The Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures hereby invites you to the 5th symposium at Malmö University, on the theme of storytelling and collaborative future-making. The symposium takes place 26-27 May 2026. We plan to construct a varied program with paper presentations, workshops, and spaces for dialogue. A common thread of the symposium is the exploration of storytelling’s role in imagining and co-creating futures. We invite papers on design, organization, literature, comics, visual storytelling, architecture, learning, education, urban development, and other fields.
The symposium explores new ideas and approaches that blend storytelling and collaborative future-making, fostering critical and creative engagement among scholars to create better stories of the world. Such contributions may be inspired by love, art, post-qualitative inquiry, peculative fabulation, or others. They can focus on the role of imagination and making in relation to places, history, cultural heritage, craft, and community engagement. We also invite
contributions on how to research and write differently in relation to learning and education.
If you want to join us, please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words by 24 April 2026 to one of the organizers, Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Gunnar Krantz, or Per-Anders Hillgren.
The event is free of charge. We don’t offer any accommodation, lunch, or dinner. We will make space for social arrangements in Malmö and organize a joint meeting place for dinner for those
who are interested. Please send any queries to Kenneth, Gunnar, or Per-Anders using the following emails. The venue for the symposium will be announced later.
Best, Kenneth, Gunnar, and Per-Anders
Kenneth.molbjerg-jorgensen@mau.se
per-anders.hillgren@mau.se
gunnar.krantz@mau.se