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Vittra - International and bilinguals schools in Sweden
"Vittra gives every individual the opportunity…

* to find the best approach for them: play & learn on the basis of their needs, curiosity & inclination in the best ways possible.
* to learn based on experience: learning is based on their experience which increases motivation & inspires creativity.
* to understand their own learning: equipped w/ the tools to acquire new knowledge & increase understanding of ‘How I learn’, which enables them to learn more easily & effectively in the future.
* to have faith in themselves & their abilities: become more self-aware, aware of their strengths & potential for development which means they dare & like to be challenged.
* to develop their ability to communicate & engage in respectful interaction w/ others: understand & are considerate to the needs & interests of others, can express & stand for their own views as well as take responsibility for their actions.
* to be equipped for study and work in an international environment…"

[via: http://gfbertini.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/vittra-school-system-sweden/ ]
communication  howwelearn  knowledge  play  curiosity  creativity  self-awareness  teaching  children  deschooling  unschooling  learning  education  schools  sweden  vittra  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Nina Lindgren
"I draw and create (and sometimes I also write) about things inside and surrounding. It interests me to come up with and to invent new realities and to tell the stories about them.

When it comes to arts and depicting it is an unsurpassed freedom to be able to bend and govern over what otherwise are rules and regulations. I search for sudden glimpses of unreality: preferably unforeseen and unpredictable to make virtual both real and pretended. If I draw a house balancing on one tiny piece of plank it will never fall, unless I want it to. In these own worlds you are the one to decide what reality is and what to be part of another's consciousness."

[via: http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2010/10/cardboard-heaven-by-nina-lindgren/ ]
portfolio  unpredictability  glvo  unreality  ninalindgren  sweden  artists  art  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Immerse yourself in the sounds of the Arctic (Wired UK)
"Adams, Plaid and Persen combined the poem with electronic music and the ambisonic field recordings to produce a piece titled Nord Rute -- the first in a four-part collection of performances about indiginous peoples titled The Compass Series, which merge poetry from Valkaeapää, music from Plaid and ambient audio from Adams. Nord Rute is a narrative account of the Sami people's annual migration.

The resulting performance is described as a "three dimensional psycho-acoustic experience" and an "ambisonic narrative evocation". During a performance the floor is covered with reindeer pelts and surrounded by speakers that create a plane of sound within which blindfolded audience members can immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the journey across the frozen wastes. To enhance the experience, there'll be absolutely no heating -- blankets will be provided and schnapps will be served instead."
ambient  surroundsound  ambisonics  rossadams  sháman  korpiklaani  music  singing  joik  yoik  nomadism  nomads  sound  sápmi  russia  finland  sweden  norway  sami  tundra  arctic  2010  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning? - Education - GOOD
"Jannie Jeppesen, the principal of Vittra Telefonplan writes on the school's website that the design is intended to stimulate "children's curiosity and creativity" and offer them opportunities for both collaborative and independent time. Vittra doesn't award traditional grades, either—students are taught in groups according to level—so maximizing diverse teaching and learning situations is a priority.

The open nature of the campus and the unusual furniture arrangements reflect the school's philosophy that "children play and learn on the basis of their needs, curiosity, and inclination." That's true for kids all over the world, so let's hope educators in other countries begin to pay attention."

[Not sure what the program is, waiting to read more. Previously: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665867/school-without-walls-fosters-a-free-wheeling-theory-of-learning ]
2012  classrooms  schools  children  design  unschooling  deschooling  democraticschools  freeschools  architecture  schooldesign  schools  sweden  learning  education  _schools  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ | Common Dreams
"While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different."
georgelakey  99%  1%  nonviolence  labor  history  norway  sweden  democracy  1930s  transition  socialism  unions  revolution  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Tensta Konsthall
"It is Tensta konsthall’s ambition to be an institution with a given place in the local community. At the same time Tensta konsthall aims to offer a program of the highest international quality, to be an ongoing and self-evident destination for people interested in art. Central to the konsthall is its particular focus on both various kinds of collaborations and on the intensive mediation of new ideas.

