Memories from the transition
A futurewalk set in Holma and Hyllie
It’s 2050. Selma is dead. But before she is buried, she wants to talk to a person from 2021 and show them how, in Malmö, everything is possible. That person is you.
How will we deal with the climate crisis? Memories from the transition is a fictional soundwalk where you get to hear one answer to that question. The story starts in 2030, on the roof of Emporia, and ends on the highest hill in Holma—twenty years later.
Plot
Act I: the Occupation (2030
The transition to a fossil-free society is dragging on. Young activists are fed up with politics that make marginal change without addressing the root causes. Together with other activists around the world, they occupy a prominent icon of consumption—their local mall. Hear the story of Isam, Elina, and Kevin, the Malmö-residents who occupied Emporia.
Act II: the Transition (2050)
The transition involved many political decisions, big and small, and transformed many lives in the process. Jobs that many had anchored their identities in vanished while new economies brought new opportunities. In act II, we meet Tariq, pollinator coordinator, and Malcolm, Malmö's hippest chef, and get a glimpse into how the city transformed.
Who should listen to Memories from the transition?
We're convinced that everyone, whether or not Malmö is their home, will find the story interesting and perhaps even a bit provocative.
The walk can be used as a thematic learning opportunity in schools, workshop for organisations and as a novel discussion forum for decision makers. If this sound interesting to you, read more about it here:
How do I do the walk?
To do the walk you need to:
- Download the app Climaginaries on your smartphone.
- Have a fully charged smartphone and a pair of headphones.
The soundwalk consists of two acts and is two hours in total. Each act is about 1 hour and you can walk the acts at separate times if you don’t want to do the whole walk in one day.
The walk can be experienced every day that the roof of Emporia is accessible, usually between 10-20 every day. We recommend to begin the walk at 18.30 at the latest, to be sure to complete the walk before Emporia close.
The first act starts at Hyllie torg in Malmö and continues up on the roof of Emporia. The frist act ends by walking down the stairs inside the mall.
The second act begins close to Hyllie torg, at Arenagatan: between the stairs to the railway platform and the parking garage. You will walk past the water tower and in to Holma, where you will end the walk on top of the highest hill.
When you reach the starting point of the act, start the audio by tapping on the first point on the map in your phone. Afterward, just follow the instructions. The points of interest will show up as you walk.
The walk is also accessible without GPS. In this version, all points of interest in the walk are visible on the map and you can start the audio yourself by tapping on them.
Soundwalk
In a soundwalk, you're smartphone is both narrator and guide. Through gps, the story moves forward as you move between locations.
The project group consists of Johannes Stripple and Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson from the Department of Political Science at Lund University and Fredrik Pålsson from Umami Productions/Hi-Story. We've received invaluable help and input from research collegues at Lund University and from members of the Narrating Climate Futures-network. The project was financed by Formas with support from LU Futura.
Johannes does research on climate politics and has lately focused on how we create and use stories of and about the future, for more on this, please visit the Climaginaries-project. Ludwig has worked on several story-telling projects that employ knowledge-based speculation, such as the museum Carbon Ruins and the Rough Planet Guide to Notterdam. Fredrik has extensive experience in radio production and has pioneered soundwalks in Sweden, for example in the PAX-walk based on the novels with the same name. Read more (In Swedish) about Fredrik here.
Credits
Idea and worldbuilding: Johannes Stripple, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson and Fredrik Pålsson
Script: Fredrik Pålsson
Voicedirector: Petra Berg Holbek
Sound: Julia Öjbrandt, Sofia Chanfreau, Johan Chandorkar
Music: Julia Öjbrandt
Cover art: Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson
Actors:
Selma: Vesna Stanisic
Elina: Sandra Stojiljkovic
Kevin: Magnus Schmitz
Isam: Alaa Rashid
Tariq: Karim Rashed
Anastasia, occupant: Nina Matthis
Daniel, head of sustainability: Håkan Paaske
Molly, Emporia-lover: Josefin Iziamo
Amanda, Prime minister: Cecilia Lindqvist
Nora, Mosaic-maker: Vilija Židovainytė
Ruben, Kevins father: Anders Blentare
Noor, Isams mother:
Speaker: Fredrik Pålsson
Extras: Liv Pålsson, Julia Öjbrandt, Mariana Andersson, Anna Sundman Lecomte, Johan Chandorkar, Olivia Bons
How speculative is the story?
Click here to access our Ministry of Imagination where we've collected background research and further reading on some of the topics covered in Memories from the transition
Get in touch
Johannes Stripple, Department of Political Science
johannes [dot] stripple [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson, Department of Political Science
ludwig [dot] bengtsson_sonesson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
Fredrik Pålsson, Umami Produktion/Hi-Story
fredrik [at] umamiproduktion [dot] se