Nurope VII Copenhagen as-well-as Nurope and me

Just back from a few days of talks and discussions in Copenhagen with a bunch of really smart people. Yet again a success as it has been the six times before this Oasis ( http://www.nurope.eu ). The Nurope Project is in it’s last phase and a new direction and form is in the making, however [...]

Oasis in the City of Ljubljana

The latest oasis, the first in the 2nd expedition of the Nurope has just finished and I was again happy that I attended. During the days we met a lot of different people, to describe it a bit, we met “1/4th” of Laibach something of a national icon part of an awakening in Slovenia regarding [...]

news and views

posted by me first as a comment to, “no news is good news” on unformal.
especially in today society if you have a look at any regular newscast you?ll see a multitude of death and suffering but very rarely the happy news unless its revolutionary, of course suffering is also important to show but showing the [...]

Documenta 12 and Nurope

Documenta 12, I was visiting Germany between the 25th of June and the 3rd of July. I took part in the 3rd Oasis of the 1st Expedition with NUROPE, the Nomadic University of Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe. http://www.nurope.eu We visited and discussed the 12th Documenta an exhibition of contemporary art. For a little [...]

Summer in Finland

Sitting in Raisio a neighbouring municipality to Turku on a terrace listening to elektRoland from netgrooves.de. Nice music, drinking a worldchampion Finnish lager, KOFF, and Napoleon brandy. What a terrible life…

Olohuone and Turku Design

Starting on the 6th of june and going on till the 10th, Olohuone.org will arrange a series of art events in Turku (check out) http://www.olohuone.org.
Turku Design Week is a design event in Turku where local design companies as well as young designers present their work during 5 days. 11-16th of June.
http://www.turkudesign.fi 

Fair culture - culture for sustainable development

  I’m at the moment sitting in an auditorium in the Finnish Parliament taking part in a seminar about culture for sustainable development and development cooperation in the area of culture. It is a two day seminar arranged in Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish) the first day at the Hanaholmen conference centre, the second at the Finnish Parliament. Alot of the participants are form government, especially the Finnish Ministry for Foreign affairs and the Ministry for Education.
How can we take the [...]