01/ why design?
Sense Through Making
Design, for me, is a way of making sense of the world through acts of inquiry grounded in observation, participation, and reflection. My perspective is shaped by an Empiricist tradition: I trust what can be learned through experience, by paying attention, and by being present with people and contexts.
As a child, I was always building things, curious about spaces, how structures held meaning, and how humans shaped and reshaped their environments. Architecture fascinated me once, and while I didnât become an architect, the impulse to understand and create has stayed with me.
To me, design is not speculation from a distance. It is learned through doing, seeing, and being. That is why Human-Centred and Participatory Design are not just techniques. They reflect how I believe design should show up in the world.
02/ new approaches
Designing With Fika
In Sweden, I encountered Fika, not just as a coffee break, but as a way of being. It is a pause. A ritual of presence. A moment for slowing down and connecting.
This spirit of Fika influences how I design.
Fika teaches me that design is not about rushing toward solutions. It is about noticing what emerges when people come together. It is about holding space for dialogue, learning, and reflection.
I see design as a shared pause, to observe, to listen, and to make meaning together. Much like an Empiricist lens, fika invites us to slow down, reflect on experience, and pay close attention to the details that shape human connection.
03/ a philosophy
Create, Fika, Iterate
This is how I work. I begin by listening, observing, and making. I try not to jump to solutions, but to understand whatâs really there. For me, it's a living process, where reflection and participation matter as much as outcomes.
My Fika philosophy aligns closely with an Agile way of working, both are grounded in reflection and making space for pauses. Human-Centred and Participatory methodologies push me to stay collaborative, treating design not as competition, but as a shared act of meaning-making.
For me, design is never static or stagnant. It unfolds, it listens, it evolves. But taking reflexive pauses is an essential element of that unfolding.
