Category Solidarity, democracy and sustainability

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 […]

Obama: Trump will not be president

I really hope he is right!

Finding one’s tribe in Madrid

I have researched first-time parents in Helsinki in Finland and Gothenburg in Sweden to learn to better understand the parents’ urban and online meeting places in similar ways as folks in the project ‘Caring IN the city’, carried out by Pandora Mirabilia and funded by European Culture Foundation. This is a very important project close to my […]

Iqbaldagen 2015

Bernie Sander’s land is my land

I often think of “my US” as a bubble in an otherwise quite hostile and frightening American society. But now and then I find that my American subculture can be described more like a greenhouse where great ideas and wonderful innovations prosper and slowly find their way into American mainstream society.  Bernie Sanders represents my greenhouse […]

SLOW TV and SLOW travel

I am working on a Slow travel project and my TravelFor project partner Nedim found this funny and wonderful TED talk. We will pilot a Slow train trip from Copenhagen to Galicia and the Basque country during the coming year.  I will keep you updated!  

Arbetsmarknaden och modern folktro

Fick den underfundiga boken Jag vill inte dö jag vill bara inte leverera av Sara Granér av Hannah till födelsedagspresent. Köp eller låna, skratta och reflektera!  

De ledsna papporna

Litteraturprofessorn, bullamamman och debattören Ebba Witt-Brattström slår huvudet på spiken när hon i SVT beskriver den farsroll även jag är uppvuxen med. “Vi tassar runt en pappa som inte får bli sur. Vi tar sån hänsyn för dom kan bli ledsna – och ledsna män är ju det värsta problemet vi har i Sverige” Jag tror […]

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 […]