Category Open source – the commons
SlowCommons Creating Sustainable Spaces in Stockholm
An informative and good article about my “slow” projects in Stockholm in the Slow Travel Stockholm online magazine.
“Ekenäs story Caravan” joins the European Idea Camp 2015 – “Build the City”
‘Build the City’ is the theme of the 2015 European Cultural Foundation Call for Ideas. Our project idea “Ekenäs Story Caravan” was selected as one of 50 ideas from all of Europe to join the Idea Camp in Botkyrka in Sweden in September 2015. This is our idea: “Ekenäs Story Caravan” aims to deepen local engagement and co-governing […]
A City Where Everyone Works, There Are No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros
Since the financial crisis began in 2008, Marinaleda has shot to fame — and so has its maverick mayor Juan Manuel , who earned the nickname,”The Spanish Robin Hood,” after organizing and carrying out a series of supermarket raids in a direct action protest last August. Basic groceries such as oil, rice and beans were […]
Refugee and immigrant/emigrant flows in the world
I listened to a very interesting debate on Swedish-speaking Yle Vega radio about refugee politics in Sweden and Finland, concluding that policies in the two countries are very different and that Sweden shows much more solidarity towards people needing asylum. With the new Finnish government the difference will widen. Groups in Sweden who are against liberal Swedish […]
Circular economy is the future!
It is not always easy to explain what circular economy really mens and especially the economy part of the theory. This is a 3.5 minute video about circular economy basics: Tim Jackson does a very good job explaining the economic part in this video:
Periferin och centrum och vad byn kan ge staden
Jag blir alltid glad när jag läser om byaråden i svenskfinland och den svenska byaservicen som upprätthålls av SFV Bildning, Sydkustens landskapsförbund och Svenska Österbottens Förbund för utbildning och kultur För oss som försöker skapa någon sorts “Ekenäs stadsdelsråd” är det inspirerande att se hur byar organiserar sig och sina resurser och hur de arbetar. Centrum kan i detta […]
Back to the Future – filmer från Norra hamnen om några år
Hur kan vi hålla modet uppe? Yle Västnylands rapport från invånarmötets learningcafé på Novia den 26.3
Stadsdialog men 7 generationer i tankarna
Jag hoppas verkligen försöket att skapa ett forum för stadsdialog i Ekenäs kommer att ge något positivt resultat. Vad vi behöver i Raseborg och Ekenäs idag är en arena där vi på ett konstruktivare sätt än hittills kan prata om en hurdan stad vill ha. Kommunikationen från kommunens sida har för det mesta varit enkelriktad […]
Collaborative decision-making
As I watched a political debate on a news program here in Finland last night I was struck by how the participants not seemed unmoved and unchanged by what the other participants were saying. They had all come to the debate with set minds and had no intention of changing them. A year ago I […]
A lush apartment complex
This article from the web magazine GASAN – Give a shit about nature – makes me happy! Why could we not have a building like this in Norra hamnen in Ekenäs? Luciano Pia, an Italian architect, has a beautiful vision for green urban living. He designed and developed 25 Verde, an apartment complex in Turin, […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 