About
Elsa Isaksson was born and raised in Gothenburg, where she studied art history, a bachelor’s program in cultural heritage studies and in social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg. Six years ago, she moved to Stockholm and started working at the art hall Färgfabriken, which is a non-profit exhibition space focusing on contemporary art, architecture and urban planning. Her title is project manager, and she mainly works with the production of exhibitions as well as program activities and events.
For the past three years, she has been involved in projects with specialization on climate, the environment and young peoples’ perspectives. For example, a project called Dhaka Session where Färgfabriken worked together with the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscape and Settlements in Bangladesh, on issues between the rural and the urban, and in what ways can they see traces of planetary urbanization in Bangladesh’s rural landscape as an example for growing cities globally. And in 2020, a co-investigative project called LISTEN, where she worked together with artists, young people and scientists looked at how they perceive and communicate climate change from an emotional perspective.
She hopes that through participating in this program, she will gain new tools and knowledge to be able to continue working with young people and the climate crisis in a more inclusive, innovative and progressive way through creative methods.
