We are moving towards a world far beyond 2 degrees Celsius of global warming compared to preindustrial levels, with no sign of the trend turning. Young people are often excluded from the halls of power where our common future is decided. We have witnessed the escalating environmental crisis with horror and rage. Let’s talk about hope from a youth perspective. Why are we suspicious when adults talk about hope? Why do we keep mentioning system change and climate justice, and what does that have to do with you? Youth activists invite you to listen to the discussions they have amongst themselves when adults aren’t listening.

This panel is presented by Climate Live and consists of young voices sharing thoughts and feelings for the future.

Some words from the founders and partners of HEART 17.
Speakers:
Anna Rindefjell
Anna Ryott
Lene Vive Christiansen
Lisa Lindström
Kristina Svartling

Halfway to 2030: leveraging creativity and innovation to ignite hope for accelerated action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. According to the latest Human Development Report, humanity is facing a new uncertainty complex, with climate change, biodiversity loss, inequalities, political polarization, and technological upheavals all piling up and feeding off each other at an unprecedented pace and scale. As we approach the midpoint of implementing the 2030 Agenda, we must make an active choice as a global community to rally around the opportunities to accelerate action for transformative change. In this effort, creativity and innovation is crucial.

Isabelle McAllister and Klara Leander kick off the conversations!

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.

First come, first served. 

A sense of hopelessness is felt by many. It risks draining our energy, our sense of belonging, our ability to act. The HEART 17 network consists of people and organizations that are determined to counteract despair and polarization in today’s world – and bring back hope. With a mindset of “what if?” we dare to tackle this challenge together. With stewards daring to focus on the need to bring back hope, we build a community of radical optimists choosing to feed minds and algorithms with optimism as a counterforce to the doom and gloom of today. 

Let's strengthen the infinite mindset on how humans always will be interlinked. An infinite mindset means being an organization or an individual leaving the world in a better place because we engaged in it. It means to be the kind of human being/leader to others that they will be better cause we were in their lives. This is hard, complicated and might not be the norm. 

So, how do we together empower each other and show the world we’re in the game, not for the short-term. But for the long-term?

Moderator: Douglas Malm Rath – Climate Live Sweden
Panelists: Per Olsson, Associate Professor at Stockholm Resilience Center
Koen Thewissen – Strategic communications consultant, founder at weareDaniel
Hildreth England – T-shaped designer & researcher

"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

The game of the 17 Global Goals is set. But the rules for the game change and evolve while we’re in it. The game now turns from a game with a deadline into a game reaching beyond 2030, thus becoming a never-ending game, an infinite game. In an infinite, less defined game we risk struggling in the wish to make progress. The Global Goals are a perfect set of rules, but who is in the lead and who is behind? And yet, we are still players in the same team. 

We evolve the game constantly with new innovations and breakthrough studies. Does this lead to rivalry? Rivalry is good for the sake of keeping the game in motion. Rivalry leads to disruptiveness, it speeds up the tempo, it makes us want to be a better competitor at all times. We become better versions of ourselves. All for the existence of this infinite game that will never end. And the rules will never be strict. 

Life on planet earth is disruptive and hopefully infinite. What are the opportunities with the Global Goals as a possible infinite game? And who is your best rival?

Moderator: Hadi Qasemi, artist, Human rights activist
Panelists: Eva Karlsson, CEO of Houdini Sportswear
Ebba Grythberg, Head of Sustainability, Spotify
Madeline Doyle, Global Communications Specialist, Ingka Group

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.

First come, first served

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. Created by the Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen.

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. Created by the Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen.

Humans evolve, nature evolves, life evolves. The feeling you feel today has been felt by someone else previously. We evolve together as a specie. We are all unique, but we need to help each other. We need to stop the “what’s in it for me?” mindset and move back to more of a settler’s perspective of “what’s the best for us?”. To become something greater together. To rebuild trust with generosity. To do more of giving without asking for payback. To understand we are all parts of a chain. 

We need to strengthen every link in it. We are all experts on something. We need to start asking each other, across silos for help, and stop the thinking of "what do I gain for helping?". Just help. 

Understand that in collaboration we have built (and torn down) civilizations. If the progressives say it’s time to bring back hope, the one and many will follow. It’s time to create a movement for hope and respect of all unique set of humans. So, could we scale the settler perspective and become something greater than a group of individuals trying to solve the same problems?

Moderator: Oskar Molander – Youth adviser Future Minds
Panelists: Reva Hagins, Manager GAME streetmekka
Fernanda Drumond, Strategy Lead at H&M Foundation
Adam Lindholm, Nordic Corporate Responsible Lead at EY

For millennia, humans have dominated the earth, and dominated species, “domesticating” plants and animals, and claimed ownership to nature and its resources. Our 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. We wanted to see if we could get operational, financial, and even civil rights for non-human living beings. 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. Come and meet Herbie, our plantpreneur, together with Cecilia Tham, CEO of Futurity Systems, to learn more on how they are seeding this foundation of an interspecies economy.

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.

“Nothing is lost, everything is transformed” (Antoine Lavoisier). All generations have done the best to make the world a better place. We’ve all worked with the facts handed to us. Sometimes we’ve been right, sometimes we’ve been wrong. Radically wrong. As science evolves, we get a deeper and better understanding of “best practices” for us all, and challenges we face. 

At the same time generations evolve, Gen Z doesn’t have the same mindset as millennials. This is the result of their parent generation. So, as every generation is standing on the shoulders of giants, we need to have empathy for the fact that nothing is lost, everything is transformed. While the younger generation is eager to do and change NOW, the elder have more experience of life.

If we all lead with empathy and know when to refuse, when to act and respect that we’ve been wrong and have changed, are we then capable of making hard decisions and balancing the decisions for the future, and at the same time respect the elder?

Moderator: Iskias Araya – Co-founder & Creative Director/Common Values United
Panelists: Nicklas Larsen – UNESCO Chair
Stiven Kerestegian - Head of Distruptive Innovation at Ingka Group
Majken Overgaard – Curator and educator focusing on contemporary art and tech

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. Created by the Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen.

To practice all previous themes and mindsets is unbelievably difficult. This is where creativity and storytelling come in. As Gerhard Richter said: “Art is the highest form of hope”. With art we can contribute to the movement, the collective.
Art can visualize feelings and emotions. Art can strengthen the mindset of an infinite game. Without the expertise of artists and designers we all carry different visions for the future. But if we can, by the campfire, listen to the same stories and imagine the same future, it’s more tangible to work for, or against.
The narrative of artists is that they are the leaders of creativity. We wish to challenge this by believing that every human is creative, but not all have the mindset of what we produce will echoe in eternity. This is a mindset we can learn from artists.

Moderator: Claudia Kvarnborg, Climate Live Sweden & Fridays For Future
Panelists: Molly Fannon, CEO at Museum for the United Nation – UN Live
Diego Galafassi, Transdisciplinary artist & sustainability scientist,
Robert Lindgren, Creative director at EY Doberman

Voices from Science, Youth, Businesses and HEART 17 will summarize and thank all participants!

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 ».

Joshua Idehen, poet and musician, will enter the stage at Lille Vega for a perfomance.

Copenhagen based DJ Simon Dokkedal, part of the award winning producer duo Den Sorte Skole. 

For this particular night at HEARTBEAT; a blend of warm Disco, Afrobeat and Housemusic will be in focus.