Room for is a platform for social and ecological transformation through curated encounters, exhibitions, and formats for collective learning. On June 26, they opened an exhibition in Barcelona as a living manifesto — a space to make visible their questions, practices, and visions. Alongside it, they launched a 10-week online program featuring international guests, curated resources, and personal feedback — creating space for reflection, exchange, and concrete approaches to today’s complex challenges:
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About
Room For is an initiative that hosts different formats to explore new ways of relating to our environment and to one another. Through gatherings, programs, and advisory, we curate spaces for collective learning, inviting shared practice on the social and ecological questions of our time.
Vision
Growing by growing reimagined cultural landscapes. From collective learning to shared practice.
Background
Born from the question “What can I do?” in response to today’s social and ecological challenges, Room For was founded in 2022. We began by hosting monthly sobremesas in Hamburg, intimate dinners where diverse voices shared stories, questions, and reflections on these pressing issues. These gatherings sparked open, genuine conversations and fostered new ways of seeing rooted in shared everyday experiences. They invite inspiration from visions that do not fully reflect our immediate reality, not from a utopian standpoint but from where we are now, encouraging deeper sensitivity and a collective imagination grounded in common experience. To continue nurturing this dialogue and reach a wider audience, we are launching our first online program this October. This series of learning sessions preserves the intimate, reflective spirit of the sobremesas while exploring these themes more deeply through diverse voices and perspectives.
26th of June marks the beginning of this new phase
The exhibition acts as a living manifesto, a space that captures the why, how, and where we’re headed. We don’t claim to have all the answers. We invited three guest contributors from Barcelona to share their perspectives and inquiries on how we relate to the environment and to one another. It encourages participants to consider new ways of paying attention, connecting, and caring, inviting curiosity and shared imagination. Parting from the real, from where we are now.
October: The Online Program
Summary: A 10-week live online program featuring practitioners and thought leaders, personalized feedback, and curated resources designed to move from collective learning to shared practice. The program deconstructs sustainability, exploring it from multiple perspectives and offering practical guidance to navigate its complexities collaboratively.
Mindset: In a world where sustainability is often seen as a fixed ideal, this program invites participants to engage with it as an evolving conversation. Across nine weeks, interdisciplinary perspectives come together, resisting one-size-fits-all solutions and encouraging leadership through example. Through live sessions, practical insights, and narrative-driven learning, participants develop new ways of seeing grounded in everyday experience. The focus shifts toward shared practices that connect ecological and social realities with the cultural landscapes we inhabit. Guided by experienced tutors and guest contributors, the program provides personalized feedback and carefully selected resources. It emphasizes thoughtful steps taken from where we are, shaped by the rhythms and resources of our lives.
By the course’s end, participants are invited to question and refine approaches that integrate work and life. The emphasis is on a shared imagination, not distant utopias, but rooted in the present moment and shaped by individual circumstances. Grounded in attentiveness and appreciation, this process embraces complexity, acknowledging doubts and contradictions without paralysis. Reimagining cultural landscapes begins by shifting the conversations we hold: to appreciate, imagine, map new paths, reclaim, and transform.
From Collective Learning to Shared Practice
Duration: 10 weeks, Start: 6th October 2025
Format: Weekly 1.5-hour live sessions via Zoom
Language: English
Enrol via www.room-for.co
Photos by © Vanessa Thuille
