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Associate Professor of Architecture @UmeaUniversitet. Lives in the northern Swedish forest with @Typey_Type. Brexile. Header: @clickclickjim
Jun 14, 2022 266 tweets >60 min read
Well hello #traintwitter. Nice feed you’ve got there. Be a shame if someone filled it with six days of Interrail adventures in search of… (hasthtag drumroll) #GroundLevelAalto 🇫🇮

The journey starts today. 🥳 Image #GroundLevelAalto is the Twitter story of the week-long field trip of a new summer course I’m delivering at Umeå University. It’s a 7.5ECTS course studying the work of Alvar, Aino Elissa Aalto in Finland. Over six days we visit six major buildings, and we travel at ground level.
Jun 21, 2021 14 tweets 4 min read
Evening. We’ve got movement.
Feb 9, 2020 119 tweets 59 min read
Every journey starts with a single step. And then, maybe a bus. Since it’s one of the new EV buses rolling around #Umeå, I’ll be able to make it all the way to Copenhagen - 1,358km - without using fossil fuel. #NorrlandtoNorfolk #Umeå Central Station, seen from Bangatan. All trains to/from Stockholm use platform 3, on this side of the station. There is no waiting room on this side, and trains generally don’t arrive more than five minutes before departure. 🥶 #NorrlandtoNorfolk ImageImageImage
Aug 24, 2019 107 tweets 37 min read
The journey to Zagreb and the #EAAE 2019 Congress begins with train 571, the 07:19 Umeå to Stockholm. ImageImage In somewhat surreal circumstances, I’ve just seen the woman sitting in front of me write a Facebook status update on her iPad saying that they are on the train travelling to Croatia for a week’s holiday. 😀