History and funding
The School of Industrial Design currently receives half of its funding from Lund University, and the other half from the IKEA Foundation. A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The first donation from th
https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/about/history-and-funding - 2026-05-07
