, Sandbox co-founder, on how brands should use the metaverse. 

• Agate Freimane, General Partner at Norrsken VC, shares the current investing climate. 

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For today’s episode, we lift the most exciting projects and initiatives from fashion resell platforms that have been launched recently. We talk about:

The state of resell.

Difference between vintage and resell

Our favourite resell and vintage platforms.

Season 4, episode 7 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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This week we invite our Senior Digital Editor and beauty expert Johan Magnusson to share the most interesting innovations, trends, and beauty tech initiatives in the Nordics right now. We discuss:

1. Virtual try-on, AI/AR, personalization for skincare and makeup.
2. The rise of blue beauty and the industry’s venture into the oceans to develop biotech and merge it with natural ingredients. 
3. Material innovation in both packaging and product, like using wood and 3D printers. 

Season 4, episode 6 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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In this episode of KONST our host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar talks about the hyped Coulisse Gallery with owners Filip Zieciak and Jeanette Gunnarsson. We’re also guested by Hank Grüner, who debuts his shamanistic art at the gallery on November 4. 

If the last episode was about running a gallery for 30-plus years, this conversation is about setting up a new space and how to build relevance. In this episode of KONST, the host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar meets with Filip Zieciak, founder of the much-hyped Coulisse Gallery. They are joined by Jeanette Gunnarsson, a freelance curator running the gallery with Filip, and Hank Grüner, an artist who will soon have his first solo show in Stockholm.

Coulisse Gallery focuses on presenting young, cutting-edge artists and designers, from Scandinavia and beyond. With a collaborative approach at its core, the gallery aims to bring a vibrant new energy to the Stockholm art scene, connecting artists and creatives from different disciplines who have common visual and conceptual threads in their practices. Coulisse Gallery is run by founder Filip Zieciak together with freelance curator Jeanette Gunnarsson. Filip is a Konstfack graduate, having previously worked as a furniture and set designer and architect in the Netherlands and Sweden. Jeanette previously worked as a freelance curator with various galleries in London and New York before moving to Stockholm at the end of 2021. 

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND.

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For today's episode, or listisode, we list 5 recent projects from the fashion industry that merge digital ownership with physical experiences.

1. Burberry and Minecraft’s coming collaboration of both physical and digital clothes. 
2. Gucci Vault and Palace’s digital shopping space.
3. Running brands Satisfy and Norda’s new trail shoe comes with a dynamic NFT that changes the more you run.
4. Chanel’s new beauty salon with virtual and in-person workshops.
5. RTFKT and Rimowa merge the world of physical and digital craftsmanship in a suitcase and NFT drop. 

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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This week we talk about Ugly Core, a new aesthetic for fashion and culture that has gone viral on Tiktok and Instagram. We discuss:

• How the trend grew in Generation Z, and we introduce some of the trends we’ve seen on social media.
• The Nordic example: Swedish designer Beate Karlsson, AVAVAV.
• How does it affect the fashion industry at large?

Season 4, episode 4 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In today's episode, our host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar is joined by Marina Schiptjenko, art gallery legend, pop star and actor. 

Marina Schiptjenko was born in 1965 in Malmö, Sweden. In 1986 she moved to Stockholm to study comparative literature and theatre at Stockholm University. Parallel to her studies she worked for Swedish Radio, hosting her own program series on electronic music and related topics.

In 1988 she started working as a director at a gallery focusing on constructivist art. After completing her studies, she was recruited by Ciléne Andréhn to Arton A, a contemporary art gallery in Stockholm. After a brief period of working together, they decided to open their own gallery; Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery was founded in 1991. Since its inception, Andréhn-Schiptjenko has consistently been committed to working in an international arena and to the long-term representation of emerging and established contemporary artists from all over the world working with painting, sculpture, photography, film and digital media as well as installation-based and site-specific work. The gallery is located in Stockholm and Paris.

With a profound interest in the exhibition as form, the gallery has presented shows that have become seminal, successfully launching the careers of Scandinavian artists such as Cajsa von Zeipel, Gunnel Wåhlstrand, Annika von Hausswolff and Matts Leiderstam, and giving artists such as Uta Barth, Cecilia Bengolea, José León Cerrillo, Martín Soto Climent, Ridley Howard, Tony Matelli, and Xavier Veilhan their first European or Scandinavian one-person exhibition. In recent years the gallery has also exhibited work by deceased artists such as Francesca Woodman and Siri Derkert, successfully renewing critical and public interest in their work.

Over the years, Marina Schiptjenko has lectured on contemporary art and music in the digital age, invited by a slew of Swedish companies and universities. For six years, she was chairperson for the Swedish Gallery Association and has been on the board of the Friends of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. She has been a lecturer at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and served as an examiner at the School of Photography at Gothenburg University and the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. She has often served as a jury member in contexts such as music, literature, design and art. She also worked as a master of ceremonies at several award ceremonies in the field of music, architecture and design.

