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This research addresses the crucial role of the industrial sector in achieving a sustainable future amid escalating anthropogenic pressures. The study explores a Technology Center's perspective on and understanding of the future through two visual design workshops centered around the center's visualizations. The results show that, in the Technology Center, the current understanding of the visualizations in relation to the future is shaped by the idea of the visualizations as a support for making (new) things, for example new technologies, robots, systems for human-machine interactions, physical and digital spaces for industrial development. The results also show that the stories around a sustainable future evolved around economic and social sustainability, yet the narratives around the environmental aspects are less predominant. The paper contributes valuable knowledge at the intersection of sustainability, design, and industry. 

Keywords: visualization, sustainable future, visual design method, manufacturing 

Human activity has globally affected the earth's climate and ecosystems. The museum sector has agency in representing topics of societal significance and climate change. The experiment presented here, took place at a history museum in order to re-work human subject positions in the museum. The method of object theatre with a departure in an ecocritical perspective was evaluated. The result shows that the method might retain a colonial perspective towards animals and nature. Still, the method brings a change in who is the subject in the story, a possible shift in perspective and an incentive to care and act. The participants talks about the experience of a less abstract relationship to the object's origin and life cycle and a curiosity or a discovery of a knowledge gap. The method can be used to bring a greater attention to the needs of nonhumans in collaborative and participatory design processes.

In the design research community, diverse narratives and ontologies are discussed in relation to sustainability. Relational ontology is proposed as an alternative to the dominant dualist ontology as a way to reconnect people with their ecological embeddedness and responsibility. This work presents a dialogical tool called 'teatime' created to introduce diverse, immaterial perspectives on sustainability in a co-design project with youth and researchers. The study explores the role of the teatime design in eliciting diverse narratives and forming a dialogical space. The results show that the teatime supported reflections on immaterial perspectives, bringing out relational and social values related to the ecological crises. This study uses a systematic evaluation to reveal a micro-material perspective on ways in which the teatime design and facilitation supported the inquiry process. We propose that the design practitioners take on the role of crafting dialogical spaces that support social relationships and evoke immaterial perspectives.

Preschool, understood as being both a physical and psychological environment, is, according to objectives in national curriculum, required to be inclusive for all those who attend it. Previous studies have identified the stereotypical norms of several everyday activities of preschools, including both interactions and premises. The aim of this article is to present and discuss a possible methodological idea of a 'provotype' as a model for re-representing empirical analysis based on different data types that are combined in a research process. Research concerning provotypes will be presented. The research method will be presented in detail and the analytical process described. In the results section, the provotype and its aspects will be presented. Both during the work with the provotype as well as afterwards we have learned that working with the 'provotyping (what we like to call the whole process of analysing the results, visualizing, discussing the form of it and our reactions to the provotype) involves several phases of exproration and those phases includes uncertainty. A provotype might be a good way of re-illustrating, or as we put it re-representing, results from case studies with a number of different data, as in this study.

 There is a growing trend to embrace the idea of public participation in the work of museums, from exhibition design to collections. To further develop participatory cultures in museums, these negotiations and emerging practices should be examined more closely. This paper explores a museum’s whole-hearted attempt to engage with the societal issue of climate change and work with a high degree of participationfrom civic society when staging a temporary exhibition. We investigate experiences inthe process of building, measuring, separating and transgressing during the collaboration. Based on these explorations the paper presents three emerging and interconnected territories in the staging of participatory temporary exhibitions, the territory of aesthetics, the territory of action (autonomy), and the territory of unpredictability. The result contributes to research on public participatory practices mainly in museum context

This book is about the Carbon Dioxide Theatre project, in which we explored how participatory theatre and participatory design can be used in a museum to create engagement with climate issues.

The Carbon Dioxide Theatre project focused on young people’s ability to reflect on and critically review social norms and practices around climate targets and carbon dioxide emissions, although the process affected all participants. Objects from the museum’s existing collections were central to the project to create reflections on past and present social norms.

With this text, we want to inspire you to explore how museums can develop new ways of working with collections and communication related to our cultural heritage and contemporary global challenges.

In the text, we have mixed descriptions of the process and the methods with personal stories from us in the project in order to share as many different perspectives of the project as possible with you. We hope that you will get inspired!

Hur kan teater och design användas på ett museum för att skapa engagemang för jordens klimat?

Den här boken handlar om projektet Koldioxidteater där vi undersökte den frågan. Koldioxidteater på Västmanlands läns museum var ett projekt som förenade ungdomar, museipersonal, forskare, skådespelare och andra intresserade. Projektet fokuserade på att stödja unga människors förmåga att reflektera över och kritiskt granska sociala normer och praxis kring klimatmål och koldioxidutsläpp. Föremål från museets samlingar, utställningar och museets pedagogiska rekvisita var centrala i projektet för att stödja reflektionerna över sociala normer.

Unga människor var vår målgrupp men processen visade sig påverka alla deltagare och museet på olika sätt. Med den här boken vill vi inspirera dig till att utforska hur museer kan utveckla nya sätt att arbeta tillsammans med besökare för att ta sig an samtidens globala utmaningar. I texten har vi blandat beskrivningar av projektet, processen och metoderna med personliga berättelser från oss som deltog för att kunna dela så många olika perspektiv av projektet som möjligt med dig. Vi hoppas att du ska bli inspirerad att utveckla arbetssätt och metoder vidare!