Category Inspiration
AKU seminair – The city as a living organism
Ur tidningen Västranyland.
Ideas worth sharing – Cities summit i London 2014
Jag fick i början på veckan tillfälle att träffa innovatörer och stads representanter från hela världen i London på “Cities Summit – Ideas worth sharing”. Ett möte arrangerat av Citymart. Mötet hölls i City Hall i London med borgmästaren Boris Johnson som värd. A jolly fellow! Tidigt i maj blev jag kontaktad av en Citymart representativ som […]
Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?
I am sitting in my friends garden in London reading a great book by Jeanette Winterson – Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal – and I ask myself how a world like ours was created where it still is more acceptable to be normal than happy!
Social hållbarhet i stadsplanering
Hållbarhet kan delas upp i tre delar: miljömässig, ekonomisk och social hållbarhet. Alla tre aspekter av hållbarhet hänger ihop och är i hög grad beroende av varandra och stödjer varandra. Brundtland kommissionen definierade redan på 1980-talet hållbar utveckling: “meeting the needs of the present while ensuring that future generations can meet their own needs” (Brundtland Commission 1987). Sören […]
Floating houses!
Dominicus Björkstam, an architect in Ekenäs, wrote on his blog that he and Guy Design have worked together on a floating house project for many years. Now one of their Etcet house prototypes is probably going to be built in a temporary place in Helsinki! I think it is a very exciting project since there are many waterfront […]
Karisfornia POV – en medryckande och konstnärlig skatefilm från Raseborg
Det var spännande att titta på de 5 filmbidragen som kommit in till Raseborgs filmtävling för unga. Filmtävlingen arrangeras av Länsi-Uudenmaan Kulttuuriyhdistys, Ekenäs filmfest och Raseborgs Företagare tillsammans med staden Raseborg. Vinnaren Pyri Pelkonen, som tävlade i klassen 12-15 åringar, har skapat en både rolig och bra film både tekniskt och konstnärligt – Karisfornia POV (Point […]
I miss you Malik Bandjelloul!
Malik Bandjelloul is dead and the world is different! A message about somebodies death – concerning someone I had never met – has never effected me in this way before! Yes, once before – when John Lennon died – but that was different. I feel as though a friend has died, a soul mate and a […]
The city as a living organism seminar in Ekenäs!
Welcome to the City as a living organism ART & SCIENCE SEMINAR – How do we create a holistic urban environment? Seminar about finding a common language. Ten experts of different areas of Science and Art come together to discuss and work concretely on site. The Experts start already on 27th of May by building […]
CiTyBee community Tool Box
The people involved in the CiTyBee online community wants to make it more inclusive and playful for people to create the city together. On the CiTyBee site you can find inspiring stories, tools for cooperation and mapping the city, urban mapping and dialogues and discussions about how the city could be something we co-create. The […]
Take it to the streets – Architecture that ‘spatialises’ the discussion about space
When I graduated at the School of architecture in Copenhagen I left a place that I thought was happily lost in its on world far away from the very real world that surrounds the school and the students (and the profession as such). When i got to know the UK architect Jeremy Till years later…
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 