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BULLFIGHTING ARENA IN MAPUTO

The entrance side of the stadium In our minds Bullfighting has always been predominantly a Spanish sport. But it is also Portugese and of course then South-American. Since Mozambique was a Portugese colony from since colonies were invented (and this is obvious everywhere today in Modern Mozambican society) they also brought with them Portugese Bullfighting. […]

February 27, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: PONDERINGS  No Comments

CROCODILE RIVER CONCENTRATION

Buffaloes in the heat of the day I went to this river to concentrate on two projects that I have to write. It is good to know of such places with tranquillity. They give you focus. I have many favourite places in my homecountry Iceland, windows to mountains or glaciers where I have drawn pictures […]

February 12, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

CHRISTMAS SUMMER HOLIDAY

Rejao waiting for tomorrow in London Underground This year Christmas break has been dominated by the project on sustainability that David and Rejao are doing by traveling and living with us for 5 weeks in the North. We have met great many people and are thankful for all the support that we have got. The […]

January 29, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: PONDERINGS  No Comments

I AM REDEVELOPING MY WEBSITE

These days I am redeveloping my website from the old windows based system to a wordpress platform. The aim is not to change the site much to those that visit the site, but this will simplify for me how I post material on the site. The old site will then appear in the archives if […]

January 23, 2010   Posted in: PONDERINGS  No Comments

NORDIC TRAVELS AND LECTURE ABOUT DEVELOPMENT WORK

From my lecture in the Reykjavik Art Museum. I see this website is on the screen. I took a quick trip to home fields this September to confer with my people about our work here in Maputo, how the strategy is going, how to change course and what the next steps should be. I also attended […]

September 30, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

Eiffel and the New Art School, ISAC

The office of Madame Alda Costa, who is the leader of the group that is forming ISAC, the arts academy here in Maputo is in Casa de Ferro (de, do or di, depending on the reference). The building houses some of the offices of the Ministry of Culture and Education. I walk the three minutes […]

August 17, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

EURO-AFRICAN CAMPUS FOR CULTURAL COOPERATION

Workshop on Creative Economies in Africa. Presentation about the role of Design in the Creative Economy and development projects Joaquim Chissano Conference Centre, Maputo, Mozambique, 22 – 26 June 2009 We participated in this conference and gave a presentation about design and the creative economy, our ideas about how design will develop in Mozambique in […]

June 29, 2009   Posted in: ISAC - KHiO, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

School of Crafts in Maputo

We visited the school of traditional crafts here in Maputo last Saturday. It is a small school located behind the Museum of Modern art in Av. Ho Chi Mihn. The students (I saw no female) stay in the school for roughly three months learning specific traditional skills like wood carving, or metalwork or jewlery etc. […]

June 8, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

LEARNING SHOULD BE FUN

My philosophy is that people learn the most when they enjoy their work and have fun. Then the mind opens up and ideas pass through. So the most challenging task for the teacher is to make the subject interesting and the learning environment pleasurable. How to get the eyes sparkling with interest and create an […]

May 28, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

Expressing Myself

My better part, Sóley, tells me often off and mostly for things related to philosophizing, theory, design and things about the world in general, rather than her telling me off for practical household issues. She is right in saying that I jump too fast to conclusions, – a very masculine thing to do like when […]

May 19, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

VIDEO ART MAPUTO

We went last night to a video-art exhibition/event in Avenue des Artistes. This location is a very nice place here in Maputo, where they stretch canvas over the street in two places, put out furniture and run it as a bar/club. It is to be recommended to anyone visiting the city. We have been there […]

May 9, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

OFFICE IN MAPUTO

Have settled fairly well in Maputo now and have a flat in the dead center of town, very close to ENAV, the school that Soley works in. This means we walk back and forth all the time for practical things. We work a lot at home, having set up contacts and a table on the […]

April 29, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

The Prime Minister of Iceland in the news in Mozambique

Here is a pdf of the page in full size to download Iceland is not one of the countries in the world that the people here in Maputo know much about. Many say ‘yes I know, Iceland’ but when the discussion goes a bit further they had Ireland in mind or the Netherlands. Even when […]

April 25, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

ABDUL AND HIS SANDALS

We live in a road named Patrice Lumumba. Like most roads in central Maputo it is named after a political hero. Lumumba was an anti-colonial leader in Africa and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the new Republic of Congo after he helped to win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only ten weeks […]

April 13, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

North to South

Finally all our possessions have left dear Oslo. These bags are the last bits in the Airport train out of Oslo. My job now is to stack most of our boxes into a room in Reykjavik and then fly South with Andri. We both agree that we do own too many things, even though we […]

March 1, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed