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New Structures for Strongly Reduced Consumption is an ongoing textile and research project developed in dialogue with energy director Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa (University of Bergen).

The project emerged from a simple but increasingly unavoidable observation: while discussions about climate change often focus on technology and energy production, far less attention is given to the structures that drive consumption itself.

Over several years of conversations, research and artistic development, the project has explored what might become possible if societies shifted their attention from expanding consumption towards stewarding resources. Rather than asking how existing lifestyles can be maintained through new technologies alone, the project investigates what forms of knowledge, infrastructure, culture and collective imagination may be needed to support a good life within planetary boundaries.

The title originates in one of Frøysa's recurring observations: that the transition ahead may require movement from a consumer society towards a stewardship society. For me, this statement became less a conclusion than a point of departure.

Through textile works, public conversations, archival research and an evolving manuscript, the project examines how questions of energy, inequality, quality of life and global justice intersect. It draws on scientific research while remaining attentive to forms of knowledge that emerge through practice, craft traditions, local communities and lived experience.

The project forms an important foundation for my contribution to the Millennium Tapestry (2026–2030), where the themes of hope, knowledge, resources, direction, action and structures are explored through textile form.

Rather than proposing a finished blueprint for the future, New Structures for Strongly Reduced Consumption functions as an invitation to think collectively about the kinds of societies we may need to build in the decades ahead.