How To Live Happily On Mars

A survival guide to an unknown world

An ode to imagination

A story of the collaborative strategy for the new primary school in Tomelilla, Sweden, based on Doughnut Economics. Time is interesting. It’s now been just over a year since I handed in the proposal for a strategy for the new school in Tomelilla. I had by then, been working

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Systems

Designing purpose in a world full of meaning

It’s not easy to start writing a text nowadays. I’m annoyingly teased by artificial intelligence - “come use me, I’m free!” But I just as annoyingly refuse. The heavily perfected style, the skilfully constructed paragraphs and clear conceptual layouts. AI knows how to do that with great

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The loving stone

If I were to tell you a story about a loving stone, would you believe me? I mean, it sounds a bit weird. But if you’re willing to listen, by the end of this tale, you might realise that love is to be found where you least expect it.

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The planet that kills children

I don’t want to live on a planet that kills children. I even play with the thought of leaving. But where would I go? I can’t say I’m super keen on hanging out on Mars with Elon and all his ex-wives. The moon seems to be a

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Who can afford to be critical?

To criticise is not simply to oppose. It is to care, to question and to imagine otherwise. It is a human act of complexity, a gesture of engagement with the world around us. Criticism can be deeply personal shaped by identity, story and experience. But it can also be collective,

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we ARE systems

Lecture @ Investor Day - Katapult Future Fest 2024 I stand here, as a human being. Not as a business owner, an architect, writer or a researcher. But as a human. And with the concept of being human, the concept of living, comes the familiar existential question - why do we

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What you think parallel to me

You think I'm irresponsible. I think everyone does wrong sometimes. You think I should have known better. I think I learn all the time. You think I'm selfish. I think I want to strengthen myself. You think I was much better before. I think I'

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Savoir-faire

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. The numerous things I’ve wanted. But never got. The many hopes I’ve had. But that got crushed. Complex and monstrous twirling thoughts get stuck in a tiring history of dreams I didn’t score. Sometimes

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a word with Nemesis

Ok. Let me explain again. I just wanted to restore the balance. Arrange what had been done wrong and ship justice. Nothing else. I really just wanted him to feel. At least feel something, after all he had done. Absolutely, I can see that maybe I went too far. But

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Good night life

Good night life Good night life I'm going to bed now You can wake me up if there is light again When we can feel again When there is balance Again

Humans

Black and white

We measure distance in the dark. People tend to feel great when they can sort and divide realities, problems or issues into groups. Something is either dark or light, a person is good or bad, an idea is great or to be thrown away. This way of sorting makes many

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Coffee

She came to the world as a challenging and tough child of 5 kilos. From the villages around, pilgrim travellers and farmers came to see the huge child they had heard about in the absence of other exciting news. Rarely did something so out of the ordinary happen and the