Our current lifestyles and developmental models lead us towards a future of a catastrophic temperature change, a scenario that will impact all aspects of our and future generations’ lives. In order for us to shift this trajectory towards a liveable future, our built environment, mobility systems and entire lifestyles need to lower their carbon footprints by more than 90% by 2030. Ongoing changes are insufficient.

Together with Dark Matter Labs and The City of Malmö’s Generate District development initiative, we explore and envision how professional neighborhoods can be transformed into regenerative and decarbonised places by re-imagining the relationships between work, work places and the built environment.

The aim of The Future is Here is to take us closer to a healthy regenerative urban landscape for humans, other species and the Planet.

For systems to change, we believe it to be critical to get the right alliances of partners across the system and together find ways to unlock systemic lock-ins. Therefore, we will engage with business actors, municipality, lawyers, civil society organisations, researchers, innovators and educators and other actors across our system in co-envisioning a future neighbourhood in Malmö’s Dockan/Varvsstaden area – as a blueprint on how a shift can be envisioned and efficiently implemented.

Four phases

The project starts off with research and defining real targets. This is then followed by workshops in which desirable futures will be co-envisioned with those impacted and invested in the shifts. Based on these visions, a scenario will be prototyped in an installation in the neighbourhood in question for anyone to experience. Finally, key stakeholders will be invited to uncover ways, tools and pathways to bringing this future into being.

Workshops
Signal Scanning: Futures of Work Places and Neighborhoods	February 11
Futures of Leading a Regenerative Work Life	March 14

Context

The work is a part of Shift Sweden, an Impact Innovation program helping Sweden transform – fossil-free and resource-conscious – into attractive and accessible living spaces for all.