As part of a trip to Jönköping and Värnamo which inclded two lectures, I had a very interesting meeting with Sune Nordgren and Johanna Lilja of Vandalorum. One of the main focuses is to put designers in contact with local producers, and they have a network of several hundred of small companies in the area. I gave them a brief presentation of my work from the thesis, and they were very excited. As an initial contact, I will select a few students from AA dip16, who could benefit from direct contact with these industries. In the long run I am obviously also interested in making use of this contact for my own research. There may very well be a potential for ParaTable here, although I am slightly concerned that Källemo is another important actor at Vandalorum. This could be very good of course, but the current idea is to try to produce the table through alternate channels, with more direct contact with small producers.
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