Category Good news and fun
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!
Arbetsmarknaden och modern folktro
Fick den underfundiga boken Jag vill inte dö jag vill bara inte leverera av Sara Granér av Hannah till födelsedagspresent. Köp eller låna, skratta och reflektera!
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 […]
Inspiring urban projects
I rediscovered the Publicspace.org site and wow – there are so many inspiring Urban projects out there.
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, […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 