We hosted the first CreativeMornings event in 2,5 years and it was so much fun!

Erik Valvring shared information about some of the creative solutions that he and his colleagues at Science Park Borås are working on right now. He also gave us a perspective on how many textiles we use everyday without thinking about it. On average we wear 5 garments per day and we have approximately 10 sets of outfits. That means that there are 500 millions garments in Sweden per person. Imagine how much that is if you add all other textiles like towels, carpets, furniture, etc!

Thank you Erik for taking your time to share your work with us.

If you want to see lots of Swedish people mingling or how the event went, you can check out our photos on Flickr.

It’s finally time for the first event in a while and CreativeMornings Gothenburg are happy to present the first speaker - Erik Valvring!

Erik has 20+ years of experience working with innovation in several industries and is currently focusing on Business Modeling and Strategies for the transition to a Circular Economy in textiles and fashion. Erik Valvring is the leader of circular initiatives such as CircularHub and the MicroFactory project to create sustainable companies.

Erik connects this months theme of NOW to creativity, with elements from the textile and fashion industry where he is currently working to create innovation in an industry in transition. Erik talks about the time perspective as an element in the creative process and shares some insights from 25 years of work with innovation.

This months venue and breakfast partner is VinnGroup. Vinn is a platform for starting up new, innovative companies. They are a group of specialist companies and individuals with high-calibre expertise assembled in a creative environment. Through faster, better development, Vinn seeks to work alongside companies, employees and customers to achieve success, and in the long-term, create a better world.

Our generous local partner is &friends. They facilitate meetings between people who create energy, innovative culture and creative courage.

Date: Friday, May 20
Time: 07:50 - 09:00 (talk from 08:30)
Location: Vinngroups Office, Kvarnbergsgatan 2, 411 05 Gothenburg

The tickets are free, but limited. 

CreativeMornings Gothenburg is back!

Yes, it´s happening! We´re back!

The chapter is now run by the host Nina Mujdzic and co-organizer Jan Tern.

A bit about us

Nina is a Gothenburg native that works with coaching designers to help them reach their full potential during the day and teaching people how to swing their hips through dance during the evenings. She has attended CreativeMornings events all over the world and is super excited to bring all those experiences to the Gothenburg chapter.

Jan a.k.a The stress exit man is one of Sweden’s three certified speaking professionals. He speaks mainly on how to manage stress and increase joy at work. He has written eleven books and has been awarded for his creativity both in Sweden and abroad.

A bit about the team

Every CreativeMornings event is free and run by a team of volunteers.

We currently have a wonderful team of designers, photographers, sponsor liasions and copywriters but we're always looking for more people to help out. In particular, we're looking for people with video filming/editing skills or social media gurus. If you have those skills or like to join us with your other talents, send an email to gothenburg@creativemornings.com

Our vision for CreativeMornings Gothenburg

We want to welcome a diverse audience from all walks of life so we´ll introduce a wide range of locations in different parts of Gothenburg but also a diverse set of speakers. Everyone is creative and everyone is welcome!

How to participate

Want to be the first to know about our next event? Sign up for the CreativeMornings Gothenburg newsletter. If you’re interested in partnering, speaking or volunteering, please email gothenburg@creativemornings.com.

We're currently looking for sponsors in the following category:

• Spaces
• Breakfast sponsors
• Sign sponsors

Stay tuned for details and we hope to give you a high five at our launch event!

CreativeMornings Story: John Casey – New York's Last Rubber Stamp Maker

Casey Rubber Stamp is a true one-of-a-kind shop in New York’s East Village. John Casey, the shop’s owner, insists on making the stanps in the old artisinal way.
Christer Hedberg met up with John, which resulted in this short film portrait.

Photos from June’s CreativeMornings!

June’s theme was Craft and we had the pleasure of having the awesome Jenny Theolin as our speaker. We were also lucky enough to have two of our talented photographers on site. Thank you Sina Farhat and Sandi Habinc.

» Go to our Flickr album to see all the photos

Photos from May’s CreativeMornings!

May’s theme was Commitment and we had none other than Hanna Limdquist as speaker. We were also lucky enough to have two of our talented photographers on site. Thank you Sina Farhat and Sandi Habinc.

» Go to our Flickr album to see all the photos

Say hello to May’s speaker Hanna Lindquist

The theme this month is ‘Commitment’ and on May 25th we’re really pleased to invite Hanna Lindquist who strives towards creating a world where all people have access to clean energy, to the stage.

