Welcome to the Future - a Better One
What is wellbeing, really - and what if we made it the measure of a successful economy? Iceland and a handful of other countries have already set off down that path, with women in leading positions. What can we learn from them?
Some say we are entering the Second Machine Age. In the first, machines replaced physical labour; in the second, AI is replacing knowledge work. Then, as now, it is traditionally male-coded work - built on strength, calculation, and control - that is being challenged. Are we moving into a relationship economy, where female-coded skills - care, connection, empathy - grow ever more valuable, precisely because they cannot be replaced by AI in the same way? If so, we stand before a new opportunity to create meaning and prosperity for many - a chance to redefine what wellbeing means in work, leadership, and economics, together.
There is a deeper parallel, too. Just as women are constantly adapting to the nature of hormonal fluctuations, the world may now be forced to adapt to the forces of nature as we disturb its balance. Here lies an opening to think anew: to work with nature's rhythms rather than against them - to lead by building resilience, not division.
Daughters of Iceland - trailer
The documentary Daughters of Iceland - Exploring Female Leadership in a Polarised World ventures into exactly this terrain: what is it in female leadership that can bring us together? Our task is to reimagine the future through Grandma Mimicry - learning from the wisdom of our grandmothers, drawing on their ways of knowing, making, and caring, to dream the world we want to live in. After all, it takes a village to raise a child, which is what the documentary sets out to experience - layer by layer.
Daughters of Iceland - the making of a documentary
DN - Hon leder landet där kvinnorna styr - "ett intressant experiment"
Join us for a late afternoon - on November 5th:
- 16.15 - Meet up outside Krog Agrikultur, under Guldbron at Slussen
- 16:30 - Walk the Talk: explore wellbeing in practice with researchers and Icelanders, and walk along the shore of Riddarfjärden to EY Doberman's Future Lab.
- 17:30 - Screening of Daughters of Iceland and interactive workshops at SALLY, EY Doberman, where - through Grandma Mimicry - we reimagine better futures.
- 19:00 - End
Walk the Talk comments:
- Nora Bittár, Center for Wellbeing, Welfare, and Happiness, Stockholm School of Economics - on wellbeing in Sweden
- Loa Lava Brynjulfsdottír - on Iceland and Berskjöldun (vulnerability).
The best way to predict the future is to create it. Welcome!
Initiators:
- Tove Blomgren - Creative Director, SALLY, EY Doberman
- Emma Stenström - Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
- Kristín Grímsdóttir - Freelance
- Carl Eneroth - Filmmaker, Stories That Unite Us
Mellan Rummen (Between Spaces) is a Walk the Talk concept designed for boosting collective intelligence, based on the idea of pay-it-forward, hold the space and explore system questions too complex to solve alone. At the core is the art of navigating paradoxes – not as a problem to be solved, but as a tension to be held. To hold the space is to hold liminal space: the threshold between what was and what is not yet, where new understanding can emerge. Mellan Rummen has been tried at Almedalen, Frihamnsdagarna and with the book Loud Summer.
We start on time. Limited seats available. Sign up below. If the event is full, please contact carl.eneroth@ssilab.se for a place on the waiting list.
The event is in English and Swedish. Next event on this topic in Lund on November 25th. Registration is open here: Mellan Rummen - Wellbeing as an economic model
