Category Film and photo
Visions and memories and a small oak tree
We are planning the R&D project The Story Caravan in Ekenäs Finland, for which we got a grant from the European Cultural Foundation. We have now started to experiment and explore our story telling method which combine visions and history and to ponder on the best way to collect and analyze the material. To our surprise we are finding it […]
The Trampolin House in Cph needs your support!
The trampolin House is a great independent initiative – a user-driven cultural house – where everyone is welcome. The House was formed in 2010 by a group of artists, asylum seekers, students, and professionals in reaction to the way in which the Danish state treats asylum seekers and refugees. The house continues to provide refugees and asylum seekers […]
Barthes, laziness and knitting
In the interview in Le Monde Dimanche, September 16, 1979, Roland Barthes reflect on the concept of idleness. Osons être paresseux—We dare to be lazy What place do you make—or must you yield—to laziness in your life, and in your work? At a certain time in my life, I allowed myself, after my afternoon nap, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 