Fun facts:

Marina has played the keyboard in different pop groups since 1980, the most famous one was Bodies Without Organs with Alexander Bard.

She acted in the Palm d’Or winner The Square alongside Claes Bang in 2017. They have continued the collaboration and are now making music together

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We sit down with special guest Atefeh Sebdani, a Stockholm-based tech worker, author, and activist, to further discuss our story about how the tech and lifestyle industries react to the Iran uprising. We talk about:

• The Nordic tech and lifestyle industry’s response to Iran.

• We go through what is happening in Iran right now, the protests by Iranian women, and subsequent strike downs and killings from the government, in the events following the death of Mahsa Jîna Amini in September.

• Why is the social media uproar so big in Sweden?

• What can someone do that wants to learn more?

Sign up for Amnesty’s petition here.

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This week we conduct a brand study of Nothing, the newly launched tech brand founded by the Swedish-Chinese super entrepreneur Carl Pei, and the creative juggernaut Jesper Kouthoofd.

• The brand has an outspoken mission to convert Apple users to Android, can they succeed? We talk about the strength of Apple’s walled garden.
• What do the design sensibilities of Jesper Kouthoofd and Teenage Engineering mean for the brand? We talk about the Swedish creative powerhouse that was portrayed in Scandinavian MIND issue 3.
• We look at the brand’s recent launch during London Fashion Week.
• Plus: we have used the actual product, and give a first-hand review of Nothing’s Phone (1).

Read our interview with Jesper Kouthoofd here.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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Finally, our weekly podcast is back from it (a bit too long) summer hiatus! This week we focus on the rise of the famed social media and entertainment platform.

• Why it’s more popular than its competition Facebook and Snapchat
• What happens when new generations start using TikTok as its primary search engine
• How should brands use TikTok to boost their engagement? Or should they? We talk about the implications of the Chinese ownership.
• We look at which Nordic brands are doing it best on TikTok.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

Our weekly show discusses how technology is transforming the creative industries. 

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Recycling textiles should be as natural as recycling paper or plastic. Why isn’t it? We discuss the challenges of turning textile fibres into new materials, and the technologies and regulations that are leading the way. 

Speakers:

Nora Eslander, Renewcell

Petri Alava, Infinited Fiber Company

This live talk was originally held at the Transformation Conference on August 25, a half-day conference on fashion-tech during Nordic Fabric Fair. The purpose of the event is to gather innovation companies, creative talent, and investors within fashion to create new alliances.

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Erik Karlsson, VC/Impact Investor H&M Co:Lab, Nora Bavey, Founder Unconventional Ventures, and Samira Aissi, Investment manager, SEB Greentech VC, talk about what they are looking for in startups and new companies. What are the new criteria for success, both from a financial perspective, but also in terms of sustainability, diversity, and innovation.

This live talk was originally held at the Transformation Conference on August 25, a half-day conference on fashion-tech during Nordic Fabric Fair. The purpose of the event is to gather innovation companies, creative talent, and investors within fashion to create new alliances.

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Saskia Neuman Gallery represents Nordic as well as internationally based artists. The exhibition program reflects a strong focus on early and mid-career artists, often previously not exhibited in Sweden’s commercial gallery sphere. In addition, the gallery aims to host a variety of happenings, including talks, performances and other events.

Prior to opening the gallery Saskia Neuman held the position of CEO of Market Art Fair. Saskia was previously the Director of the Absolut Art Award (The Absolut Company) for seven years. During her career she has worked at neugerriemschneider gallery, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, and the Venice Biennale, 2009. She is a monthly contributing writer to Vogue Scandinavia and contributed to publications including The New Era, Scandinavian Mind, Artlover and The Forumist, along with having written for Monocle, LOFT Magazine, 032c, Honoré Magazine and Berlin Art Journal in the past.

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND.

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How do you communicate innovation in a visual industry? We hear practical examples on creative marketing, and learn about the need for radical transparency in order to make the consumer a decision maker.  

Speakers:

Reetta Hassinen, Business Development Manager, Spinnova

Matilda Kivelä, Strategist, Reaktor

This is a panel outtake from The Transformation Conference in Helsinki in May 2022. On August 25, Scandinavian MIND is hosting the Stockholm version of the half-day conference on fashion-tech during Nordic Fabric Fair. The purpose of the event is to gather innovation companies, creative talent, and investors within fashion to create new alliances. Click here to see the full schedule and RVSP.

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Kirsi Terho, Key Account Director, Infinited Fiber, and Niklas von Weymarn, CEO, Metsä Spring, share practical tips on how brands and designers can utilise new technologies and material sciences to accelerate their sustainability practices.