Art mediation, generally and even internationally, has lagged behind other aspects of art and therefore it is important to provide equal possibilities for its development. Essential to Tensta konsthall’s work with art mediation is a grounding in contemporary art and a development that retains the integrity of and respect for both the art itself as well as the public. This means, amongst other things, that each aspect of mediation must be tailor-made in relation to the art in question and to the individuals and groups involved in the interchange, demanding a great deal of time & energy."
libraries  archives  artmediation  lcproject  sweden  art  via:litherland  tenstakonsthall 
january 2012 by robertogreco
G.D.P. Doesn’t Measure Happiness - NYTimes.com
"What these societies have in common is that rather than striving to be the biggest they instead aspire to be constantly better. Which, in the end, offers an important antidote to both the rhetoric of decline and mindless boosterism: the recognition that whether we are falling behind or achieving new heights is greatly determined both by what goals we set and how we measure our performance."
scandinavia  nordiccountries  economics  via:anthonyalbright  2011  well-being  happiness  growth  gdp  improvement  society  capitalism  competition  davidrothkopf  measurement  carolgraham  nicolassarkozy  josephstiglitz  bhutan  jeffreysachs  us  china  development  post-development  stability  sustainability  prosperity  wealth  australia  canada  singapore  japan  netherlands  norway  sweden  denmark  luxembourg  europe  fiscalresponsibility  humanism  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
EconoMonitor : Ed Dolan's Econ Blog » How Smart Fiscal Rules Keep Sweden’s Budget in Balance
"American conservatives still sometimes mock Sweden as failed experiment in socialism, but the reality, especially under that country’s current center-right government, is quite different. True, Sweden’s public sector is larger than that of the United States, although the gap is not as wide as some people imagine. When all levels of government are included, the share of government expenditures in GDP is 52 percent in Sweden compared to 41 percent in the United States. Somehow, though, the burden of government spending has not crushed Sweden’s economy as completely as might be thought."
eddolan  fiscalpolicy  sweden  us  socialism  budget  politics  policy  fiscalrules  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Malpractice reform lessons from abroad - PNHP's Official Blog
"US requires patients injured by medical negligence to seek compensation through lawsuits, an approach that has drawbacks related to fairness, cost, & impact on medical care. Several countries, including New Zealand, Sweden, & Denmark, have replaced litigation w/ administrative compensation systems for patients who experience an avoidable medical injury. Sometimes called “no-fault” systems, such schemes enable patients to file claims for compensation w/out using an attorney. A governmental or private adjudicating organization uses neutral medical experts to evaluate claims of injury & does not require patients to prove that health care providers were negligent in order to receive compensation. Info from claims is used to analyze opportunities for patient safety improvement. The systems have successfully limited liability costs while improving injured patients’ access to compensation. US policymakers may find many of the elements of these countries’ systems to be transferable…"
health  healthcare  malpractice  law  legal  money  medicine  us  newzealand  nofault  sweden  denmark  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
In English - Kunskapsskolan
"Personalised education - towards clear learning goals

Kunskapsskolan will provide the best schools in Sweden where every student, through personalised learning and clear goals, will stretch their boundaries and learn more than they thought possible.

In Kunskapsskolan, you as a pupil will be placed in the centre. Personalised education means that the school and the teachers start from and adapt themselves to your goals, your ambitions and your potentials - not the opposite.

