Something in Common: Life Beyond the City
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| Coordinator | Outer space arkitekter AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 160 280 |
| Project duration | November 2024 - September 2025 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Impact Innovation: Designing the places of the future for attractive, accessible and sustainable communities |
| Call | Impact Innovation: Designing the places of the future for attractive, accessible and sustainable communities |
Important results from the project
The project aimed to challenge the urban-centered normative view of quality and efficiency and to spark conversations about the potential role of rural areas in the sustainable transition. Together with experts and local residents, a public exhibition was created as a place to talk about the future. "Shards" of possible futures were developed through workshops and artistic expression. The exhibition reached many visitors and the media, and became a platform to test new methods in rural planning.
Expected long term effects
In the longer term, the project challenges and strengthens existing methods of strategic rural planning and mobility. It does so by contributing to regional master-planning, which takes into account global trends and signals, with a resolution that maintains the local anchoring to conditions and stories that are – and must continue to be – specific to each of Sweden´s rural areas.
Approach and implementation
Through collaboration with experts in foresight methodology, a series of future visions were developed for both the local area and the Swedish countryside at large. These visions formed the basis for geographically specific visions, developed in close collaboration with local residents through a series of workshops. The questions from these were then artistically interpreted into a series of exhibition objects – so-called shards – that concretized these possible futures in a public exhibition.