In Residence
The residency program at the House of Innovation brings experienced leaders and artists into the research environment at the Stockholm School of Economics. Through close collaboration with researchers, students, and entrepreneurs, the program strengthens the exchange between art, academic knowledge, and practical experience.
Practitioners in Residence
Stefan Krook
Stefan Krook is a serial entrepreneur and social innovator with more than 20 years of experience building companies that combine business with social and environmental impact. An SSE alum, he is the first Practitioner in Residence at the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Krook founded and publicly listed Glocalnet while still a student at SSE and later co-founded Kivra, now a widely used digital mailbox in Sweden. He also initiated the GoodCause Foundation, which starts companies where all profits go to charity, including GodEl and GodFond, which have together distributed significant funds to nonprofit organizations.
His current work focuses on the Laghum Economy, a proposal to redesign economic systems by shifting taxation from labor to natural resource use and emissions. The idea is to create incentives for innovation and efficiency within planetary boundaries by pricing the use of natural resources more accurately. Stefan is working with scholars at the school on a shared ambition to create a Laghum Economy Centre.
Sara Öhrvall
Sara Öhrvall is a senior advisor, board professional and technology expert with a focus on artificial intelligence, innovation and transformation. She serves as Practitioner in Residence at the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Öhrvall has extensive experience from senior executive roles, including Chief Operating Officer at Axel Johnson, Chief Digital Officer at SEB and Senior Vice President of Research & Development at Bonnier. She has also co-founded companies such as Differ and Mindmill Networks.
She is widely recognized for her expertise in emerging technologies, including generative AI and language models, and has contributed to initiatives that bring together academia, industry and policymakers to develop Swedish AI capabilities.
Öhrvall serves on the boards of several major organizations, including Investor, Verisure, Axfood, Bonnier Books, Dagens Nyheter and SNS. She is Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board of Ahlström Oy, Chair of SSE Ventures and SSE Business Lab, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
In addition to her advisory and board work, she is the author of Your Future Self (2020), which explores how technological development shapes human capabilities and society.
Artists in Residence
Molly Grad
Molly Grad is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working across sculpture, painting, textiles, and public interventions. Her practice explores hidden histories and marginalized experiences, with a focus on the social and environmental responsibilities of creative work.
Public interventions are central to Grad’s practice. Through temporary installations in urban spaces, she highlights overlooked everyday elements that she describes as “sites of occurrence.” Her work examines visibility, value, and belonging, drawing connections between civic space, womanhood, and communities across gender, ethnicity, and orientation.
Before turning to art, Grad spent two decades in the fashion industry, designing for Stella McCartney and Yves Saint Laurent, and creating costumes for artists and filmmakers, including Beyoncé and Martin Scorsese. Since leaving the industry in 2019, she has focused on art as a way to challenge social hierarchies and engage more directly with human experience.
Grad is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London and has an art studio here at the House of Innovation.
Jacob Felländer
Jacob Felländer is a Swedish artist working across photography, painting, sculpture, and immersive media. Born in Stockholm in 1974, he studied fine art and graphic design at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and at San Diego State University.
Felländer began experimenting with landscape photography in the late 1990s, using analogue film cameras to create multiple exposures within a single image. Since 2004, his work has focused on challenging how images are defined and experienced, particularly through large-scale abstract photographs of cityscapes and landscapes captured around the world.
His practice has since expanded to include virtual and augmented reality, as well as collaborations across art, fashion, and music. Projects such as How to Unlock a Portal and The Great Escape explore new forms of storytelling and participation, aiming to make creativity more accessible. Felländer’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Fotografiska in Stockholm and MOCA North Miami, and is held in several public and private collections.
Questions about our residency program?
If you have any questions about the residency program, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us.
Professor Roberto Verganti
The Josefsson Family Chair in Art and Innovation, and Director of the Initiative on Art and Innovation.
Contact: Roberto.Verganti@hhs.se.
Visiting address
House of Innovation, Norrtullsgatan 2, 113 29 Stockholm
