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Studying at the School of Industrial Design in Lund is not just about theory – it is also about creativity, making contacts and finding new perspectives. Through study visits, exhibitions and – for master's students – international travels, ideas can grow and networks be built. This year, the students went to Vietnam, and Elias Näsström Nyquist and Erik Skans Mächs share their experiences and insi

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/unique-experience-masters-students-study-trip-vietnam - 2025-12-19

Ingenuity in the classrooms, table tennis matches in the lobby, and minutes of silence in honour of fallen soldiers – an ordinary day at a university in a war-torn country. Andreas Hopf, who teaches at the School of Industrial Design at LTH, talks about his latest trip to Ukraine. It is Andreas Hopf's sixth trip to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. This time, the journey

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/lund-lutsk-design-management-and-determination-wartime-ukraine - 2025-12-19

Master's students at the School of Industrial Design, LTH, exhibit their latest projects, in which they explore the materials terracotta and alder wood. They have drawn inspiration from civilisations of bygone eras and from study trips to Asia. One idea, two projectsDuring the autumn, the students went on study trips to Asia and gathered inspiration which they brought back home to use in their cre

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/natural-materials-focus-industrial-design-students-exhibition - 2025-12-19

Lund Faculty of Engineering (LTH) has established a new professorship in artistic didactics to strengthen research and pedagogical development in the artistically oriented programmes at the faculty. The position has been taken up by Ylva Hofvander Trulsson, who most recently comes from Stockholm University of the Arts. The new professorship in artistic didactics will contribute to more knowledge i

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/when-art-meets-technology-lth-invests-didactic-renewal - 2025-12-19

Bling is associated with expensive, ostentatious accessories and “bad taste”. This contrasts with the prevailing aesthetic values of the design world. But what happens when bling and design are brought together? A new thesis in industrial design from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University in Sweden, shows that provocations – such as breaking convention with the help of the bling subcult

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/challenging-design-conventions-key-more-vibrant-design - 2025-12-19

See the exhibition showcasing the results of first-year students’ creative work. On the third floor of IKDC, an exhibition is currently underway featuring projects created by first-year students in the Bachelor’s program in Industrial Design. Through the course “Industrial Design Project A”, they have worked on designing wall-mounted storage units.Course coordinator Olof Kolte explains:The student

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/industrial-design-students-create-steel-wire-and-maximum-three-screws - 2025-12-19

Two alumni from the School of Industrial Design at Lund University have been honored as Ung Svensk Form announces its 2025 scholarship recipients. Former students Clara Storsten and Anna Maria Nilsson are among twenty-five young designers awarded scholarships. Clara Storsten and Anna Maria Nilsson are recognized for their educational tool Klura. The tool consists of wooden and felt tiles along wit

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/industrial-design-students-awarded-educational-tool-preschool-children - 2025-12-19

Furniture for a submarine, a cooling vest for athletes, or a liquor bottle with perfume? Sydsvenskan writes about the School of Industrial Design’s annual graduation exhibition, highlighting some of the students’ projects. Some of the projects featured by Sydsvenskan include:The bike rack “Fast”, which can be used for different types of bicycles and gives cyclists enough space to lock and unlock t

https://www.industrialdesign.lth.se/article/buffalo-bike-sydsvenskan - 2025-12-19

For the third consecutive year, the Psychological Defence Research Institute (PDRI), in collaboration with the Swedish Psychological Defence Authority, hosted a conference on psychological defence. Reflecting the deteriorating security environment, this year’s conference focused on the intersection between research and policy. Held on 14–15 October in Lund, Sweden, the event brought together 70 re

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/exploring-intersection-research-and-policy-conference-psychological-defence - 2025-12-19

Through EUPRERA (The European Public Relations Education and Research Association), the Department of Communication (IKO) organised a large and highly regarded research conference on strategic communication at AF-borgen in Lund between 24 and 27 September. The conference is held every year – previous years in Bucharest, Prague, Vienna and Pamplona, among other places. Most of the researchers came

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/euprera-communications-conference-brought-together-200-researchers-around-world - 2025-12-19

A FORTE-funded interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder project exploring how digitalisation reshapes migrants’ access to work and inclusion in Sweden. On the 5th of September, the Digital Navigation (Dig-Nav) project held its kick-off event at Media Evolution in Malmö. The project is led by Dr. Deniz Neriman Duru, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Lund University, who received 8 mi

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/digital-navigation-migrants-swedish-labour-market-opportunities-and-challenges-digitalisation - 2025-12-19

Our warmest congratulations to Magnus Johansson, who successfully defended his thesis in Media and Communication Studies: ‘Parenting in screen times. Negotiations, practices and experiences in everyday family life’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences on Friday, 12 September. The thesis deals with parenting and screen time from a moral perspective. Through interviews with parents, the study shows how

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/magnus-johansson-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-19

On November 27, Monica Porzionato received the Lund University Academy of Sciences’ prize for the best dissertation in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The award is presented annually to recognize outstanding research contributions and has a long-standing tradition at the university. Monica’s dissertation, Feeling the Changing Climate: An affective approach to the strategic communicat

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/monica-porzionato-awarded-best-dissertation-prize-lund-university - 2025-12-19

NordForsk has awarded 12.2 million NOK to fund the project “The Double Edge of Social Media Influencing: Participatory Antagonism and Communicative Resilience in the Nordics (INFLU-NORD)”for a three-year period (2026–2029). The project addresses the question of how social media influencing shape democratic trust and societal security in the Nordic region? It has two main objectives:Advance underst

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-explores-participatory-antagonism-and-communicative-resilience - 2025-12-19

At the end of April, the Faculty Board decided that a new department, the Department of Communication, will be created. The establishment of the new department is part of the faculty's development towards fewer units, but the merger has also been motivated by additional reasons. The new department will be established on 1 January 2025 and the following units will be included: Department of Strateg

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-department-communication-january-2025 - 2025-12-19

A new year is approaching and when the Faculty enters 2025, it will be with nine departments instead of the current eleven. The Faculty of Social Sciences will gradually develop towards fewer units over the next six years, according to a policy decision from 2023. After initial preparatory work, it is now time for the first changes to take place at the end of the year:The Department of Communicati

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/eleven-departments-nine-turn-year - 2025-12-19

Researchers from Theme 3 and Theme 6 within NextG2Com had the opportunity to visit the Children’s Heart Center at Skåne University Hospital in Lund. Under the guidance of Chief of Surgery Kiet Tran and Associate Senior Lecturer Maj Stenmark, the participants were given an insight into the center’s daily activities and the work of the CAISA project. One percent of children born in Sweden are born w

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/smallest-patients - 2025-12-19

NextG2Com organizes an annual workshop for all center partners, and this year, the second workshop in the series took place on April 29. The agenda included sustainability at all levels, insights from long-standing collaboration between industry and academia, and short partner presentations. NextG2Com brings together all partners annually for an internal workshop. This year’s invited speakers were

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-collaboration-and-theme-workshops - 2025-12-19

LTH honorary doctor 2025 Margaret-Anne Storey presented her research on social aspects of software development on different occasions during the conferment week in May. You can watch two recordings of her presentations here.

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/social-aspects-software-development - 2025-12-19

Theme leaders and researchers in NextG2Com have received best application paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during the previous year. Xuesong Cai, Erik L. Bengtsson, Ove Edfors and Fredrik Tufvesson have been awarded The IEEE Antennas and Propagation 2025 Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award, presented to the authors of the best application paper publ

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/best-paper-2024 - 2025-12-19