Using a two-level randomized experiment, we find that job search assistance (JSA) reduces unemployment among the treated but also creates displacement effects. Analyses of mechanisms show that vacancy referrals from caseworkers to job seekers explain the positive effects for the treated by helping the job seekers apply to the most relevant jobs earlier. We also find that the overall assessment of JSA hinges on how the displacement effects hit the labor market and to what extent firms react by opening new vacancies. The displacement is larger in weak labor markets, and we find no displacement of resources.

This book offers a detailed understanding of ‘enemy images’, which are used in political rhetoric to dehumanize adversaries for various purposes, such as to legitimate violent conflicts.

Applying theoretical models to a strong catalogue of historical and recent examples – from blood libel narratives in medieval manuscripts, to state-sponsored children’s board games in Nazi Germany and social media posts about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine – the book identifies how ‘enemy images’ have led to the development of dominant socio-political paradigms by providing justifications for and reinforcements of violent conflicts both within and between societies. In doing so, the work offers an up-to-date, accessible and authoritative overview of how to identify, analyse, and counteract energy images – which will be key to fostering social environments of reconciliation and peacebuilding for the future.

This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, International Relations, history, political sociology, and communication studies.  

Political action in reponse to the COVID-19 crisis generated hope for political action on a larger looming crisis, the climate crisis. Articulating climate change in terms of crisis and positioning it in the context of apocalypse can be an effective mobilizer of short-term action. Yet, alarmist discourse risk plunging people into apathy. In this article, we examine imaginaries of the climate crisis invoked by climate activist organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they tried to influence the political agenda on Twitter (now X) and, not least, call for action on the climate crisis. We identify five key activist climate imaginaries and show how an apocalyptic imagery was invoked in response to the pandemic. However, this apocalyptic imaginary was rarely invoked on its own, but in relation to other key climate imaginaries. Our findings contribute to research on agenda setting and the role of political imaginaries in struggles over societal transformations, and especially the role of activist imaginaries when challenging dominant climate imaginaries in attempts to influence the political agenda and generate political action.

White-collar workers around the world are reconfiguring their ways of working. Some have found their way out, performing office work outdoors, through walk-and-talks, outdoor meetings, or reading sessions. Working outdoors has proved both invigorating and challenging. This qualitative interview study aims to develop a conceptual framework concerning the implications of white-collar workers incorporating the outdoors into their everyday work life. Applying a constructivist grounded theory approach, 27 interviews with a total of 15 participants were systematically analyzed. Findings evolved around the following categories: practicing outdoor office work, challenging the taken-for-granted, enjoying freedom and disconnection, feeling connected and interdependent, promoting health and well-being, enhancing performance, and finally adding a dimension to work. These categories were worked into a conceptual model, building on the dynamic relationship between the practice of working outdoors on one hand, and how this challenges the system in which office work traditionally takes place on the other. Interviews reflected the profound learning process of the employees. Drawing on the concepts of free space and resonance, we demonstrate how performing office work outdoors may unlock a transformative potential by opening up connectedness and interdependence and contribute to a sustainable work life as well as overall sustainable development.

A photographic mapping of doors in Swedish public housing, “Allmännyttan”. The doors are located in socio-economically different districts of Malmö.

Långsamma vägar, eller kopplade frirum, är ett sätt att visualisera staden ur fotgängarperspektiv. Vi har påbörjat en kartläggning av långsamma vägar i Malmö, i syfte att upptäcka platser och förbindelser på ett nytt sätt. Studien använder GIS för att analysera och identifiera möjliga nätverk av långsamma vägar i relation till socio-ekonomiska skillnader mellan olika stadsdelar. Nätverk av långsamma vägar är värdefulla för att de ger möjlighet för människor att utforska staden, upptäcka natur och mötas.

Genom en kartläggning av Höganäs framkommer hur en lokal naturresurs påverkar stadens framväxt och identitet, såväl lokalt som globalt. Undersökningen tar sin utgångspunkt i Lera, ett material som systematiskt utvunnits över hela Kullahalvön under 150 år. I spåren av gruvindustrin fortsätter Höganäs utvecklas ur Lera.

This article introduces a counter-mapping strategy to visualize Malmö from a pedestrian perspective. It highlights the uneven distribution and fragmentation of current pedestrian spaces and aim to support a constructive approach to networks of slow roads. We are particularly concerned with processes to improve the mapping of pedestrian spaces and how maps might support constructive dialogues.

Together with a growing number of migrants of Arab descent, Arab music, and tarab culture has grown in importance in the Swedish musical landscape. What is the contribution of Arab migrant musicians, and their music practice, to changes in the musical landscape in southern Sweden from a postmigrant perspective? Postmigrant music making includes processes of building connections and relations between Arab migrant, other migrants, and Swedish non-migrant musicians. We employ the concept of transtopia (Yildiz 2019; West 2019) in the analysis of Arab migrant musicians’ experiences of music-making, performing and teaching Arab music in southern Sweden, with the aim of disentangling how music-making forms spaces for innovation, translation, negotiations of representation, belonging, identity, cultural change and transformation within the context of increasing diversity in society. This study is based on participant observation, audio-visual recordings, fieldnotes and semistructured interviews during fieldwork within the local cultural production sector in the southern Swedish province of Skåne and particularly in the city of Malmö. The interviews were conducted with Arabic-speaking musicians who sing and play classical tarab music in performative and educational settings. The article contributes to a renewed scholarly interest in migrants’ music and to the ongoing debates on the role of migrant artists in cultural change in postmigrant societies.

Den här boken delar minnen och berättelser från personer med olika former av funktionsnedsättningar om deras arbetsliv under pandemin. Berättelserna samlades in som en del av forskningsprojektet ”Arbetsliv under covid-19- pandemin: lärande erfarenheter, designmöjligheter och framtida arbetsliv för personer med funktionsnedsättningar” (2022–2024) av Göteborgs universitet, Malmö universitet och RISE, finansierat av Forskningsrådet för hälsa, arbetsliv och välfärd (FORTE). Personerna vars berättelser är med i boken fick i uppdrag att i ord och bild beskriva sina arbetsplatser under pandemin. Boken skapar ett tidsdokument och en historieskrivning om pandemin där andra röster får ta plats.

I Malmö Stads kartarkiv hittade jag en kartläggning från 1950-talet över pilevallar i Malmö. Hösten 2021 letade jag upp och fotograferande platserna där pilevallar och alléer en gång stod. Speglingen av dåtid/nutid visar på en rad olika konsekvenser för pilens vara och framtidsutsikter; från gränsmarkörer till kultursymbol till biotopskydd alternativt totalt försvinnande. Nutida pilevallar minner om markgränser, maktstrukturer, landskapsideal och stadsplaneringsvurmar, men bidrar även till reflektion om förhållningssätt till vår mer-än-mänskliga omgivning.

So far, there have been few connections between progressive discussions of workplace democracy (WD) and stakeholder theorizing. Recently, the Dahlsian tradition has become more interested in the epistemic dimension of WD, which could lead to more interaction between the two debates. However, there are still significant differences in assumptions that divide discussions on WD, particularly regarding the adversarial versus compatible nature of employee and management interests, as well as the status of civil rights.

This article employs a mixed-methods approach to explore the narrative articulation of crises in discussions around immigration and integration on Flashback Forum in Sweden. Using a combination of topic modelling and narrative analysis, it follows a two-step research design. First, topic modelling helps to identify key topics in the data and select a corpus for qualitative analysis. Second, drawing on Berger’s (2018) extremist crisis typology, we explore the crisis-narrative constructions around these topics, highlighting the extremist components within these. Our findings show that the prevalent topics in these discussions are not about immigration per se – rather, they address societal issues where perceived crises with immigration at their root are articulated in terms of how they disrupt everyday life in Sweden. Our analysis reveals how mundane concerns around immigration ventilated on Flashback mix with overtly extremist discourse and conspiracy beliefs, explicating Flashback as a site of everyday extremism.

Bildschirmspezifische Komposition im Comic: Erzählen in sequentiellen Bildern in Bildschirm-Medien

Die Darstellung eines Comic-Bildes unterscheidet sich von Bildschirm zu Bildschirm, in der Praxis besonders deutlich zwischen Mobiltelefon- und Computerbildschirm. Dass technische Faktoren - Bildauflösung und Bildschirmgröße, die Größe des Browserfensters usw. -  deutliche Konsequenzen für die Darstellungsqualität haben ist bekannt. Dass diese technischen Einstellungen aber Konsequenzen für die Komposition des Bildinhalts digitaler Comics haben sollte, soll in diesem Beitrag dargestellt und diskutuiert werden. 

Ein Comic besteht immer aus einer Bildfolge. Jedes Bild eines Comics trägt dabei potentiell zur Entwicklung der Geschichte, zur Exposition, zum Stimmungsaufbau usw. bei. Die unterschiedlichen Comic-Genres folgen dabei in der Regel leicht unterschiedlichen Konventionen. Aber unabhängig von diesen Erzählkonventionen sollen die Bilder und jede Seite eines Comics den Leser ansprechen und das Lesen des Comics nicht erschweren - unabhängig ob in digitaler oder analoger Form. Die Komposition jedes Bildes, also die Platzierung aller Bildelemente im Verhältnis zueinander ist wesentlicher Teil des Erzählstils im Comic, am Bildschirm werden Bilder aber zT automatisch beschnitten. Entsprechend planen Comicschaffende diese Faktoren zunehmend bei der Gestaltung ihrer Comics ein und produzieren digitale Inhalte so, dass technische Einflüsse auf erzählerische Inhalte so gut wie möglich kontrolliert werden können. 

An ausgewählten Beispielen werden die speziellen Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen für gelungene Bildkomposition derselben Comic-Geschichten für unterschiedliche Gruppen von Bildschirmmedien aufgezeigt. Während manche Comics komplett starr gestaltet sind, können technische Möglichkeiten genutzt werden, um die Bildkomposition des fertigen Comics jeweils an den genutzten Bildschirm / Browser anzupassen. Dabei ist die Beweglichkeit der einzelnen elementspezifischen Ebenen im Bezug aufeinander wesentlich. Unterschiede zwischen Produktionen für spezifische Bildschirmgrößen (z.B. "Handy-Comics") und Comics, die plattformübergreifend adaptiv funktionieren sollen, sind hierbei Ausgangspunkt, um über die Qualität visueller Gestaltung in diesem speziellen Anwendungbereich nachzudenken. 

This chapter reflects on the need for a decolonial turn in Sweden’s foreign policy. The growing ecological emergencies that we are faced with call on us to recognise and address quite profound global inequities, many of which are rooted in histories of European colonialism. In a sprawling conversation about the coloniality of the global economy and Sweden’s role in it, the chapter addresses such topics as what the empirical studies of ecological unequal exchange (EUE) reveal about the structure of the global economy, racial and gendered stereotypes in describing labour conditions in value chains from the Global South to the North, the extent to which the Swedish economy and economic growth has benefitted from unequal economic relations to the Global South and why it matters, public awareness of the coloniality of Sweden’s international relations, and how Sweden can become decolonial in its politics of development and international affairs.

Housing instability is closely related to housing precarity and inequality. Households experiencing housinginstability change residences frequently, facing difficulties in staying put, which has been proven detrimental forfamilies. This study explores the geographical outcomes of housing instability showing how this phenomenondistributes in Malmo, ¨ Sweden, creating different spatial and temporal patterns. The paper relies on registeredbased data aggregated to geographical coordinates to identify places of transience and uses k-nearest neighbour for measuring the intensity of unstable moves in spatial terms. Furthermore, the mapping of housinginstability across four distinct time frames spanning from 1990 to 2020 illustrates the temporal unfolding of thesepatterns. The findings indicate a progression of housing instability spreading from specific spatial points to amore widespread dispersion of transience. This suggests an overall change in the city which may be linked totransformations in housing politics and policies.

The research has been carried out by the scientists of the Carpathian Institute of Analytics "FrankoLytics" in the partnership with the NGO "All-Ukrainian Non-Governmental Organisation Poruch"in 2024 with the support of the project "Strengthening Civil Society in the Countries of the EasternPartnership", which is co-funded by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and theEuropean Union in order to create an evidence base for educational activities for youth to improve mediation skills and conflict-free resolution of arguments based on values and priorities ofthe UN Security Council Resolution 2250. The objectives of the project research component havebeen implemented within the framework of a synthetic methodology of an integrated analyticalapproach by involving the methods of desk research, statistical analysis, surveys and focus groupdiscussions with employees and students of educational institutions in the centre, south, westand east of Ukraine, as well as media monitoring activities.

The purpose of this article is to clarify the position of Ukraine in relation to thedeveloped countries on the trajectory of social development according to the stagesof the formation of the gender component of the general welfare society andthe strengthening of the liberal-democratic vector of political life.Cobb-Douglas function and such methods as quantitative, graphic, visualization, and regressionwere used in the research process. The progress of gender relations in society duringthe industrialization stage is considered as a function of GDP per person – as a generalizationembodiment of progress in a range of aspects of economic and politicallife that promote equalizing opportunities for women and men. The obtained resultsevidence that Ukraine was characterized not only by lower levels of fertility but alsoby a greater potential of society to transform the structural shifts of industrialization(the growth of the industrial labor sector for hire and the share of urban population)into the impulse to expand women involvement in public life and reduce their“specialization” in activities related only to the birth and upbringing of children andhousehold’s maintenance. The model obtained according to the data of Ukraine testifiesto the greater potential of Ukrainian society to transform even modest successesof industrialization into an impetus for the evolution of gender relations and thereduction of women’s specialization only in the functions of birth and upbringing ofchildren.

This report takes the 2024 European Parliament elections as an entry point to examine translocal articulations of everyday extremism in and across three European countries and regions: Sweden (northern Europe), Austria (central Europe), and Bulgaria (eastern Europe). Drawing on hybrid ethnographic fieldwork and visual analysis of memes and other visual artefacts, we trace everyday political discussions surrounding the EP election campaigns in each country to examine how extremist narratives occur around contentious issues and how these are negotiated across online and offline spaces. The multi-sited research design allows us to shed light on differences and similarities in how violent rhetoric and political extremism emerge across different European contexts during a significant political event shared by citizens. By offering in-depth insights from three countries, the report contributes to a deeper understanding of the challenges facing European cohesion in a time of rising political extremism and polarization within the European Union.

Trust in AI healthcare technologies is often treated as an obtainable end-state enforceable byregulation, in which developers can claim their product to be ‘trusted’. The article shows thelimits of this approach, arguing instead for a processual understanding in which trust isunderstood to be dynamic and forever a state ‘to come’. The argument is developed byconsidering several types of trust relations amongst key stakeholders in AI healthcare, includingwhere developers often distrust users. Drawing on political theory and Coactive Design, thearticle argues that trust relations as a negotiation are integral to a well-functioning designprocess that not only supports the moral acceptability of AI healthcare technologies but also theirinnovation and efficacy.

Sexual violence within academia is a major concern, and increased attention is being given to bystander interventions to combat these behaviors. This scoping review aimed to investigate bystander intervention programs focused on the prevention of sexual violence in universities worldwide. Literature searches were conducted using ERC, ERIC, Web of Science, PsycInfo, and PubMed databases. The inclusion criteria were: university-based assessments of a bystander intervention program, and pretest–posttest designs. In total, 1,644 articles were identified, of which 68 were included in the final analysis. Most of the programs focused on students as the target population, and the bystander interventions covered different aspects such as creating new community norms for intervening, increasing a sense of responsibility for intervening, increasing the participants’ feelings of competence, and providing role models for positive bystander behavior. There was a clear trend to use a combination of interactive and educational didactic methods. The programs were mostly delivered in person on campuses. Their outcomes included changes in norms, knowledge, and behaviors. In more one-third of the selected articles, the programs and initiatives were assessed using a pretest–posttest design only, almost just as many had additional follow-up conducted within 3 months. Most intervention programs achieved their intended impacts relating to bystanders and sexual violence, at least in the short term. Thus, investments in these types of preventative initiatives by organizations other than academic institutions could be beneficial.

European immigration policy is increasingly selective and stratified, favoring immigrants considered productive in the eyes of society. Using the case of Swedish family reunification, this article investigates how ideas of deservingness underlie this selection process and how it intersects with temporal bordering, impacting hierarchies of transnational mobility. Through qualitative interviews with individuals across a spectrum of legal statuses, the study finds that the increased connection between immigration policy and the housing and labor markets, combined with restrictions concerning visas, age, and legal status, induce and reproduce inequalities in waiting times and access to reunification. Within these restrictions, however, families find ways to circumvent the wait and get family time. The study contributes to the temporal turn in migration studies by exploring reunification among families with diverse backgrounds, complementing previous literature’s focus on the experiences of forced migrants. By considering how deservingness and temporal bordering shape mobility, the article offers both conceptual and empirical contributions to mobility and migration studies. Ultimately, the study brings forward a nuanced analysis of the consequences of restrictive shifts in Swedish immigration policy, contributing to the broader understanding of the current, transnational, mobility regimes.

The aftermath of WWII increased the number of people with disabilities. It also led to an inquiry into society’s view on disabilities and how to adjust the built environment, dismantling the cultural closet. During the 1970s, a new design criterion started to influence architectural design and physical planning: accessible or inclusive design. The first decades of the new millennium saw the EU putting efforts into converting the diverse types of public built space in the member states into becoming useable by older people and persons with disabilities. The pandemic 2020-2022 proved the home environment to be claustrophobic for most Europeans in terms of confinement and working at home.The present study presents a Swedish study on the concept of accessibility as a design criterion for future-oriented dwellings of the 2030s. Some 125 respondents, identified as national experts, were approached with a questionnaire on a potential update of the concept, often used in European building legislation. The response rate was low, about 15 %, covering seven European countries, Canada and Japan. The general view was that premises like ICT, working at home, or confined to the home environment had had little effect on contemporaneous accessible design. The technical approach for addressing accessibility in architectural design would continue, since housing depends on financial planning.Seen in an architectural perspective, the study suggested that the functionalistic ideal for the home as measurable entity, shaped around traceable needs of Le Corbusier’s modulor lives on. In contrast, the respondents forwarded the twin concept of accessibility, i.e., usability introduced in 2008 through the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities, as a tool for adjusting the home environment to individual needs. This would be the challenge for the future to conceive truly innovative dwellings that promoted an improved fit between the user and the design of the habitat.

 Modern architecture has generated measurable requirements about users’ interactions with the built environment to create user-oriented architecture through meticulous full-scale testing with subsequent standardization. These requirements have entered the legal framework as minimum threshold values for basic demands that regulate building and physical planning. In the construction of the modern welfare society, building-related requirements have been associated with fundamental ethical values for the societal construction, e.g., equity, health, inclusion, and sustainable development. The programming of architecture through building requirements can be seen as giving the users a dosage of happiness through architecture. The modern welfare state defines an architectural happiness through is legal frameworks. This study analyzed thirteen questions from a 37-question questionnaire, distributed to 122 informants, in thirteen countries. The study aimed at establishing the contemporaneous understandings and uses of the concept of accessibility. The study concluded that, currently, the concept of accessibility has turned into a technical instrument that limits the quest for an increased fit between user demands and needs with the architectural design. Furthermore, there is a loose link between accessibility and sustainability. In conclusion, architectural happiness for the upcoming sustainable society of the 2030s needs to update the concept of accessibility so that the outcome – usability for future users – becomes apparent. 

This one day workshop will explore queering as a design technique for troubling data and AI systems, ranging from quotidian personal data to recent Generative AI tools. By surfacing numerous instances of queering data or AI, we will come together to develop an archive of techniques for queering or artful subversion. From this archive, participants will select a technique and develop a speculative prototype or artifact via critical making. In doing so, we resist techno-determinism and conventional narratives of AI harms and benefits by tracing queer possibilities outside these categories.

This article explores the discursive linkages between violent misogyny and violent right-wing extremism in the popular Swedish online discussion forum Flashback, which affords anonymous and relatively unmoderated commenting. Empirically, it focuses on the articulations of misogyny and anti-feminism mapped onto extreme right ideology including white supremacism in user comments posted across 16 Flashback threads. To analyze the extensive data set, we first drew on a collocation analysis of user comments (N = 20,359) scraped from a strategic selection of threads. From this sample we chose 36 combinations to be considered for a closer reading. In the second analytical step, critical discourse analysis coupled with the Essex School’s logics approach helped us unpack the logics of conspiracy and male entitlement, as well as the fantasmatic projections of Swedish women as both “race traitors” and “victims” at the heart of extreme right discourse in and beyond Sweden today.

