Jenny B. Osuldsen, partner and landscape architect at Snøhetta, Oslo and Shohei Shigematsu, CEO and partner, OMA, New York. image courtesy of Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair.

Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair's own forum for knowledge and discussions in the area of design and architecture - Stockholm Design Talks - presents several well-respected firms and lecturers to talk about architecture in Scandinavia and the world. Participants include Jenny B. Osuldsen from Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta and Shohei Shigematsu from OMA in New York. Other participants of the event includes: Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård, founders and architects, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, Stockholm, Julien de Smedt, founder and CEO of JDS Architects, Copenhagen.    

Stockholm Design Talks provides inspiration and information, business opportunities and new friends. Stockholmsmässan is the largest meeting place in Scandinavia hosting around 70 leading exhibitions and hundreds of national and international congresses, conferences and corporate events every year.

The program of the event about Snøhetta and OMA can be found below:

Jenny B. Osuldsen, partner and landscape architect at Snøhetta, Oslo
Wednesday February 10 12:00 PM - 12:50 pm

The new Nordic, LCA & the green shift

Snøhetta works constantly to reinvent design by using creative processes, analogue and digital tools and new challenges in "the green shift", which affects and pushes the work into the future. This will be discussed at Stockholm Design Talks using different project examples.

Jenny B. Osuldsen is a partner at Snøhetta and a professor in landscape architecture at the University of Life Science in Ås, Norway. She is also a guest professor at Ax:son-Johnson Institute of Sustainable Urban Design (SUDes) at the University of Lund. She started working at Snøhetta in 1995 and has been involved in a number of the firm's design projects, both for competitions as well as for several large and small projects. Jenny B. Osuldsen was also the CEO when Snøhetta opened its office in New York.

Shohei Shigematsu, CEO and partner, OMA, New York
Thursday, February 11, 2:00 PM - 2:50 pm 

Diversified

At Stockholm Design Talks, OMA's international work in architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis will be discussed. Shohei Shigematsu, CEO of OMA New York, presents a selection of projects from OMA's office in New York that explores new parts and hybrids of architecture typologies, from food markets to raised parks and urban water strategies.

Shohei Shigematsu started at OMA in 1998 and became a partner in 2008. He has been the head of the New York office since 2006, and under his leadership the office in New York has worked with several buildings throughout the USA, including Milstein Hall in 2011, which is an extension of the College for Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University. Shohei also designed cultural buildings such as Quebec National Beaux Arts Museum and Faena Arts Center at Miami Beach – both of which are planned for completion in 2016. Shohei also headed the design project for Waist Down, Prada's exhibition that is touring the world, and his commitment to urban architecture also includes a new civic center in Bogota, Colombia and a food market in Louisville, Kentucky. He has also headed collaborations with artists such as Cai Guo Qiang, Marina Abramovic and Kanye West.

Stockholm Design Talks are free and are held at the Stockholm Design Talks stage next to the Design Bar in Cedar Hall. The lectures and discussions will be filmed and can be viewed at www.youtube.com/user/sthlmfurniturefairwww.vimeo.com/stockholmfurniturefair

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Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair will be held on February 9-13, 2016 at Stockholmsmässan.

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