Swedish award winners

Adapted from a fax from Marilyn Mehlman to the Institute.

For the fourth consecutive year, social inventions and social inventors have been recognised at a prize-giving in Stockholm, organised by the Swedish Institute for Social Inventions (SISU). The prize winners include:

  • 'The way things were' - a training project for nurses, developed by Lena Cedermark, to help them appreciate the social and cultural backgrounds of the older people they are caring for.

  • 'Ecology Begins at Home', a book by Archie Duncanson (whose latest leaflet features in the Ecology section of this journal).

    'Will nature's variety of forms be increased? Are we solving more problems than we create?'

  • 'Directional Analysis', a tool for councils to use, that consists of specific steps to take when evaluating the environmental impact of their decisions - they need to ask themselves questions such as 'Will energy use decrease? Will nature's variety of forms be increased? Are we solving more problems than we create? Are we playing it safe, by making sure that we do not harm important natural processes?'

  • Work with schools and elsewhere on preventing the eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia.

  • The Strängnäs model for rehabilitating people with mental illness, mobilising the patient's own inner resources, at far lower cost in both suffering and money than within a normal institution.

    For details of the above award winners contact: SISU, Peter Myndes Backe 12:5, S188 46, Stockholm, Sweden (tel 46 8772 4587; fax 46 8642 2641).

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