Fredrik Sträng is a long-time collaborator of TripleED. Fredrik has helped us tremendously by providing his valuable reflections about the soul of mountaineering and what the activity itself include through intensive discussions, diaries and other things. The first contact we had was in the wake of the horrible 2008 accident on K2, and now nine years later Fredrik goes back. As he mentions in the article below, he partly goes back to “face his demons”. We wish Fredrik all the best and that he will soon come home to tell his very interesting stories.
Here is a recent story about this project http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/789oK/jag-maste-mota-demonerna-pa-k2
If you want to follow Fredrik´s adventures you can do it on his website www.strang.se or www.facebook.com/fredrik.strang
Today we had a extremely interesting and well attended workshop together with Professor Martha Feldman on the art of live coding, and how it may aid us in the discoveries of new and interesting things – rather than putting things into predefined boxes. I believe I can speak for everyone that there was some excitement involved in terms of trying out the ideas on one´s own data.
It is the absolute pleasure of TripleED to invite you to an exciting seminar with Professor Martha Feldman! Martha is perhaps most well known for her work on Organizational routines and use of qualitative methods.
We have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Linda Rouleau (HEC Montreal and guest professor at USBE) to Umeå again. Linda, a long time member and collaborator of TripleED will together with Umeå faculty work on some papers related to Extreme contexts, and to Organizational routines. She will of course also provide her useful insights about research to the faculty in Umeå. Linda will be in Umeå 28/5-7/6.
On May 3rd Markus presented some research from TripleED at TedX Umeå. It was a great experience and a well-done arrangement. The event was described as “For the fourth time, TEDxUmeå was held in the capital of Northern Sweden. As usual (since last year) with a +100 license and about 450 participants. Once again the team behind TEDxUmeå, a community that grows increasingly bigger each year, summoned a dozen speakers – from Umeå and the County of Västerbotten, as well as other parts of Sweden and Europe – eager to spread an idea they have, an obsession maybe, that truly are worth sharing.
Today we received the great news that we received a small amount of funding (25000 kr) for visiting the Keswick museum that hosts the mountain heritage trust collection that relates to the history of (UK) mountaineering. We are really excited about this since we will be able to find some initial traces of how the history of mountaineering (and hence the commercialization of risk) has evolved through technical developments and undertakings. The data collection is planned for the fall of 2017.
Here we are hard at work with the analysis of Robert´s first article where we examine sensegiving in the context of the Swedish police.