A Room for Hope: A Participatory Sounding/Listening Workshop

A Room for Hope is a half-day workshop about community, shared imagination, and hope, built around conversation and live, communal sound-making.

Participants are invited to bring a dream, wish, or future they care about – something that is personal, local, or collective. It might be practical, ambitious, unresolved, or still vague. We will work with these possibilities not as private goals, but as things that shape how people relate to the future and to each other.

Through guided prompts and small-group conversations, participants will put these dreams into words, short phrases, or simple sounds. These participatory fragments will be recorded and gradually mixed into a live soundscape that builds in the room over the course of the session.

As we go along together, the space will fill with different future directions at once… overlapping, sitting side-by-side, perhaps pulling in different ways. The point isn’t for us to agree or arrive at one vision, but to experience how many hopes can exist together.

We will end with a shared listening moment and a brief reflection/conversation on what it means to treat thinking about the future as something we do together in everyday life, not just in policy documents or expert spaces.

Limited number of participants.

Further information is available here: Imagining and Co-Creating Futures | Malmö University

This program is part of Democracy Week Malmö connects, held from 12–18th June. The event is free of charge and open to the public. The full program is available here: www.malmo.se/malmomots