Below are various types of publications produced at Konstfack, such as research publications, doctoral theses, teaching aids and books that stem from projects and courses at the university.
The publications can be bought through various online bookstores and from Konstfack's Infocenter (infocenter@konstfack.se). See more detailed information for each of the titles below.
If you yourself have plans to publish something within the framework of Konstfack Collection, read the Reference guide to publishing at Konstfack.
Publications from Konstfack Collection
Produktionsnoveller : om Folkforms arbete med Masonite och andra material
A large part of the production today is manufactured so far from the consumer that there is no connection to the production. That there have historically ben direct connections beten an industry and the peple, local traditions and material assets of the place is easily forgotten. The thesis make these relationships visible through an artistic exploration ... Read more here (in Swedish)
Author: Anna Holmquist
Graphic design: William Jokijärvi Andersson
Language: Swedish (summary in English)
Series: Konstfack Dissertation Collection, 4
ISBN: 9789185549559 (April 2023)
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Clay-based experience & languageness
The project is an attempt to better understand and describe the craft from the practitioners inside perspective. It is about the fundamental questions all artists face in their everyday practice. How can art be understood as a way to communicate, or as a linguistic practice? What role does craft play in artistic creation? Read more here...
Author: Mårten Medbo
Graphic design: Knut Stahle
Series: Konstfack Research Collection, 3
ISBN: 9789185549535 (January 2023)
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The book is distributed internationally by the art book store Konst-ig.
Release date: 25 January 2023.
jag vet hur folkhemmet luktar
I boken synas såväl de ljusa rummen som de mörka hörnen i det svenska folkhemmet. Här återfinns berättelser och betraktelser som rör sig mellan det dolda och det unkna, mellan doftande ängar och ljusa rum. Det hemtama, det främmande, de utstötta och de lyckliga. En möter ett folkhemssverige som inte förklaras, utan som erfarits av oss, av våra mammor och pappor och deras mammor och pappor. Läs mer här...
Redaktör: Tina Carlsson
Grafisk form: Maryam Fanni
Medverkande: Petra Hultman, Kalle Brolin, Rikard Heberling, Ingela Johansson, Maryam Fanni, Anneli Jordahl, Simon Matiwos
Serie: Konstfack Research Collection 2
ISBN: 9789185549528 (augusti 2022)
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Assuming Asymmetries : Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s
Through conversations with curators and participating artists, this book revisits some of the most groundbreaking yet under-researched European and US public art exhibitions of the 1980s and 1990s. Read more here...
Published in collaboration with Sternberg Press.
Edited by CuratorLab 2020/21: Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Giulia Floris, Vasco Forconi, Edy Fung, Julius Lehmann, Maria Lind, Marc Navarro, Simina Neagu, Hanna Nordell, Tomek Pawłowski Jarmołajew, Marja Rautaharju, Erik Sandberg, and Joanna Warsza
Design: Józefina Chętko
Serie: Konstfack Education Collection 5
ISBN: 9783956796128 (May 2022)
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Curating Beyond the Mainstream : the Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl and Jan-Erik Lundström
Through four case studies, Curating Beyond the Mainstream researches decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s Read more here...
Published in collaboration with Sternberg Press.
Edited by CuratorLab 2020/21: Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Giulia Floris, Vasco Forconi, Edy Fung, Julius Lehmann, Maria Lind, Marc Navarro, Simina Neagu, Hanna Nordell, Marja Rautaharju, Erik Sandberg, and Joanna Warsza
Design: Józefina Chętko
Serie: Konstfack Education Collection 4
ISBN: 9783956796135 (May 2022)
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Negotiating Tensions : Designers’ responsibilities in democratic entanglements
This thesis concerns the roles and responsibilities of designers when we design workshops with democratic ambitions. Reflecting on my experiences from making co-design workshops for citizen participation to support sustainable urban development in municipal planning processes, I inquire into designers’ societal entanglements and explore these from democratic, social, political and designerly perspectives.
Author: Maja Frögård
Designed by: Ateljé Andrejs Ljunggren
Series: Konstfack Dissertation Collection, 3
ISBN: 9789178739585 (October 2021)
Language: ENGLISH
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Three or Four Ir/relevant Stories : Art and Hyper-Politics
This practice-based PhD is presented in the form of a book that documents, comments upon and provides a context for the artistic projects included in the doctoral thesis work, completed between 2014 and 2020. This investigation admits a discussion of a state of hyper-politics where each everyday gesture and micro-event is written into macro-political events.
The opening project deals with his grandfather's surviving photographs which had been stored in a shoebox Read more here...
Author: Behzad Khosravi Noori
Designed by: Lisa Olausson
Series: Konstfack Dissertation Collection, 2
ISBN: 9789178737994 (June 2021)
Language: ENGLISH
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kokoligrafin
kokoligrafin är en kokongskrift [av gr. κουκούλι]. som läsare får du möta olika varelser, spinnas in i olika samtal: om silkesmaskar, konsumentmedborgare och motstånd; om sidenflärd och pollution; om koronakokonger och filterpuppor. boken börjar i en grekisk småstad och slutar i pandemonium – ett tidsrum präglat av marknadskapitalism, moralism och polarisering. Läs mer här...
