Trondheim is shaped by people who create, question and push things forward. The Journal gets closer to the people behind the city’s innovation, original thinking and unexpected stories, from the ideas they’re building to the places, culture and communities they’re helping shape.
McKenna Starck · 6 September 2026
A bigger room for sharp ideas
Startups
Entrepreneurship
Student Life
Business
A year after we first met the students behind tomatosharp, we went back to see what became of their slightly unlikely idea. Turns out, giving craftsmanship, curiosity and a good set of sharpening stones a little room to grow can lead somewhere interesting.
McKenna Starck · 3 September 2026
The extracurricular that left Earth
Student Life
Tech & Innovation
Science & Research
Entrepreneurship
Freider came to NTNU for an engineering degree and got a little sidetracked by Orbit, SpaceX, and the small matter of building a national network that is already shaping the next generation of Norway’s space industry.
McKenna Starck · 1 September 2026
From Trondheim to the world stage: this is my sound
Music
Arts & Culture
Sixteen years in Copenhagen, stages across the world, and eventually a return to where it started. Along the way, the rooms changed, the collaborations multiplied, and the music kept finding new places to go.
McKenna Starck · 20 August 2025
A knife shop between lectures
Student Life
Business
Startups
Entrepreneurship
Between lectures, exams, and long days, a couple of students built one of Trondheim’s sharpest small businesses, proving that student life here can be a place to start something real.