New comment/ The Story Lab

http://www.thestorylab.se/sv/blogg/2010/01/24/workshops
Unfortunately in Swedish...

/Ida

HAITI

Today my thoughts go to all the needed in the disaster of Haiti.
Please let us help them! Send money to http://www.unicef.se/stod-oss/haiti
See in the right column on my page.

Even if we don't have a lot of money - we can do a lot! That is my believe.

/Ida

New meeting

This afternoon I'm meeting with J-E at "Göteborgs Lokalförvaltning". (Gotheburg City Facilities management). I will get back to you with news from the meeting!

I hope you're having a good Friday!
/Ida

Stockholm

I've been in Stockholm for two days. Yesterday I finally got to meet Teresa Lindholm, working for her own company called "Interacta". We had a very nice lunch together and talked about our common interest in people interaction. I received an inspiring book about "the dialogue", which I'm going to read today. Thanks Teresa!

Tomorrow I'm probably meeting J-E at Gothenburg City. I'm doing a lot of networking right now :).

/Ida

Information video - GRUL

I received an e-mail from Fredrik Axelzon (see text below) who said that you all should watch GRUL's information video (only in Swedish I believe). Please check out: www.grul.se and in the right column it says "Presentation av GRUL".

/Ida

GRUL

Another inspiring website...please see www.grul.se (I will add it to the list on the right side of this page!)

What is GRUL?

"Experiential Learning (GRUL) works with inspiring and unusual methods from the world of game pedagogy, transplanting them to new environments in the field of education. We work with students in the classroom, with teachers in an education context, in a variety of development projects, and in research with a range of different partners.

We work on a wide scale with many different types of organization development issues, communication, leadership and change-oriented processes. An experience based method is at the center of everything we do, where the recipients are involved owners of the processes in which they engage.

We are a part of Göteborgsregionens Kommunalförbund, The Gothenburg Association of Local Authorities (GR)..." (text from the website www.grul.se)

I met Fredrik Axelzon from GRUL at FABEL KOMMUNIKATION in Stockholm a couple of months ago. He was the leader of a workshop I was taking part of. Fredrik works with social interaction, democracy issues and the EU.

/Ida

"Children take action"

The 25th of March I'm invited to the conference "Children take Action" (Barn tar plats) by Eva at Gothenburg City. The conference is about children taking part in urban planning.

We will discuss questions like:

* Which work methods can be used to understand the childrens perspective and knowledge?"

* "Which urban qualities are needed for the young people in the city?"

* "What are the characteristics of a developing school environment?" "How could we describe a good place to play?"

I'm looking forward to taking part in the conference!
Thank you Eva for inviting me.

/Ida

Today's aim

Yesterday I talked to Eva at Gothenburg City, about childrens possibility to influence their school environment. I received an invitation to a conference in the middle of March about the subject. Fun!

Today I will contact some more people sharing my interest in user participation issues.

To be continued,
i.

New people - new opportunities!

As you all know I've been off to Fuerteventura. I had a wonderful and relaxing vacation, recovering from being ill quite a while. Now, I'm full of energy and hopefull for an exciting year!

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with JE. Today I'm going to talk to more inspiring people, sharing the same interest in involving people to take action in design processes. Next week on Wednesday I'm finally meeting Teresa at Interacta, www.interacta.nu - which I'm really looking forward to! It feels like it's going to be a lot of fun meetings the next couple of days.

Please see my latest comment at http://www.thestorylab.se/sv/blogg/2010/01/13/brukarmedverkan
I will attach the file, in the column to the right!

Hope you all are enjoying the winter,
i.

Digital platform for urban design

I received a comment from Sweco Architects in Malmö, a couple of days ago.
The comment was about "Digital plattform för stadsbyggnad" or Digital platform for urban design. Thank you Sweco! I am right now reading through the document and finding it very interesting. I will get back to all of you with a short summary.
In the meantime you can, if you want to, read the document yourselves:

http://issuu.com/swecoarchitectsmalmo/docs/digital_plattform_for_stadsbyggnad

Have a good day!
/i.