Category Inspiration
Helsinki plans to make car ownership pointless in 10 years
What a great initiative! The Finnish capital has announced plans to transform its existing public transport network into a comprehensive, point-to-point “mobility on demand” system by 2025 – one that, in theory, would be so good nobody would have any reason to own a car – read more.…. And my old hometown Boulder has a […]
Cross-disciplinary urban experiment shows the way
The science art & science seminar “The City as a Living Organism” organized by AKU-visual acupuncture (in collaboration with Pro Artibus and the research and development institute Aronia and Novia University of Applied Sciences) is a good example of how city planning could be influenced and inspired by the arts as well as natural and […]
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 […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 