About us

The story behind the project
Project Iran is inspired by the Swedish TV program Kobra which showed an episode of art and culture in Tehran. After watching the show the project’s founders decided to arrange a study tour to Iran for Swedish students. In order to reach a larger target audience and make a larger impact, the founders collaborated with the art producer at Lava, Kulturhuset in Stockholm to organize a photo exhibit.

Project leading
Sara Kavianpour, co-founder of Project Iran made a small stop in Lund and Aarhus, Denmark before she landed at Stockholm School of Economics and finally fell in love. Sara is currently working part-time at one of Sweden’s largest banks and recently completed her engagement in the student project Exchange Brazil. Equipped with gold in boxing, a vision and a great team, she hopes to make Project Iran a student project worth remembering.
0046 73 445 10 90
kavianipour@projectiran.se

Sara Almqvist, co-founder of Project Iran, has worked as a public relations assistant for a university theater in Atlanta. She has also restored New Orleans homes from Hurricane Katrina and taught children in Paris about ecological garden work. When Sara is not traveling, she loves second hand shopping and enjoying modern art.
0046 73 732 51 64
almqvist@projectiran.se

Corporate relations
Cicilia Östholm
0046 70 898 67 55
ostholm@projectiran.se

Event
Emil Håkansson is studying his second year of Industrial Design at Konstfack, Stockholm.
When not in school, he´d most likely be found at a skateboard ramp or at the local swing dance studio. Ever since spring arrived Emil also very much enjoys snow boarding at Kungsberget.
Previous to the Industrial Design program Emil has served as a medic, worked as an elementary school substitute teacher, construction worker and had an internship at the design group Front.
0046 70 276 86 89
hakansson@projectiran.se

Mana Trio
Mana will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Interior Architecture & Furniture Design from Konstfack. She works with artistical, experimental and communicative expressions. Mana was born in Iran and by working with cross-cultural design she wants to communicate valuable cultural assets. She wants to be sustainable not only in her choice of materials but also in her design.
0046 73 769 15 58
trio@projectiran.se

Mojdeh Hassani
Mojdeh is studying her second year at the Department of Industrial Design at Konstfack.
The design process and research is an important part in her creation. To create products that take account to human needs with a touch of joy is something that is constantly challenging her. It is a great privilege to have a part in Project Iran and introduce Swedish design to her country of origin.
0046 73 706 47 08
hassani@projectiran.se

Pontus Hansson has a Bachelor degree from the Royal Institute of Technology Innovation and design program. Today he is studying the second year at the Department of Industrial Design at Konstfack, University College of arts, craft and design. Pontus is an incurable idea explorer which, for instance, has resulted in an annually recurring dog camp, and Stockholm city inventors grant. Pontus has been involved in several businesses during his study years, including starting up a clothing store in Stockholm. In his spare time he likes outdoor activities - sailing and hiking, cooking with friends and family and read books, mainly documentary literature.
0046 73 657 58 03
hansson@projectiran.se

Graphic
Shabnam Faraee, has a MA in Industrial design from Tehran Art University and a MA in Graphic design and illustration from Konstfack in Stockholm. Since 1997 she has worked as a freelance designer. She has worked in many projects in different parts of the world. Shabnam has always wanted to bring to light Iranian design in Sweden and vice versa. Project Iran gives her this opportunity. Shabnam has created all the projects graphics and has functioned as a coach in all intercultural affairs.
0046 73 694 97 97
faraee@projectiran.se

Pr
Malin Petersson is a student at Stockholm School of Economics and is, besides being a member of Project Iran, part-time consultant at a company performing market investigations. She has also worked as sailing instructor, held a temporary position as controller at Volvo, held classes to motivate schoolchildren to do more physical exercise, and worked at a bakery in Austria. Malin enjoys painting, is a hobby ornithologist, loves sailing and skiing and has done two winter seasons in st. Anton.
0046 73 389 36 19
petersson@projectiran.se

My name is Rosmarie Sundström and I am doing the book of this project. I have been studying journalism and global development for three years. Now I work with project management and communication in Sweden’s biggest handicap youth organization, the Swedish Celiac Youth Association. I am very happy to be in this Iran project and I look much forward to go to Iran. It is interesting to follow the work of this project. I think the result will be great and that we can do a good documentation about it in the book.
0046 73 142 93 21
sundstrom@projectiran.se