Together we make visualization a tool for everyone.
Our vision is to make visualization a tool for everyone. Which clarifies, unites and helps us achieve sustainability together. Through collaboration, we develop new ways of visualizing. We initiate and run projects, gather expertise and spread knowledge.
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Narrative XR LAB
Virtual Gothenburg Lab
Open Call: Learn Spatial Storytelling at Narrative XR Lab 2026
Narrative XR Lab is a creative lab where cross-disciplinary teams explore the art of storytelling within eXtended Reality (XR). We are currently looking for participants and NGOs (non-profit organizations) to join the 2026 edition of Narrative XR Lab. The call closes on Mars 16.
Visualisation as a tool for the electrification of heavy transport
To accelerate the electrification of heavy transport, Visual Scale has developed new ways to visualise energy and infrastructure needs. By transforming complex data into clear visuals and interactive models, the project provides industry with a tool that supports planning, collaboration, and informed decision-making for the energy systems of the future.
Study: VR Makes Climate Change More Tangible and Real
At the Gothenburg Film Festival, over 700 people were given the opportunity to step into a virtual reality to experience the effects of climate change on Svalbard. This activity was carried out as part of the project Expanderad Refotografi . Through the project, we have investigated how Virtual Reality can transform the abstract truth of melting glaciers into a deeply personal and emotionally charged experience.
Behind the scenes: how we created an immersive installation
We have produced a short documentary that takes you behind the scenes during the intense hours leading up to the premiere of the immersive installation we built together with our partners. The film highlights the background and purpose behind the installation, as well as the technology that made it possible. It also captures the first visitors’ experiences and reflections, where their voices and emotions became a central part of the knowledge gathered within the project.
Göteborg Opera Opens Its Doors to More Audiences with a Virtual Opera House — Guided by Visual Arena
From insight to innovation: when Göteborg Opera launches the world’s first virtual opera house, it is the result of a multi-year collaboration in which the innovation platform Visual Arena played a pivotal role. By bringing together stakeholders across sectors, exploring future audience behaviors, and testing early prototypes, Visual Arena helped build the knowledge base that made Operaverse possible. The result is a digital platform that opens the world of performing arts to new audiences.
Future events at Visual Arena, Lindholmen Science Park
Empathy Through Immersive Storytelling: Can Immersive Experiences Drive Us to Act?
Landmines are returning to Europe, and the deep seas are facing unimaginable exploitation. We are in...
Biomimicry Circle #4
Some of our innovation projects
XR Sweden - The realities collective
In XR Sweden we explore the creation of a national XR ecosystem in Sweden. The project, led by Visual Arena and Epicenter, aims to validate the potential of "XR Sweden" by building on Sweden's...
Visual Arena – a meeting place for immersive installations in Gothenburg
Explore how immersive art and interactive experiences can reveal new insights into human behavior, creativity, and collaboration. This project page presents key findings from our experimental...
Methods for digital diagnosis of endangered cultural heritage
The impact of climate change on cultural environments and monuments that are difficult to access is a challenge for cultural environment conservation. The project investigated how experts in different...
Visual Scale
Visual Scale was an innovation project with the aim of accelerating the electrification of heavy road transport in Sweden. By leveraging advanced visualization techniques and a collaborative design...
First the Air is Blue: immersive technology, music and visual storytelling
As part of the Visual Arena Residency for Innovators in Art, Alicia Lazaro Arteaga and Akshay Sarode embarked on a exploration of immersive technology, music, and visual storytelling. Through four...
The food duty
Projektet Matsystemet - plikten framför allt att jobba fram en framtidsprototyp på ett nytt matsystem som är hållbart, cirkulärt och närproducerat. Genom att använda spekulativ design kommer en...
Virtual Gothenburg Lab
Through Virtual Gothenburg Lab, we make Gothenburg city’s digital twin available to those who wish to co-create the city of the future.
GULD: Visualization to Teach Middle School Students About Biodiversity
GULD is an education and innovation project aimed at developing and exploring new ways to teach middle school students about biodiversity through visualization techniques. Based on extensive research...
Let's make visualization a tool for everyone
You can participate in various ways, such as involvement in focus areas, strategy advice, project applications, project participation, making technology available, events and knowledge dissemination.
Experience to Insights Lab
Here, students explore burning topics through innovation and design sprints. Are you ready for a journey where curiosity and creativity are used to create a brighter future that we will be proud to contribute to? Then Visual Arena's Experience to Insights Lab could be your next step!
Get invitations to our events!
At Visual Arena, seminars, workshops, conferences and other activities are arranged with the aim of spreading insights from our innovation projects, developing skills, inspiring and bringing the industry together, partly under its own auspices and partly in collaboration with others.
Residency for innovators in ART
Vi bjuder in dig som konstnär att bli en del av vår gemenskap och utforska nya gränser inom konsten genom vårt residensprogram i Göteborg. Som deltagare i vårt konstnärsresidens får du fri tillgång till våra faciliteter och verktyg och blir en del av vårt innovativa nätverk.
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Highlights from Biomimicry circle #2
From Nature’s Intelligence to Human Innovation At the latest Biomimicry Circle, we explored what biomimicry looks like in practice. Together, Volvo Group, Visual Arena, Lindholmen Science Park and...
Highligts from Biomimicry circle #3
The third session of the Biomimicry Circle focused on application: how insights from nature’s 3.8 billion years of evolution can be translated into real-world engineering, material science, and...
Highlights from Biomimicry Circle #1: Nature as a mentor for sustainable innovation
The first event in the Biomimicry Circle took place on March 13, 2026. The event series explores how nature-inspired thinking can accelerate the transition toward more sustainable technologies...
What does the future audiovisual landscape look like as the boundaries between film, gaming, and AI continue to blur?
In an extensive interview with Unframed Collection, Gunnar Eriksson from AI Sweden shares his insights on the Nordic region’s role in the digital transformation
Open Call: Learn Spatial Storytelling at Narrative XR Lab 2026
Narrative XR Lab is a creative lab where cross-disciplinary teams explore the art of storytelling within eXtended Reality (XR). We are currently looking for participants and NGOs (non-profit...
Study: VR Makes Climate Change More Tangible and Real
At the Gothenburg Film Festival, over 700 people were given the opportunity to step into a virtual reality to experience the effects of climate change on Svalbard. This activity was carried out as...
We are the ones who work here
You are welcome to contact us or stop by for a cup of coffee, we’re usually here!
Martin Högenberg
Visual Arena
Program Lead
martin.hogenberg@lindholmen.se
+46 (0)706092913
Caisa Sixtensdotter
Visual Arena
Designer
caisa.sixtensdotter@lindholmen.se
+46 (0)70 839 60 23
Ismaila Jallow
Visual Arena
Project Manager
ismaila.jallow@lindholmen.se
+4673-557 74 80
Lotta Cabrera Persson
Visual Arena
Project Manager Production
lotta.persson@lindholmen.se
+46 (0)70 799 87 03
Carl-Fredrik Hansson
Visual Arena
Communications manager
carl-fredrik.hansson@lindholmen.se
+46 (0)70 679 46 25
Monica Ek
Visual Arena
Senior project manager
monica.ek@lindholmen.se
+46 (0)705 62 02 16
Gorki Glaser-Müller
Visual Arena
Project manager
gorki.glaser-muller@lindholmen.se
+46(0)70-790 48 46
Narrative VR Lab/ The future's cinema
Tora Stridh
Visual Arena
Project Manager
tora.stridh@lindholmen.se
+46(0)76-802 10 44
Peter Andersson
Visual Arena
Technical manager
peter.andersson@lindholmen.se
+46 (0)721 61 21 77
