The world of business taught me how to create value.
Philosophy taught me to ask What do we mean by value?
My work lives somewhere in between.
I work at the intersection of strategy, organisational development and systems thinking, exploring what helps people and organisations stay capable, connected and adaptive.
I tend to the grey areas, the ambiguities and paradoxes. Connecting perspectives, noticing patterns and creating conditions for organisations to find direction in complexity and change.
A BOOK for Libraries
Libraries are among the few remaining public spaces where knowledge, democracy, dialogue and belonging intersect. This book explores how the physical environment can strengthen that mission and become everything we wish it to be for our citizens.
LIBRARY SPACES
Libraries have an important role in society, and a special place in my heart. They are not only places that contain books, but places that shapes how we encounter ideas, each other and society.
A library is not defined by the books it contains but by the relationships it makes possible.
As society changes so do the questions we ask of our libraries. How may the physical environment strengthen curiosity, participation and learning? What stories does the space itself tell? What does the library need to become in order to remain relevant for future generations?
Through writing, lectures, facilitation and spatial design development, I have for more than twenty years supported libraries in exploring these questions and translating them into environments that reflect their social mission.
FUTURE SHORT STORY
What if progress was measured not by speed, but by our capacity to notice and pay attention?
When does one stop arriving? is a speculative short story about care, belonging and the quiet relationship between people and place.
ART EXHIBITION
Much of modern society has been shaped by ideas of growth, efficiency and measurement. Ideas that have brought enormous progress and have influenced how we understand value, success and development.
In the exihibition, "Growth, what is that?", a collaboration with Malmö City, Malmö University, local businesses, ALMI Skåne and the public society we examine the linear way of thinking about growth. It is a space expanding perceptions. An invitation to rethink the idea on which the growth narrative of our times rests, presented by a series of spatial installations made from rebar forming an entangled labyrinthine mesh. Each installation explores a different theme relating to growth. One, initially appears to be a giant lukcy cat but is made up of hundreds of golden lucky cats. A myriad of little paws move frantically to lure in more fortune, asking the question: How much is enough? Produced and designed in corporation with Kossmanndejong. Showed at Malmö Museer during 2022.
Honored with the Silver Award in the Cultural Interior Design/Installation category by the International Design Awards, IDA 2023.
THESIS
How the Messiness of Identity Influences the Moral Entitlement to Recognition.
This thesis marked a turning point in my thinking and explores a question that has stayed with me long after.
What happens to our ideas of justice and recognition if human identity is not fixed but rather fluid, relational och continuously evolving?
Bringing together the work of great philosophers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor, the thesis examines the tension between contemporary theories of recognition and an increasingly complex understanding of identity. It concludes by proposing an alternative perspective that I call Mending Mothering, inspired by relationally, care and complexity.
TALK
In this TEDx talk I reflect on our tendency to value what can easily be measured and what becomes invisible when we do. It is a personal exploration of complexity and the questions that emerge when certainty begins to give way to curiosity. The idea of value, serving us humans well in the past, might no longer be the only truth. The playfield is changing and with that being said, I wish for this short TEDx Talk to be seen as a very personal input and reflection of the role of corporations, organisations, leadership and our economic model.
Our future potential as humans lays in our ability of re-patterning in the present moment and nurture what emerges
How I work
My work moves in the intersection of economics, philosophy and sociology. Grounded in strategy, organisational development and systems thinking I support organisations strengthen their capacity to navigate complexity and change.
I look for the emergent, the invisible and stay in the quirky questions. I connect perspectives and make sense of patterns to create conditions for learning, collaboration and sound judgement and decisions that takes organisations forward.
Whether I work with a foundation, a business, a cultural institution or public organisation I am interested in the same question,
What enables people and organisations to remain capable, connected, adaptive and resilient in a changing world?