Category Place & space
Locus out of Focus – an online book
I participated in a very interesting urban art project City as a living organism in the spring of 2014 in Ekenäs as one of 9 experts from different fields. The transdisciplinary workshop was arranged by Heini Aho and Sebastian Ziegler (AKU) in cooperation with Novia University of Applied Science and Pro Artibus art foundation. Now […]
Visions and memories and a small oak tree
We are planning the R&D project The Story Caravan in Ekenäs Finland, for which we got a grant from the European Cultural Foundation. We have now started to experiment and explore our story telling method which combine visions and history and to ponder on the best way to collect and analyze the material. To our surprise we are finding it […]
The Trampolin House in Cph needs your support!
The trampolin House is a great independent initiative – a user-driven cultural house – where everyone is welcome. The House was formed in 2010 by a group of artists, asylum seekers, students, and professionals in reaction to the way in which the Danish state treats asylum seekers and refugees. The house continues to provide refugees and asylum seekers […]
Inspiring urban projects
I rediscovered the Publicspace.org site and wow – there are so many inspiring Urban projects out there.
Banksy pics today – Syrian migrants
Steve Jobs – the son of a migrant from Syria
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 […]
Känn er välkomna – eller kanske inte…
Min morgon börjar med att jag på SVT hör att Folkpartiet i Sverige vill att antalet ensamkommande flyktingbarn till Sverige ska minska – hmmm – jag vill att det blir fred i världen och att alla människor har ett tryggt hem och mat på bordet. Tyvärr kommer inte min önskan att uppfyllas men det lutar […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 