Plan3 [2006 - 2011] Originally an initiative to create a mixture of network space, artist studio and gallery, the project went into a phase where it served as a loose platform for artistic collaborations, which in turn transformed into a Think & Do Tank. Since 2009 Plan3 has functioned as a collaborative platform for me, artist Madeleine Tunbjer and sound artist/composer Ola Paulson. The Plan3 project was completed in mid-2011 through the creation of several collaborative spaces in the context of the Friendly project. Info from 2006  |  Website (in Swedish): plan3studio.com Bonus: The Plan3 Vision Generator - Refresh as many times you like, for the next unique Plan3 vision. There are a few to choose from… :) The Plan3 Vision Generator was deviced and constructed by Marcus Uneson, computational linguistics researcher at Lund University, for the inauguration of Plan3. < <

Plan3 [2006 - 2011]

Originally an initiative to create a mixture of network space, artist studio and gallery, the project went into a phase where it served as a loose platform for artistic collaborations, which in turn transformed into a Think & Do Tank. Since 2009 Plan3 has functioned as a collaborative platform for me, artist Madeleine Tunbjer and sound artist/composer Ola Paulson. The Plan3 project was completed in mid-2011 through the creation of several collaborative spaces in the context of the Friendly project.

Info from 2006  |  Website (in Swedish): plan3studio.com

Bonus: The Plan3 Vision Generator - Refresh as many times you like, for the next unique Plan3 vision. There are a few to choose from… :)

The Plan3 Vision Generator was deviced and constructed by Marcus Uneson, computational linguistics researcher at Lund University, for the inauguration of Plan3.

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10 months ago 

DODOTANK. We have a todo list. And a website &lt; &lt;

DODOTANK. We have a todo list. And a website

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10 months ago 

Friendly [2010 - ongoing] Friendly is an agency for structural change, staging creative actions and development processes. The purpose is to challenge  political and economical beliefs taken for granted in society, and to propose alternatives. This is done in creative, playful and innovative ways. Friendly represents a get-real, hands-on practice, equally useful within and outside predominant structural frameworks. The Friendly concept for change is including and humane. Its uniqueness stems from a methodology utilizing artistic tools for the purpose of moulding testbed spaces, where unexpected possibilities can be perceived and new methods prototyped. In a longer perspective, the Friendly Foundation plan to research and explore a wide range of strategies for resilient change, including Friendly Crowd Sourcing, Resource Pooling etc. The implementation will be process-oriented, collaborative and experimental forms of societal development and innovation. The Friendly Development Group is an ongoing prototyping, aiming at creating new jobs for long-term unemployed in southern Sweden. This is done by means of collaborative prospecting of new businesses in the field of social enterprising. For the purpose,  we run four separate Development Labs. FDG provides services to the Swedish Public Employment Service and has started several local and regional development projects. Friendly Development Group website: friendlydevelopment.org The Friendly Foundation website: friendlyfoundation.org Report on the creation of FDG (Swedish): Självsådd: Årsberättelse &lt; &lt;

Friendly [2010 - ongoing]

Friendly is an agency for structural change, staging creative actions and development processes. The purpose is to challenge  political and economical beliefs taken for granted in society, and to propose alternatives. This is done in creative, playful and innovative ways.

Friendly represents a get-real, hands-on practice, equally useful within and outside predominant structural frameworks. The Friendly concept for change is including and humane. Its uniqueness stems from a methodology utilizing artistic tools for the purpose of moulding testbed spaces, where unexpected possibilities can be perceived and new methods prototyped.

In a longer perspective, the Friendly Foundation plan to research and explore a wide range of strategies for resilient change, including Friendly Crowd Sourcing, Resource Pooling etc. The implementation will be process-oriented, collaborative and experimental forms of societal development and innovation.

The Friendly Development Group is an ongoing prototyping, aiming at creating new jobs for long-term unemployed in southern Sweden. This is done by means of collaborative prospecting of new businesses in the field of social enterprising. For the purpose,  we run four separate Development Labs. FDG provides services to the Swedish Public Employment Service and has started several local and regional development projects.

