Small Acts of Connection

Author's work: Text interventions

Text in public space has the power to shift perception and open new perspectives.

At STOCKHOLM! project, we create poetic, participatory, and question-based printed interventions — posters and compliment cards — that gently connect art with everyday life in the city.

Whether you wish to open dialogue, add a participatory layer to your programme without complex production, or offer visitors something unexpected yet meaningful, our printed materials create subtle but powerful points of encounter. The intervention adapts to the rhythm of your space.

Compliment cards

These cards are small text-based prompts that invite people to share simple, meaningful moments of appreciation in public space.

Given, left behind or kept, they create brief connections between strangers and bring attention to care, presence and everyday encounters in the city.

Through these subtle micro-interactions, the project explores how language can activate public space into a participatory environment grounded in care, kindness, and shared presence, opening space for dialogue, connection, and reflection.

Posters

These posters are text-based interventions in public space that invite reflection, dialogue and new ways of seeing the city.

Placed in streets, shared spaces and unexpected locations, they interrupt everyday routines with simple but open-ended questions.

The posters work with language as a spatial tool. They create moments of pause, encourage personal interpretation and connect individual experience with broader social and cultural contexts. Anyone who encounters them becomes part of the process.

By responding via the QR code placed under each question, you too can contribute to a growing collective database of voices and perspectives. These responses are later translated back into the public space through new interventions. 

Through this format, STOCKHOLM! explores how public space can become a site of learning, participation and belonging.

You can also get your own set of STOCKHOLM! Compliment Cards or Posters directly from us. The cards can be purchased as they are, or we can work with you to create custom versions tailored to specific situations, contexts or themes — whether for events, organisations or public interventions. Posters are available as well and have many designs to choose from, allowing you to bring these small moments of connection into your own environment.