A fantastic marathon of asking deep questions has now come to an end. Literary agent, publisher, editor and intellectual enzyme  John Brockman has now closed his famous series of World Question ... Read more

The art museum Aros in Denmark's second city Aarhus is presently offering the outstanding exhibition "Tomorrow is the question" with an impressive string of international artists presenting their ... Read more

  The book "Se frem" is published in Danish on October 30, 2017. It deals with looking ahead and the need for a new enlightenment. In doing so it discusses the legacy of philosopher ... Read more

Light! by Tor Nørretranders and Olafur Eliassaon was published today. The window of leading Copenhagen bookseller Arnold Busck has it on display at the popular pedestrian street ... Read more

The new book on Light! co.-authored by artist Olafur Eliasson and myself, is already number 1 million on the bestseller list at Amazon.co.uk.     Pretty good to be a on the ... Read more

To be published Dec. 13: Tor Nørretranders and Olafur Eliasson Light! On light in life and the life in light Order now   A visually moving and verbally hard-hitting criticism of ... Read more

Now comes the solar charger for mobile phones Support at ... Read more

Designer Jacob Jensen (1926-2015) was a wonderfully mad and gifted man who invented the Bang & Olufsen style of hi-fi in the 60ies: Apple design a few decades before Apple. Jacob Jensen ... Read more

Video of talk on commonities and the internet at a ParaLimes conference in Singapore, March 2-4.   Here is a video of a talk on the ideas of commonities (communities that govern commons) ... Read more

Annual Question on Edge What do you think about machines that think? That is literary agent John Brockman’s question this year to an international group of outstanding and outspoken ... Read more

We are entering the final week of the exhibition The Heart of The Stone  on Danish Arcihtecture Center in Copenhagen, ending Sunday Sept. 21st. It is open all days this week 10-17 -- wednesday also ... Read more

Here is a banner with Danish text: It describes an exhibition about architecture that can be seen at Danish Architecture Center DAC in Copenhagen until September 21. I strongly recommend ... Read more

MAD means food in Danish -- and is also the name of the breathtaking and mindblowing annual global symposium for chefs arranged by Rene Redzepi and friends around restaurant noma, the world's best ... Read more

From the Danish energy revolution at the island Samsø, a world leader in renewable energy, comes this charming and thoughtful book on communities and commons. The theme is communities governing ... Read more

A wonderful little 12 minutes long film on breathing – resulting from the rich activities at the art Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. The video (availabale here below as well as on Vimeo) ... Read more

A wonderful e-book on compassion and how to cultivate it, nourish it and train it was published today by Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in ... Read more

The geneorus and rich food symposium MAD 3 hosted by Rene Redzepi of noma and friends now produced a recap of the last meeting at sunday-monday. It is available on ... Read more

Tickling was a major issue in a talk today at the MAD Food symposium i Copenhagen. The tickling experiment led to the call for kitchens to explore our senses: Tickle us, chefs. More to follow on ... Read more

What are the forgotten reasons to be concerned? The wonderful annual question from the Edge website conducted by New York literary agent John Brockman brings together voices from the world of ... Read more

Artist Olafur Eliasson has collected an offering of thoughts on light and lighting from a global group of thinkers and doers: A Charter of Light and Energy. On display at the website of the Little ... Read more

Strawberry ice-cream with vanilla and caramel? Cross-country ski slopes with bushes and fir trees? Japanese seaweed on a weird beach? You are nowhere near. Look again -- dream on and only then ... Read more

MAD Food symposium talks available as audio files at renewed website. The spectacular lineup of talks from the two MAD Food Symposiums held in Copenhagen during the summer of 2011 and 2012 are now ... Read more

What a relief: "Fine dining is dying," says Christian Puglisi, head chef at Copenhagen Restaurant Relæ and the the wine bar Manfreds. It is soon over with reserving the best stuff for the snobs at ... Read more

Wikipedia is a modern miracle. Who would have thought that a collective effort where everyone can edit everything would lead to such credibility? And something as useful? Wikipedia is a ... Read more

Laughter, joy and thrill is evident in this large group of people taking part in a seminar at Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. I performed my Tickling Experiment with the audience. The result  is ... Read more

Genetically engineered athletes, robot universities, academics not competing, peacocks advertising, visions of the poet William Blake and the University of Utopia are some of the crazy ideas floating ... Read more

Video of a talk on how we see the world: Today – as an enemy to be controlled by our technology. Tomorrow – as a friend to be explored by our appetite. From a symposium for chefs, here is a story ... Read more

Keynote on India, on the windmills of Samsø, on the new lamp the Little Sun, on restaurant noma and the global food revolution – but most of all about the coming era of compassion and the ... Read more

Little Sun is a beautiful piece of technology and art – a lantern, a small lamp powered by a battery that is recharged by a solar cell on the back of the lamp. Five hours of sunlight ... Read more

An informal after-dinner talk on how to reboot civilisation and get to a higher level of decency in our relationship with each other and the planet - what I call Civilisation 2.0. The context was ... Read more