Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
We are proud to present the keynote speakers Peter Alestig, Journalist and Climate Editor at the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter; Bettina Schwalm, Experience Designer, Strategist and Researcher and Miyase Christensen, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University.
The keynote speakers inspired to a creative dialogue with distinguished experts in climate research, communications, media, arts and policy to inspire innovative and interdisciplinary climate solutions.
The desert dunes of Corralejo nature reserve.
Photo: Artur Debat / Getty Images.
We are already at the halfway point of the Paris Agreement, but the current climate action is insufficient to keep the world below 1.5 degrees warming. The years to come are critical for humanity to correct the course. To do so, imagination and vision can play a critical role.
In what ways can climate change be communicated to inspire action and hope, rather than despair?
This event is an in-person event and by invitation only. Policymakers, researchers, artists and media- and communication experts will gather for a creative dialogue on cross-cutting solutions.
Peter is a Journalists and the Climate Editor at the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and author of the book “Världen som väntar: vårt liv i klimatförändringarnas Sverige.” Peter is also responsible for creating and writing Dagens Nyheter’s newsletter “Klimatet just nu”, which summarizes the week’s most important climate news.
Previously, Peter has worked as an Africa correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and as an editor for SvD’s business section.
Miyase Christensen is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University. Christensen has served as Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Guest Professor at KTH as well as the Editor- in-Chief of Popular Communication and the Director of the Leading Research Environment in Global Media Studies and Politics of Mediated Communication at Stockholm University.
Christensen’s research is interdisciplinary and integrative in nature and comprises social theory perspectives on globalisation processes, mobility and environmental change with a focus on the Arctic; technology and culture; and, politics of communication as well as policy studies. As part of the Horizon2020 project Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe, she conducted a case study on environmental change communication as a diplomatic problem. Christensen has just published, as guest-editor, a journal special issue On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations.
Bettina is an Experience Designer, Strategist and Researcher working in service of society, culture and the environment. She is educating and coaching Innovation teams in futures thinking and speculative Design. She is Center Director at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and affiliated to Konstfack (University of Arts, Crafts, and Design).
Her interdisciplinary and collaborative practice is at the intersection of science and design, developing hands-on tools and visions for organisations and the public realm. Her recent project “Signs of Change” in collaboration with Radical Norms has been developed as Future Prototype funded by Vinnova, exploring extreme climate impact through Street Signs of the Future.
15.30: Doors open
16.00: Welcome by organizers
16.05: Inspirational talks:
17.00: Break and refreshments
17.15: Discussion
18.00: Mingle
19:45: End
The Art, Science and Policy Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative bringing together experts from various fields, such as science, policy, arts and media – with the goal of exploring diverse solutions to the ongoing climate crisis.
This initiative emerged as a result of the collaboration between SEI and Stockholm University in 2022, and as a result of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between SEI and Stockholm University.
Past event / Welcome to this workshop on innovative, cross-disciplinary climate solutions with inspiration from arts and science.
Past event / This workshop is organized to create new research ideas and deepening the collaboration between SEI and Stockholm University on key topics of joint interest.
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