Författare: Michell Zethson
Grafisk form: Jennifer Bergkvist
Serie: Konstfack Research Collection, 1
ISBN: 978-91-85549-48-1 (april 2021)
ISBN: 978-91-85549-49-8 (september 2021)
Language: SWEDISH
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Home Works – A Cooking Book: Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work
A cooking book that highlights the art and politics of eating together through a number of artistic, curatorial and tasty dinner recipes. Recipes that nourish and nurture conversations around domestic labour, collaborative practices and feminist politics Read more here...
Editors: Jenny Richards, Jens Strandberg
Book design: Johnny Chang and Louise Khadjeh-Nassiri, based on the Home Works graphic profile by Maryam Fanni and Rikard Heberling
Series: Konstfack Artists' Book Collection 2
ISBN: 9789493148376 (February 2021)
Language: ENGLISH
Konstfack's Degree Exhibition 2020 / Konstfacks vårutställning 2020
The first printed catalogue from the degree exhibition since 2008 covers an exhibion that was mostly carried out online, due to the global pandemic. The online exhibition can be viewed here.
Managing editor: Anne Klontz
Identity design: Agga Anne Mette Stage & Hanna Stenman
Catalogue design: Oskar Laurin & Hanna Stenman
Serie: Konstfack Education Collection 3
ISBN: 9789185549474 (oktober 2020)
Language: SWEDISH & ENGLISH
Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures is a doctoral work that supplements the unfinished modern opus The Arcades Project [Das Passagen-Werk]. The supplement takes the form of a sculptural, historical, and technological deposition of 'greenhouse' that presently oscillates between a past-background and future-foreground to Walter Benjamin's 'theatrical' handling of the Parisian arcades. Read more here...
Author: Luis Berríos-Negrón
Series: Konstfack Dissertation Collection 1
ISBN: 9789178735921 (September 2020)
Language: ENGLISH
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Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the October Revolution and later one of the world’s first woman ambassadors. She fought for abortion rights, secularized marriage, and paid maternity leave—and considered “comradely love” to be a political force. This reader, in which artists and thinkers revisit Kollontai’s legacy ... Read more here...
Svensk Bokkonst 2020
Editors: Maria Lind, Michele Masucci amd Joanna Warsza, with CuratorLab 2017
Graphic design: Jiri Adamik-Novak
ISBN: 9789185549436 (Februari 2020)
Language: ENGLISH
Serie: Konstfack Education Collection [2]
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Konstfack, Sveriges största konstnärliga högskola inom konst, design och konsthantverk, firar 175 år med en kollektiv historieskrivning. Jubiléet till ära släpps en kollektiv historieskrivning där historiska fakta samsas med ett 100-tal röster som i text och bild generöst delar med sig av minnen om framgång, motgång, lärda läxor och vardag. Läs mer här...
Redaktörer: Susanne Helgeson och Jenny Morelli
Grafisk form: Jiri Adamik-Novak och Jennifer Bergkvist
Bildredaktörer: Maryam Fanni och Jiri Adamik-Novak
Serie: Konstfack Collection Education, 1
ISBN: 978-91-85549-45-0 (november 2019)
Language: SWEDISH
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Edited by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn and Rado Ištok
The book aims to expose the labour performed by indigenous peoples needed for the transport of their own material culture to Western museums in anonymous crates... Read more here...
Contributors: Ariella Azoulay, Michael Barrett, Ulrika Flink, Åsa Bharathi Larsson, Wayne Modest, Gabrielle Moser, Vincent Normand
Design: Blair Richardson/MiniSuperStudio
ISBN: 9780986205934 (September 2019)
Förlag: Athenée Press, Mexico City
Language: ENGLISH
Serie: Konstfack Artists' Books Collection 1
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Frida Hållander ställer i avhandlingen frågor som: Vems hand är det som gör? Och hur kan vi genom görandefallstudier förstå konsthantverkliga praktiker som går i dialog med samhället genom görande och objekt? Hur kan vi förstå objekt som manifesterar motstånd? Läs mer här...
Författare: Frida Hållander
Grafisk form: Maryam Fanni
Textsättning: Evelina Mohei
ISBN: 978-91-85549-40-5 (tryckt, januari 2019)
978-91-85549-41-2 (digitalt)
Language: SWEDISH
Den tryckta boken är slutsåld, men avhandlingen finns fritt tillgänglig i digital form via Göteborgs universitet, https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/58486
Research Week is an annual event highlighting and discussing research practices at Konstfack and research perspectives related to Art, Craft, Design, Interior Architecture, Visual Communication, and Visual Studies and Art Education, in Sweden and internationally. Read more about Research week...
Edited by Magnus Ericson
Designed by Rikard Heberling.
