On Creativity

On Creativity

Are you creative? Probably not. True creativity is rare, most surveys of creativity show this, but that is not something you need to lament. Yesterday I met one of the people behind Justin Bieber. A cog in the great machinery that makes everything function for a...
The party is over!

The party is over!

The grandest exhibitions, like the one that encompassed the university grounds that we saw just a couple of years ago, had now shrunk, bartered down and strongly simplified. Probably an approaching recession captured in the understated character of design and art....
The Feminine Revolution

The Feminine Revolution

Feminine Revolution Sweden’s Greta Thunberg is leading a younger generation’s protest against their elders inability to make headway against global warming. She fights for us all, and has made young people, in 36 countries, rally to her cause. What’s emerging is a...
Almedalen ’85

Almedalen ’85

Almedalen den 3 juli 1985 Palmes last speech Pernilla Wahlgren runs out on stage in a track suit sporting a fluffy eighties hairdo. Two strutting dancers are working hard on raising the mood. The bands guitarist is quite good and I’m impressed by how he plays...
Venice biennale 2018

Venice biennale 2018

Freespace This years Venice biennale offers up architecture. The theme Freespace is about how architecture can create generous environments and places that, according to the two curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, are an integral part of a good society. In...
Milano Design Week 2018

Milano Design Week 2018

Many of my strongest experiences have taken place in Milan. Travelling in a taxi with open windows in July being embraced by the warm night air. The fire writing at Porta Romana informed me that the temperature was 31 degrees Celsius outside. I felt indescribably...