This term, the K3 staff arranges three seminar series: apart from the K3 seminar series, we have two series of research-group-specific seminars in and around K3: the “Kultur-Samhälle-Politik” seminar series and the K3 Heritage research seminars. Read about them and how to participate below.

K3 seminar series
Welcome to K3’s seminar series for the autumn term of 2024! The seminar topics this term are distributed between K3’s four research environments: Design, Media, Storytelling and Arts-based Research. In addition, we host joint K3 seminars on broader topics concerning the whole department.

The Zoom link for online/hybrid seminars (unless stated otherwise) is:
https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/62522949096
Meeting ID: 625 2294 9096

K3 Heritage research group seminars
We are a group of people in K3 who share an interest in broad issues and questions about heritage. The group is open and welcomes everyone to attend single seminars or all seminars, or any of the other activities of the group.

The seminar series is intended as a space to present ongoing work, open discussions, and search for shared interests to pursue further research endeavours. The research group has a Teams channel, so anyone interested is welcome to contact Pille (pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt@mau.se)  to keep in contact with the heritage group activities via Teams. The seminar texts will also be shared via Teams.

Kultur-Samhälle-Politik seminar series (in Swedish)
Forskargruppen och seminarieserien Kultur-samhälle-politik är tvärvetenskaplig och öppen för alla som intresserar sig för hur (huvudsakligen estetisk) kultur förhåller sig till andra samhällsområden och för dess politiska dimensioner (i vid bemärkelse). Vi diskuterar och analyserar allt från kulturpolitik till litteratur om global uppvärmning. Gruppen samarbetar nära med Nordiskt nätverk för arbetarlitteraturforskning.

Keep up with us as we announce new topics!

Schedule, Autumn 2024

Aug 20, 13-15, NI:C0826
K3 seminar series [Media]
Fernanda Favaro, PhD student: Brazilian “agrifood” social movement’s communication practices (25% seminar)
Discussant: Tina Askanius
Doctoral student Fernanda Favaro’s project explores the role of social movement communication practices in the construction of the contemporary Brazilian “agrifood” movement’s political imaginaries. In the seminar she shares insights from her first fieldwork trip to Brazil in November-December 2023 and presents a development of the project plan.

Aug 28, 15-17, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
Kultur-Samhälle-Politik
Book discussion: “Re-imagining class: Intersectional perspectives on class identity and precarity in contemporary culture”, ed. Michiel Rys, Liesbeth François

Sep 4, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Media]
Another year, another research application
Moderator: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt & Martina Koegeler Abdi
Welcome to the “Another year, another research application” seminar. In the seminar we discuss different ideas about the yearly cycle of the funders, the plans for future applications as well as ideas for support and encouragement that is possible from Grant’s Office as well as from K3.

Sep 9, 10-12, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 Heritage research seminar
Open event in collaboration with CEMES Libraries, archives, and museums as key pillars of modern European democratic societies? group
We will have two lectures, welcome to join either in person to K3 studio or online via Zoom: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/62491014667
Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen: “How Can the Cultural Field Support Democracy?”
Democracy is a highly contested concept, with many different—and sometimes opposing—meanings. In this presentation, democracy is explored from a cultural policy perspective, considering it as rights (access), education/enlightenment (citizenship), public sphere (dialogue), and participation (empowerment).
Krista Lepik-Verliin: “Libraries, archives, and museums as key pillars of modern European democratic societies? But when exactly?”
In this presentation, I will critically discuss the work pace of GLAM professionals in the context of accelerating social time, and technological, political, and social changes. There are several time-related aspects that create temporal paradoxes or dilemmas in the work of GLAM professionals: besides attempting to solve various societal crises (including crisis in democracy), we also need to seek solutions to these temporal paradoxes both on individual and organisational levels.

Sep 11, 13-16:15, NI:B0501
K3 seminar series [Media]
“Creative Media” book chapters discussion
Moderator: Martin Cathcart
Evelina Stenbeck, “Renate Ambient – A New Literature For A New Time”
Allan Haverholm, “Ergodic literature as a creative process” 
Sara Callahan, “The light bulb as object, concept and performative practice in contemporary artworks”
Linda Paxling, “Cartography as a creative and critical practice for counter-narratives”
Jakob Friedrich Dittmar, “En-Passant-Media: Self-decoration in textiles, tattoos and other wrappings”