The main task of the school is to impart knowledge. In addition to this, it is the aim of Kunskapsskolan to provide each pupil with additional skills - methods of acquiring and using a variety of knowledge, as well as personal development - to be able to meet a future world of vast flows of information and a rapid rate of change. The fundamental principle behind our method of learning is the conviction that all pupils are different and that they learn in different ways and at different rates…"
education  sweden  learning  schools  lcproject  tcsnmy  teaching  kunskapsskolan  via:willrichardson  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com — John Holt Speaks to Swedish Teachers About How Children Learn
"talk John Holt presented to Swedish teachers in Gothenberg, Sweden on March 22, 1982…As Holt notes forcefully on this tape, unasked for teaching actually impedes learning, particularly for young children, a lesson confirmed by research that Holt notes in 1982 and quite recently confirmed again by new research cited in the Boston Globe (Front page, 3/29/11). However, a point often lost among today's unschoolers is that when a child of any age asks to be taught then "Go for it!" John provides an example of how a baby or toddler might ask for or invite teaching from an adult.<br />
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Like most of the audio tapes I have, this was recorded by John while he spoke, so the quality is a bit rough. I've removed as much hiss as I could, and the entire speech is here, though part 4 ends abruptly during the Q&A section. However, you are able to grasp John's final point, one he made often: schools should be more like public libraries, in spirit and in organization."
johnholt  unschooling  deschooling  education  learning  teaching  1982  sweden  schools  politics  patfarenga  libraries  organization  tcsnmy  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
SURFING OFF THE COAST OF SWEDEN | More Intelligent Life
"Surfers don’t just gather in California and Cornwall. A few tough men have made a habit of surfing at Torö, an island off the coast of Sweden. Among them is the photographer Daniel Månsson, who captures some frozen moments."
surfing  sweden  photography  cold  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Placticity, Global Movements and Bioregion Change [Quote from Robert Sapolsky here: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/files/articles/natural_history_of_peace.pdf]
"The first half of the twentieth century was drenched in the blood spilled by German and Japanese aggression, yet only a few decades later it is hard to think of two countries more pacific. Sweden spent the seventeenth century rampaging through Europe, yet it is now an icon of nurturing tranquility. Humans have invented the small nomadic band and the continental megastate, and have demon- strated a flexibility whereby uprooted descendants of the former can function eaectively in the latter. We lack the type of physiology or anatomy that in other mammals determine their mating system, and have come up with societies based on monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry. And we have fashioned some religions in which violent acts are the entrée to paradise and other religions in which the same acts consign one to hell. Is a world of peacefully coexisting human Forest Troops possible? Anyone who says, “No, it is beyond our nature,” knows too little about primates, including ourselves.”
thomassteele-maley  plasticity  adaptability  anthropology  society  human  ingenuity  change  gamechanging  robertsapolsky  bioregions  happiness  schools  schooling  deschooling  unschooling  primates  ecology  culture  lcproject  tcsnmy  history  sweden  germany  japan  war  agression  utopia  baboons  nomads  citystates  scale  humannature  phenotypicplasticity  environment  environmentalism  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Pirate Party (Sweden) - Wikipedia
"The Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals in Europe and worldwide, forming the international Pirate Party movement.<br />
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The party strives to reform laws regarding copyright and patents. The agenda also includes support for a strengthening of the right to privacy, both on the Internet and in everyday life, and the transparency of state administration. The Party has intentionally chosen to be block independent on the traditional left-right scale to pursue their political agenda with all mainstream parties."
sweden  politics  pirateparty  copyright  privacy  transparency  government  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Sweden Solar System - Wikipedia
"The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the solar system. The sun is represented by the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, the largest hemispherical building in the world. The inner planets can also be found in Stockholm but the outer planets are situated northward in other cities along the Baltic Sea. It was started by Nils Brenning and Gösta Gahm. It is in the scale of 1:20 million." [See also: http://ttt.astro.su.se/swesolsyst/stations.html via: ªªhttp://hello.typepad.com/hello/2010/12/they-had-me-at-scale-of-120-million.html ]ºº
sweden  scale  solarsystem  scalemodels  models  travel  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Learning from Finland - The Boston Globe
"As recently as 25 years ago, Finnish students were below the international average in mathematics and science. There also were large learning differences between schools, with urban or affluent students typically outperforming their rural or low-income peers. Today, as the most recent PISA study proves, Finland is one of the few nations that have accomplished both a high quality of learning and equity in learning at the same time. The best school systems are the most equitable — students do well regardless of their socio-economic background. Finally, Finland should interest US educators because Finns have employed very distinct ideas and policies in reforming education, many the exact opposite of what’s being tried in the United States.<br />
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Finland has a different approach to student testing and how test data can or should not be used. Finnish children never take a standardized test. Nor are there standardized tests used to compare teachers or schools to each other…"
finland  us  education  policy  teaching  schools  equity  equality  pisa  systemsthinking  cooperation  government  sweden  germany  choice  competition  leadership  standardizedtesting  pedagogy  reform  2010  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
jagnefalt milton: a rolling master plan
"swedish architecture firm jagnefalt milton has been awarded third prize for 'a rolling master plan', their proposed development for the idea competition of andalsnes in norway.

the design utilizing new and existing train tracks to create a diverse system where buildings roll through the city on rails, providing an opportunity to reorganize programmatic requirements in relation to the urban space. the mobile flexibility allows the city to adjust for uses such as concerts, festivals, markets, and seasonal changes.

the integration of mobile structures - including a rolling hotel, public bath and concert hall - has the potential to transform the city into a dense, integrated and continually changing scenography. the temporary, small-scale structures sets the 'city in motion', providing an important connection between the land and the sea."

