Category Urban
Flippin’ Burgers in Stockholm
My cousin IngeMo and her partner John invited me to a great hamburger place in Stockholm at Kungsholms strand. The burgers were super good! The line is at least an hour long and they don’t take reservations – but it is worth the wait. The meet is from an organic farm in Roslagen.
Circular economy salong with Ellen MacArthur at KTH
The auditorium at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm – was packed on Monday night and Ellen Mac Arthur, invited to Sweden by Cradle Net, KTH and CITIES the Magazine, opened the Circular economy salong. Ellen first became famous when she broke the world record when she sailed solo nonstop around the world in 2005. When […]
Moralen och konsumtionen
Ett nytt ekonomiskt system är det möjligt? Ja det får man verkligen hoppas. Annars barkar det åt helvetet för vår planet och för mänskligheten. Ekosystemet håller inte om vi fortsätter som vi gjort de senaste 50 åren. Filosofiska rummet sände ett intressant och tankeväckande program från Dramaten i Stockholm innan jul under rubriken Om krisen, […]
The first photograph ever taken in Finland
A fellow blogger – Mats Söderlund – has published on the Crop Factor blog the first photograph taken in Finland. Wow! It really looks as something someone could have taken with a pinhole camera at our Photography summerschool at Goldsmith! It was taken by Henrik Cajander, a doctor who lived on the very street the photo was taken. […]
How blogging is a rhizomic practice
Rhizome is used by many and maybe not even 100% understood by anyone except perhaps by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the philosophers who coined the term. Maybe we are not supposed to “master” nor totally grasp the concept of rhizome. But what I do understand concerning the concept is enough for me: It describe a way to […]
Felt hats and the wonderful people who make them
The above slideshow is about some beutiful people who make and wear very colorful and imaginative felt hats. Check out Felt Factions web site – a company founded by Elina Saari and Aki Leppänen in 1999. They make unique hats, clothing and wall textiles and almost anything out of felts. They describe their lifestyle with […]
Public space initiatives in Cape town – a different perspective
Apparently a delegation of men (yes, ALL MEN) from Finland will represent the Finnish design scene (and WDC) in Cape Town. This according to Alternative Design Capital 2012 Helsinki (ADC 2012) facebook page. Heading them is the minister for European affairs, Alexander Stubb. I am sure he knows a lot about culture and how to design a great […]
Angered en världsby – Världsby i Angered
Föreningen Världsbyn, som har funnits sedan 2006 och förvaltar och utvecklar idén om en världsby i Angered. Syftet är att skapa en ”by” med små hus med anknytning till olika delar av världen som utformas och byggs med långsiktigt hållbarhet för miljön som riktmärke och för att främja integration och utbyte mellan olika kulturer. ”Byn” […]
Södermalm misses “Street”
When I was thinking about and started to plan Aura Street Market 5-6 year ago I walked around in Stockholm and London. In Stockholm I visited farmers markets and Street and in London Camden lock market, Sunday Upmarket vid Brick Lane, Old Spitalsfields markets and Portobello market. I got very inspired. After a couple of years […]
Axxells nya byggnader ännu bedrövligare än ÅAs Arken i Åbo
Jag applåderar Philip Teirs kolumni HBL (10.9) där han förespråkar en mänskligare stadsplanering. Jag är alltid lika förundrad över hur litet fantasi det verkar finnas bland dagens stadsplanerare och de arkitekter som vinner med sina planer och får uppföra sina verk. Vi ska leva våra liv i dessa verk – det är våra hem, vår […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
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