Conviviality and Contamination Project Launch

Interaction designer, independent researcher, radio producer, media artist, and linguist (in time investment order).

I use interaction design to analyse, connect, and improve the space and processes between humans developing and using technology.

Based in Sweden, I work as Product Release Manager facilitating products and services development (R&D) at Arduino.
As an independent researcher I investigate about experimental music and sound with a gender perspective in Mexico and Latin America. I produce and host a radio show for community radio in Radio Nopal.

As a media artist I have produced mixed media, net and code poetry, Internet geopolitics: infographics and interactive installations, sound art, and art teaching in prison facilities.

Rwandan singer and music composer, Teta Diana blends her native language Kinyarwanda with English and Swahili. She is the founder of Sakwe Studios, a meeting of cultures and storytelling.

Traditional music is closely tied to Rwandan identity. Teta’s music is a fusion of folk, jazz and Afro-pop. She has performed at music festivals in Rwanda and abroad; Têtes-à-têtes music festival 2020, Next Einstein Forum 2015, Kigali-Up music festival 2015, FESPAM 2013 to name a few.

Early 2013, Teta joined Gakondo group, performing traditional Rwandan folk music alongside Rwanda’s best artists; Intore Masamba, Ngabo Micheal, Jules Sentore and others, then pursued a solo career in parallel with the band which opened doors to performances in Congo, Kenya, Senegal, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, USA, Mexico and more.

In 2015, Teta received the CYRWA awards established in 2007, by Her Excellency First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame, to honour outstanding young Rwandans who strive towards the highest levels of personal and professional accomplishments, through Imbuto Foundation’s Youth Empowerment and Mentorship Programme (YEMP).

In 2016, she participated in the Music Action Lab residency that took place in San Fransisco, collaborating with musicians from across the globe to create social impact music, and to nurture the next generation of musical changemakers.

She released singles since 2013, then delivered her debut album Iwanyu in 2019 and the EP Umugwegwe in 2021. Teta is currently based in Sweden and Rwanda, where she alternately spends time producing music and creating space for cultural exchange. “Music is a language that crosses borders and reaches the soul.”

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a writer, and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. His work is motivated by a triple concern: to understand the present world, to understand what it means to be human, and to help bring about social and environmental change. As well as academic publications, he has also written essays, op-eds, miscellaneous nonfiction and two novels. He is a leading public intellectual and the recipient of several awards, including the University of Oslo Research Prize in 2017 and the Vega Medal in 2022.

Lucy Cathcart Frödén works at the intersections of arts, activism and academia. Her practice-based PhD from the University of Glasgow, titled Echolocations, explored through music and sound how making things together can foster solidarity and mutual care. She has particular interests in multilingual and process-driven creative collaboration, and has dabbled in songwriting, sound art and podcast production. She worked on the Conviviality and Contamination artistic research project at Malmö University, and she is currently at the University of Oslo, researching the role of music, sound and voice in social change, particularly in relation to carceral systems.

Oscar Hemer is Professor of Journalistic and Literary Creation at Malmö University. An established author and editor with a background in arts journalism, Hemer’s diverse body of work ranges from fiction to academic writing to experimental literary anthropology. He is also the co-editor and translator of the collected works of Jorge Luis Borges into Swedish. He founded the Masters programme in Communication for Development at Malmö, and he is a member of the Rethinking Democracy (REDEM) research platform.