Pia Högman is a designer with a great interest in exploring and deveoping traditional materials and techniques. Applying old working methods within a modern context to conserve, modernize and learn from a historical way of creating.
Her work is often hands on and with a close relationship to the raw material within the design process, experimenting and researching new ways of using traditional techniques with sustainable, local or in other ways interesting resources.
Högman graduated from the masters program in furniture design at The Royal Dansih Academy of Fine Arts School of Architechture, Design and Conservation in Copenhagen in June 2018.
Based in Malmö, Sweden
Experience
Form/Design Center
Project coordinator
Malmö, Sweden
2021.03.30 - present
Konst-Kultur Region Gävleborg
Falnande Språk - Ur Finnskogen
Nomadic Residency
Gävleborg och Dalarna, Sweden
2020.09 - 2020.12
Form/Design Center, Business Sweden
Going Pro, Southern Sweden Design Days
Malmö, Sweden
2020
Form/Design Center, Svensk Form Syd -
SPOK - sustainable production and consumption
Administrative assistant
Malmö, Sweden
2019.11 - 2020.02
Ma-tt-er - Material Designers Workshop
London, Great Brittain
2019.09
Sustainable Business Hub, Sysav, VA SYD -
UpCycle Challange - Trash to Treasure
Malmö, Sweden
2019.08
Anton Alvarez project - The Thread Wrapping Machine
Assistent
Stockholm, Sweden
2018.08
Form/Design Center
Project coordinator
Malmö, Sweden
2021.03.30 - present
Konst-Kultur Region Gävleborg
Falnande Språk - Ur Finnskogen
Nomadic Residency
Gävleborg och Dalarna, Sweden
2020.09 - 2020.12
Form/Design Center, Business Sweden
Going Pro, Southern Sweden Design Days
Malmö, Sweden
2020
Form/Design Center, Svensk Form Syd -
SPOK - sustainable production and consumption
Administrative assistant
Malmö, Sweden
2019.11 - 2020.02
Ma-tt-er - Material Designers Workshop
London, Great Brittain
2019.09
Sustainable Business Hub, Sysav, VA SYD -
UpCycle Challange - Trash to Treasure
Malmö, Sweden
2019.08
Anton Alvarez project - The Thread Wrapping Machine
Assistent
Stockholm, Sweden
2018.08
Education
Furniture design (MA)
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
2016 - 2018
Furniture and Spatial design (BA)
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
2011 - 2015
Man and Public Space (Exchange program)
Design Academy Eindhoven
2013.09.04 - 2014.02.09
Fördjupade designstudier (Summer course)
HDK, University of Gothenburg
2013
Interior and spatial design
Hällefors Folkhögskola
2010-2011
Furniture design (MA)
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
2016 - 2018
Furniture and Spatial design (BA)
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
2011 - 2015
Man and Public Space (Exchange program)
Design Academy Eindhoven
2013.09.04 - 2014.02.09
Fördjupade designstudier (Summer course)
HDK, University of Gothenburg
2013
Interior and spatial design
Hällefors Folkhögskola
2010-2011
Exhibition
Southern Sweden Design Days
Form/Design Center
Malmö, Sweden
- May 2021 -
Alla tiders näver
Stenegård
Järvsö, Sweden
2019.07.11-2019.07.13
Løsninger - Afgangsudstilling
KADK, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé
Köpenhamn, Denmark
2018.06.30 - 2018.08.19
Collapsible Chair
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Kyoto, Japan
2017.02.09-2017.02.12
GVLE
Kulturkiosken IDKA
Gävle, Sweden
2015.03.27 - 2015.04.24
In search of Istanbul
Nachtegaallaan 15
Eindhoven, Netherlands
2014.02.06 - 2014.02.09
Metamorphosis
Greenhouse - Stockholm Furniture Fair
Stockholm, Sweden
2013.02.02 - 2013.02.09
Southern Sweden Design Days
Form/Design Center
Malmö, Sweden
- May 2021 -
Alla tiders näver
Stenegård
Järvsö, Sweden
2019.07.11-2019.07.13
Løsninger - Afgangsudstilling
KADK, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé
Köpenhamn, Denmark
2018.06.30 - 2018.08.19
Collapsible Chair
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Kyoto, Japan
2017.02.09-2017.02.12
GVLE
Kulturkiosken IDKA
Gävle, Sweden
2015.03.27 - 2015.04.24
In search of Istanbul
Nachtegaallaan 15
Eindhoven, Netherlands
2014.02.06 - 2014.02.09
Metamorphosis
Greenhouse - Stockholm Furniture Fair
Stockholm, Sweden
2013.02.02 - 2013.02.09