Friendly Development Group website: friendlydevelopment.org

The Friendly Foundation website: friendlyfoundation.org

Report on the creation of FDG (Swedish): Självsådd: Årsberättelse

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10 months ago  View high resolution

Serif 2009: EU-financed study on why foreign-born entrepreneurs have such difficulties starting new businesses in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to counteract segregation problems in the local community and to highlight the potential for innovation related to unique competences in the immigrant population.  Read more   |  Read the full report (in Swedish) &lt; &lt;

Serif 2009: EU-financed study on why foreign-born entrepreneurs have such difficulties starting new businesses in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to counteract segregation problems in the local community and to highlight the potential for innovation related to unique competences in the immigrant population. 

Read more   |  Read the full report (in Swedish)

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2 years ago 

Many art sites in Skåne are not accesible by public transportation. Car pooling is highly recommendable. In this project, which was implemented in a collaboration with the Wanas Foundation, Kivik Art Centre and Kristianstads konsthall in 2009, I provided a system for organized car pooling targeting people that regularly visit these sites . The hitchhiker logo was created by Heike Haunstetter in the test project Gröna Rundan one year earlier. The pooling system was developed in collaboration with Magnus Hasselberg Website: konstakningen.se Konstakningen.se © 2009 Lars Noväng &lt; &lt;

Many art sites in Skåne are not accesible by public transportation. Car pooling is highly recommendable. In this project, which was implemented in a collaboration with the Wanas Foundation, Kivik Art Centre and Kristianstads konsthall in 2009, I provided a system for organized car pooling targeting people that regularly visit these sites . The hitchhiker logo was created by Heike Haunstetter in the test project Gröna Rundan one year earlier. The pooling system was developed in collaboration with Magnus Hasselberg

Website: konstakningen.se

Konstakningen.se © 2009 Lars Noväng

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3 years ago  View high resolution

Empowerment Farming [2008 - 2009] Originally named Culture means Farming, this project aimed at adressing the joblessness issue from a different angle, striving to find new ways for immigrants, primarily from the Middle East, to participate in the development of local agriculture industry. The project was later renamed Empowerment Farming. In the spring of 2008, Right to Farm the Land was staged in collaboration with the art and agriculture group Kultivator and the art initiative Public Globality Gardens. This was a land claim, where a large number of immigrant families were offered 100-200 sqm farming land each, at no cost. &lt; &lt;

Empowerment Farming [2008 - 2009]

Originally named Culture means Farming, this project aimed at adressing the joblessness issue from a different angle, striving to find new ways for immigrants, primarily from the Middle East, to participate in the development of local agriculture industry. The project was later renamed Empowerment Farming. In the spring of 2008, Right to Farm the Land was staged in collaboration with the art and agriculture group Kultivator and the art initiative Public Globality Gardens. This was a land claim, where a large number of immigrant families were offered 100-200 sqm farming land each, at no cost.

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3 years ago  View high resolution

Tape Gallery is a work in progress, launched in 2008. The project encourages the public to go ahead and establish near zero-cost artspaces, and take the opportunity to define art independently from the so-called artworld. Tape Gallery exhibitions, 2008:United Networks Agency, Ystad konstmuseumOne Year Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Web site: tapegallery.org &lt; &lt;

Tape Gallery is a work in progress, launched in 2008. The project encourages the public to go ahead and establish near zero-cost artspaces, and take the opportunity to define art independently from the so-called artworld.

Tape Gallery exhibitions, 2008:
United Networks Agency, Ystad konstmuseum
One Year Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Web site: tapegallery.org

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4 years ago 

Svenneförmedlingen 2007, John Huntington &amp; Lars Noväng. This work was part of my project the Power of Habit, intended for the year of cultural diversity. John and I collaborated through the whole project, where we also set up an Interaction Office in a suburb of Kristianstad: Samspelskontoret. In that context we asked the Immigrant population for advice on how best to integrate native Swedes in a multi-cultural society. Read more Project websites: Svenneformedlingen  |   Samspelskontoret   &lt; &lt;

Svenneförmedlingen 2007, John Huntington & Lars Noväng. This work was part of my project the Power of Habit, intended for the year of cultural diversity. John and I collaborated through the whole project, where we also set up an Interaction Office in a suburb of Kristianstad: Samspelskontoret. In that context we asked the Immigrant population for advice on how best to integrate native Swedes in a multi-cultural society. Read more

Project websites: Svenneformedlingen  |   Samspelskontoret  

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5 years ago  View high resolution

The Codex/Container Project in 2005 - 2006 was an experiment involving art, product development and packaging. The invited artists had to conform to the concept of producing artwork which should serve as a container for a poetic text, while reflecting a relation to one of the invited manufacturers, whose products were not in any way related to books or litterature. One of the underlying objectives of the experiment, was to provide non-commissioned R&amp;D. Read more on the codex/container website  &lt; &lt;

The Codex/Container Project in 2005 - 2006 was an experiment involving art, product development and packaging. The invited artists had to conform to the concept of producing artwork which should serve as a container for a poetic text, while reflecting a relation to one of the invited manufacturers, whose products were not in any way related to books or litterature. One of the underlying objectives of the experiment, was to provide non-commissioned R&D.

