Category Film and photo
I want to be a “multipotentialite” when I grow up
Jonathan once ate lunch with a group of pre-school kids and talk came around to what they wanted to do when they grow up. One child said “A fisherman maybe. I used to want to be a lion or a tiger, but now I’m really not sure”. The freedom of choice that this child allows himself to […]
Slow-down pilotresa till Högsåra
TravelFor – start-up reseorganisation utan eget vinstintresse – gör sin pilot “Slow-down” resa till Högsåra (Finland – se karta längst ner) 11-12.6 2016. Kom med på en avkopplande resa till en svenskspråkig skärgårdsby som klarat av konststycket att skapa en hållbar by i tiden men på samma gång bevarat den gamla skärgårds-bykänslan. På Högsåra, i Finlands […]
Jagriti Vihara
Jagriti Vihara was one of our collaboration partners when we were working at Emmaus Westervik. Jaja – who you see in the film – was always a very appreciated guest at the community by both adults and children. At Jagriti Vihara they thought a lot about the design of the school for the village children. […]
DIY Urbanism – KTH blog
In a blog series the Centre for a Sustainable Built Environment in Sweden works with Karin Bradley, Associate Professor at KTH, to introduce the concept of Do-It-Yourself Urbanism and the questions this approach raises for those of us engaged in city making. In the introduction to DIY urbanism blog series KTH researcher Karin Bradley comments: Local planners, have […]
Locus out of Focus – an online book
I participated in a very interesting urban art project City as a living organism in the spring of 2014 in Ekenäs as one of 9 experts from different fields. The transdisciplinary workshop was arranged by Heini Aho and Sebastian Ziegler (AKU) in cooperation with Novia University of Applied Science and Pro Artibus art foundation. Now […]
Finding one’s tribe in Madrid
I have researched first-time parents in Helsinki in Finland and Gothenburg in Sweden to learn to better understand the parents’ urban and online meeting places in similar ways as folks in the project ‘Caring IN the city’, carried out by Pandora Mirabilia and funded by European Culture Foundation. This is a very important project close to my […]
Bernie Sander’s land is my land
I often think of “my US” as a bubble in an otherwise quite hostile and frightening American society. But now and then I find that my American subculture can be described more like a greenhouse where great ideas and wonderful innovations prosper and slowly find their way into American mainstream society. Bernie Sanders represents my greenhouse […]
SLOW TV and SLOW travel
I am working on a Slow travel project and my TravelFor project partner Nedim found this funny and wonderful TED talk. We will pilot a Slow train trip from Copenhagen to Galicia and the Basque country during the coming year. I will keep you updated!
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 