Gunnar Asplund, one of Sweden’s most celebrated architects and designers, left an indelible mark on the world with masterpieces like Stockholm Public Library and the Woodland Cemetery (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). To honour his legacy, ArkDes, during Stockholm Design Week (February 4–9, 2025) dedicates the week to showing Asplund’s groundbreaking work, featuring original sketches and drawings that are rarely displayed to the public.

Across 2025 and 2027, Worldglimpsing: Role Play and the Design of Alternate Realities invites you to envision and embody alternate ways of nurturing our identities, our communities, and the planet at large. From live action role play (LARP) and game design to film, animation and avatarism, the exhibition explores social and artistic approaches that are guiding us to other possible futures—today.

In June 2024, ArkDes, Sweden's national museum of architecture and design, will unveil a new experience for its visitors. In its historic buildings, next to Moderna Museet in the centre of Stockholm, ArkDes’ will create new spaces for a radical rethinking of how to exhibit architecture and design, with the direction of the award-winning architectural firm Arrhov Frick. A strong focus is placed on open, welcoming meeting spaces, a new collections exhibition, space for temporary exhibitions and events, new access to outdoor areas, and more space for play.

For over fifteen years, architect and artist Joar Nango has been assembling an archive of books about issues relevant to Indigenous architecture. In 2018, Girjegumpi first opened to a public. In 2023, this structure, social space, and source of knowledge around Sámi architecture opens at the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, officially representing Finland (Arkkitehtuurimuseo, Helsinki), Norway (Nasjonalmuseum, Oslo), and Sweden (ArkDes, Stockholm).

As part of ALCOVA 2023, Mira Bergh and Josefin Zachrisson exhibit an extension of Utomhusverket, commissioned and first presented at ArkDes in 2022. Their Public Space with Private Intentions occupies the entrance to the exhibition, which took place in tandem with Fuorisalone – Milan Design Week 2023. Following a successful exhibition period at ArkDes between June 2022 and April 2023, Utomhusverket has traveled to Italy to form part of ALCOVA 2023 – a platform that "seeks to shine a spotlight on the most forward-looking design being produced today." Occupying the entrance space to the Porta Vittoria abattoir on Via Molise in Milan, the exhibition ran from the 17-23 April.