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A new generation of consumers is demanding more from their brands. Taking a stand and showcasing your values are more important than ever. We look at how Finnish and Swedish values meet the task.

Speakers: 

Ekaterina Gianelli, Partner, Inventure

Ervin Latimer, Designer, Latimmier

Fredrik Ekström, Above the Clouds

Moderator:

Konrad Olsson

This live talk was originally held at the Transformation Conference on May 31. Together with Juni Communication, we invited industry executives, innovation companies, and international press to Puistokatu 4 for half a day of talks and panel discussions about how fashion-tech can drive transformation in the fashion industry.

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We invite a panel of designers to talk about how they can exchange their creativity, and sometimes radical ideas, into commercial successes while keeping an eye on the environment. As a central part of their design methodology, many use materials innovatively to create a more sustainable and responsible fashion.

Speakers:

Achilles Ion Gabriel, Creative Director, Camper

Ellen Hodakova Larsson, Designer, Hodakova

Jesse Hudnutt, Creative Consultant & Merchant 

Moderator:

Ane Lynge-Jorlén, Director, ALPHA

This live talk was originally held at the Transformation Conference on May 31. Together with Juni Communication, we invited industry executives, innovation companies, and international press to Puistokatu 4 for half a day of talks and panel discussions about how fashion-tech can drive transformation in the fashion industry.

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Thank you for tuning into the season finale of the Scandinavian MIND weekly podcast! In this episode:

• 9 highlights from Fuorisalone and Salone Del Mobile at Milan Design Week.
• Garments that can help people with deafblindness to communicate.
• Boston Consulting Group and Highsnobiety’s new whitepaper on the "Luxury 3.0”.
• A season recap quiz, with 5 quick fire questions (and a surprise for our listeners!).

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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Author and journalist Alec Leach released his new book The world is on fire but we’re still buying shoes earlier this year. This episode focuses on Leach’s key takeaways from his research on the fashion industry over the last couple of years.

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In this episode of KONST, our host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar sits down with Jerry Gogosian to speak on her art meme page @jerrygogosian, and the general state of the art industry. Jerry Gogosian is jet setting blonde who loves collecting expensive blue chip art, outbidding her enemies at auction, and working remotely from St. Tropez in the summer and Gstaad in the winter. 

Jerry Gogosian is jet setting blonde who loves collecting expensive blue-chip art, outbidding her enemies at auction, and working remotely from St. Tropez in the summer and Gstaad in the winter. Jerry is also a frequent visitor to all the world's most important art fairs where she rubs shoulders with and goes under the skin of industry insiders.

If you want to learn more about Jerry, read three of her most recent articles on The Persistence of Beauty, Venice Biennale 2022, and Millionaire’s Mall.

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND.

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Thank you for tuning in to our weekly podcast! This week we discuss:

• The best fashion-tech initiatives in the Nordics.
• A new EU rule will require all phones and electronics to use a standard charger.
• Our visit to Iceland Innovation Week and Nordic Startup Awards in Reykjavik, and speaking with Björn Orvar, co-founder of ORF Genetics.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Erik Sedin, Junior Editor, and Johan Magnusson, Senior Digital Editor.

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Thank you for tuning into the Scandinavian MIND weekly podcast! This time around we discuss:

• The opportunities, and challenges, with text-to-image AI deep learning (click this link to see our artworks!)
• How Biorestore’s innovative laundry solution restores and revives garments to a new state
• Key takeaways from our Transformation Conference in Helsinki, with insights from Dal Chodha, Wallpaper, and Yasmin Jones-Henry, Financial Times.
• Our extensive guide to Helsinki from Artek store manager Annika Tammi.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

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In this episode we discuss:

The upcoming design weeks.

Our favourite Beckmans College of Design’s graduation projects.

The coming Transformation Conference in Helsinki.

Playing artificial intelligence tennis with Swingvision, an Apple Watch and iPhone app which tracks and records your playing in real-time. 

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

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This is the third part of our new podcast series Values in the Metaverse. In this series, we will interview designers, experts, and entrepreneurs working with digital fashion, metaverse, and NFTs. When we’re creating a new digital universe, what kind of values do we want in it? This is the Nordic perspective.

In this episode, our editor-in-chief Konrad Olsson shares a Q&A session he held with the menswear departement at the H&M headquarters in Stockholm.

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In this episode we discuss:

• Einride’s Mesh event and the newly launched autonomous trailer.
• Inside fashion education’s digital makeover

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Erik Sedin, Junior Editor, Oliver Dahle, Fashion contributor, and Saina Koohnavard, fashion lecturer.

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This is the second part of our new podcast series Values in the Metaverse. In this series, we will interview designers, experts, and entrepreneurs working with digital fashion, metaverse, and NFTs. When we’re creating a new digital universe, what kind of values do we want in it? This is the Nordic perspective.

