This week I was in Sweden, presenting our research at the Fifth Annual Gothenburg AMBLE symposium on reading, mathematics and the developing brain. Sweden was beautiful, clean, cold, and politically progressive. It was also very expensive, and everyone I saw was white. It was basically a giant Whole Foods grocery store.
The Campus Pedagogen building at Gothenburg University was amazing. (Wow, does this country ever love design!) A case in point was this . . . um, tree . . . sculpture . . . light . . . thing in the library. People were sitting around reading, but I couldn't stop looking at the magical tree/lamp/sculpture.
In the hallway of the Campus Pedagogen Building was this row of lamps, with their cords just right there in your face, like, Yeah, we have cords! And if you've got a problem with that, too bad! Cause we're comfortable with our cords, and we're not going to hide them! You go, Lamps!
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| Everything was very design-y. I think this is a table. |
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| At the breaks, we feasted on crushed dreams. |
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| Our hotel in central Stockholm had a bar called Icebar. It was literally carved out of ice. The room, the seats, the tables, the lamps, the drinking glasses. And there were educational messages carved into the walls. |
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