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
Stopping the shopping
Colliding mindsets
We meet tough times wearing different glasses
Sketching social media and the fifteen minutes of fame
The algorithm keeping score
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
Keeping our distance
The latest news tells everybody to keep a distance to stop the virus... Schools are closed, public places empty and we are all keeping our distance
Those closest to the problems can be the best to help solve them
Challenges from pollution, to habitat loss, to hunger, to climate change might have at least one thing in common - Those closest to them can play essential roles in solving them
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
Jumping the motivation gap
What is it that makes us take the first steps?
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
Knowhere vs knowedge
Drawing up two different ways to understand on top of a book
Path away from it all or towards a better place
What we focus on seems to me to define us more than we realize, no matter if we walk away from it or towards it.
The challenge of being the edge
Thoughts on innovation, hiking and being first movers
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
Good Night Phone
Could we become less addicted to our phones by designing small beds to them, using the old association technique of mapping the need of letting people sleep, onto our phones, or is it just another gadget to fix a gadget?
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
The walk of life is one of the most used metaphors in our language and in making sense of landscapes of understandings
Arrow man with many targets
21. March 2019 - Drawing up ways to understand goals and targets
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.
Climate Change vs business as usual
The approaching sea level rise, with walls of water heading for our cities is so scary that most of us simply ignore it
Sometimes you have to pull yourself up
2. March 2019 - Facing the challenges alone
Hiking on different trails
We can walk in the same places but still be on different trails
Walking as a different reality
Logbook 1. January 2019 - daring into a new year of hiking
Frits Ahlefeldt: sketchbook and stories 