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.

Outer Space, Suzanne Osten and Studio Doms is one of the teams tasked with transforming streets through the Street Moves innovation project, led by ArkDes and funded by Vinnova since 2019. Street Moves supports municipalities in using an inclusive design process to transform the city's streets with temporary solutions. From previously designing cities around the car, the starting point of Street Moves is to design streets after their specific needs, such as greenery and meeting places in the city, as well as social hubs or other things that bring the street to life for residents. Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Stockholm and Umeå have already tested the method, and it is now time for Hultsfred and Härnösand to do the same. Together with two new design teams, ArkDes continues to develop Street Moves across the country. Two new design teams are developing new solutions for streetscapes in Hultsfred and Härnösand. The teams are the innovation-driven design and architecture firm Office of Possibilies and a cross-sectoral team consisting of theatre directors Suzanne Osten and Josefin Wolf, Outer Space arkitekter and the design duo Studio Doms. "Lessons learned from previous Street Moves are now being further developed with new municipalities. Together, we explore and deepen the practical knowledge of design processes as a tool for driving change and transformation. The Street Moves movement, the prototypes and the functions of the streets continue to evolve. New places with new needs finds new solutions based on a simple concept of process and module, making all streets in Sweden become sustainable, healthy and vibrant!" - Jessica Segerlund, Director ArkDes Think Tank

Tham & Videgård is one of Sweden’s most prominent and unique architectural studios, having designed projects that have come to herald a new approach in Swedish architecture in the 21st Century.