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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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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Endings and beginnings

My favourite moment of the year. I’ve transported my life and my family to Spain for a month over Christmas and New Years. The dark, damp and rainy north makes even the most easy going soul depressed and melancholic. Of course you could go into a cosy hibernation with

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Direction

What to do with hypercreativeness. Being born with a hyper creative mind, I’ve often ended up losing myself and my goals when rushing from idea to idea, from project to project, never reaching that great success I had in mind. It’s way too easy to move on and

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Golden mornings

How seeing your friends in the morning can change your day A few weeks ago I moved in to a new office located in a cute crossing of the old town in the city where I live. A walking street connects a busy bike bath and the area is filled

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Pain

Welcome pain and change your life. I read as much as I can to feel less lonely in my brain. Recently I came across a text about pain. Since I’m a person who knows pain well, too well maybe, the text got my attention. What was said was that

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Hitting walls

To be less worried about time and life struggles. In our society it is bad to fail. We think so ourselves, and people around us have no problems telling us so if we tend to think differently. But how are you supposed to evolve into a better and more interesting

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Perspectives

I see a story, you see a book. Lately I’ve been pushed to think about perspectives. We are so easily stuck in our everyday struggles that we, blindfolded, run through it without questioning ourselves. I believe that’s one of the most dangerous things that can happen to you,