Personal studio & archive

Deep Futures

Exploring the edges of the known.

This is my personal space for thoughts, art and sound. It is a place to explore the futures of humanity and the more than human. You'll find essays, photographs, music, and conversations here.

Words

Essays for slower thinking

An essay is an exploratary piece of writing that allows us to probe outside of the understood; to try out ideas that are unfinished, unclear and perhaps ungraspable. In contrast to the language of confidence and certainty, an essay can ask questions, expanding the realm of consciousness.

Essay · December 2025

Essay: Gold is Precious, Air is Free

Reflections on The Thick Now, Future Archeology, and the Compost as a Love Letter.

This essay was awarded with an honorary award in the Hans Ruin essay competition of 2025. It was published in Fredsposten in December 2025.

Essay · January 2025

Becoming Better Ancestors; the Case for Temporal Diversity

An exploration of how we might think differently about time, responsibility, and our relationship with future generations. This essay examines the concept of temporal diversity and what it means to become better ancestors.

Book Chapter · 2024

The Change Potential - Ecocide Law as a Catalyst of Systems Change

What if destroying ecosystems became a crime — not just a cost of doing business?

This article dives into why today's international environmental laws fail to hold major polluters truly accountable, and how a global ecocide law could change that. Through two contrasting case studies — one treated as a civil dispute, the other as a criminal offense — it reveals the stark difference in consequences for corporations.

Essay · February 2024

Essän - en personlig betraktelse

Vad är en essä, och vad skiljer den från andra textformat? En reflektion över essän som mental slowfood, dess förmåga att balansera på gränsen för det kända och treva ut mot det okända.

Photography

Images from the long now

I love taking photos, and I do it in spurts. In high school, I organized a photography club together with some friends. After finishing school, I became the house photographer of a new age magazine. I got paid in film and camera equipment - not a bad deal for a 19-year old with more enthusiasm than experience. The last twenty years plus, I’ve been happy to have photography not as work, but as a curiosity-driven, completely unprestigious activity. I do whatever I want, and only if it brings me joy.

Here is a selection of photos I found on my laptop. I might post more as they show up in various boxes, drawers and hard drives. I hope you enjoy them.

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A single orange butterfly resting on pale, weathered concrete.
Astor korall
Feet in the sand above scattered pieces of coral arranged like letters of an alphabet.
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Selman2
Selma
Nyår Yogya-6
Nyår Yogya-9

Music

Scores for the long now

This part of the site is under construction. I will probably add some music here further along.

Podcasts

Listening to systems

I am interested in futures, and how we create them. My two podcast shows are both about systems - one is about school and the other about ecocide law.

Synaps

Synaps

A Swedish podcast about giftedness, with focus on children and school. How does the Swedish school system work for gifted children? What can be improved? Synaps explores these questions through conversations with researchers, teachers, and gifted children themselves.

7 episodes available on Spotify and other podcast platforms.

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Framtidsrätten

Framtidsrätten

Despite 50 years of international cooperation and hundreds of conventions and agreements on environmental issues, the exploitation of nature continues. Framtidsrätten (The Right to the Future) is a podcast about ecocide — the crime that is missing. We want ecocide to be introduced as an international crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Produced for End Ecocide Sweden. Available on Spotify and other podcast platforms.

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WTF is this?

WTF is this? And who is behind Deep Futures?

Deep Futures is a one-person studio: part notebook, part laboratory, part rehearsal room for better futures.

In my day to day work, I am a lawyer. The rest of my time, I do a lot of thinking, creating, mindshifting and dreaming. My work moves between investigative storytelling, music, and system activism. I am fascinated with imagining better futures. And how to create them.

This site is not a portfolio in the commercial sense. It is a living archive of experiments: essays, music, photographs, and invitations. Some are polished, some are still very much in draft.

If something here resonates with you, I’d be glad to talk.

Contact

Begin a conversation

Quiet questions, collaborations, proposals — all are welcome. I’m especially interested in projects at the intersection of art, nature, law, climate, and collective imagination.