We share a ground report from our visits to Pitti Uomo in Florence and Berlin Fashion Week. In the episode we talk about:

• The Nordic brands making a mark in Florence.
• Italian tradition versus German innovation.
• How AR and VR can be a tool for Upcycling.
• What we learned from the German company Yoona’s fashion-tech conference.
• How fashion activists took over fashion week – and fooled Adidas.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor, and Oliver Dahle, Editor-At-Large, Fashion.

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We’re finally back! We’re happy to kick off season 5 with special guest Charlotte Sundåker, CEO and co-founder of Planethon, a futures and transformation agency offering a data-driven, science-based platform and business design process framework that enable sustainable investments, transformation initiatives and partnerships. We talk about:

• Why companies and organisations need to learn to think more about their future
• The importance of storytelling to create future scenarios
• How future thinking can affect how we deal with our problems today

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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In this episode of KONST, our host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar talks with LA-based Swedish art dealer Carl Larsson about how to do art business. Larsson is not only an acclaimed art advisor running one of the most inspiring art accounts on Instagram The Art Reporter — but he's also a very nice and humble guy. Talking points are:

• Running an art dealership for three generations.
• Helping Tim ”Avicii” Bergling build his art collection.
• The difference between Scandinavian and international collectors.
• How to build a presence on social media.
• A roundup of our favourite art events in 2022, and what we're looking forward to in 2023.

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND.

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For the season finale, we invite Lisa Lang, Director of EU Affairs & Policy at Climate-KIC, to have a long and in-depth conversation on how looming EU legislation will force the fashion industry to change. Talking points are:

• New rules for transparency and traceability
• The problem with overproduction
• The role of a fashion designer in the years to come
• And the potential of fashion in gaming and the metaverse

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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Today we are revisiting a panel talk that we hosted together with Polestar in Helsinki, Finland a few weeks ago. This time we sat down with Tomek Rygalik, founder of Studio Rygalik and Design Nature and professor at Aalto University’s architecture department, as well as Petteri Masalin, the Chief Design Officer at Fiskars Group.

Together they discuss:

• The importance of values in design.
• What responsibilities do they have as designers with regard to sustainability?
• Their advice to young designers entering the business.

This podcast is produced in collaboration with Polestar. 

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Today we unwrap the recent social media craze on artificial intelligence text tool ChatGPT, and invite the creative director and founder of AI community RealDreams to get an early adopter’s views. We discuss:

• How ChatGPT can help with creativity and writer’s block.
• The current flaws and worries with the tool.
• Examples of video and image AI tools Justin uses as a filmmaker.

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Today we are revisiting a panel talk that we hosted together with Polestar in Helsinki, Finland a few weeks ago. At Polestar’s Helsinki-based showroom we hosted a panel conversation with Laura Juslin, fashion designer and founder of Juslin Maunula and Tej Chauhan, a London-born industrial designer working in his own Helsinki studio. Together they discuss :

• What responsibilities do they have as designers with regard to sustainability?
• How fashion and architecture can merge into one design experience.
• The need for emotive design.
• Their advice to young designers entering the business.

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Today we take a look at the ongoing launch of Nike’s new NFT platform .Swoosh and what it means for the future of digital fashion. We talk about:

• Why NFTs seem to thrive when crypto doesn’t.
• Are legacy brands the way forward for digital assets?
• The role of community in the digital fashion space.
• Instagram’s new NFT platform and other examples.

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Today we discuss the environmental and social effects of overproduction in the fashion industry, and try to look ahead with optimism. We discuss:

• Why overproduction occurs in the first place, and how it affects the Sell Through Rate at retailers.
• Why is it so hard to get the data? We unwrap the extensive 2022 Fashion Transparency Index report.
• The new market for discarded textiles, with oil refinery-type services in India and beyond.
• The need for recycling innovations, and our recent visit to Renewcell’s new factory.
• And our favourite initiatives from digital and physical fashion that could turn the negative trend around.

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Megha Prakash, Editorial Assistant, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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We report live from Northern Europe’s biggest gathering of tech startups and VC investors. On top of personal observations on the state of VCs and investments in the Nordics and new announcements from the European Innovation Commission, we share insights from:

• Reetta Pesonen, head of communications at Slush, the reason why she wants fewer visitors. 

• The latest developments in the metaverse, with Zoan founders Miikka Rosendahl and Laura Olin.

• Sebastien Borget, Sandbox co-founder, on how brands should use the metaverse. 

• Agate Freimane, General Partner at Norrsken VC, shares the current investing climate. 

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