Category Inspiration
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, […]
Banksy pics today – Syrian migrants
Steve Jobs – the son of a migrant from Syria
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, […]
När empatin saknas
Visst blev jag och säkert många med mig, både rörda och glada när vi hörde att den flyende syriska mannen Osama Abdul Mohsen blev erbjuden ett jobb i Madrid som fotbollstränare på fotbollstränarskolan Cenafe. Det var han som journalisten Petra Laszlo satte krokben för när han flydde undan polisen med sin son i famnen på gränsen mellan […]
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 […]
A Snowden interview in both Swedish and English
A very interesting and unusual journalistic piece by Lena Sundström and Lotta Härdelin with Edward Snowden.
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 