Past TEDx event

TEDxGöteborg Salon

Earth, Ice, Ocean, Space

Took placeOctober 17, 2025
LocationMölndal, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
FormatSalon
An evening of ideas and expression that invites perspective. We move from the deep time of polar ice, to the living patterns of the ocean, and finally outward to the scale of the universe. Alongside, a new work of dance created in dialogue with our setting. About this event: On Friday, October 17 at Fässbergs kyrka in Mölndal, TEDxGöteborg invites you to gather beneath Luke Jerram’s GAIA Globe, a monumental 7-meter replica of Earth, suspended above the altar, our stage, and slowly revolving. Against this extraordinary backdrop, speakers and performers will guide us through science, art, and reflection: + A photographer and science communicator reveals how polar ice holds the history of our planet, and what it tells us about the future. + A mathematician makes visible the hidden forces that move the oceans and sustain life along the coasts. + An astronomy perspective expands the horizon and restores our sense of scale. + Dance artists from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani premiere a performance created in direct conversation with our event. This TEDxGöteborg Salon will offer you inspiration and perspective to carry into everyday life.

Speakers

Speakers may not be confirmed. Check the event website for the latest lineup.

  • Julie Rowlett

    Julie Rowlett, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, brings mathematics into dialogue with the natural world. She demonstrates how ocean currents and plankton can be understood through mathematics, knowledge that is crucial to understanding the systems that sustain life on Earth. Originally from the US, Julie earned her PhD at Stanford and worked at several European universities before making Gothenburg her home. She now directs the engineering mathematics program at Chalmers and continues to bridge theory with practice as a researcher, entrepreneur, and inventor.

  • Lukasz Larsson Warzecha

    Lukasz Larsson Warzecha is a photographer and science communicator who has worked on six continents, from polar expeditions to deep-sea dives. His images and stories on climate and the environment have been published in Science Magazine, The New York Times, Oceanographic Magazine and The Guardian. He has collaborated with the European Space Agency and the European Commission to make complex science accessible to the public. In 2024, together with his wife Ulrika, he created Stories Trapped in Ice, an exhibition with ESA that combined their photography with satellite imagery to highlight the story of polar change.

  • Malcolm Fridlund

    Malcolm Fridlund obtained his PhD at Stockholm Unviersity and worked at ESA for the next 25 years. He worked as a study and project scientist for scientific space missions of the European Space Agency between 1988 and 2013, when he retired. He was based at the ESTEC facility, Noordwijk the Netherlands. During the 25 years he worked on a number of studies and in the last 15 years he focused on research aimed towards detecting planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. In 2010, he became Adjunct Professor at Leiden in Space Observations of Exoplanets.

  • Zach Enquist

    Zach Enquist is a dancer with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and a creator developing his own distinctive dance-theater style. His work, A Very Demure Evening, was recently awarded the “Mind Blown Award” at Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2025, following the recognition of his duet, All Honesty Aside, with 2nd prize at the Hannover International Choreography Competition’s 39th edition.

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