Jonny Magnusson

“My ideas are being heard, and that’s impressive”

I am active in Helsingborg’s divers club Delfinen, and we pick up trash from the ocean floor at least once a year. Most divers pick up trash regularly when we are out diving anyway. Bikes, barbeques, soda cans… there’s all sorts there. Some of it is thrown in and some blows in. Many people don’t care so much about the sea, it’s just boring green water. But the ocean is the cradle of life, where oxygen is created that allows us to feel healthy on land. I find it fascinating.

Pixla Piren is a fantastic place that the city has opened up for the city’s residents. Here, my diver friends and I meet creative people from different cultures and of all ages. I created a piece of art in the ocean there, using trash that I found and put together on the ocean floor. It’s called “For whom”, and my desire is for it to awaken ideas about who the ocean if there for. I’ve received a lot of response to this. People think it’s tragic but also interesting.

We need to be better at taking care of the ocean, and I’m convinced that this needs to be done through knowledge. I have a lot of ideas about how to do this, and the city is listening to me. At the moment, several ideas focused on marine environments are being tested within the framework for H22. I think it’s impressive how the city is open to the ideas of the city’s people.

I hope that more people get involved. We who live and work here need to go from being problem-finders to problem-solvers, and find concrete ideas and solutions together. I think that H22 will have a huge impact – I get butterflies in my stomach when I think about it.

Jonny Magnusson
Diver

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Alexandra Hvalgren

In 2016, the author Conny Palmqvist came to the Vision Fund looking for funding for a little documentary on the Sewing Club, a group that smuggled refugees across the strait in the 1940s.

We live in a society of excess and we need to adapt our behaviour to consume in a more sustainable way. When a product has been used up according to the user, the product can live on in a new form with a new user – we create a cycle of resources.

Eva Ståhl

We live in a society of excess and we need to adapt our behaviour to consume in a more sustainable way. When a product has been used up according to the user, the product can live on in a new form with a new user – we create a cycle of resources.

Hamse Kjerstadius

The City of Helsingborg will be the first in Sweden to build a large-scale urban sewer system for waste separation in Oceanhamnen. Starting from the 1960s, the current sewer system has to a large extent been extended in stages to solve the environmental problems arising from the city’s sewage.

Hanna Bergström

I have found my community in Helsingborg, and it gives me the support and drive I need to continue working for what I believe in.

An innovation culture starts behind the school desk. Or rather around it. Above, under, beside, and in front of the school desk. Perhaps more specifically, in the whole classroom, the whole school, the whole municipality.

Hugo Lunsjö

An innovation culture starts behind the school desk. Or rather around it. Above, under, beside, and in front of the school desk. Perhaps more specifically, in the whole classroom, the whole school, the whole municipality.

Within the enormous wood industry, both producers and researchers are searching for more sustainable binding agents as an alternative to the synthetic products used today in, for example, particleboard. Greener adhesives are needed, and that’s where we come in.

Mahmood Hameed

Within the enormous wood industry, both producers and researchers are searching for more sustainable binding agents as an alternative to the synthetic products used today in, for example, particleboard. Greener adhesives are needed, and that’s where we come in.

When I moved to Helsingborg, not in my wildest dreams did I think that someday I would be involved with the city, running community projects and would meet such amazing people. It all started with being wholly lost in translation in my first few months, looking for information and things to do.

Parul Ghosh

When I moved to Helsingborg, not in my wildest dreams did I think that someday I would be involved with the city, running community projects and would meet such amazing people. It all started with being wholly lost in translation in my first few months, looking for information and things to do.

In the innovation initiative that the City of Helsingborg has launched with H22, we’re aiming for big, bold changes – what’s known as radical innovation. This ambition involves two key prerequisites that clearly differentiate innovation from traditional development.

Patrick Lindqvist

In the innovation initiative that the City of Helsingborg has launched with H22, we’re aiming for big, bold changes – what’s known as radical innovation. This ambition involves two key prerequisites that clearly differentiate innovation from traditional development.

Innovation is important but sometimes can be hard to understand, or for that matter describe. But if you put the world ‘social’ before it, it’s another thing altogether.

Poul Witting

Innovation is important but sometimes can be hard to understand, or for that matter describe. But if you put the world ‘social’ before it, it’s another thing altogether.

Dialogue work is about engagement, community, happiness, and trust. Happiness is an especially important aspect for me. Every person deserves to be met with a smile and a greeting. This is the moment when the potential for dialogue and a sense of community is realised.

Saul Sagnia

Dialogue work is about engagement, community, happiness, and trust. Happiness is an especially important aspect for me. Every person deserves to be met with a smile and a greeting. This is the moment when the potential for dialogue and a sense of community is realised.

“My ideas are being heard, and that’s impressive”

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