From the pilot project Artcraft is Lovecraft – weaving social inclusion through the living heritage of the parklek, in summer 2025 – the following project evolved:

Threads of a Collective Childhood - Reweaving Parklek into Art Spaces

( Summer 2025 and ongoing)

This project builds on a exploration of care, freedom, and cultural heritage, as well as an activation of memory through material. It draws from both my personal memories of growing up in my mothers Parklek, and the shared heritage of the collective.

I create a tactile scenography inspired by the colours, shapes, and ideals of the 1970 and 80s, a time when the Parklek flourished as a space of freedom in Swedish children’s culture.

Through woven marionettes of bodies, animals, and plants, in colours drawn from the Parklek’s shared spaces, with wood paneling, orange plastic floors, and green sticker-covered doors, I seek to reawaken that world, and the child within myself, and in others.

It unfolds like a woven childhood stage- a space for dialogue about freedom, care, and belonging.

Parklek in their traditional form are today mainly found in Sweden’s larger cities - Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. In 2026, I will spend a residency in Nordingrå, in northern Sweden, with my project. Nordingrå has no classic Parklek, but leisure care, youth centers and playgrounds. My work therefore focuses on creating a staffed creative meeting place- a mobile Parklek in artistic form- where children and young people could encounter culture in their everyday lives.

The aim is to nurture joy in creation, social inclusion, and an ongoing dialogue about cultural heritage and creativity in Nordingrå.

In the summer of 2026, the woven childhood stage will travel from the High Coast of Sweden, to the Pasific Coast of Itoshima, Japan, where It will open another dialouge between heritage, play and art.