Category Good news and fun
Paradigmskifte skapar möjligheter
En välskriven och viktig betraktelse kan vi idag läsa i tidningen Syre, Sveriges första fristående gröna nyhetsmagasin. I artikeln konstaterar Max Jonsson att vi står inför ett paradigmskifte – både när det gäller det ekonomiska systemet och de samhälleliga strukturerna: Mot bakgrund av detta är ofta miljö- och klimatdebattens frågeställningar felställda. Utmaningen beskrivs envist i […]
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 […]
Refugees for co-creative cities
What a great initiative! How can refugees improve their daily lives and public space in Ruhr region in Germany? This project is initiated by Kitev – a lab for extraordinary spatial measures – in Oberhausen, Germany. The project has three steps. First we will make a research of best practice in Europe on refugee accommodation and integration, […]
School for Disobedience in Helsinki
A really needed addition to the conventional education in our schools is the new School of Disobedience at the Finnish Museum of Modern Art Kiasma in Helsinki. I was mighty impressed when I, a couple of years ago, heard that all the schoolchildren in Swedish schools have a course in civilian disobedience. More at Yle in […]
TED talk about te sense of place
More inspiration in the TED talk with Matt Bibeau. In this video Matt shares his personal story about establishing a sense of place and bringing that into the city to foster real resiliency. Many of the ideas he presents remind me of the work of David Orr and David Sobel and how creating a sense […]
Build the City – Perspectives on commons and culture
The book “Build the City – Perspectives on commons and culture” is a collaboration between Krytyka Polityczna, the EU Cultural Foundation, the ECF labs and the partners in the action research network Connected Action for the Commons. It is an inspiring collection of texts, studies, interviews and examples of projects concerning the Commons in the urban, […]
Idea Camp in The Guardian: Monopoly for the people: three strange days at the urbanism ‘idea camp’
The common language at the European Cultural Foundation’s second annual Idea Camp – featuring 50 ‘idea makers’ from 23 countries who gathered in Stockholm to chase prizes of €10,000 – was English. Unofficially, it was urbanese (Read on)
Think Tank Transbaltic gör strandhugg i Ekenäs
Under ett par dagar besöker en grupp kopplade till Think TankTransbaltic Ekenäs. På Pro Artibus AIR programkoordinator Åsa Lönnqvists initiativ kommer nu Ekenäs att vara med i detta spännande pilotprojekt vars mål är att utveckla verktyg för kreativ stadsplanering runt Östersjön med tvärvetenskaplig inriktning. Inom det planerade EU projektet vi hoppas pilotprojektet ska utmynna i kommer konstnärer, […]
Build the city Lab
On the Build the City lab you can discuss on the theme ‘Build the City’ and the wider discourse around culture, communities, democracy and the Commons.
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" 