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Brief – The Futures We Build

Cities and HabitatsSystems and Sustainability

This Brief is a compilation of inputs and insights that emerged during workshops with different actors in the built environment sector in Sweden held during the spring of 2025 in Malmö, Stockholm and Gothenburg.


These workshops were held within the Futures We Build taking the visions created within the initiative as a starting point.

Brief - The Futures We Build - Transforming the built environment sector from within

We encourage you to visit the four visions of The Futures We Build created by the project teams: Rehearsals, Now is the New Tomorrow, Waves and Beyond Blueprints. These visions, together with an accompanying playbook, can be downloaded here.

Context

The Futures We Build is a strategic project within Smart Built Environment, one of Sweden’s 17 Strategic Innovation Programs. It is funded by Vinnova (Sweden’s innovation agency), the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas (the Swedish government research council for sustainable development). The project was run by Media Evolution in collaboration with the Federation of Swedish Innovation Companies. The opinions in this brief are based on inputs from the workshops, and do not necessarily reflect the views of partner organisations.

The illustrations in this brief are made by Dick Hedlund.

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September 2025

Reeta Hafner

Reeta Hafner is a foresight facilitator at Media Evolution. She designs and hosts collaborative journeys that leverage the future in various ways in order to empower diverse groups in realising more desirable outcomes and unravelling new possibilities in the present.

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