Car Design News highlighted several projects from the course, noting that the students were given broad freedom to define their own thesis questions. Course leader Jonas Sandström, a former designer at Toyota, Honda and Volvo Trucks, said each project is built around an individual research question and developed over 20 weeks, with students expected to plan, test and present work at a professional transportation-design level.
One of the most interesting projects is ANURA by Love Björklund, a twin-cab pickup concept for rural Scandinavia in 2040. Instead of treating the future vehicle as a sealed, software-dependent object, the project argues for right-to-repair, offline usability and visible mechanical logic. Its body structure uses repeated components and ordinary fasteners so panels can be removed with normal tools.
Another standout is Medurs by Benjamin Fodor, developed with Autoliv. The interior concept focuses on older users, safer entry and exit, lower cognitive load and more intuitive physical interaction. That makes it a useful counterpoint to the industry’s habit of treating every future cabin as a larger touchscreen with seats around it.
The show is worth watching because these are not fantasy supercars or empty futurism. The strongest projects appear to be asking practical questions: who is the vehicle for, what happens when connectivity fails, how do people repair it, and how does the interior support bodies that do not match the young, idealized driver usually imagined in concept work.