Category Good news and fun
Helsinki plans to make car ownership pointless in 10 years
What a great initiative! The Finnish capital has announced plans to transform its existing public transport network into a comprehensive, point-to-point “mobility on demand” system by 2025 – one that, in theory, would be so good nobody would have any reason to own a car – read more.…. And my old hometown Boulder has a […]
Cross-disciplinary urban experiment shows the way
The science art & science seminar “The City as a Living Organism” organized by AKU-visual acupuncture (in collaboration with Pro Artibus and the research and development institute Aronia and Novia University of Applied Sciences) is a good example of how city planning could be influenced and inspired by the arts as well as natural and […]
AKU seminair – The city as a living organism
Ur tidningen Västranyland.
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…
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 