Here is the keynote I presented at our reunion last week in Odense, of Danish alumni of the Stanford H-Star fellowship program (2010 to 2015). Keith Devlin (H-Star director emeritus) and Connie Svabo of the Research Center for Science Education and Communication (FNUG) at University of Southern Denmark [Link], were our hosts. The program enabled…
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An academic gift economy: what Stanford H-STAR and mediaX got right
A reflection after the Danish H-STAR fellowship reunion, University Southern Denmark, Odense, May 22-23 2026 Last weekend I joined a reunion of the Danish researchers — twenty-five or so of us — who had passed through Stanford’s H-STAR fellowship between about 2010 and 2015. It was organized by Connie Svabo, whom I hosted at Stanford…
In Gitte and Poul’s garden
Svendborg, Funen, Denmark Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Grasund alle Herrlichkeit des Menschenwie des Grases Blumen.Das Gras ist verdorretund die Blume abgefallen … (Johannes Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem (1865) Op. 45) Click on image to open gallery -> Poul, Connie, Gitte, Jan, Keith
Christina Unwin — Design and Archaeology
Christina Unwin’s new book Design and Archaeology [Link] has just arrived. A remarkable path-breaking work, this is the synthesis of archaeology, design studies, material culture studies that we have been waiting for – delivered in elegant case studies of textiles, gold-alloy torcs, shale vessels, and a copper-alloy armband from the world of iron-age and early…
Crystalline Memories of Deep Time
Claus Spangsberg at the Rundetaarn, Copenhagen [Link]. With Connie (Svabo) on the last day of the exhibition – Crystalline Memories of Deep Time. Part of our ongoing collaboration around art-science, research-creation [Link], scholartistry [Link], creative-pragmatics [Link] – and mobilized through FNUG, her lab at University of Southern Denmark [Link], and Studio MS at Stanford [Link]….
2026
Høl Strand, Listed, Bornholm, Baltic Sea.