The Green Living Room:
Climate Narratives & Everyday Ecologies

Open Call for Workshops, Challenge Labs, Lectures, and Artistic Works

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10 November -
21 December 2025

The Green Living Room is a four-week experimental program at Kulturrummet designed to connect scientific climate knowledge with everyday life through art, culture, and collaborative innovation. It is a place-based pop-up space where researchers, artists, creatives, activists, students, and citizens come together to explore how climate change intersects with our daily realities.

Our goal is to:

  • Make climate knowledge more accessible and relatable

  • Explore how everyday actions link to larger ecological challenges

  • Use creative and artistic processes to imagine, prototype, and share new solutions

  • Build a sense of collective ownership and action in Helsingborg’s climate transition

Structure: A Rapid Innovation Process

The program follows a design-driven innovation process with four phases:

  • W1: Understand

    How do we perceive and interpret climate change in everyday life?

    Activities could include: mapping local challenges, gathering narratives, framing problems.

    10 - 16 November

  • W2: Ideate

    How can creative thinking generate new solutions and alternative futures?

    Activities could include: brainstorming, speculative design, co-creating scenarios.

    17 - 23 November

  • W3: Prototype

    How can we turn ideas into tangible forms and test potential solutions?

    Activities could include: hands-on making, experiments, building prototypes, etc.

    8 - 14 December

  • W4: Share

    How do we communicate climate stories and inspire collective action?

    Activities could include: storytelling, public engagement, campaigns, etc.

    15 - 21 December

Each week includes evening activities and 1 full day weekend event. Contributions may be a single session or part of a longer lab that develops across the program. The process will culminate in an exhibition and a local climate action manifesto.

We invite proposals for:

  • Talks (lectures, presentations, panels)

  • Workshops (hands-on, co-creative sessions for different audiences)

  • Challenge Labs (continuous explorations tackling a specific climate issue)

  • Artistic Interventions (installations, performances, participatory works)

Your contribution should align with one of the four phases and address the guiding questions. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches and diverse perspectives.

Thematic Background

The project is grounded in three key ideas:

1. Climate Narratives: The stories and cultural expressions that shape how we understand and respond to climate change. Narratives can be scientific, personal, artistic, or political—and they deeply influence collective action.

2. Everyday Ecologies: The connections between daily habits (food, mobility, consumption) and local ecosystems. Focusing on the ecological footprint of ordinary life highlights opportunities for sustainable practices embedded in the community.

3. The Living Room: A metaphor for a space that is intimate, communal, and accessible—unlike a formal gallery or academic setting. In this context, it means creating a welcoming environment where climate issues are discussed as part of daily life, fostering shared ownership and participation.

How to Contribute

  • Indicate which week/phase your proposal fits best

  • Explain how it responds to the guiding question of that phase

  • Describe the format (talk, workshop, lab, or artistic intervention)

  • Share any practical needs (space, materials, equipment)

Why Contribute?

The Green Living Room is an opportunity to:

  • Collaborate with a diverse network of researchers, artists, and citizens

  • Test and showcase ideas in a visible public program

  • Contribute to Helsingborg’s climate transition in a creative, accessible way

  • Be part of a process that leads to an exhibition and a shared climate action manifesto (2026)

What We Offer

Selected contributors will receive:

  • Artist/participant fees: a small honorarium (from 1,000 to 3,000 SEK depending on the format and duration of contribution)

  • Materials and space

  • Support in curatorial, facilitation, and practical support in developing and delivering your contribution

  • Communication and promotion as part of the program

Submit your ideas before 22 October 2025

Submit your idea

This project is implemented with the support of Klimatfonden by Helsingborgs Stad.
Project implemented by Kulturrummet in collaboration with Studiefrämjandet Syd.