Can we design and build our cities better to stop virus from spreading
Antivirus Architecture as urban design
Planting trees together
No doubt I'm skeptical about how phones and technology are changing our lives both indoors and on the trails. But once in a while I see it can also do good
Cityzen science architecture
Co creation is also about place-making and architecture, about creating places where people can walk, meet, discuss and innovate together
The community as umbrella
Our relationships and communities as an umbrella of people protecting us and helping us facing challenges together
Climate as circular storytelling
Drawing of self-watering can with a landscape inside as one way to explain circularity
Knowhere vs knowedge
Drawing up two different ways to understand on top of a book
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.
Should locals change for tourism?
Sometimes tourism experts promise good and better times, if the locals are willing to fit into the right Instagram moments
Creating livable cities by walking
Ever walked into a small town or village and wondered where all the locals are? - I think I know... they are online
Ivory towers and islands
The classic silo mentality is something many of us try to battle, but these defense towers like structures are more incorporated into our mindsets than we like to imagine and before we know it, we're back in the silo
Coastal innovation light bulbs
Creating networks and open innovation along the coastline is key to find ways to support the thrive of local communities and biodiversity, and help us all face local and global challenges like sea level rise and pollution
Three visitor types
Seeing places in different ways - sketch of three different types of visitors - The Outdoor type, The cultural Type and the Eating Type
Music as space
Space is not only created in what we can feel and see, but more than we realize - also in sounds
Coastal attraction below the water
Understandings of the coastline do not need to stop at the surface of the water - Seeing things under the water can create whole new levels of experiences and knowledge
Seeing a landscape from afar
Locals view their places very different from how visitors view the same landscapes - Often we forget these differences
Mountain-bikers using apps to create trails
Sometimes local communities find ways to use smartphones, apps and maps to find ways to connect and be together in better ways, that both support interaction, builds trust and protects biodiversity
Not Ready City facing flooding
Illustration of high waves approaching a city - People looking out of windows saying "we are not ready "
Sandbags stops city from flooding
Illustration of a community working together to stop their town from being flooded by water - texted and non texted version
Coastal management lady
Construction machines making their way to build coastal barriers and a lady standing on the beach worried about the looks of it
Fishing from the balcony
Drawing of a man sitting up in an apartment fishing from the balcony
Green rubber boot house
Building made to be resistant against flooding and sea level rise
Hiker walking along the coast
Drawing of a hiker walking along a coast trail at sunset
The faster you move the longer you need to go
Strange how walking can be the solution and how a higher speed can make the distance you have to travel so much longer
Trees and communities
Logbook 14 June 2018 - Watercolor of community around huge Baobab tree
By the edge
Logbook 9. Jan. The edge as a place
Frits Ahlefeldt: Hiking, thoughts & watercolors 