Recently, students from Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University, Sweden, completed a unique project in collaboration with the Cluster of Forest Technology along with several major stakeholders in the forest industry. But the intended client was not industry, but nature.
âIn collaboration with these creative and smart students, we have had the pleasure of exploring new ways forward, with nature and man in focus. It is these types of ideas and concepts that are needed to take necessary steps towards the sustainable forestry of the futureâ says Linda Nyström, CEO of the Cluster of Forest Technology.
A platform for open dialogue between Sami people and forestry companies. Self-propelled forwarders acting as responsive employees in the forest. And drones that can be used both in forestry and in school education at the same time. These are some examples of what students at Umeå Institute of Design have come up with during the project. Most of them come from the