Read more on the codex/container website 

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5 years ago 

Transparent flag, 2006 - ongoing. A collaboration with artists Mårten Strömquist (se) and Takahiko Suzuki (jp). The objective of this project is to propose a symbol that defies any attempt to exclude anyone. Project website &lt; &lt;

Transparent flag, 2006 - ongoing. A collaboration with artists Mårten Strömquist (se) and Takahiko Suzuki (jp). The objective of this project is to propose a symbol that defies any attempt to exclude anyone.

Project website

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5 years ago  View high resolution

A Void Completion. Non-comissioned, site specific work in the fall of 2004.  Project website &lt; &lt;

A Void Completion. Non-comissioned, site specific work in the fall of 2004. 

Project website

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7 years ago 

I started octava gallery./Art Lab in 2001. Over the years it gradually evolved into a collaborative platform for interactive art production, which since 2008 has used the name Plan3. Read more under &#8220;Works&#8221; The the old website octava.se, serves as an archive overviewing exhibitions, projects, press clippings etc from 2002-2009 Image: [interferenser] Gunnar Nehls &amp; Sten Sandell, may 2003. Photo: Gunnar Nehls &lt; &lt;

I started octava gallery./Art Lab in 2001. Over the years it gradually evolved into a collaborative platform for interactive art production, which since 2008 has used the name Plan3. Read more under “Works”

The the old website octava.se, serves as an archive overviewing exhibitions, projects, press clippings etc from 2002-2009

Image: [interferenser] Gunnar Nehls & Sten Sandell, may 2003. Photo: Gunnar Nehls

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10 years ago  View high resolution

Plan3 [2006 - 2011] Originally an initiative to create a mixture of network space, artist studio and gallery, the project went into a phase where it served as a loose platform for artistic collaborations, which in turn transformed into a Think &amp; Do Tank. Since 2009 Plan3 has functioned as a collaborative platform for me, artist Madeleine Tunbjer and sound artist/composer Ola Paulson. The Plan3 project was completed in mid-2011 through the creation of several collaborative spaces in the context of the Friendly project. Info from 2006  |  Website (in Swedish): plan3studio.com Bonus: The Plan3 Vision Generator - Refresh as many times you like, for the next unique Plan3 vision. There are a few to choose from&#8230; :) The Plan3 Vision Generator was deviced and constructed by Marcus Uneson, computational linguistics researcher at Lund University, for the inauguration of Plan3. &lt; &lt;

Plan3 [2006 - 2011]

Originally an initiative to create a mixture of network space, artist studio and gallery, the project went into a phase where it served as a loose platform for artistic collaborations, which in turn transformed into a Think & Do Tank. Since 2009 Plan3 has functioned as a collaborative platform for me, artist Madeleine Tunbjer and sound artist/composer Ola Paulson. The Plan3 project was completed in mid-2011 through the creation of several collaborative spaces in the context of the Friendly project.

Info from 2006  |  Website (in Swedish): plan3studio.com

Bonus: The Plan3 Vision Generator - Refresh as many times you like, for the next unique Plan3 vision. There are a few to choose from… :)

The Plan3 Vision Generator was deviced and constructed by Marcus Uneson, computational linguistics researcher at Lund University, for the inauguration of Plan3.

