Large piles of stones line the edges of the old fields at Granberget.
Every stone was put there by hand.
When the first settlers arrived in the nineteenth century, there were no machines, no electricity and barely any safety net. The ground at Granberget is full of stones. To grow crops, the settlers had to break the ground, lift and haul the stones away, and stack them at the edges of the fields.
As we have restored parts of the old fields in recent years, those stone piles have become impossible to overlook. They are enormous.
It is hard not to think about the people who built them.
They came here as early in the year as conditions allowed. During that first short summer, they had to make some kind of home before winter and clear enough land for a first harvest. There was no system to support those who failed. They depended heavily on nature and their own abilities.
Every stone carried away was therefore more than a stone.
It was a small step towards a field, a life and a future.
Then the circumstances changed.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century and around the turn of the twentieth, the forest industry in northern Sweden grew rapidly. Forest that had held little obvious economic value for many inland farms suddenly became an industrial raw material. Large forestry companies bought extensive areas of land in the northern interior.
Granberget changed too. The farm originally comprised around 2,000 hectares. Around the turn of the century, most of its forest land—some 1,950 hectares—was sold. In time, that land became part of the forest holdings now owned by SCA.
For many small landowners at the time, such a sale may have seemed sensible. The forest brought in cash, and work in forestry could sometimes provide a more secure livelihood for the family than the farm itself. At the same time, ownership of large parts of the northern landscape changed for generations to come.
Much later, we came to Granberget under very different circumstances.
At first, it was mainly a place of recreation for us: somewhere to enjoy nature, fish, ride snowmobiles, recover and spend time together. We earned our living elsewhere.
But digital technology changed something fundamental.
Where you live no longer has to be where your work is based.
I can sit at Granberget and work as a consultant with people at a German technology company. Meetings, documents and decisions can cross national borders in seconds. Drawings and CAD files can be shared with people in entirely different places. Working together no longer always requires physical proximity.
And that raised a new question.
If I can do my work here, what else can be done here?
Step by step, Granberget has therefore become a place of production and development again, as well as a place of recreation.
Today, a modern digital woodworking workshop stands here. We work with three-dimensional models, digital drawings and advanced production data. At the centre of the workshop is a five-axis CNC machine that can shape timber with a precision the people who cleared the first fields could hardly have imagined.
The tools are different. The circumstances are different. The pace is different.
But perhaps the dream itself is not so different.
Along the fields, the stone piles remain: silent monuments to work, ambition and hopes for the future.
A few hundred metres away, a digital CNC machine works today.
Almost two hundred years separate the tools.
But perhaps not the dream.
To build a life. To create work. To create a future at Granberget.
During the summer of 2026, we selected three pilot partners from almost 100 applications from Sweden and abroad. The pilot year has now begun with installations in Hemavan, Åre and Borgafjäll.
Under sommaren 2026 valde vi ut tre pilotkunder bland närmare 100 intresseanmälningar från Sverige och andra länder. Pilotåret har nu inletts med installationer i Hemavan, Åre och Borgafjäll.
Tillsammans med våra pilotkunder kommer vi under det kommande året att vidareutveckla varje del av Scandinavian Domes – från materialval och hantverk till logistik, installation och långsiktig hållbarhet – inför den bredare marknadslanseringen 2027.