Category Urban
Pop-Up Re-Café movie
Pop-Up Re-Café movie for Citymart Malmö projectet 2014 ”Revitalizing with collaborative consumption”.
The Future of Urban Social Life is Cohabitation!
Today I attended a seminar in the series The Future of Urban Social Life at Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. The title of the seminar was “Going Solo and Connecting” and main speaker was sociologist Eric Klinenberg. He has done research in and written a book about the growing global trend to live alone. In the […]
Helsinki – a traffic lab
“I now declare Finland as the country for open traffic experiments – Finland is a Traffic Lab,” proclaimed Henna Virkkunen, Finland’s transport and local government minister, in June. Sounds great, doesn’t it? This great news I learned from the on the online IT magazine ZDNet (thanks John!): Helsinki has an ambitious plan for its future. By […]
Det finns städer och så finns det smarta städer!
Jag hörde nyligen på nyheterna att Haninge kommun andra året i rad satsar på gratis odlingslådor för invånare. Paketet är gratis och innehåller två lådor, 16 kg jord och tillgång till parkmark! – Odlingspaketet är ett enkelt sätt att börja odla. Man behöver ingen stor yta, kräver inte så mycket arbete och det är tillgängligt, […]
The first organic hospital greenhouse!
Why has it lasted so long to build the first orgnaic hospital greenhouse? I also hope many more will follow.
Helsinki plans to make car ownership pointless in 10 years
What a great initiative! The Finnish capital has announced plans to transform its existing public transport network into a comprehensive, point-to-point “mobility on demand” system by 2025 – one that, in theory, would be so good nobody would have any reason to own a car – read more.…. And my old hometown Boulder has a […]
Cross-disciplinary urban experiment shows the way
The science art & science seminar “The City as a Living Organism” organized by AKU-visual acupuncture (in collaboration with Pro Artibus and the research and development institute Aronia and Novia University of Applied Sciences) is a good example of how city planning could be influenced and inspired by the arts as well as natural and […]
AKU seminair – The city as a living organism
Ur tidningen Västranyland.
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 