posts tagged ‘stockholm’

Brussels >> Stockholm

Leaving Brussels | May 10, 2009
Leaving Brussels | May 10, 2009

On Sunday May 10 MovingCities flew back to Beijing. A short inter-European flight from Brussels to Stockholm was followed by a longer Stockholm-Beijing flight. Only the first leg of the travel provided excellent conditions for aerophotography, especially while flying over a cloudless Belgium and The Netherlands. read more »

Stockholm >> Brussels

Stockholm | April 7, 2009
Stockholm | April 7, 2009

On Tuesday April 7 MovingCities flew from Stockholm to Brussels to embark on a five week inner-European journey. Departing under clear skies, Stockholm rapidly disappeared into an abstraction organization of architectures. With a new tag, called “aerophotography”, we document our past and future impressions of monitoring cities from the sky/airplane.

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Stockholm snapshots | part IV

Vällingby | April 6, 2009
Vällingby | April 6, 2009

On Monday April 6 MovingCities went scanning Stockholm’s suburbs. Based on advice from Stockholm-based architects Testbedstudio and Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter, a fieldtrip to the Vällingby and Rinkeby newtowns was undertaken. Using knowledge and experienced from last February’s the Crimson NewTown Research.
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Stockholm snapshots | part III

Stockholm | April 5, 2009
Stockholm | April 5, 2009

On Saturday April 4 MovingCities arrived back in Stockholm after participating in the City Move InterDesign Workshop. Following up on the first and the second series of Stockholm snapshots, we kept exploring the city center in a random fashion.

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Stockholm >> Gällivare

Robin Edman | chief executive of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID)
Robin Edman | chief executive of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID)

On Sunday March 22, all participants for the City Move Interdesign workshop gathered in Stockholms’ Arlanda airport. After a short introduction by Robin Edman, chief executive of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID), the group entered a small airplane which took us from Stockholm Arlanda to Lapland Airport, the last one positioned close to the town of Gällivare. In this small city, located 100 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, we will during the coming weeks investigate and explore how to move a city. More updates on the workshop progress, content and participants, hailing from 18 different countries, will follow soon, for now a couple of snapshots.
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