Who am I?

I didn’t start Wanderlab because I wanted to become a travel writer.

If anything, I ended up here by accident or maybe by following the same question through different parts of my life until it finally took this form.

I’ve lived between countries, languages, and very different social worlds for years. I’ve moved through cities and villages, activist spaces and family tables, international institutions and ordinary streets. Again and again, I found myself less interested in the official version of a place than in the quieter question underneath it: how do people actually live together here?

What do they consider normal?
What do they make room for?
What stays private, and what becomes public?
How do food, buildings, rituals, or public space reveal the deeper logic of a society?

For a long time, I didn’t have a proper category for this way of looking.

I worked in environmental activism and international spaces where politics, systems, and public life were always part of the conversation. But what stayed with me just as much were the everyday details; the things that rarely make it into official language, but shape life just as strongly: who speaks to strangers, how villages absorb outsiders, what local services exist, what children are offered, how trust works, what gets repeated in public, what people assume is just “normal.”

Wanderlab grew out of that.

It is my way of bringing together things I used to keep separate: travel, observation, politics, culture, belonging, and the strange power of ordinary life.

I’m not interested in travel as escape, or in politics as abstraction. I’m interested in the space where they meet: the everyday world people build around each other, often without realizing how much it reveals.

This project is partly a field journal, partly a way of thinking in public.

It began with my own need to understand the places I had lived in more honestly and, maybe, to feel understood in the way I saw them.

For ideas, notes, and thoughtful exchanges

If you’d like to get in touch; whether to exchange ideas, share an observation, suggest a story, or simply respond to something you’ve read here, you can write to me at : [email protected]

Wanderlab grows through attention, conversation, and the different ways people learn to read the places they move through.