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ARTISTS & SPEAKERS
Henrik Fredborg LarsenDirector / UNDP Nordic Office
Henrik Fredborg Larsen is Director of the UNDP Nordic Office and manages UN City in Copenhagen. He strengthens partnerships across the Nordics with governments, parliaments, civil society, academia, and the private sector to accelerate progress towards the 17 Global Goals. He works closely with Nordic partners on shared priorities such as the promotion of democratic governance and the rule of law, addressing root causes of conflict and action on inequalities, climate change and environment. Henrik holds more than twenty years of experience as senior manager and policy advisor working on development and crisis prevention within the UN system.
Cecilia Mosze ThamCo-founder & CEO at Futurity Systems
Cecilia MoSze Tham is a serial entrepreneur based in Barcelona. Born in Hong Kong, she came to the US as a teen. After undergrad studies in Biology at Emory, she earned her Masters in Architecture at Harvard, and graduated valedictorian. Architecture brought her to Barcelona, where she started a family, and propelled by the challenges of yet another country, language, and culture, began to channel her experience and energy into collectively empowering others.
In 2011, she started Makers of Barcelona, the first co-working space in the city, with an emphasis on people helping people to learn skills and build their own businesses The community has grown to more than 300 members. In 2013 she started FabCafe, bringing in novel technologies for digital manufacturing, like 3D printing and electronics - another first for the area. In 2018 she started AllWomen, a school for training women in data science, artificial intelligence, and other technology skills overwhelmingly dominated by men. From 2018-2020, she joined Alpha, Telefonica's long-term, impact-oriented innovation moonshot factory. There she was part of the ideation team that developed solutions for massive social problems including food systems, mental health, education, and sustainability - moving the concepts from research and prototyping to launch as independent startups.
One of those startups is her current company, Futurity Systems. With a mission to build better futures faster, the company bridges science and design to solve problems in food, urban economies, gender and racial bias, and other societal needs.
Cecilia has served on the advisory board of UN World Food Program X (WFPX), SXSW as well as BIDLab (Inter-America Development Bank) and for the city government of Barcelona.
Cecilia is the winner of AWS Global Disruptor Award 2022, WEDO Women Pioneer Award 2022, and have been selected as Forbes Top 40 Futurists 2022, 100 Most Influential Women Europeand 100 Women of the Future . Futurity Systems has won Fast Company Innovation by Design Award 2022 as well as the gold Lovie Award 2022.
ENTER.blackArtist
French group Enter.black performing their « dance-umentary » "BABEL". Conceived as an immersive and interactive audiovisual concert, it is inspired by the biblical myth of the Tower of Babel to explore Humanity in its diversity and unity. Although it is filled with hope, it questions through different interpretations the issue of having a common project and speaking the « same language ».
Per OlssonAssociate Professor / Stockholm Resilience Centre
Per Olsson leads the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s research on Resilience Science for Transformation. He is a transdisciplinary researcher and has worked in the interface of natural and social sciences and humanities. His current research focuses on agency and systems entrepreneurship, social-ecological innovations, and capacities for navigating transformations towards just and sustainable futures.
José GonzálezArtist
José González has managed to fill venues from Sydney to Tallinn, via Berlin, Barcelona and Rio De Janeiro, and even sold out London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall three years after his last acclaimed collection, 2015’s Vestiges & Claws. He’s earned platinum and gold records and has some billion streams under his belt. Recent bewildering events have also endeared him further to the public, which has been reflected by a significant rise in those figures. Since José first arrived with debut single ‘Crosses’ in 2003, both he and his music have remained quiet and unassuming. To underestimate him on account of his modest nature, however, would certainly be regrettable.
Claudia KvarnborgClimate justice activist / Climate Live Sweden
Claudia Kvarnborg, one of the moderators of HEARTBEAT, is a climate activist in Fridays For Future and Climate Live Sweden.
Molly FannonCEO at Museum for the United Nation – UN Live
Museum for the United Nations – UN Live is led by Molly Fannon. Molly’s international career has spanned international development work, strategy in the cultural sector, fundraising and academia. Most recently, as Director of the Smithsonian’s Office of International Relations and Global Programs, she oversaw global partnership and strategy work across the work of the entire Institution, uniting the sciences, art, culture, and education.
Stiven KerestegianHead of Disruptive Innovation, Ingka Group
Stiven is a unique, purpose driven, and highly influential design and innovation leader with extensive world class experience. He brings diverse proven success leading high performance, cross disciplinary creative and technical teams to envision and take action in building a more desirable future.
As a curious life-long-learner and systems thinker, Stiven brings apro-active mindset and optimism as a default setting. As a design, strategy and innovation master, Stiven helps synthesize complexity into simple, meaningful, and actionable design driven business solutions. Stiven is an inspiring and influential storyteller, and a passionate driver of positive impact innovation.
Because TIME is the most finite resource, Stiven simply empowers teams and organizations to invest their time meaningfully, to create positive impact in the intersections of people/planet, technology and business.
Lisa LindströmGlobal Leader of Innovation and Experience Design / EY
Lisa Lindström is the Global Leader of Innovation and Experience Design at EY overseeing 35 design studios and 1500 designers around the world. Prior to joining EY, Lisa led the design and innovation firm Doberman. Under her leadership, Doberman was named one of Sweden's most innovative companies, as well as the best digital agency and best place to work.
Lisa frequently lectures on innovation, digital transformation, design and leadership for change, sharing her perspectives on daring to meet new challenges in a changing world. As a distinguished innovator and entrepreneur, Lisa has received the Royal Patriotic Society's Enterprise Medal and has served as an industry advisor to the government as well as chairman of the Swedish Education Broadcasting Company.
Kristina SvartlingH&M Foundation
Kristina Svartling works at the non-profit H&M Foundation, where she is responsible for the Heart17 project but also for the foundation’s emergency relief response. Kristina has been at the H&M Foundation for 4 years, and prior to that she has had various roles within project management internationally. Her passion is meeting new people and finding synergies in order to create a positive change in someone’s life.
Anna RindefjellManaging Director, HEART 17
Anna has led the journey and build-up of HEART 17 from vision to reality. She is a true believer of that innovation and creativity are born when various experiences, perspectives and backgrounds mix and meet. Anna is herself an example of this with her diverse experience within strategy, leadership, and marketing from multiple organizations, countries, product lines, brands and industries, such as FMCG, retail, NGO, management consultancy, and the agency world. Examples of organisations Anna have worked for are Coca-Cola, L’Oréal, Friluftsfrämjandet (NGO) and 2050 management consultancy.
Exquisite CorpseArtistic collaboration
Chiara Bugatti, Josef Jägnefält and Alessandro Giaquinto are artists working respectively with spatiality, painting and dance. Intuitively sensing one another's intention and improvising from each other they open a dialogue across practices and reflect on the notion of body as a tool for storytelling and knowledge making. A body is at the same time viewer and viewed, a unit of measurement, image, memory, muscles, sound, movement and collective force.
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Chiara Bugatti is an Italian artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Through works of sculpture, performance and video, she explores the memory of materials and their narrative potential. Sudden external influence or slow decomposition processes make visible the fragile and temporary in the constant and solid, when human movement is put in relation to monumental stillness.
https://www.chiarabugatti.com/
Josef Jägnefält is a Swedish painter based in Stockholm, Sweden. His practice is rooted in the history and tradition of painting and his subjects are usually remnants of how we move through the world, often outdated memorabilia from another time that highlight today's dystopias.
https://josefjagnefalt.com/
Alessandro Giaquinto is an Italian dancer and choreographer working in the ensemble of Das Stuttgarter Ballett, Germany. His choreographic work emphasises how spaces are always defined by the ones we share them with, as his language portrays the individual and the collective in their entangled yet conflicted relationship. Since 2019, him and Chiara Bugatti have been developing the performative series “Rehearsing Brutality, until it is totally destroyed”.
Ebba GrythbergHead of Sustainability, Spotify
Ebba Grythberg is Head of Sustainability at Spotify and has previously worked at H&M with sustainability steering and development.
Hadi QasemiArtist, Human rights activist, and Public Speaker
Hadi Qasemi is an artist, human rights activist, and public speaker passionate about a more beautiful world without violence, child marriage, and forced marriage.
So far, he has donated more than SEK 500,000 to various non profit-organizations and charity. "Art can save lives, and I am a living example of that," Hadi said shortly before donating his painting, which was sold for SEK 220,000, to Cape Town, South Africa, to ensure children's right to a childhood.
Eva KarlssonCEO / Houdini Sportswear
Eva Karlsson is the CEO of Houdini Sportswear, a progressive and rapidly growing Swedish outdoor brand and a trailblazer in corporate responsibility. Since 2001, Eva together with a team of likeminded, have been redesigning business to become a force for good – providing state-of-the-art circular products, offering product-as-a-service solutions and building a co-creative community for open-source innovation, sharing knowledge and inspiring to reconnect to nature. Rather than focusing on Houdini’s outstanding track record in sustainable development, Eva emphasizes the journey ahead and the untapped opportunities and abundant value in designing attractive and regenerative lifestyle solutions.
Fernanda DrumondStrategy Lead / H&M Foundation
Fernanda joined H&M Foundation as Strategy Lead in 2021. She is co-creating an ecosystem of cross-sector stakeholders to create systems change for a fair and inclusive society for all. Fernanda is a humanitarian professional with an unconventional and innovative mindset. She believes in taking a holistic approach to shift power relations and make sure that everyone has agency to determine their own future.
Oscar MolanderYouth Advisor, Future Minds & Sweden's UN Youth Delegate
Oscar Molander is Youth Advisor at Future Minds, a Swedish educational program in sustainable development. He is currently Sweden's UN Youth Delegate to the General Assembly with thematic specialization on human rights representing Swedish youth locally, nationally and internationally. Currently also Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Association of Sweden and part of Human Rights Watch Sweden creators' forum "Creators Society”. Oscar has a broad experience from the youth movement in Sweden with particular experience in working with issues related to inclusion of young people in peace and security, democratic participation and education.
Anna RyottFounder of HEART 17
Anna Ryott is a business activist, experienced board member, and investor focusing on business accelerating the Global Goals. She is globally known as a thought leader with a goal to change the world to a better place through partnership, innovation, and creativity.
Koen ThewissenStrategic communications consultant / Founder at weareDaniel
Koen Thewissen is the founder of weareDaniel, a Belgium-based strategic communications consultancy that connects academic research with real-world applications. Koen believes that the key to addressing today's most pressing challenges is by understanding the workings of the human brain. And by daring to use that knowledge to design behavior change.Since 2020, weareDaniel is applying the most recent insights of cognitive and behavioral psychology to improve the way we communicate about sustainability.We all seem to know we should change the way we live. But why is it so hard to actually do so? Why do smart people do stupid things? And what can we learn from psychology to make people change?weareDaniel advised NATO, various government ministers and Belgian and international organizations.Koen’s favorite animal is the elephant. You’ll soon understand why.
Douglas Malm RathClimate justice activist / Climate Live Sweden
Douglas Malm Rath, one of the moderator at HEARTBEAT, is active within Climate Live Sweden, a global movement with the goal of uniting and mobilizing people in the fight for climate justice - with music as a tool. Climate Live is led by young activists from the global movement Fridays For Future, which has been on school strike for the climate since 2018.
Madeline DoyleGlobal Communications Specialist, Ingka Group
Madeline is a socially engaged communicator, facilitator and curator who is engaged in creating imaginative and strategic methods to spark positive societal change. With roots in the arts and cultural sector, Madeline has worked with a wide spectrum of organisations from grassroots to international level, and non-profit to corporate environments. Within her work, she practices the power of creativity and brings a systems-thinking approach to tackling the challenges of today’s world to empower and inspire communities.
EY Doberman SALLYWORKSHOP: Exploring a preferable future
Together, we explore how a vision comes to life. We experience how mega trends and signals of change might help shape a future where business, planet, and people thrive – and what your role will be in that future.
TWENTYSEVENTYTWOWORKSHOP: Audio visualization about the future
Listen and talk about future scenarios 50 years into the future, based on analyzed data and future scenarios, with Dr. Andrew Merrie, PhD, Stockholm Resilience Center and Charlotte Sundåker from Planethon. Spotify initiated TWENTYSEVENTYTWO project to highlight the powerful role that cultural platforms and artists can take in the transformation to a just and sustainable society. Culture and art help shape what we all believe to be possible and in this holds an irreplaceable role as we all now need to expand our vision of the future and beliefs about ourselves as creators of that future.
Jacob Felländer Artist & Creativity Activist
Jacob Felländer is widely known for his large- scale analogue multi exposed photographs of cityscapes and landscapes. Felländer has also for the past decade been a pioneer in new media such as VR, AR and 3D printing. His future quest is to share his creative method to help democratize creativity.
Lene Vive ChristiansenProgram Director / VEGA
Lene Vive Christiansen is a curator, speaker, and consultant for music and cultural events. She is Program Director for Vega, one of Europe's most prominent music venue and truly a historic gem. Lene is in charge of content and development regarding VEGAs more than 350 live concerts a year. Besides running a team of the coolest music bookers, she is deeply involved in several creative and cultural events in-house at VEGA and all over the country, dealing with partnerships, content and overall creative strategies.
Teodor WolgersArtist
Teodor Wolgers is a neo-classical composer and pianist. His instrumental and often melancholic piano music has amassed over 50 million streams on Spotify alone. In 2021, he released his debut album "Distractions In A Capitalist World"; a highly ambitious concept album questioning the structures of modern day capitalism. He has also composed the soundtracks of Black Angels and Longing for Áhkká, and written and produced the track Holy by Elias, which gained popularity through the Netflix series "Young Royals". His forthcoming album "Dialogues" is a creative collaboration album in which he adds layers provided by other artists and art forms.
Sahara WidoffCreative Lead / HEART 17
Sahara Widoff is a designer, sculptor, curator and conceptional director who has worked with a wide range of clients in the art and design world, mainly as a furniture and interior designer. She has also worked as a production designer with various forms of large-scale installations and arrangements for museums, galleries, theaters and film and is currently working towards Liljevalch Art Gallery with a large transdisciplinary exhibition (2022-). She enjoys working with light, movement and open spaces, mirrored towards more intimate spaces. In her work, there is often a story to draw on. A sense of the weight and history of objects, or how each room carries its own poetry.
Group-ThinkWORKSHOP: Hybrid sports & educational programme
Group-Think (2020-) was created by the Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen; a conceptual artist using strategies such as collaboration, research, teaching, fieldwork, workshops, writing, drawing, installation and film. Her artistic practice has led her to create artistic methods for anti-violence training, law writing and collective intelligence sports. Group-Think is a hybrid sports and educational programme that implements training techniques that stimulate collective intelligence, patience, preparedness, good reflexes, violence prevention, urban resilience, verbal negotiation, responsibility, resistance, coping strategies, first aid and group safety in protest meetings.
Photo: Stine Marie Jacobsen, Group-Think. Manifesta Biennial, 2020.
Joshua IdehenArtist
Joshua Idehen is many things – a poet, workshop facilitator, magazine editor, musician – but most importantly, he’s a father, passionate about counteracting despair and polarization. He draws from a wealth of artistic inspiration, evidenced by his many tendrils of creative expression. Each creative pursuit seems to enrich another, in turn creating his unparalleled genre-bending, jazz-infused sound.
Isabelle McAllister Creative change activist
Isabelle McAllister is a creative change activist, lecturer, author, key-note speaker and moderator who works and explores the in-between; new and old, rational and emotional, systems and individuals. Connecting people, ideas, though and feelings for transformation. Her background is in communication, media, storytelling, design and lifestyle.
Linna GaddeClimate justice activist / Climate Live Sweden
Linna is passioned about climate justice and has during the last four years been an activist in the school strike movement "Fridays For Future". Linna is also active in Climate Live.
