Category Good news and fun

Partiell medborgarlön 2017 i Finland

En forskargrupp som nu lagt fram ett förslag för regeringen i Finland angående medborgarlön har kommit fram till att det blir för dyrt för staten med allmän basinkomst så den föreslår en partiell basinkomst som enligt forskargruppen skulle ersätta en stor del av det nuvarande socialskyddet. Till det hör bland annat arbetsmarknadsstödet och dagpenningen för arbetslösa […]

STORYCARAVAN MEETS MIGRATIONLAB IN COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP

In the beginning of March the Story Caravan working group met together with the folks from Migrationlab in The Hague for a very welcomed workshop. Present was Åsa Lönnqvist, Annabelle Antas and Ylva Rancken-Lutz från the StoryCaravan R&D project and Laura Pana, Anca Fronescu and Denis Stillewagt from Migrationlab. The Ekenäs StoryCaravan and MigrationLabs Welcome to the […]

Jagriti Vihara

Jagriti Vihara was one of our collaboration partners when we were working at Emmaus Westervik. Jaja – who you see in the film – was always a very appreciated guest at the community by both adults and children. At Jagriti Vihara they thought a lot about the design of the school for the village children. […]

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 […]

Iqbaldagen 2015

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!