This time we're guested by Laura Olin, the COO and partner of the Finnish virtual reality studio ZOAN. As digital worlds takes hold, Laura Olin underscores the importance of Nordic values. 

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND. Sign up to our newsletter for instant access to all our content.

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In this episode of Scandinavian MIND weekly we discuss:

• Developments in fashion-tech and sustainability — our key takeaways from e-P Summit — Scandinavian MIND
• The Future of Fashion: From design to merchandising, how tech is reshaping the industry — CB Insights
• Instagram to start testing NFTs with select creators this week — TechCrunch
• Svenskarnas syn på NFT — Samsung Nordics

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In this episode of KONST, our host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar meets with Jonas Kleerup and Edin Kjellvertz. We discuss:

• The intersection of art and design.
• Have the (white cube) galleries outplayed their role?
• The new art and design fair and platform Cream.

Jonas Kleerup is an art consultant and advisor based in Stockholm. He works mainly with larger corporate clients like Hufvudstaden, The Absolut Company, Electrolux, NCC, Björn Axén and many others. Projects include everything from curating shows, and developing strategies concerning art to acquisitions and developing collections of contemporary art. He also works with a few selected private clients with building collections. Previously he ran a gallery under his own name before switching over to consulting and advising.

Ten years ago, Edin Kjellvertz started Dusty Deco together with his wife Lina; one of Sweden's most stylish and eclectic vintage stores with carefully selected design furniture, interior accessories and art that attracted buyers from all over the world. By the turn of 2020, they closed down their shop operations and moved to Mallorca to focus on the family but also build their own brand with their own design. The showroom in Palma is a mix of their own collection, vintage pieces and art the couple collected.

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In this episode we discuss:

Our recent survey on educating digitalisation at fashion universities.

How The Vatican will create a NFT gallery to ‘democratize art’

Spotify’s new Roblox platform

Finnish tech company Polar’s 45 year journey of leading the wearable space

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The Fabricant secures $14 million series a funding to build the wardrobe of the metaverse
• Meta to open first physical retail shop for virtual reality products
• Konrad’s debut on the audio app Anyone
• Our decentralized selves: creating in a post-identity future

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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This is the first part of our new podcast series Values in the Metaverse. In this series we will interview designers, experts, and entrepreneurs working with digital fashion, metaverse, and NFTs. When we’re creating a new digital universe, what kind of values do we want in it? This is the Nordic perspective.

Our first guest is Kerry Murphy, founder of digital fashion house The Fabricant and the cover star of our recently published Issue 3.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND. Sign up to our newsletter for instant access to all our content.

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In this episode we discuss:

• Roland’s visit to the first weekend at Coachella.
• The Absolut metaverse experience.
• Our ongoing Digital Fashion Special series online.
• Observations from Biennale Arte 2022 and looking forward to Stockholm Art Week next week.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In today’s episode, we give our listeners an ultimate guide to Stockholm Art Week 2022, taking place April 27 - May 1.

Joanna Sundström joins as co-host. She is a central figure in the world of Scandinavian art, as the founder of Stockholm Art Week and advisor to galleries, curators and collectors.

Stockholm Art Week is a platform showcasing leading Nordic art fairs alongside many of Stockholm’s prominent museums, institutions, and art spaces that will arrange special programs, events, and pop-up exhibitions throughout the duration of the week.

This episode is also guested by Sylvia Rynell, Marketing Director at Wetterling Gallery, one of the Swedish capital's most iconic art galleries.

Also joining us is Sara Berner Bengtsson, Director of Market Art Fair, the leading contemporary art fair in the Nordic region Initiated in 2006 by galleries representing the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The crypto club phenomenon and if they can match the likes of Soho house
• Stealing crypto and how to launder it
• Our cover story with Nora Bavey
• A little easter egg and exclusive invite for our podcast listeners!

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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The Water Innovation Talks panel discussion features BE WTR’s CEO Emilia Molin and Initiativ Utö’s CEO Robert Cederlund. The panel discusses how businesses can collaborate with NGOs to further develop innovation within water health.

The podcast also features snippets from two keynotes presentations that we’re conducted at the Swedish pavilion’s presentation stage at Expo 2020 Dubai.

The first is from Mike Hecker, founder of BE WTR, who shares the nitty-gritty of how the Swiss-Swedish startup can eliminate single-use plastic bottles.

The other is from Robert Cederlund, CEO of Initiativ UTÖ, who explains how wetlands can help to restore the baltic sea.

This podcast is part of Changemakers, a series of podcasts, panel talks, and live interviews produced in collaboration with the Swedish partcipation at Expo 2020 Dubai.

