The Zen Pencils website is a lot of fun and a great inspiration. I especially appreciate these two comics by Gavin Aung Than. This one based on a quote by Rachel Carson about wonder and excitement. I love how this brings together things that I care a lot about and which are shaping the way […]
September 22nd, 2015
Posted In: Place-based Learning
Tags: 2015, Allotment, community gardening, Degrowth, Kontrapunkt, Lindängelund, Malmö, Nature, Place-based Learning, Politics, Solidarity
I have been volunteering in community gardens in Malmö for the last four years as well growing as much as I can on my balcony and window ledges. Yet this summer, when visiting friends in England and Scotland, both gardeners, my partner and I realised it was time for our own allotment. The allotments are […]
Lindägelund – a new park and recreational space in Malmö is celebrating with the general public – Forest Days on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th October and Harvest Thanksgiving on Sunday 11th October. Come along and check out the community garden. Smell the roses. You can find us here. Come along and explore!
May 3rd, 2015
Posted In: Place-based Learning
Tags: 2015, Buen vivir, community gardening, creativity, Degrowth, Lindängelund, Nature, Place-based Learning, Poetry, Politics, urban farming, Women
A light exists in spring Not present on the year At any other period. When March is scarcely here A color stands abroad On solitary hills That science cannot overtake, But human nature feels. Emily Dickinson On the outskirts of the city of Malmö, in the very south of Sweden, a new green space is […]
“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t–and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.” ― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost In 2012, still fairly new in Sweden, I volunteered in a nature connection project […]
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us.
When we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
Andy Goldsworthy
Check out the great work of art and activist Mona Caron. In her words: “They may be tiny but they break through concrete. They are everywhere and yet unseen. And the more they get stepped on, the stronger they grow back.” hey may be tiny but they break through concrete. They are everywhere and yet […]
Both adults and children participated in the Land Art workshops at Ribersborg beach in Malmö, Sweden in spring 2014. Together we created the Malmö Land Art Collective. This is the creation of Filippa Knutagård (12-years-old in December 2014).
True learning – learning that is permanent and useful, that leads to intelligent action and further learning — can arise only out of the experience, interest, and concerns of the learner
John Holt
I became acutely aware that what a child wanted to do most of all was to make a world in which to find a place to discover a self.
Edith Cobb