För allmänt bruk: Norrahammar is a practice-based research project about how a post-industrial site can be brought back to life through artistic methods. Together with Tor Lindstrand, Johanna Billing, and Anja Thedenius, working as Team TEJA, I look at the old ironworks in Norrahammar, Jönköping, by combining architectural analysis, fieldwork, and collaboration with people in the area.

The project argues for a different way of thinking about industrial heritage. Instead of treating the site as a collection of buildings, we approach Norrahammar as a place where physical layers, intangible flows, and collective memory all meet. Questions of public life, self-organisation, and shared ownership are still very much alive here. Through workshops with the local associations Makers Jönköping and Tabergsådalens kulturhus, we draw on the long Swedish tradition of popular movements, mixing folk education with prototyping and spatial work. The ambition is what we call Folkets Bruk, a place that is never really finished but stays in continuous making, on the workshop floor.

Leaving the Factory is a film documenting a lantern parade we staged on site in January 2026. Participants built lanterns and light objects together in a series of workshops, and then moved through the building as a group, into spaces normally closed to the public. The parade gave shape to one of the project's central questions: what happens when a place opens up for a moment, and people inhabit it together? The lanterns worked as tools for finding your way and reading the place. The parade itself acted like the embryo of a new kind of popular movement, locally rooted, neither commercial nor party-political, building shared rituals from the ground up.

The film premiered on 30 May 2026 at Tabergsådalens kulturhus as part of Smålandstriennalen 2026, with the theme "Unease: Art, Preparedness and Resistance." The project is a collaboration between ArkDes and Jönköping Municipality.

The work is documented and presented in a printed report, published in May 2026.