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In today’s episode, we discuss our boots on the ground visit to Metaverse Fashion Week! Talking points:

• Designing your avatar and finding your digital identity.
• Street style from visitors.
• Checking out runway shows and stores.
• Takeaways and improvement tips.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Oliver Dahle, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In today’s episode, Lina Aastrup joins as co-host. She is a curator and writer with a particular interest in contemporary photography and New Media Art that deals with political and environmental issues of our time. She recently finalised her MA thesis where she investigated the intersection of medium specific qualities of XR and its potential for disruptive art experiences.

We discuss:

• Disruption of the intersection between art and academia
• Digitalisation of art and the role of Extended Reality (XR)
• Political storytelling in the intersection between art and technology

This episode’s special guest is Solenne Tadros, a Jordanian Palestinian creative technologist & artist. She has a Design and Technology degree from Parsons School of Design. Solenne is a storyteller whose works reflect on social, political, and environmental matters. Her VR work has been exhibited in film festivals & exhibitions and featured in magazines like Vogue US, Vogue Espanìa, and many more.

Solenne Tradros will exhibit April 27–30 in Stockholm, Sweden: PRE-EXODUS VR experience and artist talk at Accelerator. 

Leila Khoury Nimry was thirteen years old when she fled her home in Haifa, Palestine during the Nakba in 1948. In PRE-EXODUS she shares the memories of her childhood bedroom, illustrated and developed into a virtual reality experience, created by Jordanian artist Solenne Tadros (b. 1996). The work activates questions of memory, intergenerational trauma, forced displacement and loss of land. PRE-EXODUS will be installed at Accelerator April 28-30, with an artist talk on the evening of April 27at 6 PM to introduce the work and open up a conversation on its related themes

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND.

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In today’s episode, we discuss our newly launched issue 3!

• The two cover stories with Nora Bavey of Unconventional Ventures and Kerry Murphy of The Fabricant.
• Our big special on the digital fashion industry.
• Metahumans made in Unreal Engine and the uncanny valley.
• Fashion stories on the baltic sea.

Pre-order your copy from Papercut now!

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Erik Olofsson, Creative Director, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In today’s episode:

• New report: Last year, Swedish startups secured a record €7,8 billion in VC investments — Scandinavian MIND
• Unique exhibition gathers four young designers combining high fashion and upcycling this week — Scandinavian MIND
• Web 2.0 investors aren’t cut out for the web3 world — The Information
• Is this the real reason Epic Games acquired Bandcamp? — Music Business Worldwide
• Gallery: The Mandalorian special — Disney

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In this episode we discuss:

• Our visit to the NFT festival Otherlands.
• Key technology trends in resilience.
• How beauty brands need to operate in digital worlds, and how gamers are not only interested in gaming.

This episode is guested by Nick Buckley, chief digital & marketing officer at L'Oréal Nordics.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In today’s episode:

• Michel Elmenbeck, joins as co-host. He is the founder of CFHILL Art Space and Bon Magazine, a renowned art advisor, collector and trend expert.
• OVRs (online viewing rooms); all major auction houses, art trade fairs and blue chip galleries seem to take away the option to view art online. What are the implications?
• NFTs and artist estates; what role will digitalisation of art and assets play for the future of artists and also dead artists’ estates? 
• Special guest: Destinee Ross-Sutton, International Curator, Artist Advocate, Art Advisor, and Gallerist.

Independently, she advises several private institutions and international collectors with an emphasis on responsible acquisitions of contemporary art. With a focus on African and African American art and a commitment to cohesive storytelling, Ms. Ross-Sutton has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to unify diverse subjects and styles within her curatorial projects. She is also making a name for herself as being a curator that discovers new talents and starting artist’s international careers. As artist manager, she acts as steward, guiding artists careers to fruition and to take control of their markets. See more on her website!

This episode was recorded Feb 22, prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND

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In today’s episode:

• How Scandinavian fashion and tech communities are supporting Ukraine.
• High-end fashion’s hits and misses in their support.
• Are the big tech companies doing enough?
• The launch of our new podcast KONST, launching next week.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In today’s episode:

• Sneak-peeks into our third printed issue, being sent to the printer this weekend.
• Inside the new Avicii tribute museum — Scandinavian MIND
• LinkedIn debuts its own podcast network — Tech Crunch

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

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In today’s episode:

• Fashion and art photographer Elizaveta Porodina’s new exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm
• Roland’s hands-on review of Kanye West’s Stem Player.
• We talk about Generation Mute – why silence is worth more than gold.
• Also special guest: Olof Lindh, founder and CEO of the Swedish startup Kive, an AI powered library for creators.

Shownotes:

Stem Player

Kive AI

Generation Mute: when silence becomes a trend

Elizaveta Porodina — окна

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founde and Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large.

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

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In today’s episode:

• Our boots on the ground observations from Copenhagen Fashion Week.
• The joint design and fashion week running in Stockholm right now.
• Sneak peek on our virtual fashion special in the coming issue 3.

Shownotes:

Standout local talents, diversity and Nordic collabs — 8 takes from our visit to Copenhagen Fashion Week

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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Today is a special episode in collaboration with NOMS, a newly launched impact-tech startup that challenges the way we produce, deliver, and experience fashion. NOMS is is a digital platform where consumers can order contemporary, fair trade garments, produced on-demand around the corner from where they live.

In this episode we talk to the founders of NOMS: Siri Vikman, CEO, and Rodrigo Gutierrez Benavente, Creative Director.

Exclusively, listen to the podd to get early access to the debuting drop from NOMS at nomsglobal.com.

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In today’s episode:

• How will a metaverse fashion week actually work?
• Our observations from Copenhagen Fashion Week
• The Nordic fashion prize winners
• Highlighting 5 phenomena from The Meta Trend Report of 2022
• Inviting Karolina Lisslö Gylfe, secretary general at Ekomodernisterna, to talk car-free cities, nuclear power, and more.

Shownotes:

• UNXD and Decentraland to host virtual Fashion Week in March
• The Meta Trending Trends: 2022
• Boram Yoo wins the Designers’ Nest Award 2022
• Svenska Ekomodernisterna

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

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In today’s episode:

• Gucci and Superplastic’s use of ”animated synthetic celebrities” like Guggimon and Janky to push their new NFTs.
• Our observations on Scandinavian fashion, digital speakeasy afterparties, and more at Paris Fashion Week.
• Kanye West’s Stem Player.
• Andrew Tuck, editor-in-chief of Monocle, guests us to discuss The Monocle Book of the Nordics.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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Thank God it’s Friday, and we’re back from our Christmas hiatus! In this episode we discuss:

• Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s exciting approach to NFTs
• Visiting a metaverse rave
• Microsoft’s 68 billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard
• The nasty logistics of returning online purchases

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

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On the season finale, we discuss:

• Nike acquires the french digital sneaker brand RTFKT
• Chanel invests heavily in craftsmanship and artisans
• Swedish developer Hazelight wins Game of the Year with It Takes Two
• We wrap up our mobility special, looking at innovations on rail and road
• And we talk about what’s in store for Scandinavian MIND in 2022

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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This week we're guested by Helsinki based Olof Hoverfält works as strategy & business design consultant at technology company Reaktor. Olof has made a name for himself as a writer and public speaker with expertise in artificial intelligence.

In this episode, Olof talks about:

• How AI is used when facing problems we’ve never encountered before. 
• The mystery of how machines learn to identify objects.
• How children and algorithms tend to just identify processes, even though we don’t know exactly how.
• The bias issue of AI.
• The complexity of creating language models, and the simplicity of applying them. 
• How popular culture affects AI and vice versa. 
• The myth of machines and AI taking human jobs. 
• Can AI be creative, or is that a uniquely human trait?

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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On the show today:

• Former Christie’s boss Loïc Gouzer’s newly started company Particle.
• Banksy’s Love Is In The Air painting is being cut up to 10,000 digital pieces as NFTs.
• Is shared ownership taking away the value of an art piece?
• The ins and outs of Chinese car brand Nio’s launch into the Norwegian market.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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, CEO Pythomspace.

The panel talk touches upon:

• How to stop poaching from a birds eyes view. 
• Using satellites to increase connectivity in isolated African societies. 
• How the massive deforestation issue can be tracked from above to see who’s the culprit.
• Where does the demand for ivory and rhino horns come from? 
• How all sales of illegal horns became illegal in China. 
• The hardest job is to change people’s minds.
• Seeing through the dark and seeing through clouds with new technologies. 
• Wild ideas for wildlife. 

This conversation is part of ChangeMakers, a series of podcasts, panel talks and live interviews, produced in collaboration with the Swedish participation at Expo 2020 Dubai. 

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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, and Johanna Norrman, CEO and founder of It’s Re:Leased.

Scandinavian MIND Weekly is 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.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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 airships are more similar to travelling on the water than in the air
• Why OceanSky is staring out in the luxury space
• How to change our living patterns and only use 20% of what we use today.
• The smoothness and flexibility of 360 vertical take-off and landings. 
• Are people ready to give up time to save emissions?

This conversation is part of ChangeMakers, a series of podcasts, panel talks and live interviews, produced in collaboration with the Swedish participation at Expo 2020 Dubai. 

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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.

Today on the show:

A ground report from the newly opened digital culture hub Space in Stockholm, which boasts the world biggest gaming centre.

An introduction to The New Sustainable Consumer report.

Arts and crafts in Oulu.

