Bollywood and The Artificial Past

A couple of years ago I made a small installation based on light and sound together with light designer Anna Jönsson. The site for the installation was ”Blekingegården” at the open air museum Kulturen in Lund. One of the ideas with the installation was to explore how you could change the building into a kind [...]

Industrial Cool in Stockholm – ”A Room With a View”

During the evening September 27 an event focusing on postindustrial rejuvenation processes will take place in an industrial area in southern Stockholm. Below is a presentation, from the invitation letter, of the event (in Swedish). Kapitel 2. Den (o)synliga handen Tisdag 27 september kl. 18-21 Vi sägs idag leva i det postindustriella samhället, ett samhälle [...]

Future Work

Last Friday I did a presentation on the very humble topic of ”Future Work in a Globalized World”. I discussed aspects of Industrial Cool and related it to some characteristics of work in the creative industries. The talk was part of an event (Humanist- och teologdagarna) where various researchers from The Faculties of Humanities and Theology [...]

Overlooked (the book)

A new book by me, Niklas Ingmarsson and photographer Martin Magntorn is available (in Swedish). It deals with the ways that the overlooked and inconspicuous can be turned into something fascinating. ”Förbisett – När vardagen glimrar till” Brutus Östlings bokförlag Symposion ISBN: 9789171398475. The book is available in a number of web stores, as well [...]

Blood online

The first episode of the TV-series Folklife (Folkliv) is now online (link below). The theme of this first episode is ”blood”. http://www.ur.se/play/157470

Folkliv – New TV-series

May 7th a new TV-series by me and Anders Weberg together with ethnologist Mia-Marie Hammarlin and The Folklife Archive in Lund will premiere. Here’s more info in Swedish: Vad vet vi egentligen om livet i Sverige under bondesamhället? Följ med till gränslandet mellan fantasi och verklighet, när nu bild, ljud och berättelser ur Folklivsarkivet i [...]

Loft Living

One of the more prevalent examples of Industrial Cool is Loft Living. Closed industrial facilities reborn as flats. In this week’s free Swedish paper Metro Bostad (filled with ads showing houses for sale and a smaller portion of editorial content) Loft Living was the feature. This time it wasn’t refurbished industries, but instead new built [...]

What disappears

Just back from a workshop at the museum Kulturen in Lund. The theme was new takes on cultural heritage, memories and representation. Three different projects, all dealing with the ephemeral aspects of culture and environment, were presented. Archaeologist Anders Högberg presented the problematic conctructions of memory connected to the demolished premises of two stigmatized Swedish [...]