Sep 16, 15-16:30, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 Heritage research seminar
On the Governmentalization of Art: Cultural Policy and the Management of the Racial Archipelago
Berndt Clavier 
The MS you will receive a week before the seminar is an exercise in cultural critique. In it, I describe the historical ontology of cultural policy, its reliance on an aesthetic construction of art, and how this combination produces a type of affiliation we recognize as “culture.” I then try to claim that the conception of “culture” available in cultural policy relates to new forms of racialization. I will engage critically with Bourdieu’s idea of the fields of cultural production and try to argue that it is missing a vital layer currently producing what I want to call “racial archipelagoes.”  My text consists of four sections: “The Aesthetic Origins of Cultural Policy,” “The Submetrics of Aesthetics and Cultural Policy,” “The Endogenous Dynamics of “Global” Cultural Policy,” and “Cultural Policy and the Emergence of Racial Archipelagoes.” Sections one and two are closely related, and sections three and four are likewise closely related. However, all four sections are necessary to explain how contemporary cultural policy contributes to the racialization of migrants in Europe. It is a work in progress and it has tons of contexts not accounted for in the text: I do not engage directly with Foucault (on which most of the theoretical work on “historical ontology” is based); I do not engage directly with the work of Heidegger and Arendt, which are important philosophical points of departure for my thinking on aesthetics; and I also do not refer to the empirical work that I have done together with Asko, who is not to blame for any of the preposterous things I write in the text you will get (though chances are that if you find something that makes sense to you it is likely the result of discussions with Asko). The chapter is intended as a general introduction to a book on the governmentalization of art and a commentary on the resurgence of racial politics in the twenty-first century and how these politics relate to a contemporary conception of culture.

Sep 18, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Arts-based research/Design]
Design Delirium – an attempt at formulating a popularized critique (in the form of a book)
Maria Hellström Reimer
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Design Delirium – ett försök att formulera en populärvetenskaplig kritik (i bokform)
Seminariet presenterar ett pågående projekt att i bokform och utifrån aktuella designexempel formulera en ”civilisationskritik”, det vill säga en kombinerad samhälls- och kunskapskritik. Seminariet kommer att fokusera på erfarenhetsutbyte, och två aspekter står i centrum, dels design som politiskt-ekonomiskt gränsfenomen, dels sakprosa som erfarenhets- och forskningsbaserad uttrycksform. Boken skrivs på svenska men seminariet hålls huvudsakligen på engelska.
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The seminar will present an ongoing book project based on highly topical design examples and aimed at formulating a ‘critique of civilization,’ i.e. a combined societal- and knowledge critique. The seminar will focus on exchange of experiences, and two aspects will take centre stage, on the one hand design as political-economic boundary phenomenon, on the other the challenges of non-fictional writing or ‘factual prose’ – in Swe ‘sakprosa’ – as an experience- and research-based form of expression. While the language of the book is Swedish, the seminar will be held mainly in English.

Sep 25, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Storytelling]
Efter velfærden. Ny dansk litteratur og reformerne af velfærdsstaten i det 21. århundred
Tue Andersen Nexø
K3-seminaret gästas av Tue Andersen Nexø, som ska presentera pågående forskning om den danska samtidslitteraturens relation till välfärdsstaten. Hans presentation följs av diskussion av en text (ett work-in-progress) av Evelina Stenbeck om Asta Olivia Nordenhofs Djävulsboken.

Sep 25, 15-17, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
Kultur-Samhälle-Politik
Evelina Stenbeck presenterar en text om Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Faust, kropp&själ, poesi, kunskap och prekaritet.

Oct 2, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [K3 joint]
Accessibility Strategies in Digital Publishing
Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen
“Accessibility Strategies in Digital Publishing” is a seminar designed for teachers, staff, and researchers to explore practical strategies for enhancing accessibility in digital content and publications. Participants will learn about legal and ethical considerations within Sweden, the EU, and the US. They will also explore the rationale for implementing changes and discuss common barriers related to vision, hearing, cognitive abilities, and mobility. The seminar will discuss the POUR principles—perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust—and best practices across various topics, including type treatment, scale, contrast checker, alt text, AI tools, metadata creation and considerations for neurodivergent users. The session includes an interactive workshop component, where attendees will analyse digital content excerpts to identify accessibility issues and propose improvements. This practical exercise aims to reinforce understanding and encourage the application of accessibility principles in their teaching materials and artistic and research-based digital publications.

Oct 9, 13-16:15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Media]
“Creative Media” book chapters discussion
Bojana Romic, “Hybrid teaching”
Tina-Marie Whitman, “Looking for mushrooms as a metaphor for studying media”
Fredrik Mohammadi Norén, “Biases in AI models for visual analysis”
Mikael Rundberg, “Liveness and immediacy in pedagogy”
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, “Autoethnography in media studies”

Oct 14, 15-16:30], K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 Heritage research seminar
Uses of heritage
Asko Kauppinen and Carolina Jonsson-Malm
This seminar explores the different ways in which heritage is utilized in contemporary society. We will present research and case studies that examine both the benefits and risks of exploiting heritage for various purposes. The discussion will cover themes such as safeguarding material and immaterial cultural heritage, sustainability, democracy, and the potential of heritage to transform society.

Oct 16, 13-15, NI:C1229
K3 seminar series [Arts-based research/Design]
Monster Lab Workshop on Gothic Practice
Chera Kee (Wayne State University), Erika Kvistad (University of South-Eastern Norway), Line Henriksen (K3), and Megen de Bruin-Molé (University of Southampton)
“As a habitus, the Gothic describes a way of writing, a way of reading, a way of thinking about stories, a way of imagining,” writes Timothy G. Jones. “Perhaps the Gothic is something that is done rather than something that simply is” (2009, p. 127). With this workshop, we explore the Gothic as not only a subject of research, but as something that we as researchers might do – the Gothic as a research method, a creative practice, a habitus. What might it mean for academics, artists, and other thinkers and makers to work in Gothic ways, or to experience their own work as Gothic, with its associations of unsettling power dynamics, intellectual uncertainty, and the potentially dangerous search for knowledge? Come find the ghosts and ghouls in your own work, no preparation needed!