With:

Fredrik Ekström, Editor-At-Large, Sustainability and Branding.

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder.

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation.

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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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 increased conversation around sustainability.

In this episode, Jakob discusses:

Taking help from Richard Curtis to make the goals understandable.

Having OCD and how design accelerates that.

Choosing 17 different colours that are both distinctive and work together. 

Making every country on the planet approve your design.

Having pasta with Al Pacino. 

How constantly thinking about the UN goals made him a better person in terms of equality and sustainability. 

Why you need to push emotions into sustainability work.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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, General Partner & Cofounder Unconventional Ventures

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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.

Talking points:

• Getting a more diverse team of designers and customers.
• Why it’s so hard to make a living for emerging designers.
• Inspiring designers to collaborate to develop.
• Comparing tech, industrial and architectural design and their different economical foundation
• Why furniture designers need to learn entrepreneurship from fashion designers.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 mecca for design and tech startups.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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 misconception that digital fashion is solely digital.
• Dematerialising a very physical industry.
• The amazing possibilities of NFTS when finally understanding them.
• Reaching out to fashionistas, gamers, and the crypto community at the same time.
• Why good innovation has to be either beautiful or invisible. 
• Every piece on The Dematerialised market space should be an NFT to stay unique.
• How NFTs can help brands and businesses to build communities.
• How experiencing the ”NFT high” only works when you first purchase something. 

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 
• What is Web3?

We are going to talk about this with our special guest, Emma Ridderstad, CEO of Warpin Media.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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.

Annie Backman, COO & Co-founder of Care to Translate.

Karin Ebbinghaus, CEO of Elonroad.

In this episode, the panel discuss:

• The need for more female entrepreneurs. 
• The importance of the Swedish heritage when building a brand.
• Keeping a transparent and open-sourced company management.
• Entering the MENA market. 
• Learning from other female perspectives on a global scale. 
• Developing the technology after the demand. 

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 want to be one?
• Stockholm’s new tech week.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, editor-at-large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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 talks about:

How the times we live in are crammed with numbers.

Getting a bad rating from an Uber driver made him realise the power of numbers.

How numbers are far from logical and binary.

How numbers affect our motor system and neurons.

Why people buy glasses when they turn 20, 30 or 40 rather than 23, 34, or 41.

How numbers made the pandemic more stressful.

Why we judge something from likes and followers instead of the actual content.

Fooling your brain that you can run faster and better by alternating workout stats.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

Don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter, to stay updated on the latest news and learn about upcoming talks and events. Visit scandinavianmind.com/newsletter.

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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, including an out of body experience with haptic gloves.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, editor-at-large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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 development on earth. 

Learning to minimise waste and harvest resources from space engineering and technology. 

Using satellites for tracking poaching and coral reefs in real-time. 

How private initiatives and ideas will accelerate space technology even further, and make it more available to the public.

Better, cheaper, and faster space rockets to look out for.

How expensive will a space ticket be for private travellers?

The importance of the space sector’s bold initiatives and gung-ho mindset.

Space technology that we use every day, today. 

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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 activities in Dubai.

With:

Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief & Founder

Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, editor-at-large for future and digitisation

Erik Sedin, Junior Editor

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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 push humanity into new dimensions.

Some of the talking points are:

• What exactly is a space designer.
• The complexity of weighing in space travel’s impact on the environment.
• Astronauts consuming just the exact amount of food and water that they need, nothing more, nothing less.
• Circular economy is the only way to survive for astronauts.
• Scandinavia’s space sector.
• The golden era of space technology.
• The grains of truth in Elon Musk’s bombastic statements. 
• Mars, obviously!

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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
• How every company and service in some way are tech companies
• The startup boom and having to be proactive rather than reactive
• Morality and ethics when working with tech
• Deepfakes and synthetic media
• Technology making production local again
• Making frontier technology make sense through storytelling
• Getting inspired by popular culture and getting excited about the future
• Looking like a Scifi-company but still being takes seriously

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 episode, Agaton and Taras touch upon:

• Looking at mobility as an ecosystem of various vehicles.
• The new generation growing up with electric vehicles when moving around cities.
• How the Swedish upbringing made him respect the environment.
• Bridging old and custom motorbikes with new technology.
• Batteries are getting cheaper and better.
• How Scandinavian minimalism reminds him of martial arts and the state of zen.
• How to make a quiet electric bike make sound, for safety. 
• Making vehicles other than two-wheelers in the future. 
• How mobility will see a massive change in the coming 10 years, many thanks to urbanisation and electrification. 

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech.

