Planet Mundus

On this episode of Future Forward Aarhus, we're talking about cities. Cities consist of more than just buildings and people. Arts and culture, residential and industrial areas, public transportation and recreational areas. Urban planners must meet the challenges cities face in the 21st century. Like other European cities, a number of areas in Aarhus is undergoing major changes. In this episode, we explore three sites in Aarhus three places that give us a glimpse on the future of urban spaces: A community garden, Institute for X, and Dome of Visions.

In this episode of Future Forward Aarhus, we explore the future of fashion—how tech is changing the clothes we wear everyday. First, we’ll hear about a recent fashion technology show that turned Aarhus waterways into an LED-lit runway. Then we’ll hear from a local startup using nanotechnology to develop waterproof clothing.

Too small, too big, not my style anymore: Almost everyone has clothes that he or she does not wear. According to a recent Greenpeace study, more than 40 percent of Italians and Taiwanese have garments in their closets that have never been worn. Two billion pieces of clothing lie waste in German wardrobes. At the same time, the extremely high fashion consumption in the Western world is causing global problems for humans and the environment. “Tøjfællesskabet” is a place where women can exchange their clothes against others. Organised by two friends, Marlene and Stine, the event brings together women and their wardrobes, following the slogan “Gammelt tøj på nye bøjler” (“old clothes on new hangers”). The difference to other exchange meetings: a fair point system. Author: Pia Behme, www.planetmundus.com

Friday bars are a long student tradition in Denmark - starting your weekend by getting drunk with your professors on a Friday noon sounds quite crazy, doesn’t it? Stay tuned to find out why Danish and international students in Aarhus, Denmark’s largest university city, are so in love with Friday bars. Author: Miriam Karout, www.planetmundus.com

Last week the Irish government announced that a referendum to relax Ireland’s strict abortion laws will be held in May this year. The announce reopen the debate this country, mostly Catholic but where thousands of women had traveled overseas to terminate their pregnancies or had taken pills without medical supervision. Author: Jacinta Molina, www.planetmundus.com

Feminism and equal rights is one of the most debated topics of our time. The #Metoo movement or the discussion regarding unequal pay are just examples of it. In Uruguay, and South America, two big issues are domestic violence and femicide. Eli Almic, a prominent female representative of the Uruguayan rap and hip-hop scene, released a protest song called Brujas, the Spanish word for witches, last month. Stay tuned to discover not only some cool beats but also to unravel the strong meaning of the protest verses. Author: Ceci Arregui, www.planetmundus.com

Good News - 07 Feb 2018 by Planet Mundus

According to Eurostat, Danes produced the most amount of waste per capita in 2016. This week, we sat down with Stine Sparrewath of the Climate Department in Aarhus to learn about how the city deals with its waste in a productive and sustainable way, and other sustainable initiatives taken by the kommune to reach its goal of being carbon neutral by 2030. Author: Shubham Kaushik, www.planetmundus.com

On January 24th, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva was convicted to twelve years in prison by an appealing court in a corruption and money laundering case, as part of the complex car wash investigation that has been going on for almost four years and has reached to hundreds of politicians and business-people in the country. This can influence the outcome of the country’s presidential elections in October, since Lula is the candidate leading the polls. What does this all mean to the leftist leader, Brazil’s politics and democracy? Slow News tries to find the answers. Authors: Mário Braga and Ceci Arregui, www.planetmundus.com

Who has not hear the famous revolutionary tune to Che Guevara - the embodiment of the Cuban Revolution in the 1960s? Fifty years after his death, people all over the world still celebrate the hero as an icon for independence and socialist movements all over the world. Today’s song is a special one - a tribute in Spanish but still understood and sung worldwide. Stay tuned to discover the meaning and social impact of “Hasta Siempre, Comandante!” as written by Carlos Puebla in 1965! Author: Miriam Karout.

