Remember the alarm clocks? Those in the old days, mechanical ones with sounds that could wake up everybody in the whole house - so different now...
Alarm clock story
Stopping the shopping
Sketched up this drawing yesterday… Researching it, I wonder why it is so often the young that have to change the ways of the adults, and the kids that take action to stop their parents from ruining our planet
Selv-isolation and loneliness
Still trying to grasp the change here, from fighting loneliness, to moving as far away from each other as possible... it seems like it happened in a second
Reality out of order
Some days it seems to me like the digital dimensions might still be working, but reality is less so...
The strange reality of large roads
While walking I could hear it from a long distance - the highway, I knew there were a footbridge, so I could get over
The science jam session
Innovating is often better with an element of chaos, chance and music mindsets thrown into the session
Search chain vs follow the leader community
Drawing of a group of people holding hands making a search chain, and the same people making a line, walking after each other. Community illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
From concerned to engaged
Can new technology give us an option to act on our concerns, instead of just sharing them?
What is Citizen Science
Preparing my talk about Citizen science and how we can understand it, both as creating trails and as images, I sketched up a scientist in a boat with just one oar
Dealing with expectations when hiking
Expectations comes in many forms - some of them are our own, in our backpack - other expectations are from those around us
Intelligent farming technology
Farming machines today comes in a new scale and with added artificial intelligence - Maybe even with new kind of needs?
Knowhere vs knowedge
Drawing up two different ways to understand on top of a book
Wanderers
Walking along home instead of to it
In a sea of cars
There are more than a billion cars on our planet, and the number of vehicles keep growing even though cars look less and less like the answer to many of the both local and global challenges we face today
Hiking between high and low habits
Habits are a bit like places... or maybe we can also see them as trails? Notes on habits, recovery and paths
Appreciating what we have
Umbrella vs boots - seeing what we lack The double envy paradox Text and illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt Often the grass can look greener on the other side, as we focus on what we lack instead of what we have. The good thing is that by talking together we can get the other side of... Continue Reading →
Life is the ultimate long distance hike
21. March 2019 The walk of life is one of the most used metaphors in our language and in making sense of landscapes of understandings
From Warrior to SelfieMan
Thoughts on how we went from spear throwing warriors, over self-sheltering businessmen, to become the modern Selfie taking man
Home Sweet Story
8. March, 2019 I wonder if a home is much more than a house and a place... Things like a relationship, a feeling, a time, a trail... and a story. A story we follow in all we do, both day and night.
In the hand of Artificial Intelligence
4. March 2019 More and more of our decisions are based on data collected, stored and analyzed, not by humans, but by computers
AI is ready, are we?
Soon most of us will become irrelevant, as technology can do more and more of our work, cheaper and better than us - without asking questions
Hiking on different trails
We can walk in the same places but still be on different trails
Understanding Circular economy
It is more difficult to create circular reality - than to talk about it. But we slowly starting to find ways to do circular economy
Sharing digital reality alone
From campfire to digital screens, Thoughts and illustrations of a changing reality
It’s better to walk about thinking than think about walking
Logbook note: How to think is one of the classic questions in philosophy - And most of the great thinkers were not in doubt - thinking is better on foot