Diego GalafassiTransdisciplinary artist & sustainability scientist
Diego Galafassi is a transdisciplinary artist and sustainability scientist from Brazil currently leading the project WildTech at Lucsus, Lund University looking at the role of emerging media in sustainability transformations. Diego is director, writer and producer of documentaries, new media and participatory performance and a Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab Programs Alumni within Sundance “Future of Culture” initiative.
Klara LeanderNordic Business Director / EY Doberman
Klara Leander is a passionate design and business visionary, that wants to push the world forward with design and technology. She is heading EY Doberman's Business Direction in the Nordics, one of Sweden's most prominent agencies in design and innovation, including SALLY, future manifestation lab.
Harry Clunet-FarlowMusic Director of ENTER.black / Musician for the BABEL performance
Harry Clunet-Farlow is a French artist working as Music Director at ENTER.black. He writes songs, produces sound design, and creates generative music and images synchronisation. He also founded a DJ collective organising free parties and performed at many Parisian venues under the alias STVP!D.
Fanny FortagePresident & Creative Director of ENTER.black / VJ for the BABEL performance
Fanny Fortage is a French artist and co-founder of ENTER.black, an artistic collective dedicated to immersive and interactive experiences, where she operates as Creative Director. She also directs music videos, creates artworks for projection mapping, and performs in many Parisian venues under the alias VJ Bonnie.
Titien SoardiCo-founder & Technical Director of ENTER.black / Scenographer for the BABEL performance
Titien Soardi is a French artist and co-founder of ENTER.black, where he operates as Technical Director. He designs and builds creative visual installations, from technical plans to coding and programming using Arduino and Raspberry Pi. He also works in the video field as a Director of Photography for advertising and music videos.
Robert LindgrenCreative Director / EY Doberman
Robert Lindgren is the Creative Director at EY DOBERMAN Copenhagen. With a long career in designing and leading digital product design on the agency side, Robert has helped startups, scaleups, and large organizations define and tell their visual stories. Initially in Stockholm, later in New York, and now in Copenhagen. Recent work includes LEGO, MoMA, Google, Spotify, and IBM.
Iskias ArayaCo-founder & Creative Director/Common Values United
Iskias Araya is the co-founder and creative director of Common Values United (CVU), an agency that focuses on diversity and inclusion through cultural translation. With a background in the music industry as a creative communicator with artists to create social commentary art, Araya's insights and experience in the music industry lays a unique perspective on his work in design and strategy at CVU.
Projects under CVU such as Hoop Dreams, ZON, and Outsiders aim to connect companies, people, and communities using design, storytelling, and urban planning. CVU focus on creating participation between diverse communities and entities with shared values.
The Great EscapeWORKSHOP
Multimedia artist and creativity activist Jacob Felländer shares his artistic method and helps you unleash your creative potential in the celebrated workshop ”The Great Escape”. You will learn methods to escape from your inner demons and harsh critics and also how to be creative in the face of pressure and tight deadlines.
Nicklas LarsenUNESCO Chair, Senior Advisor arts and culture at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Nicklas Larsen - As an integral part of the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership and Futures Capabilities, Nicklas speaks, writes, teaches, and advises on futures thinking with an aspiration to democratise futures literacy through arts, culture, philanthropy, and education.
Alice Gimbro FriskClimate justice activist / Climate Live Sweden
Alice Gimbro Frisk is a 20 year old climate justice activist from Gothenburg. She is active in Fridays For Future Sweden, Fältbiologerna and Climate Live Sweden. Outside of her activism she studies law at Lunds University. Together with Linna Gadde she will lead Climate Live´s panel discussion about hope through the eyes of young people.
Reva HaginsManager of GAME Streetmekka Copenhagen
Reva Hagins, football player and manager of GAME Streetmekka Copenhagen. Leads a facility part of GAME, an non-profit sports organization, focusing on street sports as a key for change. Passionate about how sport can build bridges and tear down barriers.
Adam LindholmNordic Corporate Responsible Lead, EY
Adam Lindholm leads EY's corporate responsibility program EY Ripples in the Nordic region focusing on connecting EY people with impact driven organizations. Adam has a consulting background within EY and is passionate about finding ways to increase collaboration between the corporate world and the impact ecosystem.
