Margot Barolo

A designer with studies at Beckmans School of Design (BFA) and Konstfack, the College of Arts, Craft & Design (MFA). She has over the years worked with some of Sweden's leading companies. Parallelly she has worked with in-house production. In recent years Barolo has delved into the issues of production and challenged the image of production, Swedish art industry and how we evaluate the creation/design of an object. It has among other things resulted in the book Brave New Production and the magazine Brave Magazine # 2 as part of an artistic research project at Konstfack, the College of Arts, Crafts and Design. The project was funded by The Swedish Arts Grant Committee under the name "No Innocent Objects." She lectures and teaches at various design colleges and is an active board member of Swedish Designer