Dalslands Studio and its founders
Andreas & Hajo
When Hajo was diagnosed with cancer for the second time, his partner and he decided to bring forward their long-planned retirement project, namely to start another phase of their lives in the Swedish countryside.
Dr. Andreas Hieronymus
Andreas has gained experience as researcher, program officer and works council member in an international organisation. He is very interested in industrial history, the history of labour and related topics. As a doctor of sociology, he has studied these subjects for many years and would now like to share his knowledge and experience with others.
Andreas is also trained in visual recording. This involves graphically interpreting and recording the content and discussions in the seminars.
The medium of images, which complements language, opens up new perspectives; the resulting graphics are both an occasion and a medium for reviewing the event.
You can find more about Andreas in his LinkedIn Profile
Dr. Hajo Seng (1963-2025)
There are three themes that accompany Hajo throughout his life until it ended in May 2025:
The first is the question of what he (and presumably other living beings) perceive as the world, how reality manifests itself in perception. The starting point for his reflections is the experience of being an autistic person rooted in two fundamentally different perceptions and therefore worlds.
He has deepened this through his studies in mathematics and decades of intensive study of Buddhist teachings, Plato, philosophy and history of science, as well as psychology, in particular Jacques Lacan and other structuralist thinkers. In particular, however, through his involvement with many hundreds of autistic people, with whom he went on a journey of discovery in terms of their own thinking and perception.
The second is his interest in people, especially those who do not fit into the “mainstream” of today’s societies in terms of the way they perceive and think. He worked for almost ten years in the field of disability care with a focus on severely and multiply disabled people and learnt a lot about human perception and thinking, as well as communication. Shortly after the turn of the millennium, he became involved in austistic advocacy and self-help and, together with other autistic people, helped to promote the topic of “autistic abilities”. He wrote a PhD on autism from a lifeworld perspective at the Department of Rehabilitation Education at the University of Halle-Wittenberg: Autistisches Erleben.
The third topic is his interest in art, especially painting – but also in writing. In painting, he is fascinated by communication with a physical world, be it different materials, such as water, or media such as brushes, feathers or other relics. What fascinates him about writing is the biographical work that he can set in motion with it. Language enables a wealth of reflections on different stories from his own biography and like a miracle the letters in the text are transformed into mirrors in which he can see himself reflected in different times and even in alternative realities.