The literature on Töpffer and his work is extensive. What strikes the informed reader, however, is the lack of a clear description of autography, his "technical 'secret' " as Kunzle puts it (2007) when describing the technique he used to produce his littérature en estampes. So, what then is autography? A closer look reveals that the technique that allowed Töpffer to both draw and write without having to reverse image and text, is nothing else than transfer-lithography – already described by the inventor of lithography, Alois Senefelder (1818). In “notice sur Essais d’autographie” (1842) Töpffer mentions drawing with ink and a steel-nib pen as part of the method. This is especially notable since this method still is considered industry standard (McCloud 2006). But what kind of tools did Töpffer use? And did he, as Kunzle suggests, trace his own drawings? (Kunzle 2009). What did his artwork look like and how does autography relate to contemporary methods. By experimenting with autographic print on stone – as I understand Töpffer’s method – I have discovered both similarities and noticeable differences with today’s praxis of drawing comics. In this paper, I will present both the process of autographic print as well as my reflections of the result.

 References:

Kunzle, David. (2007). Father of the Comic Strip [electronic resource] : Rodolphe Töpffer

Kunzle, David (2009). “The Gourary Topffer Manuscript of MonsieurJabot: A Question of

Authenticity. With the Dating and Distribution of Rodolphe Topffer's First Published Picture Story, and the World's First Modern Comic Strip”. European Comic Art, vol. 2. Issue 2.

McCloud, Scott (2006). Making comics: storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels. 1st ed. New York: Harper

Senefelder, Alois (1818). Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey enthaltend eine richtige und deutliche Anweisung zu den verschiedenen Manipulations-Arten derselben in allen ihren Zweigen und Manieren, belegt mit den nöthigen Musterblättern, nebst einer vorangehenden ausführlichen Geschichte dieser Kunst .... München:

Töpffer, Rodolphe: Notice sur les Essais d’autographie (1842). Courriere de Genève 1842-07-02, in Töpffer, Rodolphe, 1799-1846. - L' invention de la bande dessinée / Töpffer ; textes réunis et présentés par Thierry Groensteen et Benoît Peeters. - 1994.

Comics as an artform – Öyvind Fahlströms contribution to comics theory in the mid 1950s. Even though scholarly interest in comics seems to have erupted after McCloud, there are previous examples attempting to include comics into academia (Duncan & Smith 2019), beginning with Töpffer’s Essai de physiognomonie (1845). In 1947 Coulton Waugh presented his historical overview; The Comics (1947) and in the early 1960s Gombrich reflected on them, as did academics in Italy, France and Spain. The recent discovery of a text by artist Öyvind Fahlström from 1954, declaring comics to be an artform on its own expands this narrative in time. Fahlström’s legacy within contemporary art is widely known. As his involvement with concrete poetry, l’Art informel, and affiliation with the Situationists and pop-art. But Fahlström always had one foot within popular culture and published essays discussing comics. His “Serierna som konstart” [“Comics as an artform”] published in Expressen (1954-08-27) is nothing else than an analysis of comics that precedes theories established decades later.

Literature:

Gombrich, E. H. (1960). Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation. New York: Pantheon Books.

Groensteen, Thierry (2007). The system of comics. 1. ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Schultz Lundestam, Barbro (2021). Party for Öyvind: group exhibition catalogue, Öyvind Fahlström & his artist friends, São Paulo, Rome, Stockholm, Germans, Paris, New York. Stockholm: Schultz förlag.

Töpffer, Rodolphe (1845) Essai de physiognomonie [elektronisk] https://www.gutenberg. ca/ebooks/toeppferr-phys

From faster diagnosis, tailored treatments, and better management of scarce resources, AI is touted to revolutionise healthcare. However, hurdles like biased datasets that risk discrimination, distrust amongst healthcarers, accountability, and who should own and take responsibility for the technology, threaten that potential.

