About

Convergence is our holy grail – meaning we believe development happens when various disciplines, industries and people get together. For fifteen years, we’ve engaged the public sector, academic institutions and more than 150 companies in cross-disciplinary collaborations and knowledge-sharing. In our second decade exploring and creating together, our goal is to equip humans and organisations with tools and inspiration to thrive in uncertainty. We aim to help closing intent-to-action gaps in transitions to stay sustainable and resilient and for fostering completely new beginnings.

The future is complex. We strive to give people better tools to make sense of and shape what’s ahead.

Collaborative Foresight

Together with our community, we lift our gazes to scan the horizon for signals and trends to imagine, prepare for and shape multiple futures of topics of interest. We dig deep into the changes in human behaviours, technologies, tools, and the systems we inhabit shape our futures. We imagine a plethora of possible, desirable and alternative futures and translate insights into actions in the present.

In our work on Collaborative Foresight, we invite people and organisations to explore the futures of impactful topics, including creative expression, work, sustainability, urban environments and wellbeing. Together, we identify ways to prepare for the unknown and uncover ways to bring about desirable futures.

What happens when artificial intelligence becomes a natural part of creative processes? What can nature teach us about the technological systems we develop and govern? How can we reflect on the value of work in futures affected by climate disruption? Who decides how to define and design a healthy, sustainable and mobile life experience?

Ultimately we seek to foster hope in a plurality of futures, responsibility to act and agency for all to do so.

Spaces for knowledge sharing

Our public program creates opportunities for collective meaning-making and creative capacity-building. We host local and global academics, creatives, business and scientific experts to engage with our community through seminars, workshops, courses, suppers, installations, exhibitions and social gatherings.

We hold space for both challenging and hopeful perspectives, and amplify new voices who help us look bravely at our complex present to find inspiration for creating better futures.

The Conference is our shining example of our mixed-methods approach to inspirational learning. Since 2011, we’ve hosted an annual two-day gathering that delves into the promises and pitfalls of our evolving relationships with our technologies, with each other and with our planet. A thousand curious minds come to listen to more than 30 speakers from all over the world, and leave with hearts full, minds bent, and connections made.

A place to connect

For the last ten years, we have run and cared for a place to connect over work at Stora Varvsgatan 6 in Malmö. It’s a place for meetings, food and work. Over the years we have continuously explored the ways we interact, commune and work together (we gathered our thoughts and experiences in the book Work is a Four-Letter Word. Many have been here for the recurring festivities, and many more join us on a daily basis be it for lunch, a chat over coffee or meeting on the next step. The physical incarnation of Media Evolution is an open space for radical ideas, emerging shifts and unexpected intersections. To many, it’s a place for work, meetings and food – a literal “co-working” space. For us and for those who dig deeper, our place is a place willing to ask questions about what work is – why we work, how we work, when we work and what the meaning of our focus on productivity is. We are also certified by Green Key.

The Futures Library by the entrance of our place is a physical incarnation of our foresight work and as such a community resource to help figure out how humans and businesses can co-exist sustainably in the long term and inspire ways of making futures.

The circle and the square

A group of people gathering will instinctively organise in a circle. Rather than taking centre stage, Media Evolution ties the circle — our community — together. The circle is a symbol of continuum and change. Our presence is continuous, one to rely on, yet our structure is simple and fluid so that we can stay in constant transformation. For such is the nature of the future we are part of shaping.

A rectangle symbolises the room, the house, the shelter. Media Evolution is a public place that seeks to create a physical framework for convening and immersement. A sort of square, indoors. We are the caretakers of a safe space for collaboration, exploration and widening the gaze.

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Data Policy

Your personal integrity is important to us at Media Evolution. Therefore, we are committed to protect any personal data that you might have shared with us previously, as well as any personal data that you will share with us in the future.

With the Data Policy displayed below, we aim to be transparent about the way in which we collect, process and protect your data according to the new GDPR guidelines. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding the policy.

Why do we collect personal data?

When we refer personal data in this policy, we mainly refer to information such as names, email addresses and company names. Much of what we do at Media Evolution revolves around these specific types of information. The purpose of collecting this data is because of the following reasons:

• To administer your subscription to our various newsletters so that you can be informed about activities, events, meetups, surveys and other news that could be of general interest to you as a member/friend/customer of Media Evolution and any of its branches (including The Conference and The Festival). Please note that you can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by clicking the “Avregistrera” button in the bottom of any given newsletter.
• To be able to process registrations and ticket sales when we arrange activities within the frames of our organization, as well as to be able to notify our attendees about changes in the program or potential cancellations.
• To be able to statistically summarize the outcome of our events, as well as to determine the level of interest our community has shown in a particular project of ours.

What type of data do we collect and what do we do with it, then?

Normally when we collect personal data of some capacity, it could be any of the following types of data:

• Personal details such as name, email address, working title, company, gender and membership are collected when you sign up for our events. This is so that we can see who’s coming.
• Personal details such as your email address is collected when you sign up for our newsletters. This is so that we can inform you about news related to the organization.
• Personal details such as name, email address, company, country and payment method are collected when buying tickets to The Conference. This is so that we can estimate how many are coming, where they are from and how they made the transaction. How do we process the personal data?

By signing up to any of our given newsletters and events, you have permitted us to use this data in compliance with our data policy. We never share this data with a third party or jeopardize the data by extracting it from our system.

At certain events, we have a photographer documenting the general atmosphere by taking pictures for us. If you wish to not be photographed or have your photo removed from any potential material (digital or analog) in which you’re visible, just let us know.