Oct 16, 15-17, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
Kultur-Samhälle-Politik
Annika Olsson presenterar ett bokkapitel om de intellektuella.

Oct 23-25, Hörsal C (NI:B0E15)
Conference
Nordisk arbetarlitteratur IX – Från proletariat till prekariat? Arbetarlitteraturens och klassamhällets förvandlingar (language: Swedish, first day in English)
Book your spot here. Free for K3 staff, SEK125 for external participants.

Oct 29, 15-17, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
Joint RUCARR – K3 seminar
Making politics with the dead: participatory art, activism and black humor
Max Evstropov, artist, founder of Party of the Dead
Oleg Ozerov, artist, activist. Vice president of NGO Vegan Georgia
Åsa Harvard Maare, senior lecturer in visual communication K3
Zoom link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/66949548914
This seminar is held at the occasion of the K3 Halloween Exhibition in 2024, which is held in collaboration between Malmö University Comics Hub, K3 Monster Lab and The Party of the Dead. After the seminar, participants on site will be given a tour of the exhibition (which is at that point probably still “in the making”.).
Max Evstropov will give a presentation of the activist art group Party of the Dead from its beginnings in 2017 until now.
Åsa Harvard Maare makes a presentation focusing on the role of participatory art and black humour in the actions of the Party of the Dead.
Oleg Ozerov will talk about his experiences of making art actions with Party of the Dead, as well as within Vegan Georgia.
We count on 3×15 minutes presentations, with time for discussion. Welcome!

Oct 30, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Arts-based research/Design]
Arts-based research methods and artist-alliances within climate change, environmentalism and migration studies
Josepha Wessels
My seminar will reflect on work in progress that I have done with respect to using arts-based researcher methods within the topics of climate change, environmentalism and migration studies.
Between 2020 and 2023, within the framework of a research project supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Research Council, I have employed future visioning workshopping in Sudan together with environmentalists and graffiti artists on documenting the past and visioning the future through collaborative graffiti and environmentalism, alliances with Sudanese artists. A draft paper for this work is attached.
Furthermore, I have employed arts-based methods within migration, within the framework of the research environment “Social institutions, political governance and integration of refugees”, SIPGI, in collaboration with Gothenburg University which runs from 2020-2026. I have used immersive video for fieldwork and collaborative workshops with Syrian refugees in Sweden, Turkey and Jordan. In spring this year, we organized a workshop on this topic with the K3 arts-based research group members, MIM and our partners at GU (Centre for Global Migration). Work was presented  about scholarly work, either ongoing or recently completed, where artist-scholars have applied arts-based, or artistic research methods, from body mapping, comics, drawing, video, performance, visual arts, immersive, theatre or music.
This seminar will take place just before my 2-month fellowship at Monash university in Australia, which starts in November. During this period I will work with the Emerging Technology lab, headed up by design and futures anthropologist Sarah Pink. I will focus on writing about the immersive, collaborative and arts-based methodology used in both projects, mentioned above, and its significance for sensory and visual anthropology.

Nov 11, 15-16:30, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 Heritage research seminar
Making of heritage
Magnus Nilsson and Gunnar Krantz lead the discussions, topics include the comic archive and working-class literature archive in Copenhagen Working Class museum. In Swedish.
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Magnus Nilsson, Mette Kjær Ovesen och Nicklas Freisleben Lund presenterar sitt kommande projekt “Fagpressens glemte litteratur- og kulturhistorie: Arbejderlitteratur, -identitet og -offentlighed i de danske fagblade, 1870-1940”. En text av Magnus Nilsson som inspirerat ansökan kan läsas här: Arbetarrörelselitteraturhistoria?: Mot ett litteraturbegrepp som inkluderar det litterära livet i arbetarrörelsen
Mette berättar om sitt arbete med att gräva fram hittills okänd litteratur av kvinnliga arbetarförattare i fackförbundspressen; Nicklas presenterar projektet, som kommer att genomföras under 2025 och 2026; Magnus ger avslutande kommentarer. 
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Gunnar Krantz, “Solidaroperan”
I Malmö hette Konsum Solidar.
Solidar var inte den första kooperativa föreningen i Malmö, men kom att bli den största, tillika näst störst i landet.
Konsumentkooperation, med rötter från Rochdaleföreningen i England prövades för första gången i Malmö 1898 med Kooperativa föreningen Pan, grundad av socialdemokraten Axel Danielsson, med blivande statsminister Per Albin Hansson som springpojke. Efter ett par år räknade Pan tusen medlemmar, med en omsättning på 140.000 kronor och fyra butiker. Föreningen såg ut att gå en ljus framtid till mötes, men plötsligt vände kurvan nedåt och 1904 var konkursen ett faktum. Axel Danielsson dog 1899, endast 36 år gammal. Han hade då hunnit med att översätta Kommunistiska manifestet och grunda tidningen Arbetet. Föreningen Pan överlevde honom med fem år.
1907 bildades Kooperativa Föreningen Solidar av medlemmar från bageri- och konditorifacken. Föreningens mål var ”att till gångbara priser avyttra av medlemmarna tillverkade bagerialster” Solidars första butik öppnades 1908 på Möllevångstorget 5, samma år som strejkbrytarbåten Amalthea sprängdes i Malmös hamn.
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Texten ovan är ett utdrag ur manusarbetet med en tecknad serie om konsumentkooperationen Solidar. Serien framställs sida för sida direkt i tryckpressen, en Risografisk duplikator i A2-format. Den experimentella metoden ingår i ett konstnärligt forskningsprojekt med titeln Autografisk dubbelexponering – den svarta linjens narrativa egenskaper i tecknade serier.
På seminariet kommer Gunnar att presentera den teoretiska bakgrunden till sin metod, samt några färdiga sidor ur denna serie.
Projektet är finansierat av Vetenskapsrådet.

