to have sent a note to architect Kendricks Bangs Kellog to say that they had bought an unusual building site in the Mojave Desert, California in the Joshua Tree National Park.
36 000 000 peolpe all over the world 🌎 has died of AIDS related illnesses all since the first reports over 40 years ago. Did you know that ?
38 000 000 [million] humans are living with HIV today around the globe.
I have lived with the threat of HIV | AIDS since I first came out and afraid tried to figure out who I was as a teenager. I do not recommend sexually transmitted epidemics when you are in a coming out process. I felt noone understood me. Today in the year of the pandemic maybe there is less social injustice regarding minorities in the midst of a pandemic..?
Still HIV negative myself but have so many friends that have died through the years that I miss and many close friends that have survived and have lived with HIV since the 80’s and are just fine today.
In countries where the proper medicins are provided the fight against HIV continues. In countries where homosexuality is against the law you can imagine the HIV protection system.
Do you feel you better understand and have empathy for fellow humans that are infected with virus since the world 🌍 epidemic of Covid-19?
Air quality, heating & cooling, ventilation, lighting and acoustics are extremely important factors when creating a healthy home and this is what key number 6 is all about : designing healthy homes.
According to the US environmental Protection Agency indoor air pollution is one of the 5 biggest threat to our health.
My search for circular interiors became my LECTURE | Föreläsning
The 5th key principle to Circular Interiors is designing for life.
What I call Life Design | LIVSDESIGN is everything from the bed that expands when the child grows to choosing furniture that lasts a lifetime instead of being worn out fast. To not throw away furniture to become landfill we plan for a long life and not only for one year at a time.
To design interiors that will last a lifetime is possible and that is what we look into with key nr 5 LIVSDESIGN | Life Design
in my Lecture | Föreläsning Inred Cirkulärt | CIRCULAR DESIGN
We understand that our waste | avfall is a huge part of our Climate Crisis. When we are aware we can act.
The 4th key principle to Circular Interiors is waste reduction. Within waste reduction, upcycling & repurposing there is so much we as consumers can do.
The 4th key principle to Circular Interiors | INRED CIRKULÄRT is
Waste Reduction.
Link to all 6 key principles to Circular Interiors :
The third key [out of 6] to Circular Interior Design is Sustainability | Hållbarhet in my lecture | fördrag INRED CIRKULÄRT | Circular Interior design.
Since the most ecological product is the one not made we are now aware of sustainability in the world.
We need to use the understanding of how to create circular interior design and throw less that end up as landfill material.
Life cycle Assessment or LCA meassure the impact a product has on our enviroment and can be a helpful instrument #lifecycleassessment
FSC labels can be found on millions of products around the world – from toilet rolls to your favourite book, to that milk carton in your fridge, and other food products. What does the label mean? Simply put: by choosing products with FSC labels, you are helping to take care of the world’s forests @fsc_international
Key nr 3 Sustainability | Hållbarhet In my lecture | föredrag we look at all 6 keys to Circular Interior design.
This is a short post on a 3 hour lecture to awaken the understanding for Circular Interiors | INRED CIRKULÄRT.
INRED CIRKULÄRT | 6 keys to CIRCULAR INTERIOR DESIGN
After realizing energy comsumption is one of the largest contributing causes to climate change we want to design energy efficiant interiors which is a large part of key nr 2 :
2. Energy efficient design
By reducing the amount of energy used to heat or cool your house, lighting 💡, kitchen & bathroom machines and all the electricity we crave we can contribute to lower energy consumption.
E 1027 E for Eileen 10 for J (Jean) being the 10th letter of the alphabet. 2 for B (Badovici) 7 for G as in Gray.
My first glass side table bought to my first apartment was from IKEA. It was a minimal glass and metall table which looked more like a dentist table in my eyes.
Industrial type design. I loved it.
My design savvy relative visting me the same day I had found the right place for my new IKEA table told me she preferred the original design by Eileen Gray and not this beyond bad copy.
Eileen Gray in her Bibendum chair.
Non Conformist chair Eileen Gray
Brick screen Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray
That is how I was introduced to the design universe of Eileen Gray who was born in 1878 Ireland and died 31st of October in Paris 1976.
Eileen Gray was an architect, interior designer and artist active within the International Style dominating the 1950´s to 1970´s.
The glass and metal adjustable table E 1027 was created for being able to eat breakfast, or any meal for that matter, in bed.
Feminist Theory History of Architecture from 2007 Architect Artist and Scientist Katarina Bonnevier analyses Villa E 1027 from a feministic and queer perspective. Her theory is that Villa E 1027 is created for an alternative lifestyle and not with the patriarchal straight so called normality in mind.
Rehearsing for our show Nossa Bossa in the summer heat by the river in Penedo, Brasil.
Growing up listening to and
loving Lill Lindfors.
Especially her brilliant album
Du är den Ende from 1967.
I was born 1967 so I guess
I learned to to love the song
Fri som en vind, meaning Free as a wind in Swedish, some time in the 70s.
When I was in my 20s working with
music theatre I understood
the influence of the Brazilian
music and learned to love Bossa Nova.
When I heard the song Fri som en vind,
Free as a wind, in Portuguese called
Canto de Ossanha it all made sense
Had until then never checked who had written the song Fri som en vind with swedish text by Torbjörn Lindroth. The original song called Canto de Ossanha is written by Vinicius da Moraes and Baden Powell and recorded in many versions globally since it was written in the 1960s.
The 19th of October 2020 Sanny Alves,
Marlon Mouzer and I recorded a bilingual duet of Canto de Ossanha in Swedish and Portuguese.
recored by Anderson Carvalho in Amsterdam, Holland.
The owner of Jazz Village Penedo where we recored the song
met Lill Lindfors in the 70s when she was visiting
Rio de Janeiro. The owner of Jazz Village Penedo
is a Swedish family the moved to Brazil
in the 50s and hosted Lill
as she visited Brazil in the 70s.
Sanny Alves and me rehearsing in the garden at Casa da Ilha where we live in Penedo.
It's a small world.
Don't you think?
I have emailed Lill Lindfors and will send another mail with our video of Canto de Ossanha Fri som en vind.
Lill Lindfors has not answered but I am happy she knows how much she has inspired me and my work and so many with me. I hope she will tour and continue here artistry
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