↳ Our Work

A selection of projects that reflect our approach to design, learning, and impact.

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CASE

Enhancing community collaboration – Business Development for Local Civil Society Organizations in Söder

Mapping the Barriers to the Job Market for International Students in Helsingborg

Söderscen - Local Placemaking in Helsingborg

We are implementing a local placemaking project in the city of Helsingborg to activate public spaces in the district of Söder through arts, culture, and community engagement.

Client: Helsingborgs Stad
2022 — 2026

Project website
Project report

Services:
Co-creation & Strategy
Project Management

Outcomes:
Programs and services
Events

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Business Development for Grassroot Civil Society Organisations - Voices for Rights and Democracy

We are partnering with Internews to support and strengthen civil society organisations, democracy activists and human rights defenders working on critical human rights and democracy issues. We provide business development training, coaching, and mentorship for 9 civil society organisations.

Client: Internews Network
2024 — 2025

Services:
Co-creation & Strategy
Facilitation, Learning, & Development

Outcomes:
Training program
Business Development Toolkit

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Design for Climate Adaptation - Collaborating with the private sector as part of the Cross Innovation Lab

We are participating in the Cross Innovation Lab run by Region Skåne and Region Blekinge with organisations and creatives who are active in the cultural and creative industries (CCI) in Skåne and Blekinge and who want to be involved and contribute to sustainable development through innovation work.

As a CCI company, we are collaborating with other companies from other industries with the goal of jointly developing new sustainable products, services and processes that reduce or manage climate challenges.

Services:
Design Research
Co-creation & Strategy

Children painting on a large canvas, participating in an outdoor art activity. They are wearing paint-splattered shirts and using brushes to create colorful strokes. A small crowd, including photographers, is observing the event.

Culture for Social Resilience - Roadmap development for the Cultural Pearls

We developed a methodology and toolkit to support eight municipalities in the Baltic region to collaborate with local creative and cultural sector as part of the Cultural Pearls project.

Client: Nordic Dimension Partnership on Culture
2024

Project website

Services:
Co-creation & Strategy
Facilitation

Outcomes:
Toolkit
Workshops

↳ What our partners are saying

I worked with Abbas within the project Cultural Pearls in 2024. Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture, one of the project partners, commissioned Abbas to work as a consultant and producer for the Seed-Money Initiative Roadmap. This guidebook was set to support the Cultural Pearls municipalities in establishing meaningful collaborations with their culture and creative sector professionals for the goal of added resilience in their communities.

Abbas was just the right professional for this task. It is quite rare to find this varied set of skills in only one person. Abbas knows very well the cultural sector, aswell as the municipalities. So right from the start it was very easy to build a common ground and he could relate to both of our target groups. Abbas created the visual guidebook, with very high quality and nice visual identity. Also, I appreciated his professional approach to outlining his own work and the overall flow of our collaboration. And when all things did not go as planned, Abbas was very flexible in making things work anyway.

Krista Petäjäjärvi
Nordic Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC)