Ok, the importance of content, that you’ve heard before… But you can’t say it too many times; seems easy to forget and instead focus on the differences between the digital media devices and the anlog OR just try to do the analog thing in a digital form. This week I talk at Tidskriftseminarium about the importance of content rather than packaging (again) and how to elaborate each platform’s possibilities, and as always, it’s based on ethnographic studies of how people actually do, not what they say! BTW, if you have 2 and a half minute…

Time again to talk about behavior and attitudes related to digital media culture at DagsVara 2013. What human and social consequences are important to pay attention to?

I will give a talk at the end of the Tendency Day this year. In my talk I’ll try to give five advice from the anthropological perspective how to develop a brand.

This year I will participate in a panel with the following focus: ”The free word – but who is responsible?”, Wednesday 24th October, Stockholm Waterfront.

Today Riksbankens Jubileumsfond arranges a whole day seminar at Fotografiska with focus on how humanities can make a difference in business, or should I rather say, outside academy. Why is it so difficult to make people with different skills collaborate across borders, from both perspectives!? Has education become increasingly market-driven, career-oriented, and impoverished in its attention to humanities? I will end the day by gathering a group of interesting people and ask for their opinion, namely Eva Swartz Grimaldi, Fredrik Lindström, Lars Trägårdh, Lotta Gröning and Tobias Nielsen.

On a theoretical level one can argue for and create great tools for a more social and human approach to plan or renew city spaces, but theory is theory. The top down perspective is seldom reflecting the bottom up perception of a place.

On a practical level a project aiming to really understand and involve residents in the planning process truly put the theories to the test.  But at the same time, it’s impossible for residents/users to express affection for a place they haven’t experienced. That’s way architects and planners need to understand the residents/users  to be able to create a sustainable meeting place. Today I talk about this at Upplands Väsby’s Stadsbyggnadsdag 2012.