{"id":4034,"date":"2026-03-20T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:29:14","slug":"yvonne-rock-in-conversation-about-society-arctic-highways-and-human-encounters-with-financier-jan-wejdmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/yvonne-rock-i-samtal-om-samhallet-arctic-highways-och-manskliga-moten-med-finansmannen-jan-wejdmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Rock in conversation about society, Arctic Highways and human encounters with financier Jan Wejdmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation about visions between the community builder and financier Jan Wejdmark and the cultural figure Yvonne Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Wejdmark grew up in the small town of Gran\u00f6 in V\u00e4sterbotten and later founded the property company Newsec. With a holistic perspective on community development, he works in various contexts to create long-term sustainable environments. Through the association M\u00f6tesplats Gran\u00f6, he pursues a vision of preserving and developing the rural community through collaboration between artists, cultural activities, businesses, and municipal stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is also involved in the touring art exhibition Arctic Highways, which brings together twelve artists from S\u00e1pmi, Canada, and Alaska. The exhibition is curated by Britta Marakatt-Labba, Tomas Colbengtson, Gunvor Guttorm, and Dan J\u00e5ma, and the aim is for it to eventually be established as a permanent exhibition in Gran\u00f6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 In the future, I see Gran\u00f6 developing into one of the most important meeting places for history, culture, and nature in Northern Europe, says Jan Wejdmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation between Jan Wejdmark and Yvonne Rock, who has been project manager for Arctic Highways and other projects for five years and possesses an extensive network within Swedish cultural life, revolves around how societies can develop and the role culture plays in creating attractive and unique meeting places that draw people from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organiser<\/strong> The Cultural Lift<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Folk-och-kulturs-logga.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4035\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6113191843528922;width:300px\"\/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ett samtal om visioner mellan samh\u00e4llsbyggaren och finansmannen Jan Wejdmark och kulturprofilen Yvonne Rock. Jan Wejdmark v\u00e4xte upp i den lilla orten Gran\u00f6 i V\u00e4sterbotten och grundade senare fastighetsbolaget Newsec. Med ett holistiskt perspektiv p\u00e5 samh\u00e4llsutveckling verkar han i olika sammanhang f\u00f6r att skapa l\u00e5ngsiktigt h\u00e5llbara milj\u00f6er. Genom f\u00f6reningen M\u00f6tesplats Gran\u00f6 driver han en vision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}