Category Film and photo

Banksy pics today – Syrian migrants

Steve Jobs – the son of a migrant from Syria

The Story Caravan

THE STORY CARAVAN PROJECT Åsa Lönnqvist and Ylva Rancken-Lutz, both born and bred in the small Swedish-Finnish town of Ekenäs on the coast of the Baltic sea, came up with the idea of The Story Caravan. Annabelle Antas has also joined the project as photographer. The idea of creating a story project grew out of what we […]

När empatin saknas

Visst blev jag och säkert många med mig, både rörda och glada när vi hörde att den flyende syriska mannen Osama Abdul Mohsen blev erbjuden ett jobb i Madrid som fotbollstränare på fotbollstränarskolan Cenafe. Det var han som journalisten Petra Laszlo satte krokben för när han flydde undan polisen med sin son i famnen på gränsen mellan […]

Anonymous stateless immigrants pavilion at the Venice Biennale

A Snowden interview in both Swedish and English

A very interesting and unusual journalistic piece by Lena Sundström and Lotta Härdelin with Edward Snowden.

Tonight with John Oliver – about parenthood leave

I have not dared to watch the Tonight with John Oliver (I miss Jon Stewart) but found a Youtube clip on Care and Parenting in Urban Context lab and watched it. It was great and I think I will give Oliver a chance even if I really miss Jon Stewart. I hope he takes some […]

The art of hanging wash in Venice

In Venice you can not avoid looking at people’s wash. Some hang out all their clothes and some are more restrictive. But isn’t an art? I think people tend to wear clothes in colors that fit with their building’s colors… While in Venice I found the book “The Politics Of Washing – Real life in Venice”. It […]

“Build the City” the ECF IdeaCamp in Botkyrka, Sweden

There is very little time for social media activities while the IdeaCamp is going on because we (the Idea makers as well as Idea feeders) are working so hard on our ideas but the good news is that there is a great and competent media team who spends all day working on media production from the camp. […]

My video from the barefoot march in Venice

  For you all who subscribe to my blog posts and get an e-mail version here is a link to my own video from the march.                  

The barefoot march in Venice September 11th 2015

The refugees marching through Europe have been on my mind during my trip in Italy,  Slovenia and Croatia.  Alessandro Grassman, who made the documentary “Torn“, explained that for a refugee there is only the present moment  – one lives only a moment at a time not thinking about – nor planning – the future. It […]