Helen Arfvidsson

Biographic Data

ID3065633
NAMEHelen Arfvidsson
GIVEN NAMESHelen
FAMILY NAMEArfvidsson
SIGNATUREARFVIDSSON H
AFFILIATIONSNational Museum of World Culture
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS41
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Handling collections: Potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden

    Open AccessCarolina Valente Cardoso, Helen Arfvidsson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Heritage…2025References: 44

    At the museum, tensions between preserving heritage and promoting public engagement with it underscore the necessity for innovative approaches. This article delves into the potentials, challenges and significances of one such approach: the activation and development of ‘handling collections’. Often marginalised within museum’s internal organisation, handling collections come frequently associated with less regulation compared to accessioned ones,…

  • Connectedness, consumption and climate change: The Exhibition Human Nature

    Helen Arfvidsson, Ann FollinARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2020Cited by: 3References: 3

    The exhibition Human Nature, produced by the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden, addresses the concepts of mass consumption, climate change and the human impact on nature. Covering themes such as connectedness, planetary boundaries; mass extinction; system change; living with things; sustainable practices; and emotional landscapes - the exhibition explicitly encourages awareness and action, while navigating on the spectrum from despair t…

  • Governance for sustainable urban development: The double function of SDG indicators

    Open AccessStina Hansson, Helen Arfvidsson et al.ARTICLEArea Development and Policy2019Cited by: 3References: 13

    At the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the imperative of monitoring progress and holding policy-makers accountable. For this purpose, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 230 global indicators were established with the double function of being a report card and a management tool. In the light of a pilot study about the experiences of local planning officials in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden, in relation to the sugge…

  • Local responses to global sustainability agendas: Learning from experimenting with the urban sustainable development goal in Cape Town

    Open AccessZarina Patel, Saskia Greyling et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2017Cited by: 9References: 13

    The success of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) depends on the availability and accessibility of robust data, as well as the reconfiguration of governance systems that can catalyse urban transformation. Given the uneven success of the Millennium Development Goals, and the unprecedented inclusion of the urban in the SDG process, the feasibility of SDG 11 was assessed in advance of its ratification through a series of urban experiments.…

  • Developing and testing the Urban Sustainable Development Goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study

    Open AccessDavid Simon, Helen Arfvidsson et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization2015Cited by: 26References: 1

    The campaign for the inclusion of a specifically urban goal within the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was challenging. Numerous divergent interests were involved, while urban areas worldwide are also extremely heterogeneous. It was essential to minimize the number of targets and indicators while still capturing critical urban dimensions relevant to human development. It was also essential to test the targets and indicators. …