< <

DODOTANK. We have a todo list. And a website &lt; &lt;

DODOTANK. We have a todo list. And a website

< <

Friendly [2010 - ongoing] Friendly is an agency for structural change, staging creative actions and development processes. The purpose is to challenge  political and economical beliefs taken for granted in society, and to propose alternatives. This is done in creative, playful and innovative ways. Friendly represents a get-real, hands-on practice, equally useful within and outside predominant structural frameworks. The Friendly concept for change is including and humane. Its uniqueness stems from a methodology utilizing artistic tools for the purpose of moulding testbed spaces, where unexpected possibilities can be perceived and new methods prototyped. In a longer perspective, the Friendly Foundation plan to research and explore a wide range of strategies for resilient change, including Friendly Crowd Sourcing, Resource Pooling etc. The implementation will be process-oriented, collaborative and experimental forms of societal development and innovation. The Friendly Development Group is an ongoing prototyping, aiming at creating new jobs for long-term unemployed in southern Sweden. This is done by means of collaborative prospecting of new businesses in the field of social enterprising. For the purpose,  we run four separate Development Labs. FDG provides services to the Swedish Public Employment Service and has started several local and regional development projects. Friendly Development Group website: friendlydevelopment.org The Friendly Foundation website: friendlyfoundation.org Report on the creation of FDG (Swedish): Självsådd: Årsberättelse &lt; &lt;

Friendly [2010 - ongoing]

Friendly is an agency for structural change, staging creative actions and development processes. The purpose is to challenge  political and economical beliefs taken for granted in society, and to propose alternatives. This is done in creative, playful and innovative ways.

Friendly represents a get-real, hands-on practice, equally useful within and outside predominant structural frameworks. The Friendly concept for change is including and humane. Its uniqueness stems from a methodology utilizing artistic tools for the purpose of moulding testbed spaces, where unexpected possibilities can be perceived and new methods prototyped.

In a longer perspective, the Friendly Foundation plan to research and explore a wide range of strategies for resilient change, including Friendly Crowd Sourcing, Resource Pooling etc. The implementation will be process-oriented, collaborative and experimental forms of societal development and innovation.

The Friendly Development Group is an ongoing prototyping, aiming at creating new jobs for long-term unemployed in southern Sweden. This is done by means of collaborative prospecting of new businesses in the field of social enterprising. For the purpose,  we run four separate Development Labs. FDG provides services to the Swedish Public Employment Service and has started several local and regional development projects.

Friendly Development Group website: friendlydevelopment.org

The Friendly Foundation website: friendlyfoundation.org

Report on the creation of FDG (Swedish): Självsådd: Årsberättelse

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Serif 2009: EU-financed study on why foreign-born entrepreneurs have such difficulties starting new businesses in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to counteract segregation problems in the local community and to highlight the potential for innovation related to unique competences in the immigrant population.  Read more   |  Read the full report (in Swedish) &lt; &lt;

Serif 2009: EU-financed study on why foreign-born entrepreneurs have such difficulties starting new businesses in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to counteract segregation problems in the local community and to highlight the potential for innovation related to unique competences in the immigrant population. 

Read more   |  Read the full report (in Swedish)

< <

Many art sites in Skåne are not accesible by public transportation. Car pooling is highly recommendable. In this project, which was implemented in a collaboration with the Wanas Foundation, Kivik Art Centre and Kristianstads konsthall in 2009, I provided a system for organized car pooling targeting people that regularly visit these sites . The hitchhiker logo was created by Heike Haunstetter in the test project Gröna Rundan one year earlier. The pooling system was developed in collaboration with Magnus Hasselberg Website: konstakningen.se Konstakningen.se © 2009 Lars Noväng &lt; &lt;

Many art sites in Skåne are not accesible by public transportation. Car pooling is highly recommendable. In this project, which was implemented in a collaboration with the Wanas Foundation, Kivik Art Centre and Kristianstads konsthall in 2009, I provided a system for organized car pooling targeting people that regularly visit these sites . The hitchhiker logo was created by Heike Haunstetter in the test project Gröna Rundan one year earlier. The pooling system was developed in collaboration with Magnus Hasselberg

Website: konstakningen.se

Konstakningen.se © 2009 Lars Noväng

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Empowerment Farming [2008 - 2009] Originally named Culture means Farming, this project aimed at adressing the joblessness issue from a different angle, striving to find new ways for immigrants, primarily from the Middle East, to participate in the development of local agriculture industry. The project was later renamed Empowerment Farming. In the spring of 2008, Right to Farm the Land was staged in collaboration with the art and agriculture group Kultivator and the art initiative Public Globality Gardens. This was a land claim, where a large number of immigrant families were offered 100-200 sqm farming land each, at no cost. &lt; &lt;

Empowerment Farming [2008 - 2009]

Originally named Culture means Farming, this project aimed at adressing the joblessness issue from a different angle, striving to find new ways for immigrants, primarily from the Middle East, to participate in the development of local agriculture industry. The project was later renamed Empowerment Farming. In the spring of 2008, Right to Farm the Land was staged in collaboration with the art and agriculture group Kultivator and the art initiative Public Globality Gardens. This was a land claim, where a large number of immigrant families were offered 100-200 sqm farming land each, at no cost.