Nov 13, 13-16:15
K3 seminar series [Media], K3 studio (NI:C0505)
“Creative Media” book chapters discussion
Martin Cathcart, “The importance of getting lost”
Anna Arnman, “The monster in the TV set. Monster, media and trustworthiness”
Sara Bjärstorp & Petra Ragnerstam, “LARP as a form of creative media exploring radical empathy”
Kajsa Lindskog, “Pairing, piecing, pacing, pictures”
Reinhard Handler, “Ti esrever dna ti pilf. Doing creative media studies by exploring practices”
Margareta Melin, “Understanding Creative Media from a feminist perspective”

Nov 20, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Arts-based research/Design]
Monsters as Methods
Line Henriksen, Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt, Åsa Harvard Maare, Oskar Aspman
In this K3 seminar, Monster Lab members Åsa, Oskar, Pille and Line will discuss monsters as methods. They will share some of their recent experiences in working with monsters as research approaches, lenses of illuminating otherwise invisible issues. In this seminar, talking and making will meet, and Line will record elements for the next Monster Lab podcast, while others share their work in progress with monsters.

Nov 27, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Media]
Health Care Professionals Vlogging on Social Media
Lina Alhafez, visiting PhD student
In this seminar, I will briefly present the topic of my PhD in terms of the context within which it is occurring: The informational/communication landscape, the motivations, but also the attitudes within the HCP community towards it and how they have evolved in the past 10-15 yrs. 
I will then move on to explaining more about my current research on developing an AI assisted tool for sentiment analysis that tries to sketch out a thematic map of trust and skepticism amongst the audience in the content those HCPs are sharing, while baring in mind the unique combination of the types of trust this involves and why it’s important.

Nov 27, 15-17, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
Kultur-Samhälle-Politik
Precarious labour in contemporary literature
Magnus Nilsson

Dec 4, 13-16:15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Media]
“Creative Media” book chapters discussion
Line Henriksen, Åsa Harvard Maare, Oskar Aspman, Asko Kauppinen & Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, “Collaborative drawing of monsters to understand structural problems”
Dennis Augustsson, “Video essay as a boundary object”
Ulrika Sjöberg & Carolina Martinez, “Creating child-rights based media in collaborative research”
Pia Jönsson, “Where is the soul in animated characters?”
Erin Cory, “Conviviality and decoloniality in hybrid teaching”
Margareta Melin, “Learning Media in the Borderland between Theory and Practice (Gestaltung)”

Dec 9, 12-17
K3 Heritage research seminar
Heritage group has a half-day seminar off campus.

Dec 10, 15-17, NI:C0826
K3 seminar series [Media]
How Collaborative are Collaborative Media?
Bo Reimer, Jonas Löwgren
In 2013, Jonas Löwgren and Bo Reimer wrote the book “Collaborative Media. Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions”, published by MIT Press. In the book they discussed how with the new forms of digital media, people “formerly known as the audience” no longer only consumed but also produced and even designed media. This phenomenon they termed collaborative media. Through an interdisciplinary research approach that combined the social sciences and humanities traditions of empirical and theoretical work with practice-based, design-oriented interventions, they presented a number of case studies that ranged from small multidisciplinary research experiments to commercial projects used by millions of people.
The book was written at a time characterized by a great belief in the possibilities of collaborative media. Today, in times of centralization and monopolization of digital media, that belief has increasingly withered away. What happened? And how collaborative are collaborative media today? These are the questions this seminar will focus upon.
Jonas Löwgren is Professor of Interaction and Information Design at the Division of Media and Information Technology, Linköping University. Bo Reimer is Professor of Media and Communication Studies, K3, Malmö University.

Dec 11, 13-15, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
K3 seminar series [Arts-based research/Design]
The Trade Wagon
Jenny Grettve
Jenny Grettve gives a seminar in relation to her exhibition in the K3 Open Space, ‘The Trade Wagon’.

Dec 18, 15-17, K3 studio (NI:C0505)
Kultur-Samhälle-Politik
Marie Öhman presenterar ett bokkapitel om eko-kritik.

Welcome to K3’s seminar series for the spring term of 2024! This term, we have divided the seminar topics among K3’s four research environments: Design, Media, Storytelling and Arts-based Research. In addition, we host three joint K3 seminars on broader topics concerning the whole department.

Keep up with us as we announce new topics!

The Zoom link for online/hybrid seminars is:
https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/62522949096
Meeting ID: 625 2294 9096

The K3 studio is booked from 13-15 on all seminar days, but the seminars will start at 13:15.

We are also happy to welcome you to PhD candidate Hugo Boothby’s nailing ceremony on April 19th, 12:30 at NI:C0425 and his PhD defence on May 23rd, 13-17 at NI:C0E11.

Feb 7 13-15 [Media]
Creative media studies – is that a thing? (hybrid)
In this seminar, the media environment invites everyone to join in some soul-searching to discuss what makes media studies in K3 special. In the spirit of boundary-crossing cohesive environments, we would like to invite all of the K3 to thinking if Creative Media Studies could be a shared label for us and if there is a book with that (preliminary) title for us to write. We would like to invite everyone who could think that they, in some ways, study creative media (making) or use creative methods to study (or make) media. In this open invitation, we would like to gather interest around a possible book-collaboration, where we could write short, easily accessible chapters about how to study creative media or how to use creative methods to study things related to media. In this very open invitation we will not (yet) define or narrow down what we mean by media or what we mean by creative, rather, we would like anyone interested to bring these insights to the table in search for commonalities and shared ways of crossing boundaries. It would be amazing if people joining us, could already think about concrete chapters they could write on the topic of Creative media, but it is optional, do come even if you don’t have any concrete chapter ideas and just want to chime in.
The seminar is hybrid and those interested in contributing to the book will receive further information, instructions and invitations after the seminar. So if you are interested, but can’t come, please send Pille an e-mail: pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt@mau.se

Feb 14 13-15 [Storytelling]
Magnus Nilsson, Christine Hamm & Nicklas Lund: Prekariat, prekaritet och prekära liv i skandinavisk litteratur efter välfärdsstatens epok (hybrid, language: Scandinavian)
Vid detta forskarseminariet kommer det att presenteras pågående forskning från miljön Prekariat, prekaritet och prekära liv i skandinavisk litteratur efter välfärdsstatens epok.
Forskare som ingår i forskningsmiljön, Nicklas Lund från Syddansk Universitet och Prof. Christine Hamm från Universitetet i Bergen kommer att medverka.
Seminariet hålls på skandinaviska. 

Feb 21 13-15 [Arts-based Research]
Mary Toreld & Johan Sandström: Cultivating Alliances within Malmö (hybrid)
We invite Mary Toreld of FRANK Gallery & Studios and Johan Sandström from Molekyl Gallery. The Arts-based Research group at K3 is exploring the theme of ARA: Arts-Research-Alliances. Mary and Johan will contribute to this discussion by offering the perspectives of their work in building artistic communities in Malmö, ones that encompass research, production, and new modes of working & living.
FRANK Gallery & Studios is a creative base in central Malmö. It contains a gallery for exhibitions/performances as well as workspaces for 20 professional artists from various disciplines. On a conceptual level FRANK is focused on working with inventing new exhibition concepts and improving working conditions for creative people. The concepts are constantly being developed for a more humble and more coherent view on art.
Molekyl Gallery is a longstanding and valuable part of the independent arts scene. It supports a wider art scene, including artists who may be in need of a collegial and reflective environment. It is a venue for experimental work that acts as a multi-dimensional artistic space, both in the sense of the actual art space and in what kind of things that might happen there. It plays across scale of ideas, work and hierarchies.

Feb 28 13-15 [K3 joint]
Camilla Norberg Hansen: Collaboration and utilization in academia (hybrid)
In this impact workshop with Camilla Norberg Hansen, Innovation advisor at MAU Innovation, we explore the question: How can your research be implemented outside of academia and contribute to society? During this interactive session, we will focus on collaboration and utilization in academia.

