Reporting from the Centre for Imagining and Co-creating Futures Workshop in Malmö, May 13-14, 2025
A diverse group of researchers, artists, and practitioners gathered this week at the Centre for Imagining and Co-creating Futures to explore the critical intersection of storytelling, emerging technologies, and sustainable futures.
We presented the project and initiative with The Climate Story Lab Nordic.
The two-day workshop featured presentations spanning multiple disciplines—from urban planning and architecture to narrativity in sustainability and multispecies storytelling. The diversity of approaches highlighted the growing recognition that addressing sustainability challenges requires not just technical solutions but new ways of imagining and narrating possible futures.
Presentations examined how stories, games, visual narratives, and other communicative forms help communities and decision-makers grapple with uncertainty, mobilize collective action, and identify possible solutions for sustainability challenges.
The workshop aligns with growing research interest in how imagination serves as a core capacity for catalyzing sustainability transformations. As highlighted in the Techniques of Futuring project, emerging digital tools present both opportunities and complex challenges—including questions of access, representation, and whose visions of the future gain traction in public discourse.
As climate and biodiversity crises intensify, these conversations about whose stories get told—and through what technological means—become increasingly vital for ensuring that our collective imagination of sustainable futures reflects diverse knowledge systems, values, and lived experiences.
Thank you to Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen and the team at the Centre for Imagining and Co-creating Futures for organizing this thought-provoking workshop that created such rich interdisciplinary dialogue