‘Meeting at Kunsten’ was our contribution to the Work it Out exhibition, which is about the future of working life. 

With our work, we explored the possibilities of creating a meeting culture that reduces stress while creating more meaning and creativity. Our meeting concept embraces both the physical space, which encourages calm and recovery and thus creates the framework for a stress-reducing way of holding meetings, and the meeting format, which provided instructions and guidance on how to conduct the meeting. 

The tool ‘messes up’ hierarchies, who gets speaking time, what criteria we use to evaluate a decision or idea and creates better relationships and presence, which increases the quality of the meeting. The meeting room is designed to reduce the impact on the nervous system and extends evidence-based approaches to this through artistic adaptations.

The meeting guide can be found here: https://www.kennethbalfelt.org/mode-pa-kunsten-publikation 

The meeting concept is a sub-product of the development work with the Saunahave Project.