Linda Larsson caught up with Hanna to ask her a few questions ahead of her talk.

A quick bio of yourself - who are you and what do you do?
My name’s Hanna and I’m from Gothenburg. I’ve always been very passionate about global issues. Due to this I’ve worked many years in the civil society and politics before I ended up at TRINE 2015. My years working with other change agents taught me that in a world where it is so easy to not care and not get engaged we all need to do just that. Because now we need it more than ever.



I joined TRINE when we were about to launch our very first loan in October 2015. Since then I’ve focused on building our brand, finding ways to communicate to people what you can do through our platform and really talked with our users and crowd-investors a lot. For me that’s key, no matter if you work for a tech startup or a governmental organisation: Understand and get to know your target group.

The theme this month is ‘commitment’. What does ‘commitment’ mean to you?
For me commitment is very much about also the things we don’t obviously think about as a commitment. We might think we’ve made a commitment when we signed up for a course or promised a friend to help him/her move but everyday we make commitments that we might not even think about. And some of those are the important ones because they might be the ones that break bad habits. For me one of the strongest commitments we currently have is our money, because depending on how you choose to save, invest, consume them you will also decide on what kind of world you want.

What can anyone do to become a solar hero?
If you want to use your money as a voting power I definitely think one way of doing that is to invest with a triple return. What does that mean? It means that instead of choosing between doing good and earning money you can get both. By investing with triple return you get social and environmental impact while at the same time having the possibility of return of investment. For me it’s obvious that if we all can make sustainability the new normal we never have to choose between “investments” and “sustainable investments”. It will all be about people, planet, profit. If you’re interested to see how it works you can check on jointrine.com and perhaps join some of the thousands of people who’s currently invested everything from €25 and more into solar energy in emerging markets.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Best piece of advice is a tricky one. I constantly get inspired but not necessarily by what people say by what they do. My colleagues are a brilliant example of some of the most inspiring people I’ve met. They are all hard-working, high-achieving but at the same time goofy, without any prestige or need to prove themselves. But if I have to choose one I must say that fail fast, learn faster is one of the best ones because I never really had that mindset before. I was so used to making sure everything was 100% success so there was never any space for failure. And that’s a great piece of advice I think we all encourage at TRINE - celebrate failures as well as successes!

What super power would you like to have and why?
I think time travelling would be pretty neat. Or just the possibility to travel between places in no time would be amazing. If I could spend the rest of my life doing something it would be to discover the world. Despite what you sometimes might think when you follow the newsfeed the world is still such a beautiful place and there would be a shame to not have seen it all if you had the possibility. Discovering the world and show another side than what is sometimes broadcasted would definitely be on my top list of dream projects. Home for me has always been where I am at the moment, not a specific geographical place.

If you could select one person from history and have them truthfully answer one question, who would you select and what is the question?
I’d ask George W. Bush - if you knew what you now know about what would happen after, would you still have started the war in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Photos from April’s Event Are Here!

April’s theme was Game and we had none other than tv, movie, and game music composer Robert Lundgren as speaker. He even gave us a sneak peak of the hot new game he’s working on. We were also lucky enough to have two of our talented photographers on site. Thank you Sina Farhat and Sandi Habinc.

Go to our Flickr Album.

All images are free to use in your social media, blog and other channels, as long as you cred the event and photographer(s). Please let us know if you’re talking about us so we can spread your words far and wide!

The next CreativeMornings event will be on May 25!

Photos from March’s Event Are Here!

March’s theme was Courage, with the talented artist AnnaLena Mayor Ekeblad. We were lucky enough to have two of our talented photographers on site. Thank you Sina Farhat and Sandi Habinc.

Go to our Flickr Album.

All images are free to use in your social media, blog and other channels, as long as you cred the event and photographer(s). Please let us know if you’re talking about us so we can spread your words far and wide!

The next CreativeMornings event will be on April 20!

Photos from Februay’s (kind of) Event Are Here!

We ran on a skeleton crew for February’s event, which had to be pushed to March 1, but were still lucky enough to have one of our talented photographers on site. Thank you Sina Farhat! Go to our Flickr album.

All images are free to use in your social media, blog and other channels, as long as you cred the event and photographer(s). Please let us know if you’re talking about us so we can spread your words far and wide!

The next CreativeMornings event will be on March 23!