Category Place & space
DIY Urbanism – KTH blog
In a blog series the Centre for a Sustainable Built Environment in Sweden works with Karin Bradley, Associate Professor at KTH, to introduce the concept of Do-It-Yourself Urbanism and the questions this approach raises for those of us engaged in city making. In the introduction to DIY urbanism blog series KTH researcher Karin Bradley comments: Local planners, have […]
Dela är det nya äga
I en mycket intressant video berättar Lotta Ekelund om den blomstrande delande ekonomikulturen. Dela är det nya äga from LottaFilm on Vimeo.
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, […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 