Selected Projects: NAVET Student Festival 2025

For the second year in a row, NAVET, in collaboration with Tekniska museet, the National Museum of Science and Technology, is hosting a festival at the intersection of art, technology, and design. The theme for 2025 is SPACE.

NAVET is led by KTH in collaboration with Stockholm’s leading art and design institutions: Stockholm University of the Arts(SKH), Konstfack, KMH (Royal College of Music), and KKH (Royal Institute of Art). Every year, an open call is announced, inviting bachelor's and master's students to submit project ideas that combine technology, art, and design. Both individual participants and teams are given the opportunity to develop new concepts. Some of the selected works will now be presented at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology during the NAVET Festival on October 10.

When?: 10.10.2025 at 17:00-21:00

Where?: Tekniska Museet, Museivägen 7, 115 27 Stockholm

Program

A Space to W(o/a)nder

Gabi Kiryluk (KTH), Hannah Johnson (KTH), Erasmus Talbot (KMH), Kei Duke-Bergman (KTH)

Nowadays, if you are lucky, looking up in the sky, you can see shiny luminal dots shimmering at you from afar... It takes years or thousands of years for their light to reach our planet, but it has served as a symbol of hope and magic for millennia.

"A Space to W(o/a)nder" reimagines the stars as energetically entangled with us, allowing moments of play, connection, and awe.

Come explore the connection of light and movement by dancing with these interactive water orbs or simply watch and enjoy a cosmic soundscape. Let time disintegrate and practice finding joy and rest in observing the uncapturable.

Caelus

Måns Helldin (SKH), Anton Skarborn (SKH), Emilia Sundberg (SKH), Martin Seipel (SKH)

Enjoy this audiovisual journey to the planet of Caelus. Hypersleep sedation is complementary. Enjoy our sound bath, and please listen to the instructions given by the crew. Estimated journey time: 96 years.

Articulation No. 2 – Wishing on a star

Anne-Li Hyun-Zoo Karlsson (SKH), Anton Skarborn (SKH), Maurizio Berta (KTH)

Experience a large-scale interactive sound and light installation where we explore how we can stage the feeling of seeing a shooting star. An event that can evoke emotions in many people. Here, space's promise of wishes is juxtaposed with contemporary issues of exploitation and colonization: from trips to Mars to moon tourism.

The Unexplored Space – A meditative journey

Erasmus Talbot (KMH), Felix Thurfjell (KMH),  Hanna-Katri Eskelinen (Konstfack)

This 10-minute multimedia performance combines live music, visuals, and breathwork. It asks the question: what if the most overlooked frontier of exploration is inside the mind?

Breath becomes the entry point into a meditative journey, making the mind highly present and receptive to the immersive audiovisual narrative that unfolds.

The breathwork is guided live by professional facilitator Sam Svärd.

Microcosm

Alva Harju Jansson (SKH), Elias Shapiro (SKH)

In Microcosm, circus and cosmos meet in a sensorial performance. Through movement and sound, an experience of the eternal cycles and ruptures of the universe and our own impact on it is created. The work becomes a journey between body and cosmos, between micro-worlds and galaxies, where humanity's place in the universe takes center stage.

Echo of Action – Resources from Space, Reflection on Earth

Ke Yang (KTH), Tong Yu (KTH)

This installation offers a hands-on interactive experience. It uses gesture detection to realize engaging visual and auditory effects. Three planets can be explored. Obtaining resources from them, or making rational use of the Earth’s own, will trigger different outcomes. We hope to inspire reflection on the Earth’s environment and external resources. The interaction is designed to be intuitive, allowing participation across ages and backgrounds.