Monthly: June, 2011
Closer to God in the City of Angels
Appetiser by Charlotte B. Bergløff and Christopher Olssøn (photos)
Los Angeles is the most religiously diverse city in the world. While race has been the dominant American social issue in the last century, religious pluralism is emerging as a great challenge of this century. With more than 600 separate faiths, the City of Angels is a [...]
THE FUTURE OF THE PAST: Men in cosy knitwear
By Jan Drejer Petersen
If I should ever run into a man in a belted knitted sweater, I think he deserves an appreciative nod. The 1970s may have been an anti-climax to the political 60s, but they required their own particular brand of courage. Clothes in the 70s were ground-breaking, colourful, theatrical and an expression of [...]
City branding is hopeless
Editorial by Morten Grønborg
All over the world, cities attempt to attract residents, tourists and companies via the growing phenomenon of city branding. However, as this issue’s main article describes, it is a truly bad idea to use branding as a method. Once you think in terms of branding, you implicitly accept working with your product [...]
SCENARIO wins the Anders Bording Media Prize 2011
On Friday, June 17th, SCENARIO Magazine was honored with the 2011 Anders Bording Media Prize.
The jury explained its choice: “that it is a beautiful and impressive magazine! Thoroughly conceptualized. Visually challenging and thought-provoking. Content: Varied and well told. Almost un-Danish in its insistent ambition and a great front for an institution like the Copenhagen Institute [...]
“Don’t use the social web as a layer on top of your organisation – use it as the foundation for your income”
By Natasha Friis Saxberg
Lane Becker studied art history and dreamed of a professorship, but became a web pioneer in Silicon Valley. He has resided in this epicentre for communication technology since 1994. It was he and others around him who defined the “blog”, and were behind the development of Google Analytics, Adaptive Path and AJAX [...]
CINEMA BUSES – ”THE CARAVAN OF PROGRESS”
By Jan Drejer Petersen
The idea of mobile cinema is actually as old as film technology itself. The first film screenings were done by entrepreneurial businessmen who travelled from marketplace to marketplace with their cinematographs, the way that showmen and circus people had done for generations. The films were often just a few minutes of random [...]