Denmark might not look very big on a world map, but what it might lack in square kilometres, the Scandinavian country makes up for in the number of Danes that have made a name for themselves on the global stage. These internationally renowned Danes include artists in all types: painters, photographers, movie directors, street artists, musicians, writers, architects, designers... Let’s discover who are the Danes that came out of the shadow to enlighten the international scene with their talent. Author: Alix Couvelaire, www.planetmundus.com

2018 has just begun and DOKK1 has a lot of options for international students living in Aarhus. Listen to know more about this year's programme and find activities that may suit you! Author: Pia Behme, www.planetmundus.com

The UN is the world’s most idealistic organization: a place where representatives of countries all over the world can get together and talk about governance, peace, human rights, and a bunch of other nice stuff. As fluffy as these conversations may seem, they have a life or death impact on millions of those suffering from the hardships of war and oppression around the world. In this episode of World Class Podcast, we talk about the golden age of humanitarian intervention, its apparent slow down since 9/11, and ask one of the toughest ideological questions of all: can we as a global society possibly share some universal values? Should human rights be prioritized over the sovereignty of countries? Where has humanitarian intervention succeeded and failed? We ask ourselves these questions and also pass them on to Tonny Brems Knudsen, political scientist and an decade-long expert on the UN and humanitarian interventions. He gives us his perspective on why there has been a lack of action in the face of atrocities

When we say it, you will immediately think of all sorts of polarizing and intense stories, experiences, and images, built up in the last few years through, for most of us, words in a news story. In this episode of World Class Podcast, we talk about terrorism (!), and try to break the word down into definitions you may not have thought of before. With the help of theory from world-leading academics, we question whether or not terrorism has changed over time and because of globalization, and reveal some key myths about terrorism which we all, at one time or another, have been victim to. We also talk with award winning war journalist, Nagieb Khaja, who has been captured by the Taliban and also contributed invaluable knowledge to our understanding of terrorism through his documentaries on foreign fighters in Syria. He gives us first hand understanding of what some of the causes are of terrorism, what we can focus on to combat it and how we should understand terrorism. After listening, you won’t fall in any trap

What does North Korea, Trump, Putin and China's investment in infrastructure in Africa all have in common? They’re international relations. Maybe you’ve heard the term thrown around by people who sound to you a bit intelligent. Maybe these people are, or maybe they’re just using a couple words to sound smart. The good news is, now you can do the same! In this first episode of World Class Podcast, we go over the four major academic international relations theories, or, the four main ways those quasi-intelligent (or truly intelligent) people talk about international relationships between countries, institutions and other actors. Already bored? Then check this out: After listening, you will have new ways of understanding and framing international relations, which, trust us, is a really cool party trick. As a bonus, we provide you with a starter-kit by framing (spoiler-alert) Kim Jong-un’s thoughts behind killing off his brother in Kuala Lumpur airport and the deployment of Russian troops in the Balkans by Putin

We’ve all been touched by international charity before - whether its an emotion-filled advertisement on TV or our own experiences giving money hoping it will reach far off places. Our governments do as well, with every country in the world giving or receiving some form of development assistance or foreign aid at some point in the last 50 years. But aid, like everything, has its flaws. In this episode of World Class Podcast, we talk about the good and bad parts of aid, exploring perspectives from those who steadfastly believe it is the key to helping the world’s poor, to those who believe it creates chronic poverty and is a waste of money. Rounding out this analysis is our conversation with Anne Mette Kjær, a politics and development professor at Aarhus University, and also a board member of DanChurchAid, one of Denmark’s biggest aid organizations. She tells us where she thinks aid can really make a difference in the continent that she’s spent her life working in: Africa. After listening, your opinion about

What is China up to over there on the eastern front? In recent years, its economy has had steady growth, and its foreign activities in other countries has changed. Some may call it a success, some may see China’s new rise as a threat, while others say that China still has a long way to go. Interested in getting to the bottom of China’s strategies, Jens is talking very fast and very much for the first part of the show, in order to get through a (very) brief history of China Then we go deep into China’s “state capitalist” economic model, and also the study of international power dynamics, in our exploration of the academic “power transition theory”. To not be all academic and (let’s be honest) sleep-inducing, our inquiry led us to conversations with political scientist and election observationist Maria Møller Kursch, who gives us a perspective on China’s bizarre involvement with Kazakstan’s politics, and also Stig Thøgersen, a professor of Sinology at Aarhus University, who let us in on what he thinks are the

In October 2017, the city of Aarhus hosted the Global Constructive Conference. Over 400 people from 37 countries took part in it. One of the speakers during this two-day-long conference on Constructive Journalism was Maaike Goslinga. The 27-year-old journalist is the international editor of The Correspondent, an online media company from the Netherlands with an innovative approach to journalism. Author: Cecilia Arregui, www.planetmundus.com

Author: Miriam Karout, www.planetmundus.com

Slow News looks at the Philippines and President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war. Author: Ramon Royandoyan, Mário Braga, www.planetmundus.com