A panel on citizen participation in the creation of public spaces in Stockholm. To the left, the moderator Zanyar Adami, former editor of the journal Gringo. Just to the right of the screen is John Higson, an Irishman who moved to Stockholm and decided to try and liven up the cultural scene there. The result was Street, a culture center and marketplace modeled on London's Camden Locks project, transplanted to the Hornstull area of Kungsholmen. Higson was upfront (in Irish-accented Swedish) about the challenges that he still faces trying to improve Stockholm's cultural life -- how much paperwork and how many meetings he has to conduct with all sorts of government offices in order to accomplish a project. It's clear, however, that the Stockholm municipal authorities appreciate his European vision for expanding their capital's cultural life

I walked through Street back in 2004, when the project was just getting off the ground. Even back then, the summer weather brought out a mixture of musicians...

fashion designers...

and sculpture explorers: