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Student challenges

Student challenges

We challenge students from design academies worldwide to work with our products and create whatever they feel can be made with it. Working with young designers allows us to look at our products in a different way, exploring the possibilities from a different angle, whilst allowing students to express their creativity and gain work experience. Have a look at the astonishing results of some of our Student challenges from the past and click on the link to get some additional information.

Student challenges

  • Student Challenge ETSAB | Forbo Flooring Systems

    Student challenge

    FORBO X ETSAB BARCELONA

    Student Challenge | ETSAB Barcelona

    Recently, Forbo Flooring initiated a collaborative project with the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). Twenty fifth-year architecture students participated, divided into five teams of four, each assigned a different task related to Forbo Flooring's design philosophy, 'Dynamics of a Building'.

  • Student Challenge LISAA 2023 | Forbo Flooring Systems

    Student challenge

    Forbo x LISAA 2023

    Student Challenge | Forbo X LISAA Paris 2023

    In 2021 and 2022, Forbo Flooring asked a group of students from LISAA (L'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués), the renowned Architecture & Design Institute in Paris, to participate in a Student Challenge. Both projects were so successful that they have now resulted in a third Student Challenge with a new group of LISAA students.

  • Student Challenge LISAA 2022

    Student challenge

    Forbo x LISAA, 2nd edition

    Student challenge - Forbo x LISAA, 2nd edition

    In April of 2021, Forbo Flooring asked a group of students from LISAA (L'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués), the renowned Architecture & Design Institute in Paris, to participate in a Student Challenge. The project was so successful that it has now resulted in a second Student Challenge with a new group of LISAA students

  • Student Challenge IMIAD Stuttgart | Forbo Flooring Systems

    Student challenge

    Forbo x IMIAD Stuttgart

    Student Challenge | Forbo x IMIAD Stuttgart

    Twenty-one students of IMIAD, the interior design masters programme at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences in Germany, explored the functional properties and potential of Marmoleum, furniture linoleum and pinboard linoleum through practical experiments and a methodical approach.

  • Student challenge

    Student challenge

    Furniture linoleum & Bulletin board

    Student challenge - Furniture linoleum & Bulletin board

    We challenge students from design academies worldwide to work with our furniture and pinboard linoleum products and create whatever they feel can be made with it. Working with young designers allows us to look at our products in a different way, exploring the possibilities from a different angle, whilst allowing students to express their creativity and gain work experience.

  • Student Challenge KADK Denmark | Forbo Flooring Systems

    Student Challenge

    Forbo X KADK Denmark

    Student Challenge Forbo X KADK Denmark

    Forbo Flooring Systems challenged students from the Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen (KADK) to create a small interior product or piece of furniture using recyclable materials.

  • Student Challenge Beckmans 2022

    Student Challenge

    Forbo X Beckhams, 2nd Edition

    Student Challenge Forbo X Beckhams, 2nd Edition

    Over the course of three weeks, 12 students from Beckmans College worked tirelessly on the project to to create a flooring design that would enhance the sense of safety and wellbeing in a space.

  • Student Challenge ENSCI | lamp made from Furniture linoleum

    Student challenge

    FORBO X ENSCI

    Student Challenge - Forbo x ENSCI

    In October 2021 twelve Master students from the Parisian Design school ENSCI - Les Ateliers searched for new applications of Furniture linoleum with a focus on the contemporary working environment.

    With the support of designer Pauline Esparon, the students discovered new qualities and properties of Furniture linoleum that enabled them to present a wide range of beautiful projects.

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  • Student Challenge Willem de Kooning

    Student challenge

    Forbo x WDKA

    Student Challenge - Forbo x WDKA

    In this collaboration, 27 third-year design students of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam were challenged to explore and experiment with our Flexible Furniture linoleum.

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  • Student Challenge Emily Carr

    Student challenge

    Forbo x Emily Carr

    Student Challenge - Forbo x Emily Carr University

    In September 2019, Professor Christian Blyt from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver approached Forbo Flooring Systems and Danish retail brand BoConcept about the possibility of doing a collective project with his third-year Industrial Design students.

    Very quickly, a collaboration was formed that allowed his students access to Furniture Linoleum, a unique and sustainable material made by Forbo, and the opportunity to design and build a multifunctional cart for compact urban living spaces.

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  • Student Challenge LISAA

    Student challenge

    Forbo x LISAA

    Student challenge - Forbo x LISAA

    Twenty students from the Architecture & Design Institute LISAA in Paris, were challenged to design spaces by using the different dynamics of a building as a starting point. By using the possibilities offered by the broad choice of floors from Forbo Flooring, these creative students were able to reach remarkable results.

  • Forbo x Zokei

    Student challenge

    Forbo X Zokei

    Student challenge - Forbo X Zokei

    In January of 2020, Forbo Flooring Systems connected with the Zokei University in Tokyo, to discuss a potential collaboration. Together with Professor Toshiaki Morita the project scope was discussed, in which Furniture Linoleum would be the starting point.

    To approach this collaboration from a fresh angle, Toshiaki proposed to involve the FUTURE LIFE FACTORY, a studio in Panasonic’s Design Center specialized in cutting-edge development. They are always rethinking the question: what will living well mean in the future?

  • Student challenge Beckmans

    Student challenge

    Forbo x Beckmans

    Student Challenge - Forbo x Beckmans

    What happens when you ask Swedish design students to come up with new floor patterns for either Flotex or Marmoleum in only three weeks? It seems like an almost impossible assignment, yet - spoiler alert - the results were astonishing. A conversation with the lead players of this special project.