Darold Alexander is from New Orleans, Louisiana, and we have met at Herräng. He is a MC and a frontman for a few bands & a very prominent person of Herräng 2024, as you might recall.
We talked about dance as escape (from responsibilities, work, dealing with people), about ageism on the dance floor and about drinking a lot on the dancefloor.
Enjoy and keep the city dancing!
The first episode of the new season of acityforyou. For the upcoming episodes we will be talking about dance in the city!
In this episode #138 we will be exploring BLUES and how this dance is experienced in different cities, partilucarly in Helsinki, where the episode was recorded.
Enjoy and keep your city dancing.
We have met with Anastasia Karachristou at Herräng, where we were both volunteering and, of course, dancing. So this episode is with a very sleep deprived version of Anastasia. She is a music teacher and she plays in the children's theatre in Athens. She has been dancing lindy hop and solo jazz for the past 8 years.
We talked about:
💡 Athens being alive until very late
💡 Herräng as a camp that people from the city made
💡 Porto being very atmospherical, like the Gotham city
💡 Light changing the theatrical experience
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Lizaveta was born and raised in Belarus, and lived in different European cities in the past years. She is a mathematician and a blues dancer. We have met at the Stockholm Blues Festival and recorded the episode right there.
We talked about:
💡 The difference in feeling when going home from a late dance class
💡 Recognising people's faces adding to a feeling of safety
💡 Different aspects of Berlin
💡Zürich making use of the surroundings when choosing artificial lighting
& much more
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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 - from jungle to Miraflores
💡 Connection to Cusco and the “Sacred Valley”
💡 Lighting of the Pyramids in Mexico
💡 One month festival in the middle of the dessert, Kumbha Mela
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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 poetry slam
💡 Creative platform Rise and Shoot
💡 Light as a source of creativity and inspiration
💡 View from the Fotografiska museum
Links to the projects we have mentioned:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/rise-and-shoot/
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 lonely London
💡Feeling taken in by a local in Italian cities, accepted and embraced
& more
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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”
💡 Different architecture within Tel Aviv
💡 Details in the city of Jerusalem, keeping the story within
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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 fascinated by Russian literature. In her free time she loves walking around galleries and museums, observing people.
Some of the points we have touched upon:
💡 City as a network, an atmosphere
💡 Walking around cities as a process to pay attention to
💡 Moving through the city at day and night as two different experiences
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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 setting affect how do safe we feel? Does it?
💡 Himalayan track experience - looking up at the night sky
💡 Bat-friendly lights in Järfalla
💡 Story of meeting her husband on a nighttime street in Cambodia
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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, outside their houses at night
💡 Grand Hotel in Stockholm being the most horrible light
💡 Private villas at light phenomena
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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
💡 Hamburg having more water streets than Venice & most amount of kilometers of indoor shopping
💡 Cycling through the Altai Mountains in the Gobi Desert - passing by a village where there was no word for “belonging”
💡 A story of Salome from Namibia who is taking care of 50 orphans [https://radreisenfueraidswaisen.de]
💡 Cities in Germany have started turning off lights in the city at 10-11pm, including traffic lights.
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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 when dancing
💡 Health and aesthetics aspect of urban lighting
💡Jumping in Istanbul dance Festival [jumpinatistanbul.com]
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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
💡 Работа в МЧС в Ленинградской области
И вопрос вам, дорогие слушатели, от меня. А вы снимете на видео, как вы закрываете квартиру на ключ, как Лариса?
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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 like you belong to the community
💡 Stockholm laking weirdness, as opposed to New York
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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:
💡City as a multitude of inputs
💡Memories and digital footprint
💡Functional lighting for work hours and expressive, distractive during after hours
💡Ciudadela Park in Barcelona
💡Me responding to Rodrigo’s question at the end of where does my interest in the city coming from
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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:
💡Love for the walking to connect the dots of the city, to get its identity
💡Discovering rudimentary land that is left, hidden infrastructure of the city
💡Making our own biotope
💡The wow-effect of the artificial lighting in a city (e.g. Stomatol skylt)
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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, while a collective task - the process becomes more enjoyable
💡 The social factor in a city
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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.
Some of the points we have touched upon:
💡 Four components that make a city liveable
💡 Process of urban transformation against the result
💡 The old prison turning into a creative space, Lukiškių kalėjimas
💡 A shabby looking cafe with water all around in Amsterdam
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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
💡 Свет ночного города для фотографа
💡 Оболонь и воспоминания из детства с дедушкой
💡 Поездки к папе, когда он служил в Норильске и на Диксоне
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