[See also: http://www.jagnefaltmilton.se/page4.html ]
design  architecture  urban  planning  mobile  mobility  nomads  neo-nomads  jagnefaltmilton  sweden  norway  rail  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Preoccupations's Wikileaks Bookmarks on Pinboard
Through his bookmarks on Delicious, David Smith is building a valuable reference on the topic of Wikileaks surrounding Cablegate. See also his bookmarks for Julian Assange: http://pinboard.in/u:preoccupations/t:Julian_Assange
wikileaks  2010  davidsmith  julianassange  privacy  us  security  amazon  espionage  paypal  search  hosting  internet  web  information  dns  freespeech  sweden  france  cloud  cloudcomputing  censorship  democracy  policy  politics  whistleblowing  secrecy  government  activism  journalism  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
KIOSK - Interesting things from interesting places
"ARCHIVE: JAPAN, SWEDEN, MEXICO, GERMANY, FINLAND, 8 for 2008 + 1, HONG KONG<br />
AMERICA 1, 9 for 2009, AMERICA 2, Provence, Portugal, Groundhog Day, Iceland, America 3"
art  culture  design  accessories  gifts  shopping  japan  sweden  mexico  germany  finland  iceland  us  international  global  provence  france  hongkong  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Are we better off renting? | Money | The Observer
"For generations, we've aspired to be home owners. But evidence shows we'd be better off renting – both individually and as a nation. In Germany and Sweden, the rental market is credited with making people wealthier and happier, and with creating more attractive cities. So, is it time to sell up?"
via:cityofsound  renting  housing  homes  money  finance  happiness  sweden  germany  wealth  economics  incentives  society  socialstigmas  uk  us  switzerland  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Chef Marcus Samuelsson | PRI's The World
"Marcus Samuelsson is one of America’s top chefs. Indeed, he recently won the TV cooking competition, Top Chef Masters. Add that to accolades including 3 star-reviews from the New York Times and awards from the James Beard Foundation. Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia. But after his birth mother died, he was adopted by a couple from Sweden, where he grew up. Samuelsson’s food takes in influences from, among other places, Sweden, Ethiopia and New York City, where he lives. The World’s Alex Gallafent spoke to Samuelsson and asked the chef to share some of his musical influences too."
marcussamuelsson  sweden  ethiopia  us  music  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Open education: if you can do it, do it | FLOSSE Posse
"NYTimes wrote about fathers’ leave in Sweden. The articles ends w/:

"In Sweden I am on right,” Mr. Westerberg said, “but in US, I’m considered Communist.”"

Some days ago David Wiley wrote that w/ open content Open Knowledge Foundation gets it wrong when claiming share-alike licenses are open but non-commercial ones aren’t.

For those who are not familiar w/ open/free content/knowledge discussion, share-alike license has a condition asking people who remix or build upon content to distribute resulting work under same license. The license ensures later works will stay in commons. Wiley wrote:

“When authors adopt share-alike license, they are saying: we value the freedom of content over the freedom of people.”

As an author using share-alike license I see this a bit differently. I value the *freedom of mankind*, the common good, over the freedom of content or individuals.

I think that this is the way most SA people see it: When you are given, you should give back, too."
teemuleinonen  sharealike  communities  freedom  collectivegood  licensing  copyright  sweden  us  polict  individualism  opencontent  open  openknowledgefoundation  commercial  non-commercial  creativecommons  free  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Higher education and wages: Study leave | The Economist [Chart]
"YOUNG people often worry whether the qualification for which they are studying will stand them in good stead in the workplace. According to the OECD, college and university leavers are better placed in the labour market than their less educated peers, but this advantage is not even in all countries. Young graduates living in Spain are particularly likely to end up taking low-skilled work, while those in Luxembourg rarely take anything other than a graduate job. American and British students appear to have the biggest incentive to study: British graduates aged 25-34 earn $57,000 on average. Their Swedish peers earn $37,400."
education  college  colleges  universities  credentials  salaries  comparison  us  uk  sweden  labor  overeducated  work  markets  international  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
A Taste of Home in Foil Packets and Powder - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
"Troops from nearly 50 lands dine on combat meals in Afghanistan — each reminding them of where they’d rather be."

[This links to images of meals from 15 different countries. The article is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/weekinreview/05gilbertson.html via: http://charliefinn.tumblr.com/post/1070455364/a-taste-of-home-in-foil-packets-and-powder ]
food  afghanistan  rations  military  us  australia  britain  canada  denmark  germany  italy  lithuania  poland  spain  sweden  norway  ukraine  comparison  2010  classideas  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
tor palm: south africa project
"as part of their final project from the carl malmsten furniture studies in stockholm, sweden tor and mattias of tor palm, wanted to utilize their woodworking skills and collaborate with
sweden  torpalm  stockholm  southafrica  design  furniture  wood  lighting  craftsmanship 
august 2010 by robertogreco
World's Happiest Countries: Gallup Survey (PHOTOS)
"While the United States may still be the richest nation on Earth, it can't claim to be as happy as Denmark or Finland. In fact, according to a new analysis of data provided by the Gallup World Poll, the relationship between overall life satisfaction and wealth may not be as straightforward as previously thought."
2010  countries  happiness  health  healthcare  polls  well-being  us  denmark  finland  norway  netherlands  costarica  canada  switzerland  sweden  newzealand  austria  australia  belgium  brasil  panamá 
july 2010 by robertogreco
patfarenga.com - Sweden Bans Homeschooling: What would Pippi Longstocking say?
"The fierce independence and unconventional philosophical views of Pippi Longstocking, one of Sweden's most famous fictional characters and an autodidact, certainly seem diminished in light of this law. Indeed, a modern-day Pippi would have to flee to a country with more educational and personal freedom than Sweden in order to have her adventures now. Perhaps we should encourage all homeschoolers to boycott travel and goods from Sweden until they allow families the educational freedom to raise and teach their children in accordance with their religious and philosophical views?"
sweden  law  patfarenga  pippilongstocking  education  policy  legal  homeschool  schools  learning  autodidacts 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Hyper Island
"Hyper Island started in 1995 when Jonathan Briggs, David Erixon and Lars Lundh met during a project involving a CD-rom production. They soon realized the increasing need of a different kind of education involving industry based learning, for the growing new media industry. The first long term program at Hyper Island started in Karlskrona 1996 with 32 students.
sweden  stockholm  schools  technology  graphics  advertising  agency  education  portfolio  webdesign  media  interaction  art  design  lcproject  tcsnmy  training  iphone  applications  development 
june 2010 by robertogreco
cityofsound: Could Australia become the ‘Nordic Region’ of the Pacific Economy?
"So with a similar population base, and a similarly useful strategic position, could Australia become the ‘Nordic Region’ of the Pacific Economy?
australia  future  europe  education  china  business  history  nordiccountries  scandinavia  sweden  norway  denmark  finland 
march 2010 by robertogreco
On the Bailout Hustle - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant
"My feeling is similar to what Barry Ritholtz proposed. He said that “we should have gone Swedish on their asses.” The Swedes after a similar bubble burst in 1992 temporarily seized control of insolvent institutions, forced banks to write down losses before they got aid, & gave taxpayers a huge share in the upside of recovery. It was a tough-love approach that really worked & forcefully addressed the moral hazard issue in a way we never touched.
economics  bailout  sweden  corporatism  matttaibbi  barryritholtz  recovery  crisis  2010  housingbubble  banking  us  policy 
february 2010 by robertogreco
National Journal Magazine - U.S. Versus Europe: No Winner
"Which has the superior economic model, the United States or Europe? The question keeps coming up and never gets resolved. It is having another go-round at the moment, with the adversaries lining up as usual. Conservatives say that Europe's social-democratic model is bound for the landfill of history. Progressives defend the model, even if they usually stop short of recommending it outright.
us  europe  economics  individualism  society  socialism  democracy  taxes  policy  politics  progressives  government  scandinavia  denmark  france  sweden  netherlands  paulkrugman  productivity  work  well-being  employment  efficiency  effort  growth  assimilation  immigration  class  optimism  innovation  competitiveness  labor 
january 2010 by robertogreco
click opera - Raise your spirit, level your society!
"Inequality is bad for us...message of The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better, a new book by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, two epidemiologists...draws political conclusions from scientific observations, and as such it's full of fascinatingly counter-intuitive insights, such as the idea that inequality makes the lives of the rich worse as well as the lives of the poor. The authors take up and run with Oliver James's point that capitalism makes you mentally sick, saying that it's not just the poor who suffer from the effects of inequality, but the whole population; mental illness is five times higher across the whole population of the most unequal societies than it is in the most equal ones. It's not being poor per se that sucks, it's living amongst people with very different life outcomes. Mental illness and obesity, drug addiction and violence, teenage pregnancy and the weakening of community life -- all increase in more unequal societies."
culture  spirituality  economics  politics  disparity  inequality  sweden  japan  us  trends  books  capitalism  well-being  health  society  momus  research  uk  portugal  scandinavia  lifeexpectancy  poverty  mentalhealth  mentalillness  stress  gini  equality 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Stora Enso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Swedish copper mining company Stora Kopparberg ("great copper mountain") in Falun was granted a charter from King Magnus IV of Sweden in 1347, although the first share in the company (granting the Bishop of Västerås 12.5% ownership) dates from 1288. Some claim this to be the oldest existing corporation or limited liability company in the world."
copper  mining  sweden  storaenso  glvo  corporations  history 
december 2009 by robertogreco
The Education Revolution - Forbes.com [compare: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2009/10/closing-schools-and-restaurants.html]
"In Sweden, educational landscape has been transformed by advent of a sweeping choice program that allows anyone...to establish their own schools that would then receive per-pupil funding at roughly the same rate as state-run schools...But it turns out that solidarity-minded Scandinavians have gone far further in this direction than any American jurisdiction. The results have been a stunning success, one that has delighted students and parents alike. As Anders Hultin, one of the creators of Sweden's system of "free schools," has argued, the profit motive has encouraged successful schools to clone themselves, not unlike a fast-food franchise...Were I to design my own free school, I would follow Blinder in focusing on the value of teamwork. Among other things, I would require students to hold after-school jobs & apprenticeships to instill a sense of responsibility. Ideally, I'd encourage--indeed, I might even require--all high school graduates to take a gap year before starting college."
sweden  education  competition  schools  charters  lcproject 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Inhabitat » Ladonia: A Micronation Made of Driftwood and Nails
"Looking for a change of scenery? Consider moving to Ladonia, a micronation made up of driftwood, nails, and nine-story wooden “fortresses” located in the southwest corner of Sweden. Designed by Lars Vilks, the mock nation consists of two works of art: Nimis, a maze of 70 tons of driftwood and nails, and Arx, a stone and concrete sculpture that looks like a melting sandcastle." [see also: http://www.ladonia.net/]
art  ladonia  micronations  sweden  wood  sculpture  glvo 
august 2009 by robertogreco
CREATORS INN by Elvine
"Partnering with different local independent organizers Creators Inn by Elvine has been offering visiting creators short-term accommodation during their stay in Gothenburg. Totally free. No hidden fees. The project is currently evolving."
göteborg  sweden  design  communities  creativity  travel  glvo  fashion  community  hotels  free  art 
july 2009 by robertogreco
The Virtues of Godlessness - ChronicleReview.com
"It is a great socioreligious irony — for lack of a better term — that when we consider the fundamental values and moral imperatives contained within the world's great religions, such as caring for the sick, the infirm, the elderly, the poor, the orphaned, the vulnerable; practicing mercy, charity, and goodwill toward one's fellow human beings; and fostering generosity, humility, honesty, and communal concern over individual egotism — those traditionally religious values are most successfully established, institutionalized, and put into practice at the societal level in the most irreligious nations in the world today."
religion  sweden  denmark  psychogeography  psychology  happiness  ethics  culture  society  atheism  morality  belief  theology  philosophy 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Spotify – A world of music. Instant, simple and free [via: http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2009/01/itunes-and-spotify.html]
"Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.
music  online  spotify  radio  mp3  streaming  sweden  onlinetoolkit  free  audio  services  socialmedia  community 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Spontaneous kid play activities with cell-phones
"The paper reports the results of a field study concerning swedish kids (10-12 y.o) and their use of mobile phones in indoor and outdoor settings. The authors mention that they were interested by unsupervised social play and “spontaneous play activities” taking kids as a particular use case of mobile devices target. The locus of their study was therefore peculiar: situations where children were able to play fairly undisrupted for a longer period of time, and in explicit social settings. This is why they chose play centres located in parks. In terms of methodology, it’s a mix of observation and kids interview (focus groups) about cell phone usage over the course of 6 weeks."
children  mobile  phones  play  games  spontaneity  sweden  technology  communication  creativity  tcsnmy  classideas 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground [see also the comments for further discussion]
"It's difficult to come up with a small icon that means "command", and we didn't think of anything right away. Our bitmap artist Susan Kare had a comprehensive international symbol dictionary and she leafed through it, looking for an appropriate symbol that was distinctive, attractive and had at least something to do with the concept of a menu command. Finally she came across a floral symbol that was used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground. She rendered a 16 x 16 bitmap of the little symbol and showed it to the rest of the team, and everybody liked it. Twenty years later, even in OS X, the Macintosh still has a little bit of a Swedish campground in it."
symbols  apple  sweden  commands  mac 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: Kitchen of Light: The New Scandinavian Cooking: Andreas Viestad, Mette Randem: Books
srg  books  cooking  sweden  scandinavia  food  andreasviestad 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: Aquavit: And the New Scandinavian Cuisine: Marcus Samuelsson: Books
srg  books  cooking  sweden  scandinavia  food  marcussamuelsson 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: A Culinary Tour Of Sweden: Tina Nordstrom: Books
srg  books  cooking  sweden  scandinavia  food  tinanordström 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Swedish Cardamom Rolls Recipe at Epicurious.com
food  recipes  sweden  srg  glvo  scandinavia  cooking 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Startsida Kulturhuset
"The three rooms are especially designed for children of different ages, with different physical needs and abilities. Here kids will find hideaways, hammocks where they can lie and read peacefully, exciting things to look at."
lcproject  community  learning  art  libraries  studios  workshops  sweden  scandinavia  social  stockholm  music  design  culture  children  activities  travel 
may 2008 by robertogreco
kulturhuset on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturhuset "Opened in 1974, (Swedish for The House of Culture) is cultural centre to south of Sergels Torg in central Stockholm; both loved & hated as symbol for Stockholm & growth of modernism in Sweden"
lcproject  education  learning  studios  community  scandinavia  sweden  art  libraries  workshops  social  stockholm  music  design  culture  children  activities  travel  youth  teens 
may 2008 by robertogreco
CoSN Senior Delegation to Scandinavia ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
"story by now familiar: while no simple explanation for student success in these countries, contributing factors include wider social safety net, high pay & status of teachers, pervasive (& unfiltered) access to internet, much less emphasis on testing."
scandinavia  sweden  finland  norway  denmark  iceland  schools  policy  internet  teaching  learning  stephendownes  society  education  schooling 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Text Messaging as Toy or Tool : OUPblog
"Americans are fixated on the dark side of cell phones...in Europe SMS first appeared in 1993, giving young people decade more experience with medium than American counterparts. What is still toy in US...pedestrian appliance elsewhere"
etiquette  technology  moderation  europe  us  sweden  italy  teens  youth  adaptation  beyondexuberance  society  norms  behavior  communication  voicemail  texting  sms  mobile  phones 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Jacob Dahlgren
art  artists  sweden  sculpture  installation 
march 2008 by robertogreco
MEDIUMISM
"We were invited by Jacob Dahlgren to design an art museum for children. The scaled down building is currently exhibited in the main gallery at Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden."
architecture  children  museums  design  sweden 
march 2008 by robertogreco
IKEA accused of teasing Denmark - Gadling
"many pieces of furniture, like sofas, wardrobes and bookshelves, are named after places in Norway and Sweden. Denmark on the other hand gets stuck with doormats and carpets. Apparently this has caused a recent Danish uproar, blaming IKEA for naming produ
