The project is called Visions in the North and is a collective term for six interdisciplinary teams that have worked in six different municipalities in northern Sweden.
It is led by the architecture and design museum ArkDes in Stockholm through the Council for Sustainable Cities and the relevant municipalities. The investment has led to projects with a completely different character in Skellefteå, Umeå, Luleå. Boden and Gällivare.
In Kiruna, the project is called “Berätta mig videre” and has been led by Fredrik Eklöf, architect and set designer, Erika Henriksson, architect, artist, educator and Mattias Fransson, screenwriter, actor, director.
This is how Skolskogen was created
They, in turn, have worked with teachers and students at Svappavaara school, where they rediscovered a somewhat forgotten idyll a couple of hundred meters from the school.
Where he has now created the School Forest.
– We wanted to create something permanent that can support the school so that they can have lessons in the forest, says Erika Henriksson.
Here there is now, among other things, a floating classroom, a lookout tower among the treetops and a boathouse that has been transformed into an exhibition space.
Source: SVT News | Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:30:08