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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, Neni also talks about:

• If 3DaysofDesign is actually three days long.
• Is this the resurrection of physical design weeks?
• Being able to feel and touch design pieces again.
• How the design industry seems to have gone back where it left off.
• Is the design industry doing enough within innovation and sustainability?
• Injecting the design industry into the metaverse.
• Interdisciplinary collaborations.
• Examples of fashion brands venturing into design, and vice versa.
• The design industry unwillingness to experiment digitally.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Scandinavian MIND. 

Together with experts from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, leading investors and sustainability experts, we discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the Baltic Sea. View the full conference on replay here: https://baltic-sea-water-talks.coeo.events/

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 conversation, Jacob also talks about:

— How creativity should always evolve.

— Having a black belt in worry and doubt.

— Making sure his ubiquitous vanity stays out of his art.

— Dropping the dream of being a world-class athlete.

— Making the family life work when travelling half the year.

— The sliding doors moment of almost starting business management.

— How his 8 years of being broke were the richest and most luxurious years of his life.

— The role of the metaverse to art.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 helicopter, and his own cryptocurrency called J-Coin.

In this episode, Jacob talks about:

— Finding out how to make his art reach more people.

— Using his new method to teach creativity in schools all over the world.

— Getting familiar with AR and VR to add depth to his work.

— Landing on Mount Everest by helicopter.

— How computer intelligence and AI is just part of evolution.

— Being a god and a small spec of dust in an infinite universe.

— NFTS and monetizing art as a modern artist.

— Having his own currency called J-Coin, controlled by greed and gratitude.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast is a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology.  Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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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 reuse and restoration. 

— How better legislation, education and eco-design is vital moving forward.

— How the next decade is the most crucial ever for our planet. 

This conversation was originally part of Fashion Futures Live, an event from Fashion Innovation.

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This is the last episode if our first season. We’ll be back with new episodes and an extended podcast offering after the summer. 

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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 that digital fashion is solely digital

— Dematerialising a very physical industry.

— The amazing possibilities of NFTS when one finally understands them.

— Reaching out to fashionistas, gamers, and the crypto community at the same time.

— How the internet will the metaverse, not necessarily connected to —gaming

— Why good innovation has to be either beautiful or invisible. 

— If you buy a digital good, you want to actually own it. 

— Every piece on the dematerialised market space should be an NFT to stay unique.

— How NFTs can help brands and business to build communities.

— How experiencing the ”NFT high” only works when you first purchase something. 

— NFTs will do good for content creators, much like social media has.

— Why the Dematerialised designers will be around 13 years old.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND. 

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Artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are two of the most influential artists in the world, and has been flying the flag for witty and political art under the name Elmgreen & Dragset for the last two decades.

Sculptures and installations include the Prada Marfa, Powerless Structures at Trafalgar Square, The Collectors at Venice Biennale, and most recently, Life Rings located at Djurgården in Stockholm. 

In this episode, we talk about:

— Being a two-headed monster as an artist duo.

— If NFTs are future proof.

— Taking the surrounding into consideration when raising a sculpture.

— Using the Scandinavian heritage in a global message.

— The problems and benefits of doing commercial collaborations.

— Balancing the pros and cons of using outside help to produce their art, or making everything from scratch.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. 

Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND.

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Lotta Kopra is Chief Commercial Officer at Spinnova, a Finnish innovation company that creates sustainable textile fibre out of wood and waste, using zero hazardous chemicals and 99% less water than cotton. 

When Lotta joined Spinnova in 2019, the company had a tech innovation but no commercial product. Now Spinnova is working with brands such as H&M Group, Bestseller, Marimekko, and most recently, Adidas. 

In this conversation, Lotta talks about:

How imitating spiders spinning their webs was the birth of Spinnova.

How the consumer sentiment is leaning towards sustainability, but the purchase pattern still shows that people buy fast fashion.

How younger generations are ready to pay more for sustainable fashion.

How the industry needs to take responsibility of a problem it’s created.

How the Spinnova material differs from cotton in price, quality, and sustainability.

Their goal of producing 1 million tonnes of textile fibre this decade, meaning 4% of the global cotton production.

The Scandinavian Mind podcast a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. 

Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech. And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND. 

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Today we are revisiting a talk Konrad Olsson gave for Vocast, a brand sharing platform based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Vocast asked us to come and talk about Scandinavian MIND, and what fashion brands should think about then entering the Stockholm market. 

The Scandinavian Mind podcast a bi-weekly show, about the intersection of lifestyle and technology. 

Every Wednesday, we publish an in-depth interview with an innovator from the worlds of design, fashion, beauty, mobility or tech.  And every Friday, we publish a panel talk or other behind the scenes content from the world of Scandinavian MIND. 

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Petter Stordalen is the founder of Nordic Choice Hotels, and owner of several iconic travel and hotel establishments in Scandinavia, including Hurtigruten, Ving airlines, and At Six hotel in Stockholm.

In this conversation, Petter talks about: