How Stockholm has dedicated workers to establish new cultural spaces
Since 2016, Stockholm’s Culture Pilots have supported cultural actors and property owners in transforming underused spaces into vibrant cultural venues. Acting as matchmakers and advisors, the Pilots guide projects.
Library Lab: Stockholm using UX methods to improve libraries
To deepen cultural participation, Stockholm City Library has embedded user experience (UX) methods into daily practice across its 40 branches. At the Library Lab in Liljeholmen, launched in 2024.
Stockholm’s Nobel Week Lights Winter Festival
Held each December during the Nobel Prize celebrations, Nobel Week Lights invites artists to create large-scale light installations inspired by Nobel-winning discoveries. The free festival reimagines Stockholm’s public spaces.
Saving the planet one prop at a time: Stockholm’s material magasinet’s challenge
Stockholm’s Material Magasinet (Material Storehouse) is attempting to address the excess of waste produced by cultural sector activity. The storehouse is diverting tonnes of material waste from landfills by.
Art meets architecture: fusing Stockholm’s cultural heritage
The City is continually working to embed cultural heritage as part of current and future development activity. The City’s Culture Department is the cities expert on cultural landscape and.
Closing the digital divide: Stockholm’s innovative arts education initiative
Addressing the new for digital equity with arts education, EKulturskolan Stockholm is extending the digital arts education offering for younger residents.
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Stockholm has emerged as one of Europe's most successful startup and cultural entrepreneurship hubs, home to renowned companies like Spotify, Skype, Klarna, and King. In fact, Stockholm boasts the.