Mar 6 13-15 [Design]
Simon Niedenthal: From Scent Tech Histories to Scent Material Interventions: New initiatives in olfactory research at K3 (hybrid)
Olfactory interaction is perhaps K3’s most unlikely research specialty. Growing originally from the niche intersection of game studies and smell, strengthened by external interdisciplinary projects with Stockholm University and gaining special societal consequence during the pandemic, olfactory research at K3 is in the process of broadening its activities with new international collaborators and working with an expanded set of concerns and methodologies. I will outline our ongoing collaborations, early results and new initiatives that include:
1. Scent Tech Histories: Olfactory Bytes: Digital Scent Technologies and Stench Barons of the Dot-Com Era. In this project with Jas Brooks of the University of Chicago, we apply media archaeology methods to capture and reflect upon the significance of commercial digital scent output devices from the turn of the century. Media archaeology often takes critical perspective on overly optimistic media narratives; in the case of scent technologies, we argue that the conventional narrative has been too pessimistic. 
2. Scent Material Interventions: Designing strategies for sustainable sandalwood conservation and cultivation in South India. Lizette Reitsma and I are organising a conference with our old partners at the IIIT-Bangalore on designing strategies to support the currently threatened sandalwood tree population in South India. Drawing upon design frameworks for the more-than-human, we will reflect on ways in which we can capture and organize indigenous knowledge about sandalwood in South India and create conditions for community-based conservation and cultivation aimed at supporting the local population of the tree.
3. Olfactory interaction design in GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums): How is perfume playful? We have some exciting new collaboration partners, the most glamorous of which is the International Museum of Perfumery in Grasse, France. My interns and I will be there for residencies for outreach, developing educational materials and prototyping interactive interventions for thesis projects. We have also cultivated a new partner in the more adverse smell domain at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö.
These are all nascent projects and I would appreciate input from the K3 community on how to strengthen them. 
With outreach to the K3 community anchored in K3 Scent Club and educational activities rooted in courses including Tangible and embodied interaction, Experimental media production, thesis projects and internships, olfactory interaction research at K3 is an example of a research area that is fully integrated with teaching, research and internationalisation activities.

Mar 13 13-15 [Media]
Ángela Bonet, visiting PhD student: Taxonomy of Tenderness (hybrid)
This seminar will focus on developing some theoretical foundations about modernism and contemporary art, in order to explain contemporary sensibility related to some artistic examples such as Nigel Shafran’s photography. The main goal would be putting contemporary art as questioning praxis possibilities in a theoretical framework.
Ángela Bonet, a PhD student from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), is developing research with the main aim to map a Taxonomy of Tenderness assembling contemporary sensibility through current cultural references.

Mar 20 13-15 [Storytelling]
Gunnar Krantz: Tracing, re-tracing and transferring image+text – exploring the methods of early lithographed comics (hybrid)
In the project “Autographic Double Exposure – the Narrative Characteristics of the Inked Black Line in Comics”, funded by VR, I will explore two different printing techniques; autography and risography and relate them to contemporary comics. During the first part of the project, I am focusing on autography (e.g. transfer-lithography), in relation to the self-published works of Rodolphe Töpffer (1799–1846), often named “The Father of Comics”, who not only created and published what today is considered the first comic in a modern sense, but also reflected and published two essays on his findings. In this seminar I will give a summary of the project, and present some of my findings – practical, as well as theoretical. All interested in visual narratives, comics, storytelling and artistic practice are welcome!

Apr 3 13-15 [K3 joint]
Natalia Auer & Martin Stigmar: Teaching as research (hybrid)
Welcome to a workshop with Natalia Auer and Martin Stigmar from AKL on the topic of teaching as research. Discussion points will include:
– The link between teaching and research; 
– Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL);
– Action research;
– Examples of the relation between teaching and research and vice versa;
– Malmö Universities’ Application for acquisition of educational qualification.
Speakers:
Martin Stigmar is professor of higher education pedagogy. Martin teaches and researches higher education pedagogy with a focus on the role of teacher, supervisor and mentor. The research maps whether there is a common content in supervisor training for different professions (teachers, psychologists, specialist doctors and specialist dentists) and how the courses are organized. What are the coordination benefits of interprofessional tutor courses? 
Natalia Auer‘s research interests fall within the fields of digital learning, digital literacy and metacognition applied to digital reading. Her current research project is part of an international research project eduCOVID19. The project aims to investigate how the current COVID19 pandemic has changed teaching practices around the world. 

Apr 10 13-15 [Storytelling]
Malin Thor Thureby & Annika Olsson: Oral History – Det förgångnas röster och samtidens berättande (hybrid)
Professor Malin Thor Tureby (LS) och docent Annika Olsson (K3) presenterar sin forskning. Seminariet hålls på svenska.

Apr 17 13-15 [Media]
Jullietta Stoencheva, PhD student: Everyday Extremism in Sweden and Bulgaria
(25% seminar, hybrid)
Discussant: Fredrik Norén
In this seminar, PhD student Jullietta Stoencheva presents an extended project plan for her PhD thesis exploring everyday extremism in Sweden and Bulgaria from a media and communications perspective. This PhD project aims to understand how extremist narratives circulate in and between different places and spaces and move across three continuums: online-offline; mainstream-fringe; and local-global. Using empirical data from fringe and mainstream social media platforms, online forums, and message boards, complemented by ethnographic fieldwork in different localities across Sweden and Bulgaria, the project seeks to assess the nature and scope of extremist narratives in (and about) these countries manifesting through the interplay between online and offline activities, as well as map the ways in which these travel between fringe, radical online communities, transcend into mainstream spaces, and contribute to offline activities and (potentially violent) direct actions in local ecologies.

Apr 19 12:30-13 [Nailing Ceremony]
Hugo Boothby: Nailing/Spikning (Location: NIC0425, on-location only)
Welcome to PhD candidate Hugo Boothby’s nailing ceremony!

