Author Archives: Mustafa Sherif

Tack till alla som deltagit i “Gestaltad livsmiljö 2023 – en konferens om kreativitet, kunskap och kompetens”! Årets tema behandlade frågan: Vilka kompetenser behöver vi för att kunna arbeta omsorgsfullt med gestaltade livsmiljöer i vår tid och för att möta framtida utmaningar? Konferensen är anordnad av Boverket, Riksantikvarieämbetet, ArkDes och Public Art Agency Sweden. Läs mer och titta på inspleade presentationer här https://lnkd.in/dRwVZmsG 🙏Continue reading “Gestaltad livsmiljö 2023”

🚗Back to school! Back to cars and traffic congestion around schools! I see and hear the same story over and over again in almost every project I work with. But how do we overcome this challenge? ❌ I absolutely don’t believe in only making free zones and banning cars around schools. Because then we areContinue reading “Back to cars and traffic congestion around schools!”

Back to business & back to this yearly tradition 🎓 We welcome 400 new students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology within Architecture, Urban Development, Construction and Design, Energy & Environment, Property Finance & Development. My passionate & talented colleagues from the industry and I told our stories to inspire the new 400 students.Continue reading “Welcoming 400 new architecture and urban planning students”

I will be more than happy to speak at the PMI Turkey Chapter on the 7th of October 2023. Here is the official invitation from the chapter: Mustafa Sherif, Urban Planner at AFRY and the Host of Urbanistica podcast, will be with us at PMI TR Project Management Summit 2023 Future Makers on Saturday, 07Continue reading “See you in Istanbul Oct 2023 Future Maker event”

🎓 Diploma Days at KTH School of Architecture & KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyCongratulations to all students! 🎉 I was invited as a jury member to listen, discuss and give feedback to students in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design Master program. Presentations that I listen to focused on:– Re-establishing the connection between local communitiesand local ecologies (energy, water,Continue reading “Diploma Days at KTH”

🖍 I took 3x of children’s proposals literally and visualized them (proposals for a park):– A giant ice cream machine that shoots ice cream to people– A Pyramid climbing net goes up to planet Mars– A drone to bring a ball back to the football field It’s super inspiring and fun to have conversations withContinue reading “Proposals from children”

It’s hard to describe the last week’s TEDxStockholm event with one word or one feeling, especially when we have an amazing team who put together an inspiring event with 8x speakers talking about topics like self-belief, talented children, gaming, losing your job, stopping listening to news … and much more. A big thanks to our speakers. CongratulationsContinue reading “It takes two to tango, It takes a team to TEDx”

During my recent years of doing placemaking processes with communities (children), I ask about what elements attract them to spend time outdoors in public spaces. These are mostly repeated elements that I hear during my conversations 👇🏻 The target group I refer to in this post is school female students, 13-16 years old, in differentContinue reading “Seriously these are basic elements!”

373. Place Governance in a Fragmented Worldwith Nate Storring (Co-Executive Director at Project for Public Spaces, USA) We are talking about Hyperlocal book.When it comes to uneven urban growth and investment, place-based governance structures in the United States and around the globe have been both part of the problem and part of the solution. Hyperlocal explore both theContinue reading “Place Governance in a Fragmented World – Project for Public Spaces”

💡 On the 31st of March was time for the yearly Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day #IGEday The day when companies all over Sweden opened their doors to girls and non-binary 13-19 years old to try the engineering profession hands-on and meet role models. Big thanks to my fantastic AFRY colleagues for making this happen.We did differentContinue reading “IGE day 2023”