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 Excerpt
An excerpt from my talk at Lund University on Future Work and the creative industries is now available on Youtube (in Swedish). The talk in its whole will be broadcast 18.25-19.00, Friday May 27 on Swedish television, Kunskapskanalen. UR’s description: ”18.25-19.00 Vad är en industri? Om guldklockor och stämpelklockor men också om teglet på operahuset [...]
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 [...]
Article on IC-lecture at Malmö University
An article about the Industrial Cool lecture that I held a couple of weeks ago at Malmö University is available (in Swedish). Text by Joakim Frieberg.
IC-presentation at Malmö University
I will give a presentation (in Swedish) of the Industrial Cool-project at Malmö University on Friday Feb. 19th. The presentation is part of the seminar series ”Urbana utvecklingens utmarker” and is organized by Urbana studier and K3. More about the series and the presentation (in Swedish).
Photo by: Jan Bovin.
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