After starting Floda31 academia has become more related to my working career and this has spawned many a specialised course at Floda31 and at Umeå Institute of Design (UID) for the MA Interaction design, MA Transportation design and BA Industrial design courses. Notably, UID has been awarded the Best School of Design Award by Red Dot for three years running. Due to my architecture experience, another role I took on was to work at Umeå School of Architecture (UMA) and was employed to collaborate on the design, engineering and production for their diffused light lab, also working as a lecturer for first year students.
I like to inspire students/participants to be more confident and believe in a maker/doing methodology, I also feel that students should challenge the status quo in a chosen topic whilst studying, as it is more rare for this to happen outside of university in a commercial environment. It is always a pleasure conceptualising and running bespoke project briefs at the Floda31 workshop in the wilderness. At F31 we tend to think more pragmatically about the logistics of solving problems and hoping that this experience helps to make a good group dynamic (and it usually does) which then leads to a better ability to handle any challenge.