SE26 project
Recycling meets creativity - art with meaning
Urkraft creates art and installations from recycled materials together with people who are outside the labor market. Through creativity, inclusion, sustainability and local community are united. The projects decorate places within SE26 and show how art can engage and inspire.
Urkraft is a work-integrating social enterprise run on cooperative principles. Together with the participants, they create art and installations from recycled materials that reflect both the soul of the place and people's participation. Through the process, the participants become active creators, where their ideas and expressions are at the center.
The project is carried out in several stages: workshops for idea development and sketch work together with those responsible at SE26, collection and selection of recycled materials, joint creation in Urkraft's creative space on campus and the Cultural Park at Tuvan, and installation of the works in selected locations such as Kurjoviken and Wasteland.
Through the partnership in SE26, Urkraft wants to create meaningful participation, make creativity visible and contribute to a more beautiful, more inclusive environment. In the long term, we want to show the importance of including non-profit actors in community development and highlight how art, recycling and social inclusion go hand in hand, strengthen local community and inspire more people to sustainable initiatives in Skellefteå.
Questions and answers about the project
Social sustainability. By creating art and installations together with people who are outside the labor market, Urkraft promotes inclusion, participation and community in Skellefteå.
By combining creativity, recycling and social inclusion, Urkraft develops a model for how art and community engagement can go hand in hand. The project's method of engaging participants as active creators shows new ways of meaningful participation and strengthens local collaboration between people and community actors.
Short-term: Meaningful participation for participants, visibility of their creativity and contribution to a more inclusive and aesthetically enriched urban environment.
Long-term: Show the importance of including non-profit actors in community development and highlight how art, recycling and social inclusion go hand in hand, strengthen local community and inspire more people to sustainable initiatives in Skellefteå.
Sustainability is integrated into all phases of the project through the reuse of materials, local involvement and participation. The process demonstrates a model of collaboration that can inspire similar initiatives in the future.
The project fits best under the strategy areas of A place to thrive and A place to grow for sustainable and global footprints.
The target group is the public and visitors to SE26. Through the placement of art in public places and visibility on SE26's website and information channels, the project reaches both local residents and other visitors, while strengthening Urkraft's visibility and involvement in the community.
Read more: SE26 project
Sidinformation
- Senast uppdaterad:
- 9 December 2025