Category Inspiration

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 […]

Dela är det nya äga

I en mycket intressant video berättar Lotta Ekelund om den blomstrande delande ekonomikulturen. Dela är det nya äga from LottaFilm on Vimeo.

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

Alla har inte lika värde enligt president Niinistö

Idag släppte rapparen Qruu – sin musikvideo “Allas lika värde”. Idag höll också president Niinistö ett tal på Riksmötets öppnande som kunde ha hållits av en sannfinländare (de applåderar naturligtvis hans tal idag). På något sätt är det kännetecknande för den tid vi lever i att man i media under en och samma eftermiddag får ta del av två […]

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 […]

Mumintrollen i dagsstrippsserie – no 2

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!  

Visions and memories and a small oak tree

We are planning the R&D project The Story Caravan in Ekenäs Finland, for which we got a grant from the European Cultural Foundation. We have now started to experiment and explore our story telling method which combine visions and history and to ponder on the best way to collect and analyze the material. To our surprise we are finding it […]