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Beata Salonen Ripa
Design Ecologies

Konstfack University Of Arts Crafts and Design

Graduates: 2024

Specialisms: Industrial Design / Sustainable Design

My location: Stockholm, Sweden

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Konstfack University Of Arts Crafts and Design

Beata Salonen Ripa

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First Name: Beata

Last Name: Salonen Ripa

University / College: Konstfack University Of Arts Crafts and Design

Course / Program: Design Ecologies

Graduates: 2024

Specialisms: Industrial Design / Sustainable Design

My Location: Stockholm, Sweden

About

Design Ecologist from Konstfack, with focus on sustainable furniture

As a counterpoint to globalization, I wanted to investigate how locally a sofa can be produced and highlight how outsourcing/offshoring affects Swedish production. With inspiration from the region in which I grew up, I designed and built a deconstructable sofa made of wool, pine and linen from Skåne. In my essay I elaborate on the friction between profit-making, sustainability and consumerism and try to find answers to what production should look like in the future.