Apr 24 13-15 [Storytelling]
Anders Høg Hansen: Mix Tape Memories. Movement and Difference in Life Writing (hybrid)
In this seminar, Anders Høg Hansen will present his new book Mix Tape Memories: Movement and Difference in Life Writing.
This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely territories, here told in a series of ‘tracks’ depicting their roles in community memories and histories. Side A engages with individual journeys, such as Lewis, the American black literature book seller; the civil rights activist, Izzy, an American-Swedish folklorist; Eugene, a black classical pianist; and Pi, the Jew transported to Sweden during WWII. Side B focuses on communal histories and alternative educational and artistic spaces, addressing life writing and memory in German comic books; alternative educational spaces in Israel-Palestine and Africa, and  ‘small press passions’ of zines/newsletter culture. Tellers and their interpreters are mediating identities where nationality, race, and class (and other markers of identity) have influenced selfhood and collective belonging – revealing how individuals and outsider cultures have the power to influence dominant cultures and inspire societal change.

May 2 10-12 [Media]
Paul David Flood, visiting PhD in Musicology: ‘Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!’: Songs of Afro-Diasporic Solidarity in the Eurovision Song Contest (hybrid)
The Eurovision Song Contest is the world’s largest televised music competition, wherein each participating nation is represented by an original song. Since its first edition in 1956, the Contest has become a geopolitical spectacle in which participants use music to enact soft power, promote national agendae, and shape perceptions of marginalized identities. Recent editions of the Contest have seen more performances by Black artists and of Black-American genres, often informed by lyrics and visuals suggesting narratives of resistance or perseverance. While existing scholarship demonstrates that folk musics have indeed been valuable tools and signifiers for Europe’s migrant communities, scholars have seldom linked the increasing presence of Black and Afro-diasporic musics in Eurovision to these performances of marginalized subjectivities. This linkage is necessary not only because the number of Black artists who have competed in Eurovision has increased exponentially over the past two decades, but also because Eurovision has steadily emerged as a globalizing entity, targeting and appealing to consumers beyond Europe’s geographical boundaries. In this paper, I engage two trios of Afro-diasporic representatives to the Contest—France’s entries from 1990 through 1992, and Sweden’s entries from 2019 through 2021. I argue that positioning the Eurovision Song Contest and its actors within Afro-diasporic cultural flows challenges the putative coherence of both individual nation-states and of “Europe” writ large, asking us to consider both what Europeanness can sound like, and who gets to be European.
Paul David Flood (he/him) is a musicologist whose research engages geopolitics, migration, and (post)coloniality in global popular musics. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology and Instructor of Music History at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, USA. His dissertation asks how members of Europe’s migrant and diasporic communities engage with the Eurovision Song Contest, its international spinoffs, and its dedicated nightlife spaces in ways that resist and revise notions of what Europeanness can look and sound like. Paul currently serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s (IASPM) US Branch. During Eurovision 2024, he will join Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication (K3) as a Visiting Researcher.

May 8 13-15 [Arts-based Research]
Jonas Fritsch (ITU): Sticking with Affect across HCI & Interaction Design (hybrid)
In this talk, I will attempt to give a brief account of the current state of research into affect in HCI and interaction design through the lense of a range of projects carried out in the Affective Interactions & Relations (AIR) Lab at the IT University in Copenhagen (https://airlab.itu.dk/). I will make the – perhaps unsurprising – argument that there is still much more to explore, and present some paths for future research and explorations at the intersection between affective computing, affective interaction design, affect theory, digital art – and, most likely, beyond. Jonas Fritsch, PhD is Associate Professor in Interaction Design at the IT University of Copenhagen in the Department of Digital Design. He is head of the Affective Interaction & Relations (AIR) Lab and Head of the Design Research Section. His work revolves around a creative thinking of interaction design, design processes, experience philosophy and affect theory through practical design experiments with interactive sound and physical interfaces.

May 15 13-15 [K3 joint]
Andy Peruccon & Xinquan Wen, PhD students: Reworlding communities: enacting regenerative worlds across different European contexts (10% seminar, hybrid)
Both projects are part of the Reworlding doctoral network, which invites 11 different researchers across Europe and various interdisciplinary methodologies to collaborate with academic and non-academic partners and articulate those reworlding design capabilities that can tackle socio-ecological issues from diverse perspectives.
Andy’s research focuses on the exploration of regeneration through cultural interventions as a way to address societal and ecological challenges. Drawing from post-humanistic, speculative design and performative art lenses, this research aims at exploring and working with communities in Malmö, Trento and Milan, which – through festivals, rituals and other situated performative interventions – try to address and reflect upon the tensions between self and other, nature and culture as well as human and beyond human. This seminar will introduce the research plan, the context and the potential activities that will be carried out throughout the 4-year plan.
Xinquan’s research seeks to integrate more-than-human perspectives into collaborative urban ecological transformations. Affiliated with the EU project Bauhaus of the Seas Sails, this study delves into the intricate relationship between Malmö’s inhabitants and its marine environment, striving to cultivate transitions that support the flourishing of all life by fostering cultural shifts. The forthcoming seminar will introduce the planned methodologies, activities and theoretical frameworks, including design anthropology and posthuman feminism, focusing on nurturing sustainable and interconnected urban-marine relationships in Malmö, while aiming to develop strategies and design capabilities relevant for just and regenerative transformation initiatives.

