Welcome to the City as a living organism ART & SCIENCE SEMINAR – How do we create a holistic urban environment? Seminar about finding a common language. Ten experts of different areas of Science and Art come together to discuss and work concretely on site. The Experts start already on 27th of May by building […]

Intressant och viktig nordisk rapport om hållbar konsumtion. Rapporten och frågor kring hållbar konsumtionspolitik diskuterades under ett frukostmöte i Stockholm den 6 december 2013. Att göra medvetna val när man handlar och välja miljömärkta produkter räcker inte för att skapa ett hållbart samhälle. Konsumtionen måste minska och politikerna i Norden måste skapa strukturer som gör en hållbar […]

The people involved in the CiTyBee online community wants to make it more inclusive and playful for people to create the city together.  On the CiTyBee site you can find inspiring stories, tools for cooperation and mapping the city, urban mapping and dialogues and discussions about how the city could be something we co-create. The […]

When I graduated at the School of architecture in Copenhagen I left a place that I thought was happily lost in its on world far away from the very real world that surrounds the school and the students (and the profession as such). When i got to know the UK architect Jeremy Till years later…

“Jag vet inte när jag först hörde orden ”kulturdriven tillväxt”. De där som på kort tid kommit att utgöra syftet med titeln som Europas kulturhuvudstad i år. Smaka på dem. Det är kulturen som driver tillväxten. Tillväxten är syftet, kulturen medlet. Så berättigas dess existens, och så berättigas en satsning på kultur. Vi som inte […]

       Poor boy!  I know his sorrow! But here I still sit in Finland (yes, the real country! One can live here after all!). I got this photo from a friend who lives in London and I think British people would say that the season we have here right now is called winter!  It was […]

I recently came home from a week in Copenhagen  where I took this picture. The Norrebro kids learn early that: “Norrebro bikes for clean air” as the sign on the banner says. I also found a wonderful collection of bike photos from Copenhagen on the blog Copenhagen cycle chic. I love shadow pictures….

ALTERVILLE’S Master’s Degree: Political and Strategic Alternatives for the Towns, Cities and Metropolises of Tomorrow is a master’s degree program conceived by the Université de Lyon. A suggestion for all who still believe that there are alternative solutions for towns and cities with limited urban capital (or for you who would like to believe). The Alterville masters’ course will […]

It makes me so happy when I find that there are people out there doing great things in a world marked by cynicism and greed. It makes all the difference! From Backdoor jobs: Sustainable Living & Farming Jobs: In a world focused on technology and getting ahead at all costs, it might be time to look […]

I want to reblogg this important bloggpost from Archdaily because I get so happy when I read it! “In an era of incompetent nation states and predatory transnationals, we must ratchet up local self-reliance, and the most logical increment of organisation (and resistance) is the city.” This is how Michael Sorkin, writing in Aeon Magazine, explains his hypothetical […]