Category Urban

Raseborgkonsulter som kejsarens nya kläder

    Sparkrav i Raseborg gör att bland annat äldreboendet Bromarfhemmet liksom skolan i Bromarv  och sex andra skolor hotas av stängning. – Det är jobbigt att vara Bromarvbo just nu, säger lokalpolitikern Göran Karlsson (SFP) till Yle Vega. Jag tycker också det är jobbigt och dessutom pinsamt att vara Raseborgare just nu, det känns som att […]

Good use of shopping centers!

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]