Portrait of LINNÉA RÖNNQUIST

Strategic Designer / City of Västerås and Mälardalen University

Linnéa Rönnquist

  • 2023
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Linnéa Rönnquist is an accomplished architect, strategist, and leader with extensive experience across various industries and sectors. Her expertise lies in the intersection of health and wellbeing, learning, urban planning, and technology.

Presently, Linnéa works at Samhällskontraktet, a government-run lab, as a Strategic Designer, focusing on complex change related to lifelong learning and sustainable wellbeing. She obtained her BArch from Glasgow School of Art and her MArch from The Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, Design, and Conservation. Linnéa’s previous leadership roles and experiences have spanned strategic design (Dark Matter Labs), architecture (RT+Q Architects, Orkidstudio), fashion (Jenny Grettve Studios), and democracy (Mackintosh Reimagined, Sation).

Linnéa approaches multidisciplinary design in a holistic manner in each situation, balancing vivid tangible outcomes with deep research and coherent strategy. She has lived, studied, and worked in various countries, including the US, UK, Singapore, Denmark, Sweden, and Portugal. However, Linnéa has been developing and delivering national, regional, and city strategies, urban development, and digital product design projects worldwide. Her key partners and clients include UNDP, ReWired, McConnell Foundation, Frituna, RISE, Viable Cities, Vinnova, the Republic of North Macedonia National Government, and local governments in Malmö, Copenhagen, Stockholm, amongst others.

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