What if the key to overcoming thechallenges of AI in healthcare lies in the very quality that makes it so intriguing—its ability to find patterns in data that surpasses human capabilities? AI excels at identifying connections between disparate pieces of information, uncovering insights that can transform our understanding of the world. This is what intersectionality has long argued for in healthcare, seeing people’s health and well-being at the nexus of multiple social positions (e.g. gender, class, race, etc).  

For AI to truly improve healthcare, and turbocharge innovation, we need to apply the principles of intersectionality. This means bringing in diverse voices—not just as subjects of the technology but as active participants in its development. By doing so, we create a system that is more aware of the potential harms AI can cause and how to mitigate them, while also co-creating solutions that genuinely improve human health outcomes. 

In this workshop, we aim to explore, discuss, and debate ways to engage and connect beyond the traditional human stakeholder in Participatory Design and to co-design with animals, plants, micro-organisms, and their ecosystems. We intend to collaboratively investigate how we can possibly expand participation to these more-than-human stakeholders which we have ignored so far and whose involvement in the design process is unexplored in relation to what is now needed in sustainable development. Acknowledging the limits of current PD theories, methods, and experiences in co-designing with more-than-human stakeholders, we invite participants to contribute with ideas, methods, case studies, and stories of ‘giving voice’ to nature in PD: something we believe is key to rethink the field in light of the environmental crisis we are facing today.

Professors Robert A. Baron and Michael Frese are the joint recipients of the 2024 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Their research contributions have helped establish the disciplinary foundation necessary to explore entrepreneurship from theoretical and applied psychological perspectives. From a theoretical psychological perspective, Professor Baron has repeatedly introduced a disciplinary scaffolding from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and judgment and decision-making psychology to develop the field's socio-cognitive perspective. He has examined entrepreneurship's basic "why" questions: (1) Why do some persons but not others choose to become entrepreneurs? (2) Why do some persons but not others recognize opportunities for new products or services that can be profitably exploited? (3) Why are some entrepreneurs so much more successful than others? From an applied psychological perspective, Professor Frese has examined entrepreneurship as the epitome of a proactive approach to work, advocating the benefits of personal initiative and the need for a self-regulatory approach to performance among both small business owners and employees in transition economies. Continually taking stock of what is known about the psychology of entrepreneurship through reviews and meta-analysis, he and his students have advanced an evidence-based approach to entrepreneurial training and performance in challenging contexts. Together, Professors Baron and Frese have served as ambassadors for the field of entrepreneurship, welcoming an entire generation of micro scholars to explore the entrepreneurial process and the psychology of the entrepreneurs who enact it.

Based in interviews as well as analysis of planning documents and media coverage, this article scrutinizes the role of property in urban morphology by tracing two decades of attempts to redevelop Norra Sorgenfri, a partly deindustrialized area almost at the topographic centre of Malmö, Sweden. In this city, urban redevelopment projects are centrally placed within a hegemonic story of Malmö as shedding its industrial past to become a sustainability forerunner. This was the story that Norra Sorgenfri was inserted into, with initial visions underlining its potential as an exciting extension of the inner city. But in targeting this 45 ha piece of land, Malmö also planned to transform a landscape subdivided into a complex pattern of mostly private properties alongside some scattered lots of municipally owned land. Scrutinizing property in Norra Sorgenfri and how particular property owners have reacted to redevelopment efforts, we centre on the significance of this lack of municipal land. Rather than merely asserting that property matters, we thus strive to trace how property matters, to planners striving to realize visions for a future Malmö, to different land-owners in the area, to the unhoused seeking refuge on post-industrial land, and to the authorities tasked with removing them.

Smart housing and its consequences for tenants is still a largely absent field in smart city and housing research. Departing from the EU-funded project GrowSmarter, 2015-2019 and a renovation project of a 1960s housing complex in Stockholm, the article investigates tensions around retrofitting older apartment blocks to make them climate smart. The article presents the argument that top-down approaches of EU-funded climate-smart city interventions leave minimal space for different stakeholders to steer the process and limits the tenants' role and influence. Researching the implementation of smart technology in housing renovations and how it ultimately effects tenants' everyday lives, the article adds to previous knowledge of uneven development of climate smart solutions through bringing in the outcomes of housing renovation projects, and how 'actual smart cities' are played out within the housing sector. The article brings together research on climate urbanism, housing studies and smart cities with the purpose to understand the scalar politics of smart implementations and the effects on tenants.

