L’Embarcadère is a mobile and participatory architectural project that explores storytelling as a collective, sensory experience in public space. Developed as a temporary installation touring from May to August 2025, the project combines architecture, sound, and urban furniture to create moments of encounter across different territories. Inspired by the dynamics of waterways—movement, flow, connection—the pavilion acts as a listening and transmission device, collecting local narratives and redistributing them through immersive and tactile sound technologies. By activating public spaces and engaging diverse communities, L’Embarcadère investigates how temporary architecture can foster cultural exchange, social connection, and shared ownership of place.

Guest speakers at Bylivkonferansen 2025, the conference focuses on how we can develop health-promoting and age-friendly places across Norway. The places where we live our everyday lives have a direct impact on people’s health, well-being, and quality of life throughout the life course. The conference brings together actors from the public sector, private industry, politics, and professional fields to share experiences, best practices, and new perspectives on place-based development that supports public health and intergenerational inclusion.

As a part of KMD Research Week 2025, we present Compassionate Communities as part of an exhibition in Studio Forum space at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, UiB. This exhibition presents the artistic research project across the faculty’s three departments by Eamon O’Kane, Wolfgang Schmid, Amy van den Hooven, Jill Halstead and Jerome Emmanuel Picard. This project is part of a New European Bauhaus initiative at KMD and will be on display as a part of the Open Studio series in the Studio Forum space for one month.