May 22 13-15 [Design]
Stefan Holmlid, Linköping University: Discussing opportunities for a network of design schools in Sweden (hybrid)

May 23 13-17 [PhD Defence]
Hugo Boothby: Careful Convivial Listening: Making Sound Work Apparent as Political Action (Location: NIC0E11, on-location only)
Focusing on the creation and performance of sound work this doctoral thesis considers the value of listening as a site of political action. The meaning of sound work is dual; connoting both an artifact that is created and performed, a work of art, and the processes of creating sound, the work of listening. Listening is integral to the creation and performance of sound work and is defined in this thesis as an aesthetic relation generated in the in-between of hearing subject, sound and sound technology. Drawing on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt I recognize a distinction between the objective world building of work, and the transformative potential of political action. Listening and the relational qualities that listening affords are integral to the processes through which sound work can transform to become apparent as political action. In my doctoral research I consider a diversity of sound work including popular music, sound art, podcasting and contemporary experimental music. Applying an experimental media research methodology, I interrogate sound work’s potential to be made apparent as political action using a repertoire of methods drawn from ethnography, artistic research and participatory design. In this research I find that sound work’s potential to become apparent as political action is informed by both the quality of attention tendered by hearing subjects and the material affordances of sound and sound technology. Being attentive to the agencies of both human subjects and non-human objects I posit that an orientation towards careful convivial listening in the creation and performance of sound work can succeed in making political action apparent. Reflecting on the contribution that this research makes within the field of media and communication studies I recognise that sound work, careful convivial listening and experimental media exist as tools that can be applied in future research to build new knowledge and instigate transformative change.

Jun 5 13-15 [Storytelling]
Maria Wiktorsson: Expressive vocabulary in comics – forms, usage and translation (hybrid)

Jun 10 13-15 [Design]
Anna Schröder, PhD student: Design for human-ocean-connectedness (25% seminar, hybrid)
Discussant: Li Jönsson
The doctoral project “Design for human-ocean connectedness” explores how participatory design processes acknowledge and engage with the affective dimension of sustainable inner transitions. In the context of ocean literacy action in coastal cities, the research builds on more-than-human design, human-nature-connectedness, and theories of affect (esp. resonance theory). The empirical work of the project feeds from participatory design experiments and interviews in a programmatic structure. In the seminar, Anna will share insights into the first field experiments conducted in Malmö during spring 2024, partly in collaboration with the Bauhaus of the Seas project.

Jun 12 13-15 [Arts-based Research]
Maria Hellström Reimer & Tania Ruiz: DNA at Play: Flows of facts and fictions in the field of recreational genetics (Location: STORM, A122, Orkanen, on-location only)
In this seminar, Maria Hellström Reimer, Professor in Design in theory and practice at K3, and Tania Ruiz, Maître de conference/Associate Professor at Université de Paris 8, researcher at TEAMeD, and honorary doctor at MAU, will present their project “DNA at Play: flows of facts and fictions in the field of recreational genetics”. The seminar will be combined with a show at STORM of material that has previously been exhibited in Paris in October 2023.
DNA at Play. Flows of facts and fictions in the field of recreational genetics
The purpose of this artistic and digital humanities research project is the close examination of popular genealogy platforms and so called “recreational DNA” services, legal in Sweden but banned in France. Through an interdisciplinary, arts-oriented, action research approach, the project focuses on and intervenes with the complex representational practices – storytelling, AI-generated animation, data visualization – that sustain these services. The aim is to shed light on the proliferation of biometric technologies and the commercialization of genetic data and explore how these services might affect our perception of place, identity, and belonging.

Jun 18 13-15 [Design]
Juliana Restrepo Giraldo, PhD student: Buen Vivir at Home – Designing relational homemaking in the context of the planetary crisis (90% seminar, hybrid)
Discussant: Andrea Botero Cabrera, Aalto University
This research work draws inspiration from the Andean cosmology of Buen Vivir and is
conveyed in part through a collection of “gifts” consisting of stories and recipes.
These offerings serve to inspire both individual and collective commitments to
responsible design and everyday homemaking practices.
With a focus on everyday life at home, the thesis advocates for a transformative shift
towards relational and sustainable living. By immersing in relational practices within
home environments and exploring diverse expressions of Buen Vivir, the research
engages with the experiences of homemakers in Växjö, Sweden, and Medellin,
Colombia. Emphasis is placed on collaborative design practices to address socioecological challenges, providing insights for designers and researchers interested in
Relationality. The work encourages practices contributing to the healing and
protection of relationships with nature and proposes companion practices for
cultivating decolonial and intersectional approaches in design research and
homemaking.