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Never give up!

This is what we are told, through life, especially at young age. Is this really true? Quitting is only for loosers. Well, the theory says otherwise. Recentlty I bought the new book by the American economist John P. Kotter named: A Sense of Urgency. One of the revelations that I got from that book was his […]

February 15, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

LEAVING OSLO

Leaving is easier than arriving. At last our things are gone into a container and off over the ocean. It has been lots of work to decide where everything goes, but it is good regularly to re-evaluate the overloaded Western home. We have lived a non-Ikea life, maintaining that it induces unsustainability. People look at […]

February 10, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

Its a DogS Life

Well, things are tough in Maputo and also in Oslo. We are living in chaos, but surprisingly not so much anxiety in it. In Oslo everything is in boxes, most of our things go to our flat in Reykjavik and will be collected on Monday. That means packing. The packing itself is not the biggest […]

February 7, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

Doing Good Projects

To Do Good! To do good projects have been on the increase recently. Social responsibility and ethics have taken over from profit and business innovation as the most discussed issues in design schools. The world of Al Gore, Bono, Architecture for Humanity and Design Without Boundaries has entered the design schools and even to some extent the […]

February 2, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

Social Design and Relational Design

I am an architect. Architecture deals foremost with people, not buildings. Architecture deals with how people live, interact, protect themselves etc. As an architect have I never been able to create structures and plans without people. Since I am brought up in theater my way of designing has been to make up plays of life; theatrical […]

January 27, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

Leaving Oslo, phase one

The first phase of our project after all the applications, planning, interviews and program participation is to leave dear Oslo. We have lived here for 4 years now, a very family friendly place with lots of new friends. We have been to dinners and invited for coffee, going around shopping things to take away, strengthening […]

January 7, 2009   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

The Problem with Big Green

Green is getting mainstream… Big Green! Here is an article on worldchanging with an interview with Dr. Tom Crompton, author of the WWF recent report Weathercocks and Signposts: the environment movement at a crossroads The problem with the small green steps is that it doesn´t seem to lead to bigger steps and a deeper care for the […]

January 2, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

21st August 2008. Ken Robinson always fantastic

  Among the ‘must see’ lectures in our great new world of endless available lectures is Ken Robinson’s talks! Both brilliant and fun. His subject is education and the need to transform education. ‘We are still educating our kids according to the ideology of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution – killing their creativity. There […]

August 28, 2008   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO AMERICANS

Watching CNN or reading some US newspapers often gives me the shivers because of the narrow interests reflected. I have since a little boy during the Cold War been vary of any newspaper pertaining to be neutral. At least in Reykjavik during that time no newspaper was neutral. The placement in the paper, if it […]

March 1, 2008   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

COMMUNICATING STATISTICS

There is not always a sync between knowledge/information and communication. A whole of a lot of knowledge is being produced with registered statistics stored in numbers, but the communication tools are often very bad or non existing. This is one of the areas I find so challenging within my field of visual communication. Thousands of […]

January 12, 2008   Posted in: PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

MISS LANDMINE

I am not sure what to say! This is working against the stereo-typical beauty ideal and the pictures are beautiful. But I have to admit how bored I am with the concept of beauty contests iterating the cliche that every woman´s dream is to be beautiful. Take a look! Miss Landmine Tweet This Post

November 20, 2007   Posted in: AFRICA, FASHION, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

HACKING AND SECURITY

What is a hacker? Is it a bad person? Not really. Is it someone that cheats? I guess so, but how? Answer: by knowing the systems that he/she is dealing with, looking out for new possibilities, new avenues, methods that are not allowed by the rules. But, that is design-methodology! We look out for the […]

November 20, 2007   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

An interesting way to use design skills

A few weeks ago we went to Newcastle to see the final exhibition of the very interesting project Dott 07 (Design of the Times). Its a project run by the British Design Council, looking at how design can take part in developing more sustainable ways of living. Designers worked with the communities in North East England for […]

November 18, 2007   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

Dinner in Newcastle

We went for a Chinese in Newcastle while attending the Intersections Conference. The conversation flowed and the red wine flowed with interspersions of great dishes. Allan, one of the contributors of Core77 had to text his wife and lo and behold: his iphone appeared. He said that he had seldom in his life had as […]

November 11, 2007   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

STEVE JOBS TELLING STORIES

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August 19, 2007   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed