Envirocen

This initial event is open to all, inside and outside the university community. It is held on 24.01.23 at the University of Oulu at Tellus Stage, Linnanmaa Campus. In this event, we ask: What is Citizen Science (CS) and what is CS doing to and for science? In addition to great speakers, we have a collaboarive elements using a padlet form to involve the participants in building the dialogue on citizen science.

Detailed Programme:

“What is CS doing to and for Science?” with Anna Krzywoszynka, Associate Professor in Environmental Social Science, University of Oulu and Thora Herrmann, Professor, University of Oulu

“What is ‘Science’ in Citizen Science? A Perspective from Philosophy of Science.” with Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Oulu

“Citizen science with young people and other animals – Who  counts and how?” with Pauliina Rautio, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu and an Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of Helsinki

"Citizen science in botanical research and nature conservation: a few examples from personal experience." with Mykyta Peregrym, visiting researcher at the Univeristy of Oulu

In this event held 17th March 2023 we are fortunate to have filmmaker, Jasper Coppes, joining us from Amsterdam. This workshop focuses on: “Building counter-narratives and working with fiction in environmental justice research”. Researchers, faculty, and doctoral and advanced graduate students are welcome to explore the power of fiction in bringing reality to the surface.

Programme:

1h Video methods workshop

• Narratives, and construction of new natures
• Excerpts from the ‘almost finished’ film
• Telling counter-narratives
• using fictions constructively
• how to use fiction in citizen science?

Group work/workshopping:

1. How could you work with fiction or video methods in your research? Discussion.
2. Using storyboards to narrate research.

In this afternoon event, held 17 March 2023 from 13.00-16.00 we take a closer look at “Citizen Science, Arts and Digitization” in Kamingespräch/ Takkatulikeskustelu/Fireside Chat style. We look at some inspiring examples of community and citizen engagement, weird histories, biology labs producing art, and more in this session. It is followed by a CinemANTS session with documentary films.

Programme:

Venue: University of Oulu, Frost Club & Tellus Stage, Linnamaa Campus

The event will be on Zoom for participants to follow along and will also be recorded on Zoom.

13-13:15 Welcome and Opening with Anna Krzywoszynka, Associate Professor, University of Oulu & Thora Herrmann, Professor, University of Oulu

13:15-15:00 Citizen Science, Arts and the Digitization

13:15-13:35 “CS & digitization” with Juha Röning, Professor of Embedded System Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group, University of Oulu

13:35-13:55 “Engaged Art and Citizen Participation" with Ari Björn, Lecturer The School of Architecture, University of Oulu

14:05-14:25 “Bringing together Art, natural sciences and society” with Erich Berger, Director of the Bioart Society, Helsinki

14:25 – 14:45 “Undisciplinary encounters on shifting shorelines” with Taru Elfving, CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago

14:45-15:15 Discussion, Moderated by Thora Herrmann & Anna Krzywoszynka

15 – 17:00 ANTS Film afternoon & ART Exhibit

• Screening of a documentary by the Dutch Artist and film-maker Jasper Copps
• Screening of an in-progress documentary on the bear ceremony of the Khanty in Siberia by Stephan Dudeck and Antti Tenetz

In this hybrid event held online and in LO124 at the University of Oulu, Linnanmaa Campus, co-organized in collaboration with ANTS and NTNU Trondheim we’ll explore “Citizen Science in the North”.

Please sign up here:

https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/4876E1AADE127458

Registration deadline: 28.04.23

Keynote Speaker:

Muki Hacklay (University College London)

Presenters:

Michael Køie Poulsen (Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology)

Harald Sodemann and Mika Lantzky (University of Oslo)

Outi Meinander and Ana Alvarez (Finnish Meteorological Institute)

Sari Hirvonen-Kantola (University of Oulu)

This event addresses the emerging form of co-creation between researchers and communities known as citizen science. As a compelling form of engagement and inclusivity for societal change, citizen science has emerged as a powerful tool for engaging communities in scientific research, yet its potential in the Arctic region has yet to be fully explored. This one-day workshop will showcase existing work within Northern communities, bringing together several speakers to explore the opportunities and challenges of citizen science in Northern contexts. This will serve as a basis for deepening connections between the work of different colleagues doing citizen science research across the Nordic countries and Europe. Topics include local perspectives on citizen science; best practices from ongoing projects; the use of new technologies in data collection and analysis; and the role of citizen science in addressing the particular environmental challenges of the Arctic region. The workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers, students, practitioners, and community members to share their experiences and insights and to network with others working in this exciting field. The event is funded by the ENVIROCEN project (Nordic Council of Ministers) and the Biodiverse Anthropocenes research programme (Academy of Finland).

Detailed Programme

09:00-09:15 Welcoming address

Roger Norum, Hanna Musiol, Thora Herrmann, Anna Krzywoszynska

09:15-10:00 Keynote address

Muki Hacklay | Professor of Geographic Information Science

Department of Geography, University College London

10:00-10:10 Break

10:10-12:45 Best-practice-Citizen Science projects from the North

10:10-10:50 “The SNOWPACE project”

Harald Sodemann | Professor in Meteorology &

Mika Lanzky | PhD Student

Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research & Department of Geosciences, University of Bergen, Norway

10:50-11:25 “The CAPARDUS project”

Michael K. Poulsen | Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology (NORDECO)

11:25-12:10 “Saharan dust citizen science campaign in Finland, Feb. 2021”

Outi Meinander | Adjunct Professor

Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland confirmed

“Beyond citizen science: Oranssi Lumi initiative”

Ana Álvarez Piedehierro | Postdoctoral Researcher

Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

12:10-12:45 “UNIC4ER”

Sari Hirvonen-Kantla | Postdoctoral researcher

University of Oulu, Finland

12:45-13:45 Lunch break

13:45-14:45 Panel Discussion

“The future of Citizen Science in the North: how can citizen science help foster knowledge co-production in the North”

14:45-15:00 Wrap up & Closing

Hanna Musiol, Roger Norum, Anna Krzywoszynka, Thora Herrmann

This two-day Masterclass on 30-31.05.23 will be offered hybrid, both on Zoom and face-to-face. The aim is to bring together students, early career scientists, and researchers who would like to start a Citizen Science project or are already involved in a Citizen Science project to obtain advice and capacity building from senior mentors. For those interested, it will be possible to obtain some ECTS, course credit for participation.

Day 1 | 30 May 2023:

Programme:

Venue: Tellus Stage, Linnanmaa Campus 9:00-17:00

09:00-09:15 Welcoming address and introductions of key speakers

09:15-10:00 Keynote address II; CS and Biodiversity in the era of Anthropocene with Aletta Bonn, Professor Ecosystem Services Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research-iDiv, Leipzig, Germany

10:00-10:45 Keynote address I; Citizen science with more-than-humans and environmental/planetary justice with Jennifer Gabrys, Chair in Media, Culture and Environment, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

10:45 - 11:10 Q&A

11:30-12:30 Moderated Dialogue circle with both key speakers: 3-4 themes sourced from the students, on the basis of 3-4 readings per presenter, and abstracts of the keynotes.

12:30-13:30 Lasagne Lunch

13:30-17:00 Work Session I

10 min presentation of student project: 7 min presentation, 3 min Q&A

13:30 - 14:50 Session 1: with 8 presenters

14: 50 - 15:10 Break

15:10 - 16: 20 Session 2: 7 presenters

16: 20 - 17:00 Discussion of cross-cutting themes.

Day 2 | 31 May 2023:

Programme:

Venue: Kumina 9:00-13:00 (in Foodoo Garden, Linnanmaa Campus)

09:00-09:10 Welcome

09:15-10:45 Workshop, 3 topics - world café

10:45 - 11:15 Feedback

11:15 - 11: 30 Coffee and tea break

11:30-12:30 Spotlight on CS methods on the edge - video session

12:30-13:30 Game & Lunch

14:00-16:30 Field Excursion, Visit a CS project in Oulu

Roger Norum is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is deputy director of the Profi6 Biodiverse Anthropocenes research programme, co-director of Environmental Humanities and co-founder of the Finnish Association of Citizen Sciences. Roger has the disciplinary experience that spans geography, cultural studies, media studies and the environmental humanities. His transdisciplinary research considers links between infrastructure, mobility and the environment, with a focus on the comparative and praxeological dimensions of participatory media, mapping and mobility, primarily among transient communities in the Arctic and Asia. His doctoral work, based on field research among Euro-American mobile professionals working in Kathmandu, Nepal, took as its core focus the production of hypersociality as a response to experiences of transience and neo-colonial privilege. He currently leads several international projects on conservation, tourism, and sensory ethnography, and is carrying out research on topics that include: the experience of silence in the European High North; the social lives of mosquitoes in Finland and Alaska; and ecological socialities among Chinese tourists and migrants in Cambodian special economic zones. He is co-author of the monograph Migrantes (Ekaré, 2019) and co-editor of Geopolitics and Tourism: Assemblages of Power, Mobility and the State (Arizona UP, 2021), Anthropocene Ecologies: Entanglements of Tourism, Nature and Imagination (Routledge, 2020), Methodologies of Mobility: Ethnography and Experiment (Berghahn, 2017) and Political Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment (Routledge, 2016). He is also the founding editor of the Palgrave book series Arctic Encounters, and sits on the editorial boards of the journals Digital, Culture and Society, Teaching Anthropology and Time and Mind. Since 2015 has been awarded over 19.2MM EUR in research and programme funding, either as PI or Co-I. He has given academic talks in several languages, including Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. Roger received degrees from Cornell University and the University of Oxford and holds a docentship in mobility from the University of Oulu.

