Between the 2nd – 5th September 2010, Subtopia and Botkyrka Kommun celebrated the opening of the new circus-scene “Hangaren” in Alby with the festival Subtopiafestivalen.

We were invited to arrange a “Try-Graffiti”-workshop during saturday and sunday for all visitors and more than 400 people tried it out! We had a great time, Subtopia always delivers the best and we are greatful for the invitation.

We have an ongoing project with Riksutställningar (The Swedish Travelling Exhibitions) and Historiska (The Museum of National Antiquities) which will be ready in February 2011. The show is called “The journey back and forward”. As kids between 6-11yrs are the targetgroup, they are also important in forming the exhibition, and hence, we visited Visby, Gotland, for a workshop.
During the workshop we wanted the kids views on 2 matters.
1. How would their life look in prehistoric times and in the future.
To visualize this everybody choose their favourite summer-memory and illustrated it on a wall, looking like a stonewall, in a prehistoric interpretation, a todays interpretation and a future one. Doing it large on a wall together prevented to much hiding and thinking, and instead everybody got going directly and simultaneously shared ones thinking.
2. Important upcoming inventions.
Our part of the exhibition is about knowledge. We have defined development as knowledge about one thing + knowledge about another thing x imagination = inventions/development. We described this to the kids and then let them add knowledge they have about various things important to them, to make new inventions.

During the last 12 years we have been working at a summercamp in the Stockholm Archipelago, named Ängsholmen. This is where we who today run Kollektivet:Livet’s Produktion met and it has become a strong tradition for us. Not only is it a place where kids grow with all the fun Camp is, so do we. While other companies spend loads of money and effort in teambuilding and Kick-Offs, we gather all this experiance here every summer and continuously broaden our network of creative, open-minded and skilled people. We also develop our own personas, playfulness and broadens our perspectives as well as stay in contact with the youth of today.

In 2007, we comenced a collaboration with Värmdö Kommun encouraging children with special needs caused by different disabilities to come out and enjoy this summercamp. We believe a disability is not a disability if we work together and during these years we have done many things first not thought possible.

In addition to our own personal development through these summers and years, we have all become experienced teambuilders, skilled sailors, qualified high altitude-workers, good organizors and pedagogical and trusted leaders.

As mentioned, this has become a tradition of ours and something we are strongly devoted to. If you whish to join us, have someone in your family would like too join or have any questions regarding this feel free to contact us!