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 [...]
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 [...]
O-Tech – The Endurance of Technological Overkill
The concept overkill technologies (o-tech) may be a tool to further examine why it is so hard to agree upon ideas of sustainability. O-tech can be used to scrutinize the dynamics of dimensioning and scaling, and how normality is constructed. The idea is that what is categorized as an overdimensioned technology (o-tech) depends on a [...]
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The site is in the midst of a migration to a wordpress-based design. Sorry for broken links, layout glitches and other peculiarities. Things will be better.
Photo by: Jan Bovin.
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