In the last couple of weeks we've been busy with a lot of things, classes obviously, very pleasant get-togethers, conversations, playing soccer, yoga, found the indoor rock climbing centre on campus, and also partying - massive zombie pub crawl saturday which you can see pictures of on my facebook page, so much fun (specially on the streets)!!
I actually think I'm going to take a break from the partying this week end so I can catch up on some reading!
Sunday the 3rd an orchestra from The Malmö Academy of Music was at BTH (our university) for a concert. It was a Chord Orchestra (right word??), absolutely amazing, I guess more so because I had never experienced one live before. A couple of friends and I who like drawing actually planned to draw the orchestra while they played, so we got in early and go front seats... How foolish was I to even think about it. The level of precision, focus, coordination and grace of the players, the quality and beauty of the music left me feeling like a child who got the DREAM Christmas present he never expected to have... fantastic. At the first break we looked at each other and ditched our papers and pencils back to our bags: we can't draw right now, no way!!
There was actually a pleasant surprise even before they started playing; the orchestra was composed of the teacher, a renown Swedish conductor (named Matthew Trusler) and (more importantly) students; many of them were actually really beautiful girls!! Voyez plutot:
Yeah... front seats rock
Yesterday we had a full day with Dr. Goran Carstedt, former CEO of Volvo and Ikea (short biography here: http://www.bth.se/ste/tmslm.nsf/pages/a5bbf5cbc998e921c1256de3003aac43!OpenDocument).
He was very impressive in a sense that he was humble, really speaking to us as if we were his friends and sharing what he had learned from his experiences. He talked about leadership towards sustainability and organisational learning. I really like what he told us, and will use some in the leadership essay we have due tomorrow, will post it then.
Here is the man, with a key slide
As far as leadership for sustainability goes, his talk was also very well set, the message coming out 'crisp and clear'. I cannot expose it here in a summary, but am most happy to share one reference he shared with us, a graduation speech from Paul Hawken: http://designthinking.ideo.com/?p=328. It is... very nicely elaborated, highly recommended even if you only read the first few paragraphs.
To finish, our photo freak colleague Kim Davis added some more Karlskrona photos to his album, great stuff:
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