Nola Collaborate with Malmstens to Make Cities More Agile

2019–12–09

Final-year students from Linköpings University’s Carl Malmstens furniture studies course embarked on a joint project with Nola. The collaboration explores how the built environment, through the installation of temporary spaces, can create new potentials for leisure, recreation and well-being. Frida Erson Lundström, the course coordinator and lecturer, explains: “Land surface is, as is well known, a valuable asset, so finding creative solutions for a seasonal uses of urban spaces is highly topical. The students are approaching this project with exciting ideas ranging from the UN’s global development goals to small pocket parks.”

Henrik Edlund, CEO of Nola, comments on the role that public space design can play. “It is interesting to consider how cities, throughout history, have been designed in response to traffic flow,” he says. “Now we want streets and car parks to respond to residents’ needs to an increasing extent. We see that agile solutions are needed. These solutions should be created with quality design, good ergonomics and sustainable materials that can be removed and reused year after year.”