During the summer of 2025, Passalen, MARELD, Chalmers, and the Transition Lab organized a series of workshops in Jubileumsparken. The workshops explored how humans and animals can coexist in the city, with a focus on giving the young participants the chance to engage with questions of urban futures, sustainability, and community through hands-on sketching exercises and dialogue.
By inviting young participants, the workshops start a creative process in which their experiences, reflections, and sketches become vital building blocks for imagining the city of the future. The ideas and outcomes are now being carried forward as part of the ongoing research project Ecofeminism.
The workshops took place at, and began with, an introduction to the Transition Lab – a space for hands-on learning, reuse, building, and community. The participants then worked on the exercise “The animal’s place in the city.” They were asked to choose an animal and consider how the city could look if it were planned based on that animal’s needs. The participants worked freely with paper and pens and were encouraged to draw pictures, write keywords and short texts, and reflect on environments for movement, food, shelter, and the living conditions of animals.
Photo: David Gough