a City for You

Angela is originally from Peru, and she moved to Sweden 2 years ago. A criminal lawyer by profession, working currently as a team leader. She considers herself a traveller, she has visited more than 20 countries and islands, the longest trip being 6 months in India. As well as other things, we have talked about: 💡 Utter Pradesh in India as a lovely place to photograph 💡 Differences within Peru -...

Yusuf Hussein is 21 years old, born and raised in Järva, Rinkeby. He is a person of many interest - a filmmaker, a director, a poet, an engineer student, and an executive director of a creative platform “Rise and Shoot”. We met at an event in Kista, organised by The Kloud and light artist Jonas Johansson half a year ago - and here we go, talking about cities! We touched upon: 💡 Competing in a poe...

Poppy works as a lighting designer in London. She grew up in a small village near Wales, Ewyas Harold. We met while studying at UWE Bristol and we were even sharing a flat for one year. So imagine how happy we were to meet one another again after those years! We talked about: 💡Coming together in a village pub after a working day 💡Bristol as a sociable city, easy to integrate into 💡Bustling and...

The episode was recorded in Tel Aviv, during my short stay there. Jane was born in a small Russian town, then has been studying in Ufa, after which she moved to Shenzhen, China. During the pandemic she moved to Pardesiya, Israel. She likes to catch the moments and notice details, which became a big part of our discussion. We talked about: 💡 Falling in love with Shenzhen, “city of the future”...

We know each other with Katerina since early childhood and until we both moved to study in the UK, we had only been meeting in Cyprus, once a year. And now, during my short visit to Cyprus, we meet again! Katerina was born and raised in Cyprus, while her mom is Russian. For the past 6 years she has been living abroad - studying and working in the UK. Now she is living in Dublin, Ireland. She is fa...

Sezel is currently working at Alva Labs as a customer success manager. She is originally from Bangalore, in South India - the “Silicon Valley” of India and is currently living in Kista - which is also sometimes called the Swedish “Silicon Valley”. Some of the topics that we have discussed with Sezel: 💡 Good mix of convenience and culture 💡 The “real” Bangalore 💡 Why does the sun setti...

Johanna and Tobias are landscape architects at Nyréns Arkitektkontor in Stockholm. They were both working on the Yoga Paviljong project in Vasaparken, where we have done the recording this episode. Some of the points we have touched upon: 💡 Yoga Pavilion in Vasaparken, soft light being a supporter 💡 Feeling safe in the darkness 💡 People cooking dinner on the streets of Guinea, ou...

Ursula has always been dancing and cycling (she made it through 31 countries on a bike so far...). She has been working as a teacher, as a manager and now for 28 past years she has been a speech and language therapist in Germany. We were recording this episode at Herräng Dance Camp .  Some of the points we have touched upon: 💡 The fountain in Freiburg as a place for dancing 💡 Hamb...

Güney is from İzmir, he has been living in Istanbul for 12 years now, 7 of which that he has been doing jazz dances, lindy hop is particular. It is his 3rd time in Herräng, the Dance Camp in the small village of Sweden. He is also a lawyer, just to spice it up. Some of the points we have touched upon: 💡 Herräng Dance Camp [ herrang.com ] 💡 The feeling of being out of the routine circle...

Лариса родилась в Санкт-Петербурге и переехала в Швецию 2 года назад. По первому образованию она инженер по охране труда, по второму - дизайнер интерьеров. В Питере она работала в МЧС, отвечала за оповещения о погоде. Некоторые из тем, которых мы коснулись: 💡Маленький русскоговорящий Стокгольм 💡Ходить по секонд-хэндам как treasure hunting 💡Мрачный Питер и (периодически) солнечный Стокгольм 💡&n...

Seth is a lighting designer and a (pseudo)light artist. He worked for the past 10 years in New York as a gaffer for film & television, moved to Sweden less than a year ago. Our conversation started from me visiting his master thesis at KTH and then developed on that. Some of the points we have touched upon: 💡City as a focal point of clutter 💡New York City vs Seattle vs Stockholm 💡Feeling li...

Rodrigo is working at KTH as the program director of a Masters program in Architectural Lighting Design , teaching students lighting and daylighting. I had a chance to have an informal chat with his as a part of this podcast a year after having completed that Masters and discuss soft aspects of lighting and differences between Stockholm and Mexico City . Some of the points we have touched upon: 💡...

