Category Good news and fun

Ideas worth sharing – Cities summit i London 2014

Jag fick i början på veckan tillfälle att träffa innovatörer och stads representanter från hela världen i London på “Cities Summit – Ideas worth sharing”. Ett möte arrangerat av Citymart.  Mötet hölls i City Hall i London med borgmästaren Boris Johnson som värd.  A jolly fellow! Tidigt i maj blev jag kontaktad av en Citymart representativ som […]

Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?

I am sitting in my friends garden in London reading a great book by Jeanette Winterson – Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal – and I ask myself how a world like ours was created where it still is more acceptable to be normal than happy!  

Karisfornia POV – en medryckande och konstnärlig skatefilm från Raseborg

Det var spännande att titta på de 5 filmbidragen som kommit in till Raseborgs filmtävling för unga. Filmtävlingen arrangeras av Länsi-Uudenmaan Kulttuuriyhdistys, Ekenäs filmfest och Raseborgs Företagare tillsammans med staden Raseborg. Vinnaren Pyri Pelkonen, som tävlade i klassen 12-15 åringar, har skapat en både rolig och bra film både tekniskt och konstnärligt – Karisfornia POV (Point […]

Folkbåten Tea till salu!

TEA ÄR SÅLD! Vi säljer vår kära Folkbåt Tea.  Vi hoppas hon får komma till ett hem med mycket kärlek och omsorg. Hon har varit i vår familj i 23 år och har blivit en del av familjen. Nu behöver hon ett nytt hem hos någon som har tid, kunskap och intresse att rusta henne för nya […]

The city as a living organism seminar in Ekenäs!

Welcome to the City as a living organism ART & SCIENCE SEMINAR – How do we create a holistic urban environment? Seminar about finding a common language. Ten experts of different areas of Science and Art come together to discuss and work concretely on site. The Experts start already on 27th of May by building […]

CiTyBee community Tool Box

The people involved in the CiTyBee online community wants to make it more inclusive and playful for people to create the city together.  On the CiTyBee site you can find inspiring stories, tools for cooperation and mapping the city, urban mapping and dialogues and discussions about how the city could be something we co-create. The […]

Take it to the streets – Architecture that ‘spatialises’ the discussion about space

When I graduated at the School of architecture in Copenhagen I left a place that I thought was happily lost in its on world far away from the very real world that surrounds the school and the students (and the profession as such). When i got to know the UK architect Jeremy Till years later…

Does spring ever get to Finland?

       Poor boy!  I know his sorrow! But here I still sit in Finland (yes, the real country! One can live here after all!). I got this photo from a friend who lives in London and I think British people would say that the season we have here right now is called winter!  It was […]

Norrebro bikes for clean air

I recently came home from a week in Copenhagen  where I took this picture. The Norrebro kids learn early that: “Norrebro bikes for clean air” as the sign on the banner says. I also found a wonderful collection of bike photos from Copenhagen on the blog Copenhagen cycle chic. I love shadow pictures….

Alterville master’s degree

ALTERVILLE’S Master’s Degree: Political and Strategic Alternatives for the Towns, Cities and Metropolises of Tomorrow is a master’s degree program conceived by the Université de Lyon. A suggestion for all who still believe that there are alternative solutions for towns and cities with limited urban capital (or for you who would like to believe). The Alterville masters’ course will […]