WELCOME TO STARDUST IMPACT
Stardust Stories
Conversations about how societal change comes to be. Through a Cultural Lense.
A story can begin with a curiosity about the world. A work of art. A place. A problem someone could no longer ignore. A question that stayed with them. A person who started looking at something differently. We gather to meet people from different fields and have conversations about what they are exploring, creating, questioning and discovering, what their work reveals about the world around us, and what they believe needs to change. Science, art, culture, technology, behaviour — the field can change, but the starting point
is the same: a story that opens up a way of seeing something and learning through the lens of someone’s experience and perspective.
Launching the initiative
We started with the world of science. Based in Forskaren, a building dedicated to research and discovery, it felt natural for our first conversation to begin there, with someone whose work started with a question and a curiosity about how something works. Our first guest was Nicolas Pillon, Docent and team leader at Karolinska Institutet. We talked about what it means to follow a question, where curiosity can take you, and what happens when an idea becomes something you spend years trying to understand. It was also a conversation about the person behind the work - what made him pursue it, what he has learned along the way, and what keeps him curious. It was the beginning of Stardust Stories, meeting people through the questions, experiences and ideas that have led them to where they are, and listening to what their stories can reveal about the world around us and what they believe needs to change in society.
Event publication:
thepark.se/stardust-stories-initiative-has-launched/