ikea  denmark  names  sweden  language  nationalpride  naming 
february 2008 by robertogreco
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Swedish model of 'free schools'
"rather than complaining or simply going private, Lundquists decided on a route currently not available to most British parents - they actually set up a brand new state school themselves with other local parents and helped run it just how they liked."
education  schools  choice  sweden  charters  children  competition  learning  via:grahamje 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Click opera - Play = communication = fun = creativity = design = events = blah
"sometimes I wonder what the hell we're all playing at. Is all this waffle about "communication" and "play" just what post-industrial societies do when they've lost all productive sense of purpose? Where, in all this, is the relationship between design an
art  children  creativity  design  engineering  ethics  innovation  science  work  play  gamechanging  glvo  momus  industry  postindustrialism  us  sweden  japan  recycling  sustainability  environment  production  products  sweatshops  manufacturing  culture  consumerism  conferences 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Tyler Brûlé : The best and worst in meeting venues - International Herald Tribune
"my ranking of the world's most and least hospitable places to conduct business meetings. The following criteria were gathered over the course of the past two months while on assignments in Asia, Europe and North America:"
meetings  culture  global  courtesy  mobile  phones  meatspace  world  international  tylerbrule  germany  us  sweden  japan  italy  dumponus  business  etiquette  collaboration  rankings 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | To the end, a man of music
"the true artist is the child...school starts reproaching us if we show too much trust in imagination and fantasy..If, later in life, having - hopefully - made it through school, you wish to become an artist, then you must recapture what you had as a chil
children  ingmarbergman  film  people  creativity  imagination  schools  deschooling  music  sweden  homeschool  lcproject  learning 
august 2007 by robertogreco
PPP [Pink Prank Project]
"Our friend Jacob who is a bit artsy went to New York for a week. We got hold of his keys and turned his messy flat into an art installation."
art  color  fun  furniture  humor  interiors  sweden  pranks 
may 2007 by robertogreco
Wooster Collective: Urban Recreation from Akay and Peter
"The work that these two guys do on the street is extremely rare, in the sense that it truly goes beyond spray cans and wheatpastes to be actual architectural structures and installations."
books  streetart  street  urban  installation  architecture  space  design  art  urbanism  recreation  sweden  stockholm 
january 2007 by robertogreco
Marginal Revolution: How good is the Nordic model?
Jeffrey Sachs has written a new paper on the Nordic model, extending his Scientific American article in praise of the welfare state. It is listed as "not for quotation" so I won't. I agree with much of the paper, but I would emphasize a few propositions m
economics  europe  sweden  politics  policy 
october 2006 by robertogreco
BBC NEWS | Europe | Green living takes root in Sweden
""Western Harbour" is not the most romantic name for a pioneering ecological housing development - but then Sweden is pursuing green goals with more pragmatism than flamboyance."
urban  planning  architecture  design  green  environment  sustainability  sweden  europe 
october 2006 by robertogreco
front - [navigate to "projects", then to "animals"]
"Design by animals. Wallpaper, hooks, lamps and other everyday objects designed by rats, dogs, snakes and beetles. We asked animals to help us. "Sure we'll help you out", they answered. "Make something nice", we told them. And so they did."
art  furniture  design  sweden  portfolio  products  animals  nature 
october 2006 by robertogreco
Wired 14.10: Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up
"Directors of the game device company went on living large long after their handheld flopped. Then a high-speed Ferrari accident blew their world to bits. By Randall Sullivan from Wired magazine."
games  news  sweden  videogames  finance  gizmondo  fraud 
october 2006 by robertogreco
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Sweden sticks to multiculturalism
"Sweden has opted for multiculturalism, rejecting the assimilation model of neighbouring Denmark, which has one of Europe's toughest policies on immigration."
ethnicity  immigration  language  politics  religion  sweden  europe  economics 
september 2006 by robertogreco
Treehugger: Sweden Raises The Renewable Energy Bar
"Sweden Plans on Being the First Country in the World to Be Free From Oil in 2020"
business  environment  science  future  europe  sweden  energy  technology 
january 2006 by robertogreco

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