International conference kicks off Stockholm Craft Week 2026
Stockholm Craft Week takes place from September 30 to October 4 and kicks off with the half-day conference Collaborating Craft at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in central Stockholm. Hosted by the team behind Konsthantverkspodden, the conference will focus on collaboration and collective processes.
On September 30, the international conference Collaborating Craft will take place, marking the opening of Stockholm Craft Week 2026. Hosted by the team behind Konsthantverkspodden, the conference will focus on collaboration and collective processes. In a contemporary world increasingly centered around the individual, Konsthantverkspodden proposes a hypothesis that art practitioners are moving in the opposite direction, pointing toward alternative, constructive paths forward. The conference highlights several of these artistic initiatives, exploring a variety of perspectives and contexts, and features conversations with: Sarah Rachel Brown, Lulu Harrison, Åsa Dybwad Norman & Ben Lignel, and Bernice Hernández.
- Wednesday 30 September 2026, 1PM – 4.30 PM
- Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. Studion, Sergels Torg (street level) in Stockholm
- English
- Tickets are 150 SEK and include afternoon coffee/tea and something sweet. If you have any dietary restrictions we need to know about, please email: konsthantverkspodden@gmail.com after your ticket purchase.
- Please note that seating is limited.
- The conference will be video recorded and later published on the Stockholm Craft Week’s website.
Participants
Sarah Rachel Brown
Sarah Rachel Brown is an internationally-based jeweler, journalist and curator. She is engaged in the working conditions of fellow artists, and through her podcast, Perceived Value, she speaks with practitioners to gather insights about the field. Brown works to create space and opportunities for craft and other forms of making to connect. One example is the project and exhibition Connector, which also resulted in the Connector Gatherings during New York City Jewelry Week 2025, where Swedish jewellery artists Sanna Svedestedt Carboo and Märta Mattsson, among others, participated.
Lulu Harrison
Glass artist Lulu Harrison describes herself as ‘A Geo Alchemist Glass Artist.’ She holds a master’s degree from Central Saint Martins and works at the intersection of research, design, craft, and chemistry from her studio in Oxfordshire. Harrison utilizes collaboration as an artistic method – working alongside chemists, glassblowers, and local fishermen to explore her material, from the raw components of glass to the finished object. Her goal is to discover future alternatives for glassmaking based on geological deposits and waste materials from her local area.
Åsa Dybwad Norman & Ben Lignel
See me make, make me see is a project by craft artists Åsa Dybwad Norman and Ben Lignel, who has engaged students from three different institutions: HDK-Valand, KHiO, and Aalto. The project focuses on what happens when we watch other people create and practice crafts. Utilizing ethnographic methods and workshops, the students have observed the act of making and documented their experiences in a publication. The aim of the project was to create a language for communicating craft and creative processes. Fourteen of the texts were published in the online magazine The Vessel in April 2025.
Bernice Hernández
Artist Berenice Hernández works with sculpture, video, photography, and performance. Among other projects, she has curated Dissipation Point, where she brought together and created dialogues between Swedish and Mexican artists. Recurring themes in Hernández’s work include the connection between place and belonging, as well as the power architecture can hold over both society and the individual. Originally from Mexico City, Berenice is currently based in Örebro. She studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and holds a master’s degree in Ceramics & Glass from Konstfack – University of Arts Crafts & Design.
Konsthantverkspodden
Konsthantverkspodden was founded in 2018 as an artist-led initiative by Ida Netterberg, Lisa Maria Pettersson, Petter Rhodiner, and Evelina Dovsten. The podcast provides a space for conversations and interviews about and around craft, and with over 70 episodes produced, it has become a highly valued platform for sharing knowledge and experiences within the field. .
Organizers
Collaborating Craft is organized by Konsthantverkspodden in collaboration with Konsthantverkscentrum and is carried out with support from Region Stockholm.
- Konsthantverkspodden
- Konsthantverkscentrum