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Tape Gallery is a work in progress, launched in 2008. The project encourages the public to go ahead and establish near zero-cost artspaces, and take the opportunity to define art independently from the so-called artworld. Tape Gallery exhibitions, 2008:United Networks Agency, Ystad konstmuseumOne Year Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Web site: tapegallery.org &lt; &lt;

Tape Gallery is a work in progress, launched in 2008. The project encourages the public to go ahead and establish near zero-cost artspaces, and take the opportunity to define art independently from the so-called artworld.

Tape Gallery exhibitions, 2008:
United Networks Agency, Ystad konstmuseum
One Year Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Web site: tapegallery.org

< <

Svenneförmedlingen 2007, John Huntington &amp; Lars Noväng. This work was part of my project the Power of Habit, intended for the year of cultural diversity. John and I collaborated through the whole project, where we also set up an Interaction Office in a suburb of Kristianstad: Samspelskontoret. In that context we asked the Immigrant population for advice on how best to integrate native Swedes in a multi-cultural society. Read more Project websites: Svenneformedlingen  |   Samspelskontoret   &lt; &lt;

Svenneförmedlingen 2007, John Huntington & Lars Noväng. This work was part of my project the Power of Habit, intended for the year of cultural diversity. John and I collaborated through the whole project, where we also set up an Interaction Office in a suburb of Kristianstad: Samspelskontoret. In that context we asked the Immigrant population for advice on how best to integrate native Swedes in a multi-cultural society. Read more

Project websites: Svenneformedlingen  |   Samspelskontoret  

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The Codex/Container Project in 2005 - 2006 was an experiment involving art, product development and packaging. The invited artists had to conform to the concept of producing artwork which should serve as a container for a poetic text, while reflecting a relation to one of the invited manufacturers, whose products were not in any way related to books or litterature. One of the underlying objectives of the experiment, was to provide non-commissioned R&amp;D. Read more on the codex/container website  &lt; &lt;

The Codex/Container Project in 2005 - 2006 was an experiment involving art, product development and packaging. The invited artists had to conform to the concept of producing artwork which should serve as a container for a poetic text, while reflecting a relation to one of the invited manufacturers, whose products were not in any way related to books or litterature. One of the underlying objectives of the experiment, was to provide non-commissioned R&D.

Read more on the codex/container website 

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Transparent flag, 2006 - ongoing. A collaboration with artists Mårten Strömquist (se) and Takahiko Suzuki (jp). The objective of this project is to propose a symbol that defies any attempt to exclude anyone. Project website &lt; &lt;

Transparent flag, 2006 - ongoing. A collaboration with artists Mårten Strömquist (se) and Takahiko Suzuki (jp). The objective of this project is to propose a symbol that defies any attempt to exclude anyone.

Project website

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A Void Completion. Non-comissioned, site specific work in the fall of 2004.  Project website &lt; &lt;

A Void Completion. Non-comissioned, site specific work in the fall of 2004. 

Project website

< <

I started octava gallery./Art Lab in 2001. Over the years it gradually evolved into a collaborative platform for interactive art production, which since 2008 has used the name Plan3. Read more under &#8220;Works&#8221; The the old website octava.se, serves as an archive overviewing exhibitions, projects, press clippings etc from 2002-2009 Image: [interferenser] Gunnar Nehls &amp; Sten Sandell, may 2003. Photo: Gunnar Nehls &lt; &lt;

I started octava gallery./Art Lab in 2001. Over the years it gradually evolved into a collaborative platform for interactive art production, which since 2008 has used the name Plan3. Read more under “Works”

The the old website octava.se, serves as an archive overviewing exhibitions, projects, press clippings etc from 2002-2009

Image: [interferenser] Gunnar Nehls & Sten Sandell, may 2003. Photo: Gunnar Nehls

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About:

Lars Noväng

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Works at the intersection of art, politics and economy