Mikael Colville-Andersen
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Mikael Colville-Andersen is a Canadian-Danish urban designer and urban mobility expert.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Founded: Copenhagenize Design Company, Copenhagen (2009, per Wikipedia), and was its CEO (opens wiqqi.app)
- Television: The Life-Sized City, premiered on TVOntario in 2017; five Canadian Screen Award nominations in 2018 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Cycle Chic (2012); Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism (Island Press, 2018) (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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YouTube: The Life-Sized City (opens www.youtube.com)
“Why Copenhagen Always Builds Temporary Bike Lanes During Roadworks”
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Bluesky: @colville-andersen.com (opens bsky.app)
“So happy to tell my stories from 3.5 yrs #volunteering in #ukraine . Check out my keynote from Utopian Hours in Torino. #standwithukraine”
- Site: colville-andersen.com (opens www.colville-andersen.com)
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YouTube: The Life-Sized City (opens www.youtube.com)
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Humour is one of the main ways Danish society maintains its cohesion. (opens korrents.com)
“Danish society is built on a remarkable degree of collective identity, social cohesion and mutual trust. And I think our humour is one of the ways we maintain that cohesion.”
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The most easily offended person in the room should not decide what everyone else may laugh at. (opens korrents.com)
“I certainly don’t want to live in a society where the most easily offended person in the room gets to decide what everybody else can laugh at.”
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Joking about a tragedy is not trivialising it; there is no such thing as "too soon". (opens korrents.com)
“Humour is often precisely how we deal with uncomfortable things. Death, fear, uncertainty, stupidity, tragedy. Making a joke about something doesn’t automatically mean we’re trivialising it. Sometimes it’s how we…”
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Humour is one of the main ways Danish society maintains its cohesion. (opens korrents.com)