”Many  Stories,  Many  Memories” was a participatory creative music project carried out in collaboration with three professional musicians, a group of seven senior residents and the occupational therapist of “Suomikoti”-elderly home in Stockholm, February 20th – March 21st 2013 . The aim of the project was to build community feeling, participation and operation for the elderly people with dementia by intervening musically in their everyday lives. During the eight workshop-sessions, improvisation pieces were created by using song, text, fine arts, percussion instruments, body percussion, piano, kantele, and violin.The emphasized qualities of the project’s musical working methods were contextuality, and person-centered and focus group - oriented approaches. The purpose of multi-sensor exercises  was  to  support  the  participants’  sense  of  body  and reinforce their identity. The project, during which the musicians and the group of seniors met in the field of performing arts, was completed with a collectively composed semi-improvised concert, which was performed to an audience consisting of the residents and staff of Suomikoti, as well as family members.“Many  Memories,  Many  Stories”  was  my  Professional Integration Project (PIP) in the international Joint Music Master for New Audience and Innovative Practice – Master Degree Program (NAIP) at on the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Observational periods at local Stockholm elderly homes as well as a preparatory project were conducted prior to the PIP-project. The goal of the PIP-project and this Master Thesis was to create new empiric data on the potentials of creative participatory music workshops for elderly care. This project’s musical intervention was carried out as practice-based research, and was documented session by session both in written reflections and on video for data- analysis. Semi-structured thematic interviews were also conducted for obtaining data. The interviewees were professional practitioners on the fields of music and health-care.The outcomes of the project reveal that intensive participation in the project had positive effects  on  the  people’s motor skills, creativity, expression, social interaction and self- esteem, which by enriching their everyday lives improve their general quality of life.Attached to this Master Thesis are two videos; a documentary-DVD describing the process of the project, and an edition of the”Many  Memories,  Many  Stories”-concert in full length. The documentary DVD contains mainly video-footage from the workshop sessions. / <p>Bilaga: 1 DVD</p>

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv., 2007. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv., 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Följande arbete kommer att lyfta fram olika alternativ för rening av mänsklighetens viktigaste förutsättning för liv, nämligen för vatten. Syftet är att undersöka olika alternativ för vattenrening och skapa en manual på hur bra dessa är lämpade till plats och förhållande. Arbetets mål är att undersöka vilka olika metoder för vattenrening som finns idag, utvärdera dessa utifrån indikatorer för hållbarhet med hänsyn till sociala, ekonomiska och miljömässiga aspekter, ta fram kostnadsberäkningar för de olika metoder samt ta fram alternativ till vattenrening som redan används och därför kommer rapporten ta reda på vilka dessa är och var de finns, samt hur väl dessa fungerar på respektive plats och under vilka förhållande. / This examination task will highlight different options for water purification, which is humanity's most important condition for life. The purpose is to investigate different alternatives for water purification and create a manual on how well these are suitable for location and association. The aim of the work is to investigate what different methods of water purification are available today, evaluate sustainability indicators based on social, economic and environmental assessments, to prepare cost estimates for the different methods and provide alternatives for water treatment which are already in use and therefore the report will determine which those are and where they exist, and how well they work in each place and under what conditions.

Följande arbete kommer att lyfta fram olika alternativ för rening av mänsklighetens viktigaste förutsättning för liv, nämligen för vatten. Syftet är att undersöka olika alternativ för vattenrening och skapa en manual på hur bra dessa är lämpade till plats och förhållande. Arbetets mål är att undersöka vilka olika metoder för vattenrening som finns idag, utvärdera dessa utifrån indikatorer för hållbarhet med hänsyn till sociala, ekonomiska och miljömässiga aspekter, ta fram kostnadsberäkningar för de olika metoder samt ta fram alternativ till vattenrening som redan används och därför kommer rapporten ta reda på vilka dessa är och var de finns, samt hur väl dessa fungerar på respektive plats och under vilka förhållande. / This examination task will highlight different options for water purification, which is humanity's most important condition for life. The purpose is to investigate different alternatives for water purification and create a manual on how well these are suitable for location and association. The aim of the work is to investigate what different methods of water purification are available today, evaluate sustainability indicators based on social, economic and environmental assessments, to prepare cost estimates for the different methods and provide alternatives for water treatment which are already in use and therefore the report will determine which those are and where they exist, and how well they work in each place and under what conditions.