KTH Climate Stories Workshop

This three-hour interactive session will initiate the planning for the KTH Climate Stories, organized by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) for 2026. This project will engage KTH students and staff to develop various genres of climate stories--from everyday stories of personal climate impacts, to visions of climate futures in Stockholm and beyond, to portraits of climate leaders, and long-form documentary interviews with climate educators and students about how education is changing as anthropogenic climate change accelerates. These stories will then be documented and compiled in digital and print publications for KTH's 200-year celebrations in 2027, offering glimpses into the ways that our community is experiencing climate change and how we envision moving into an era of increasing climate instability. 

This initial planning and elaboration event will be facilitated by the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) in collaboration with Professor Bethany Wiggin (University of Pennsylvania) who has co-developed the My Climate Story initiative as an engine to develop climate storytelling curriculum and a platform to connect climate storytellers, resources and tools globally.

KTH Climate Stories will also build on the EHL’s Atlas of Other Worlds and research and initiatives by staff members Katarina Larsen and Anja M. Rieser within the Division of History and EHL, to critically explore our relationship to the climate crisis, creatively connect students to different ways of understanding climate futures, and imagine the future of the humanities at KTH. This initial discussion and activities in 2026 will provide critical catalysts for interdisciplinary climate related research and teaching and tangible ways for students to make strong and lasting connections between their technically focused degree programs and the transformative potential of interdisciplinary education that includes the humanities.

Workshop is full now, but if in interested in joining the workshop, write to Robert Gioielli at gioielli@kth.se  to see if we have any free spots!

Examples of our work so far:

my-climate-story.org/ 

occupyclimatechange.net/

Climate future workshop at KTH