Places

Text and drawings by Frits Ahlefeldt ( FritsAhlefeldt.com )

Project about what a place is, how it can look and feel and what we use them for inside and outside our minds…

What is a place? – here are a few of my drawings to get the thoughts started:

Drawing of green office space by Frits Ahlefeldt
The work space as creative space
People in individual cocoons in life
Green cocoon place
Walking tree house illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Wandering Home
Walls and bridges competing illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places divided and bridged
box house with legs walking illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Nomadic walking house visiting places
woman with VR mask in digital swamp illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Virtual and real places are mixing
People making green sidewalks illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Creating places in public space
tree on a hill surrounded by cars illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places to walk to vs places to drive to
People making group circle illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Social place?
People with roots illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
places and roots
Woman relaxing under at tree illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Wellness place
Man and woman making a house with hands above kid illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Family place
people sitting in a pot looking at a sprout, wondering if they can eat it now illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places and limited resources
homeless man meet shopper both with shopping wagons illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Same and different reality
city fractured into isolated enclaves illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Fractured place
drawing of a lot of small sail boats with a person in each illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Individualized place
Stranded old sailor on a beach illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Place as something you reach or strand upon
Planet earth inside a tree illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Earth as a place in a tree of life
building surrounding a garden with a tree illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The garden as place
people in rows on computers like in a farm illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Modern work place factory farm
man in his car looking out on the good life on foot illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places and comfort zones
man on heap of money holding on and man on grass looking up illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places as motivation
man and polar bear on small ice piece illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places and climate change
body in nature looking at digital head on screen across gap illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Nature and digital places
Robot bartender saying last round in the bar illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The bar as a non-digital place
small boat on waves and man saying it is just waves illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places as individual experience
islands with people on them at low tide
places at low tide
boat at sea with someone saying I quit illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Some places you can’t leave
Chaotic roads heap illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Roads as places
Community in a tree house
Tree house place
cars driving around a hole illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Cars and holes
hitchhiker going to nature with a truck with trees coming from it illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Nature as resource and experience
man walking in coastal forest illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Coastal forest as place
Eco housing illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Green houses
house with a rich top and poor bottom, in an scorn landscape
Places and the layers of society
man with rules coming out of the ground illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
place planner appearing
group of drifters illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Drifting through places
heart with people in it illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Heart as place
group of people becoming a wall illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
People as walls
drawing of green village spelled in houses illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The green village as place vision
planet Earth surrounded by green leaves
Earth as a place in the universe
Green thriving office space in nature illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The office as a green place
wavering green high buildings illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Place with organic green architecture
dragon flying girl across to the land of dreams illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Dreams as a place
drawing of a city gate illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The gated place
man making lecture about the future illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The future as a place
Frog in the pond saying I'm not ready to the princess illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Not ready to change place
witch in her strange kitchen illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The magical place of transformation
Drawing of a sinking island of experts
Island of knowledge with experts
square green houses and a cow
Green design with cow
man sitting by river dried out illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
The place dried out
man cutting down trees with fruits on them illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Long term and short term place resource logic
Chicken looking at egg shell illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Lost places and nostalgia

man with wrecked car wanting to pretend he is still on the road
Pretending being in a different place
carrot girl smiling illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Places, thrive and roots
group of bubble cars illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Cars as bubble comfort zones
woman in a the letters LIFE moving through
Places in life
Glass building and wood cabin illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt
Old and new places illustration