Christian Strömqvist
About Christian Strömqvist
Christian Strömqvist is a designer and assistant professor at the Academy of Design and Craft, Faculty of Fine Arts, at the University of Gothenburg. He has a master degree in Child Culture Design, completed in 2011. Christians work is dealing with issues revolving around play, the child perspective and participation, with the aim to create meaning through interactions and collaborative processes.
In the independant alumni organisation Play Without Borders, Christian is investigating play and creating play opportunities in a global context. The organisation has recently done projects in Kenya, Uganda and Turkey, working with site-specific projects aiming to highlight the importance of play and working with a child perspective.
Christian is a co-founder of PinPin Studio that since 2011 is working with children’s artifacts and environments with a focus on play and playfulness.