This article explores the intersections and resonances between unmaking and more-than-human design. We begin by aligning unmaking with decentering, a fundamental practice in more-than-human design, through their shared movement and materiality. Using Lindström and Ståhl’s notion of the double movement in un/making, we analyze a series of workshops focused on designing with AI, annotating what was un/made and de/centered during the workshops’ activities. Through this analysis, we introduce two key contributions that highlight some opportunities in the diffractive alignment between unmaking and more-than-human design: firstly, the notion of ‘unmaking-with’ as an emergent concept to describe a posthumanist unmaking practice, and secondly, three decentering tactics–situating, materializing, and enacting–that instantiate this practice through design. Finally, we discuss how unmaking can enrich more-than-human design and, conversely, how more-than-human design can help define the epistemological scope of unmaking.

Smallholder farmers are widely touted as essential to sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. But what exactly is meant by sustainable development, and how are smallholder farmers expected to contribute to it? In this perspective, we describe and assess two competing visions of sustainable development, namely Capital Theory and the Capabilities approach, paying special attention to the major yet divergent repercussions each approach implies for the future of smallholder farmers and the activities of their representative organizations. We present the core concepts, tools and practices stemming from each sustainable development perspective, and from a critique of these motivate the superiority of a capabilities approach as more conducive to smallholder farmers wellbeing now and in the future. In doing so, we bring to the fore the pivotal role smallholder farmer organizations and rural social movements, as collective vehicles for smallholder political agency, play in strategically advocating for the conditions that support sustainable and just smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

Indigenous communities, highly vulnerable to climate change and biodiversity loss, often find their knowledge excluded from climate research and policymaking. This Situated Action is the finale of the project, entitled; Indigenous Climate Observatories: local knowledge for Local Action, which addressed this contradiction. This project was done in parallel by 7 different Indigenous communities, in collaboration with (local) researchers and other societal actors. Together we explored Indigenous Climate Observatories as a conceptual entity which is focusing on 1) defining local change indicators, 2) using those change indicators to observe and track change, 3) reflecting on this change and 4) collaboratively planning for action in relation to this change. Through the Situated Action, where we assemble the project outcomes, we aim to further reflect on what Indigenous Climate Observatories can be, after which we co-create a Climate Observatory as a representation of these reflections and different perspectives.

Från politiskt håll sägs civilsamhällets organisationer vara viktiga innovatörer i välfärden eftersom de anses kunna identifiera och möta behov som varken offentligaeller kommersiella aktörer förmår fånga upp. Liknande tongångar hörs från civilsamhällets sida, som gärna framhåller sin innovationsförmåga inom välfärdsområdet. För att öka andelen idéburna utförare av offentliga välfärdstjänster – och för att matcha samhällsutmaningarnas komplexitet – prövas nya finansieringsformer i Sverige, såsom reserverade upphandlingar, idéburet offentligt partnerskap och sociala utfallskontrakt. Detta innebär att civilsamhället behöver navigera mellan nya och traditionella sätt att finansiera sina innovativa insatser i svensk välfärd. För att ge en bild av möjligheter och utmaningar i denna navigering genom snårig terräng presenteras här en översikt av befintliga kunskaper och erfarenheter inom området, illustrerat med praktiska exempel från det svenska civilsamhället.

More-than-human philosophical approaches, premised on relations that prioritise care, interdependence and flourishing, have become attractive to think with. Yet designers also seek to enact their convictions as method. As soon as theories of relationality are substantiated in concrete form, tensions accrue and issues of representation and participation come to the fore. This paper takes the idea of Connecting Beyond Participation to consider styles of more-than-human engagement, how they relate to purpose and what they show us about our (human) place(s) in the world. In the final analysis, the questions generated may be less about how ideas of the more-than-human are managed in these processes, and more about how these tools reveal the ecological challenges we live with. Participatory techniques reviewed include enacting other species; being-with non-humans; and appointing a body to represent rights-of-nature in decision-making, looked at through designers' mission to sensitize humans and/or understand or represent other species.