Gudrun Inez Linnea Svensson was a Swedish textile artist. She served as Artistic Director of Borås Cotton between 1957 and 1967, and a founder of the famous textile design collective 10 Gruppen. Inez Svensson was one of Sweden’s most colorful profiles in design and textiles, and was president of Swedish Art College Konstfack from 1990 to 1996. She even appeared in small film roles in Carl Johan De Geer and Håkan Alexandersson’s experimental films in the 1960s and 1970s.

When Svensson became president of Konstfack in 1990, a series of collaborations between Konstfack and Proventus-related institutions began. In 1994, Artek was invited to organise an exhibition of Aalto furniture in Vita Havet, the large exhibition hall at Konstfack. An Alvar Aalto exhibition had been held there thirty years earlier. This heralded the start of a partnership between Artek and Konstfack. In 1995, first Artek projects to emerge from this collaboration were student proposals: both for products that would complement the Artek range, and ideas for how the company message could be updated in catalogues and posters.

In 1996, the Jewish Theatre invited the Israeli group Zik—an association of glassblowers and performance artists—to create a new show called Enerzik. The performance featured metalworking and pottery set to piano music. It was performed at Hagapaviljonen and Röda Sten in Gothenburg. The group also had a workshop at Konstfack. In the same year, the Zik-affiliated Polish-Israeli ceramist and glass artist, Lidia Zavalki–also a lecturer on ceramics and glass at Konstfack–exhibited her work at the school and in a gallery in Haga.