Sweden: ESC: Crafty and handy with a green thumb? Join us at Blivande for a year (2027) and help us build our container village and become part of our community's urban gardening team.

About the local hosting organization

House Blivande is a creative community and cultural center located in Stockholm, Sweden. It serves as a hub for artists, entrepreneurs, civic actors, and innovators, fostering collaboration and professional and personal growth amongst community members. Blivande runs co-working spaces, studios, event spaces and a public container village where individuals can work, create, and connect. The community is highly participatory, encouraging members, locals and associated cultural actors to actively engage in shaping the space according to their dreams. We are a hybrid community that exists online and offline, where we use contemporary platforms to organize asynchronously. Through workshops, dialogue, and artistic endeavors, Blivande promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, experimentation, and the exploration of new ideas. We have received several grants from the Swedish innovation agency, specifically to build our digital infrastructure through collaborative money management tools and to develop the container village Frihmanstorget, the first of its kind in Sweden. Our main aim is to create a “plus-sum-center”, where creatives, initiatives, businesses and organisations develop in synergy. We are focused on hyperlocal action and democratic citizen involvement in Stockholm, but connect to a global context through several international networks (TEH, ECHN, MiSo). Our space is an independent contributor to the culture, policy innovation and urban development of our city.

Presentation of the programme

Blivande is looking for two hands-on and proactive volunteers to support us with building our urban village and who enjoy working with gardening and urban food production. This role is available for 2 volunteers that will form a power team and want to take initiative to keep a public space clean and nice. 

About the accomodation

You will be a hands-on and practical support behind renovations, building projects, and overall support to the community in developing the space. You don’t need to be an expert, but have the curiosity to learn. As someone with a handy problem- solving attitude, you will contribute to ongoing European projects such as “Climate Quilts” and “Growing Beauty”, that focus on community building, urban gardening and placemaking.

About the leisure activities

In between tasks, you will have time to research ideas, materials, and solutions for improving the spaces. During the summer months, we host a public cultural program, where you will join the bigger team and support the logistics on the production days. 

Requirements

The Participant profile:  Deadline: 31/08/2026 20:00