The “green transition” has become the dominant policy response and institutional climate-action narrative, driven in Europe primarily by private-sector megaprojects—from battery plants to green steel and hydrogen facilities. Although these narratives claim to address social inequality, their rapid, growth-oriented logic risks sidelining justice, obscuring entanglements with past extraction, displacement and dispossession.
Through an architectural lens, I critically engage these entanglements by examining how built environments both enable and unsettle them through multimedia mapping. Working with a pilot site in Skellefteå, northern Sweden, the multimedia mapping combines archival and document analysis, field recordings, and audiovisual storytelling. In this presentation, I will show latent stories uncovered by the mapping and examine how these challenge and create alternatives to green transition narratives, effectively contesting their hegemony.
Initial insights include:
By revealing latent stories, multimedia mapping lays the groundwork for using built environments as sites of engagement, disorienting growth narratives and imagining more just transitions. Layered media and creative methods also foster broader care-driven conversations on climate and urban futures.