ISBN: 978-91-85549-42-9 (January 2019)
Language: ENGLISH
The report presents reflections on emerging design challenges in the increasingly complex contexts that design is engaging with, design competencies and a few possible ways to proceed at Konstfack. It is financed by KK-Stiftelsen (The Knowledge Foundation). Read more...
Authors: Bo Westerlund, Professor Industrial Design, Project leader.
Katarina Wetter-Edman, Senior Lecturer in Design with a focus on Service Design.
Contact: bo.westerlund@konstfack.se
Graphic design & illustrations: William Andersson / williama.se
ISBN: 978-91-85549-37-5 (March 2018)
Research Week is an annual event highlighting and discussing research practices at Konstfack and research perspectives related to Art, Craft, Design, Interior Architecture, Visual Communication, and Visual Studies and Art Education, in Sweden and internationally. Read more about Research week...
Edited by Magnus Ericson
Designed by Rikard Heberling.
ISBN: 978-91-85549-34-4 (January 2018)
Language: ENGLISH
Boken publicerades inom ramen för den fristående kursen Skrivandets förhandlingar - konflikt och ansvar i text, under ledning av författaren Elisabeth Hjorth. Läs mer här...
Svensk bokkonst 2017
Redaktör: Elisabeth Hjort
Formgivning, foto & illustration: Jiri Novak
ISBN: 978-91-85549-33-7 (Januari 2018)
Language: SWEDISH
Boken är slutsåld (januari 2019)
Research Week is an annual event highlighting and discussing research practices at Konstfack and research perspectives related to Art, Craft, Design, Interior Architecture, Visual Communication, and Visual Studies and Art Education, in Sweden and internationally. Read more here...
Edited by Magnus Ericson
Designed by Rikard Heberling.
ISBN: 978-91-85549-29-0 (January 2017)
Language: ENGLISH
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By Andreas Nobel. The book is an English translation of the author's doctoral thesis Dimmer på upplysningen.
Translation: William Jewson
Design: Oskar Laurin
ISBN: 978-91-85549-24-5 (December 2016)
Language: ENGLISH
Redaktörer: Roger von Reybekiel och Julie Cirelli
Grafisk form: Martin Falck
ISBN: 978-91-85549-23-8 (November 2016)
Language: ENGLISH
The book takes stock of the artistic genre Artist Writing. Approximately 30 artists and poets take part the project, conducted under the tutelage of Håkan Nilsson.
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Redaktörer: Magnus Bärtås och Andrej Slávik
Grafisk form: Sandra Praun
ISBN: 978-91-85549-20-7 (Mars 2016)
Language: ENGLISH
Microhistories is an anthology published by Konstfack Collection. The book contains texts and images from a research project of the same name, carried out at Konstfack with support from the Swedish Research Council. Microhistories focuses on the genre of the video essay.
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Redaktörer: Christina Zetterlund, Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius, Johanna Rosenqvist
Grafisk form: Rikard Heberling
ISBN: 978-91-86429-40-9 (Oktober 2015)
Language: SWEDISH
Genom antologin Konsthantverk i Sverige del 1 förändras och vidgas historieskrivningen om konsthantverk bortom traditionella materialuppdelningar och nationella förståelser. Läs mer här...
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(Oktober 2015)
Explorations Second-Hand är en del av en kurs i det nya Design-masterprogrammet som omfattar inredningsarkitektur (rumslig gestaltning) och design med individuell inriktning på Konstfack, Stockholm. Läs mer här...
Language: ENGLISH
Redaktörer: Maria Lantz, Staffan Lundgren
Grafisk form: Sara Kaaman
ISBN: 978-91-85549-13-9 (Maj 2015)
Language: ENGLISH & SWEDISH
I antologin Radical Rethinking med texter på både svenska och engelska, belyser några av Konstfacks lärare och forskare en rad teman inom bild, form och pedagogik. Läs mer här...
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Redaktör: Björn Larsson
Grafisk form: Jiri Adamik-Novak
ISBN: 978-91-85549-11-5 (2013)
Language: SWEDISH
Antologi med rapporterna från 2010 års konstnärliga utvecklingsprojekt i något redigerad form. Innehåll: Frida Hållander: Vernacular Craft, Ulrica Bohné: Industridesignern ... Läs mer här...
Redaktör: Björn Larsson
Grafisk form: Jiri Adamik-Novak
ISBN: 978-91-85549-10-8 (2010)
Language: SWEDISH
Antologi med rapporterna från 2009 års konstnärliga utvecklingsprojekt i något redigerad form. Innehåll: Dan Spegel: Sync-design manifest, Anna Lundh: (Ut)sagan ... Läs mer här...
Redaktör: Katji Lindberg
Grafisk form: Clara Terne
ISBN: 978-91-85549-06-1 (2009)
Language: SWEDISH
Essäerna i publikationen INTER är resultatet av fem forsknings-/utvecklingsprojekt, finansierade av Konstfacks nämnd för konstnärligt utvecklingsarbete (KU-nämnden).
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