Future Tense

Nature - Humans - Past - Future - Presence - Absence These familiar terms are the stepping stones of thought that went into my thesis work. While some may pair these words together as dichotomies, I concentrate on the balancing act that exists between them. Since the first Industrial Revolution beginning in the mid-18th century, human activities have significantly altered the rest of the natural world. Other species have evolved in reaction to circumstances produced by human actions. Through my own observations of nature and research into how humans have impacted nature’s evolution, speculation began to swell as to what does the future look like? My thesis work presents found objects from human life intermingled with my own ceramic pieces that are inspired by nature but have elements of peculiarity. The relics represent a human existence and the ceramic components act as a symbol of other forms of life. These familiar, yet odd growth forms imply futurity, a continued existence. This futurity is stemming from a human element that is clearly from the past, combined with this altered view of nature. Are humans of the past too? Are these growths something of the future? At a fundamental level, the work I make as an artist is intended to imply that life will continue in some form, with or without us. My work evokes a glimpse of how things may evolve in the future in order to stress the importance of mindful consideration of how the decisions we make impact the environment

Lagom II

The design is inspired by intangible aspects of values and desires held by successful, stylish working men. Dialogue between extreme tradition and exciting avant-garde is portrayed in this adventurous contemporary outfit

Lagom I

The design is inspired by intangible aspects of values and desires held by successful, stylish working men. Dialogue between extreme tradition and exciting avant-garde is portrayed in this adventurous contemporary outfit

Agent-based dynamics in disaggregated growth models

This paper presents an agent-based model of disaggregated economic systems with endogenous growth features named Lagon GeneriC. This model is thought to represent a proof of concept that dynamically complete and highly disaggregated agent-based models allow to model economies as complex dynamical systems. It is used here for "theory generation", investigating the extension to a framework with capital accumulation of Gintis results on the dynamics of general equilibrium.Agent-based models, economic growth.

Ordspräk som öppna formier i dagens svenska

The present article develops some of the ideas contained in my MA-thesis Ordsprak i modem svenska... This article deals with analysis of proverbs as open formulae in Modem Swedish. It refers to a research done on two data corpora consisting of newspaper material and on some other newspaper articles and advertisements  from the years 1997-2004. In the written sources of Swedish proverbs available today some syntactic and semantic matrices serving for the construction of proverbs can be distinguished. In the research part of this article some forms of variation of the original matrix formulae have been observed and described. The conclusion is that the proverbs in Modem Swedish still undergo variation within the frames of the formulae, just as they probably did in the days of oral culture

Above and beyond? How businesses can drive sustainable development by promoting lasting pro-environmental behaviour change: an examination of the IKEA Live Lagom project

Current global changes require new business approaches driving sustainable development on all fronts. To date, most business approaches have focused on sustainable marketing and corporate social responsibility initiatives. In this field study, we examine IKEA’s Live Lagom project, a three year behaviour change initiative that aimed to explore how to go above and beyond conventional approaches demonstrating how businesses could support sustainable development by supporting their customers’ attempts to live more sustainable lifestyles. We examined the effectiveness of the project involving multi-faceted behaviour change interventions, testing for behavioural changes both during and after the project period. In addition, we explored changes in participants’ attitudes towards the company. Findings show that the extensive set of interventions led to changes in pro-environmental behaviours across all three participant groups with potentially positive impacts on the customer-company relationship. The article thus provides a call for further businesses to engage in similar behaviour change projects that would allow citizens to engage in more sustainable lifestyles and behaviours across contexts

Lagom är bäst!: Entendiendo la interrelación entre cultura nacional y responsabilidad social empresarial. El caso de Suecia

This paper reflects upon how national culture influences on Corporate SocialResponsibility practices. For this purpose, the metaphor of “organizationas culture” was used as theoretical framework, and Sweden as case study byidentifying elements from its history and language which have contributedto the acceptance and reinterpretation of CRS concept in the country.In conclusion, the paper presents the “socially responsible” condition as ambiguousand contextual, emphasizing on national culture as a variable whichcannot be underestimated in the analysis of CSR initiatives.Este artículo es una reflexión acerca de cómo la cultura nacional influencia alas prácticas de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial. Para este propósito seutilizó la metáfora de la “organización como cultura” como marco teórico ya Suecia como caso de estudio, identificando los elementos de su historia ylenguaje que han contribuido a la aceptación y reinterpretación del conceptode RSE en el país.En conclusión, el artículo presenta a lo “socialmente responsable” como unacondición ambigua y contextual, y enfatiza en la cultura nacional como unavariable que no puede ser subestimada en el análisis de iniciativas de RSE

Going to extremes : The Goldilocks/Lagom principle and data distribution

Numerical data in biology and medicine are commonly presented as mean or median with error or confidence limits, to the exclusion of individual values. Analysis of our own and others' data indicates that this practice risks excluding € Goldilocks' effects in which a biological variable falls within a range between € too much' and € too little' with a region between where its function is € just right'; a concept captured by the Swedish term € Lagom'. This was confirmed by a narrative search of the literature using the PubMed database, which revealed numerous relationships of biological and clinical phenomena of the Goldilocks/Lagom form including quantitative and qualitative examples from the health and social sciences. Some possible mechanisms underlying these phenomena are considered. We conclude that retrospective analysis of existing data will most likely reveal a vast number of such distributions to the benefit of medical understanding and clinical care and that a transparent approach of presenting each value within a dataset individually should be adopted to ensure a more complete evaluation of research studies in future