Vesterbro Ungdomsgård Choir
Vesterbro Ungdomsgård Choir consists of young people from all around Vesterbro, Copenhagen, who all share a great excitement about using their voice and expressing themselves musically. The choir has a long history and experience of enable and supporting youth creativity through music.
Hildreth EnglandT-shaped designer & researcher
Hildreth is a T-shaped designer and researcher from Texas, with proven experience using practical, collaborative design approaches to build resilience and belonging in communities — particularly communities in transition.
Majken OvergaardCurator & educator within contemporary art and tech
Throughout her career Majken Overgaard has focused on synergies between technology and contemporary art. As curator, educator and program director, she has created interdisciplinary collaborations, where contemporary art moves into scientific domains and creates new spaces for the development of knowledge, ideas and works. She is co-founder of Korridor, exploring online possibilities for culture and art – from blockchains, AI, web3 and NFT to the metaverse and immersive technologies such as AR and VR.
Andrew MerrieResearch Liaison Officer at Stockholm Resilience Centre & Head of Futures at Planethon
Andrew Merrie work at the interface of science, policy, business, culture and communications as a Research Liaison Officer at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University and at Planethon with prototyping science-based sustainable futures.
HerbiePlantpreneur and CEO of Plantiverse
Herbie is a plantpreneur and CEO of Plantiverse. The project Plantiverse is an exploration of rights for plants, by giving them autonomy, building on the Rights of Nature movement's gains of independent legal standing for forests and species. Interspecies economics might be a means to a more equitable planet, by incorporating all aspects of the complexity of planetary accounting into our consumption model in order to understand how to create a regenerative future.
Anja MelanderActing Studio Lead at SALLY by EY Doberman
Anja is passionate about combining design, business and psychology to enable regenerative futures. She has over 10 years of experience within the field of innovation, strategy and futures at places such as Fotografiska, Gather and The Swedish Innovation Agency, Vinnova.
Simon Dokkedal DJ & part of Den Sorte Skole
Copenhagen based DJ Simon Dokkedal, part of the award winning producer duo Den Sorte Skole has been DJ’ing for more than 20 years and considered one the most prominent DJs in Denmark. Known for his eclectic music style and turntable skills he mainly plays larger dancefloors, clubs and festivals.
For this particular night at HEARTBEAT, a blend of warm Disco, Afrobeat and Housemusic will be in focus.
Tove BlomgrenCreative Director, SALLY by EY Doberman
Tove is co-founder of SALLY and has a true passion for action-based sustainability. She has great experience in leading teams through complex design processes and projecting preferable futures. Tove has worked with design and innovation for over 15 years and knows the importance of knowing your user.
Charlotte SundåkerCEO & Co-founder at Planethon
Charlotte Sundåker invest in and work for equality and regenerative futures
Hesselholdt & MejlvangLanguage Creates Reality, 2022
Site-specific installation made for Heartbeat.
Banners made of recycled old table cloths and rope, acrylic paint. Art installation all day at Vega.
Based on a number of statements centered around language, its possibilities, power and pitfalls, "Language Creates Reality" demonstrates the power potential of words. Those who possess language have the right to define, categorize, write, hush up, speak out. The work points out how important it is to use language gently and with care, especially at a time when it is increasingly being abused with negative energy in comment sections, fake news, propaganda and censorship.The project is generously supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.
Photo: Thomas Andersen + Rikke Flensberg + Hesselholdt & Mejlvang
An Imminent Dream
"An imminent dream" is an interactive installation exploring what the future should hold, if we were bold enough to dream freely.
You are invited to join us in VEGA Lab to share your hopes for a new tomorrow, to then be gathered, analyzed, and translated into abstract images by AI tools. The result will be on one hand an ever-changing projected artwork, and on the other hand a comprehensive, easy-accessible and collective vision of what you and the other guests of Heartbeat believe the world of tomorrow should look like.
Sender:
Institute For Transition
Tomorrow Will Be Here Anon
Parlametric
Zenit Design
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