Layers and connections

Within each country it exists many cities, and
Within a city it exists many different worlds.

Each of this worlds have their own daily routine. Some
people manages to keep a floating barrier between two
or more worlds, but many people never even notice. They
can live a hole lifetime in this world, not knowing anything
else.

This is not mainly only because people don´t want to
know, but that they have now reasons to know. I´m not
saying this is bad or good, I only think that designers
should be aware of this, because problemsolving and
solutions can´t be build on one of these worlds point of
view only. If you see these worlds as layers, you can also
easily see that if you take one away, you would not get the
hole picture.

Of course you should see the layers on their own, but it´s
important to see the connection between.
A phonecompany here had a campain. The campain was to make
people use this phonecompany more, so they made the first 30
seconds of the phonecall free of charge. What happened was that
some people started calling each other saying one word and then
hang up.

I´ve been told the story, and I don´t know every detail, but I´m
shure the phonecompany didn´t think of the worlds that really
can´t afford all this use of phone that exists today, and they
also didn´t think of the connection between the worlds. because
you find friends across the barriers, imagine when your friend
always call you to say one word and you have to call him up,
you will start doing the same. A habbit in one layer is connected
to a habbit in another.

The phonecompany lost alot of money, and had to stop the campain.

Good design? /

Good Morning /

My window is not there. I was just about to close it the other
day, because it´s starting to get colder here. Then I discovered
that there was now window there, only the frame and the mosquito
net, that keeps all the mosquitos on my side of the wall.

Thursday the sky opende up, and it stayed open for 12 hours.
It actually rained into my room.. Kind of funny, but not today,
because I woke up with the worst throat ever. In Africa, 30 degrees
I really don´t feel like getting a cold. I would rather save it for Norway
where I could feel like having a good reason for a cold.. like snow or
something like that. I vote for cold as a norwegian sickness.

Saturday we went to a private party. It was in the suburbs, and because
of the rain, many of the streets are destroid. We were driving slalom
between the humps and the bumps and the shooes and the leather
couches they sell in the streets..

At the party we were served Mozambiquan food. Mozambiqan kitchen is
fabulous!! :) just to make you jelous. Anyway, we were listening to music,
eating talking and having fun. Then the electrisity went of, and everything
went black. I have never seen so many stars in my life, it was beautiful.

The rest of the night we spent singing, dancing and drinking, actually
much more fun than when the electrisity where on.

Having fun /

If I only...

Today, for the first time in my life,
I thought "if I only were a boy"...

It has nothing to do with discrimination
or any thing like that, it´s only the fact
that beeing a boy is more secure. I was
just talking to a photografer called Carlos,
and suddenly I thought; I could never have
this liberty in going around taking photos,
I would need a bodyguard to be safe enough...
But then I thougt that the limit for
robbing a woman may be higher than for a man,
and that sometimes a woman get´s away with
anything with a smile...

The conclution? Well, there is good things
in beeing a man, and from my point of view,
beeing a woman is even better;)