Lectures and course activities
I give lectures and courses on topics in cultural history, gardening and architecture. The lectures can be from 45-50 minutes to two-three hours long. Course activities are either half-day, full-day or longer courses spread over several days.
See examples of topics below. Contact me for a price proposal.
Trädgård
- The garden at Engelsberg mill
- The Arts & Crafts garden at Tjolöholm
- Karin Larsson and the garden at Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn
- The Victorian Garden – In the footsteps of the gardener
- Gardens in England and Italy
Garden history – can be just one era or throughout the history of gardening - The garden as a public educator – about the role of the garden in society around the turn of the century
- Women in the garden – about weeders, garden hills, fine ladies and female gardeners
- Chinese garden
- The Secret Gardens of Venice
- Heavenly and earthly gardens/ in the herb garden of the soul and body
- Garden personalities through time
- Garden hedges – from framework to madness
- Arts & Crafts gardens
- The cemetery – a green cultural heritage
- Old garden tools and their history
- The history of the apple in myth and in the garden
- Snowdrops – a gallant love story
- Flowers – cultural history
- Dahlias – history and cultivation
Tulips
Cultural history, literature and architecture
- Tjolöholm Castle – can have different focal points, e.g. Arts & Crafts, Liberty, Lars Israel Wahlman, the Dickson family, etc.
- A food book – food history from Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn and Karin Larsson
- A cake book – cake and baking history from Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn and Karin Larsson
- Arts & Crafts – series on different aspects of Arts & Crafts or individual lectures on topics such as John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, William and
- Jane Morris, individual Arts & Crafts buildings and sites
- The Garden City – about the garden city in England and how it influenced Swedish architects
- Charles Dickens – his life, times and works and the play A Christmas Carol
- William Shakespeare – his life, times and works
- Lectures on places in Sweden, England, Denmark and Italy
- Textile artist Märtha Gahn
Display and presentation technology
- Display and presentation technology
- The art of showing a place, building, garden, etc