We have recorded this episode at Münchenbryggeriet , a beautiful building with curious history so I felt it is worth mentioning. Joachim works as a landscape engineer at Outer Space arkitekter . He was born and raised in Stockholm. Joachim has been living in different parts of Sweden (as a fun fact, he lived in all of the Swedish cities that begin with "Lu"). Key points we have touched upon: 💡Lov...

Toufik is an educator. He enjoys travelling and learning as much as possible. He lived in Lebanon as a kid, became a chemistry teacher, was attracted by the field of education, then specialised in game design and human social skills. We have talked about: 💡 Having a friend in a city shaping one’s life path 💡 Power cuts in Lebanon 💡 Personal goals being motivated to the result, wh...

Martynas is an urban designer and planner. He graduated from Delft Institute of Technology (TU Delft) as an urbanist, and the worked in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Then came back to Lithuania and started his own studio ( http://mmap.lt ), in which they specialise on complex transformation projects in existing cities. Their main focus is community involvement and public participation on a large scale....

Лена родом из Киева (там сейчас живут её родители и большинство родственников). Она профессиональный фотограф, и видит город, в основном, через призму фото искусства. Мы говорили про города, с которыми Лена связана воспоминаниями — Копенгаген, Диксон, Норильск и Киев. О чём мы поговорили, вкратце: 💡 Место силы 💡 Киев, родной город Лены, любовь к которому ощущается сейчас ещё острее 💡&...

Polina has been living in Stockholm for the past 9 years, and she devoted almost all of that time to leading guided tours in the city — in English, French and Russian. She is also a teacher of several languages. Check out her blog to know more. What we have touched upon: 💡 Multiple levels of a city - architectural, social and even linguistic 💡 Being a small peck in Moscow 💡 ...

! This episode has been recorded on a Wednesday evening, February 23rd. Since then the world has changed, so it feels. I can understand people who might find this content irrelevant at the moment, but I have come to a decision to post this episode as this is a conversation that happened in that moment and I would still like to share that discussion with those who choose to listen to it - now or la...

Amanda is a Master student at the Stockholm School of Economics. She is originally American, grew up in the bay area, in the town called Saratoga, CA. She did her Bachelor in MIT in Cambridge, MA, spending 1 year in Cambridge in the UK. Let these facts act like a dry introduction to the curious and surprising stories that Amanda has shared with us today. Things we have talked about: 💡Having an el...

[This episode is in Russian. English episode will follow next week] Полина живёт в Мальмё уже 7 лет, занимается СММ, любит текст и книги. Вся ещё жизнь строится вокруг текстов и историй. Полина приехала в Стокгольм на выходные, и мы с ней успели встретиться и пообщаться, чему я очень рада. О чём мы успели поговорить: 💡Что чешки собаки на перекрестке говорят Полине о Стокгольме? 💡История про “тян...

Ashot is originally from Moldova with roots from different places, currently working with IT and enjoys social interaction. He has been on the radio, theatre, film voiceovers etc before and enjoys human interaction. Thoughts and topics discussed: 💡Meaning of “Inom tullarna” 💡Coffee as a city thing 💡Making an artificial city - why is it possible? 💡Different ways of participating in a city life...

Divya is doing her Masters in Sustainable Production Development at KTH. She has been living in Sweden for 1,5 years and it is the first time she is living on her own, which is a new experience for her. She grew up in the Southern part of India, in the state called Tamil Nadu so our discussion mainly evolves around two countries - Sweden and India. Points we have touched upon: 💡 Curfew in In...

Anna is a Secretary General for the Diversity Charter Sweden , which is the world’s biggest network for Diversity and Inclusion. She is currently living in Stockholm, and before she has been a citizen of London, Chicago and some other cities of Sweden. Anna likes having the sound of the city around, the people, the rhythm - she likes when it’s fast. Some of the points we have touched upon: 💡&nbsp...

Remo is coming from Switzerland (town of Zug) and sees himself as a filmmaker who is talking to people and with people, telling the stories. Besides that he is often on stage as a host, as well as being an artist and a podcast producer. He lives in two cities, which we have been discussing and comparing from various perspectives throughout the episode - Zug (30,000 inhabitants) and Berlin (3,5 mil...

Greg is a founder of an organisation " New To Sweden ", which works to help newcomers integrate to the Swedish society and the local labour market, through working with individuals and employers. We have first met through the Diversity Panel in THS Armada that I was moderating and Greg was one of the panelists, representing the cultural diversity perspective. What have we talked about, in short:...