Category Place & space
The barefoot march in Venice September 11th 2015
The refugees marching through Europe have been on my mind during my trip in Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. Alessandro Grassman, who made the documentary “Torn“, explained that for a refugee there is only the present moment – one lives only a moment at a time not thinking about – nor planning – the future. It […]
The documentary “Torn” at Venice film festival
Yesterday I watched the documentary “Torn” at the Venice by Alessandro Grassman who also gave us an introduction to the film and discussed the situation for Syrian refugees together with representatives from UNHCR and the violinist in the film. The event started with a short violin concert. Even if the film had subtitles only in Italian […]
Caffé sospeso – Pending coffee
In the café Serra dei Giardini where I am sitting in Venice I could pay for an extra cup of coffee – an ancient Neapolitan tradition where one pays for a pending coffee. Someone penniless who craved a coffee could just step into a bar and ask if there was a pending coffee. A great […]
Students and elderly live together at Dutch nursing home
A nursing home in the Netherlands invited university students to live rent-free alongside the elderly residents. In exchange for an apartments, the Humanitas retirement home in Deventer, Netherlands, requires students to spend at least 30 hours per month being “good neighbors,” Humanitas head Gea Sijpkes said to PBS NewsHour. What an marvelous and simple solution for loneliness […]
Waking up in a new city
I woke up and did not know what time it was The garbage truck stopped outside my window – they come early, I thought A jogger run by with light steps – joggers are out early, I thought A pair of high healed shoes walked by with energetic steps – someone going to work, I though Feet […]
Innovativa initiativ för en hållbar värld
När man känner att det mesta i världen går mot ett håll som verkar allt annat än hållbart känns det viktigt att engagera sig. Under mitt liv har det varit enormt viktigt att engagemang mig i projektet som gett mig en känsla av jag som privatperson verkligen kan göra något för en hållbarare värld. Det är […]
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 […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 