Capellagården Summer Exhibition 2023

We’re not saying that Capellagården is the best design school in the world.

But would say it is, without question, one of the most delightful and most engaging and most relaxing to visit, one of the best to visit.

A genuine joy that was denied us during the Covid years.

But one we weren’t going to give up on.

In summer 2023 the stars aligned and we ventured once again over the seas to Öland…….

#campustour 2019: Sweden

For Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince Summertime may very well be a “Time to sit back and unwind”, for us Summertime is when our year finally, finally, gets going.

While others spend the long hot days of summer on the beach, in the mountains, riding around in their Jeep, their Benzos, Nissan or eating pizza at Lorenzos, we’re to be found either riding backwards in trains, our eyes fixed firmly on the past as we race into the future, terrified that a metaphor is becoming an omen, or wandering the corridors, ateliers and workshops of European design schools, considering and reflecting on not only the students’ semester and graduation projects, but contemporary European design education, the positions of the coming generation of designers, and questioning if the world, the society, laid out before us is one we we want to be part off? Weeks of travel, reflection and existential anguish sustained by no more than our endless curiosity, more water than we consume the rest of the year and the promise of a (near) daily falafel.

That’s our “new definition of summer madness”

Drrrums please…….