Hanna Musiol (PhD, Northeastern) is a Professor of Literature at NTNU a 2023 Human Rights Fellow at SUNY Binghamton. She publishes literary and transmedia aesthetics and justice, with an emphasis on migration, environmental humanities, and human rights. She also regularly organizes city-scale curatorial and civic engagement initiatives, and she collaborates actively with grassroots storytelling ensembles (Literature for Inclusion & Poetry without Borders).

Gulabuddin is a writer, translator, researcher, and public speaker

originally from Afghanistan. Nowadays, he lives in Norway where he works

at the House of Literature in Trondheim, leading the Literature for

Inclusion initiative. This is a platform devoted to arts and literature

aiming to promote cross-cultural understanding in Trondheim and the region. Sukhanwar is also a member of the literature committee at the Arts

The Council of Norway, functioning as an advisory body to the Government

and public sector on cultural affairs and is the main department for

implementing Norwegian cultural policy.

Agata Kochaniewicz, PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. She was a guest researcher at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University in the spring/summer 2022. Member of the group Temporalities of Mobility and Migration (NTNU). Her main anthropological interests are mobility studies, migration, engaged anthropology, and feminist theory. She is also an activist and member of The Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Libe García Zarranz (she/her) is an associate professor of Literature in English in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her research sits at the intersection of literary and visual studies in Canada and affect theory, with a focus on feminist, queer, and trans approaches. She is the author of TransCanadian Feminist Fictions: New Cross-Border Ethics (McGill Queen’s UP, 2017) and the co-editor of the collection Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics and Poetics Today (forthcoming). She has also co-edited special issues on feminist writing in Canada and affect, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice (2018) and Canada and Beyond (2013). Her recent work has appeared in Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry (2022), The Year’s Work in English Studies (2021), and the University of Toronto Quarterly (2020). She is the leader of the research group TransLit: Sustainable Ethics, Affects, and Pedagogies (2018-2024) at NTNU and a member of the international research project Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene (2020-2024).

Carl Martin Rosenkilde Faurby works as the Program Curator at Kunsthall Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway and is a board member of Balansekunst - National Association for Equality, Dansit Choreographic Center and leader of Trondheim Municipality's studio committee. He also sits on a number of international juries. He has curated a large number of exhibitions, including the co-curator of the exhibition Sex Ecologies (2021) at Kunsthall Trondheim.

Kunsthall Trondheim is the largest international arena for contemporary art in Trondheim and the Trøndelag region. Through our exhibitions and public programmes, we engage with the local scene, introduce leading international artists as well as overlooked positions, and connect to a large and diverse audience. Kunsthall Trondheim offers a varied program of mediation for children and young people, workshops, concerts, performances, film screenings and lectures.

The Kunsthall produces exhibitions and programmes that reflect our globalised society, problematise normative gender roles and sexual identity, and highlight marginalised artistic positions and artists that have not yet been exhibited in Trøndelag. During the period of 2020-2025, we focus on knowledge production through interdisciplinary and artistic research, dialogue with science and technology, sustainability, health, and climate by contributing artistic perspectives to these fields.

Carl Martin Rosenkilde Faurby has worked with contemporary art as a curator, writer and leader for the past 15 years. He has had a particular focus on challenging institutional mindsets, collaborations across disciplines and social justice. He works from an ecological perspective where art forms part of an «ecology of social practices» that form the framework for more sustainable communities. He is deeply concerned with mental health and burnout in the cultural sector.

Ysabel Munoz is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where she works with the transdisciplinary project Narrating Sustainability. She is an Environmental Humanities scholar whose research interests include Caribbean climate fiction, non-western futurisms, environmental justice, ecofeminism, and sustainability. Munoz has completed studies at the University of Havana (2017) and the University of Glasgow (2021). She has published several articles and participated in numerous events working towards sustainability in postcolonial contexts.

Anna Rae Heumann is an educator for sustainable development and coordinator for the Envirocen Project. She has a background in social anthropology and education. She has worked on resource development at the Foundation for Environmental Education in Copenhagen and is an Earth Prize mentor for students ages 13-18 at the Earth Foundation based in Geneva. Anna has seven years of teaching experience; in kindergarten, primary, and forest schools in Finland and Turkey. She has designed and taught multiple international training seminars for Erasmus + KA1 projects on Education for Sustainable Development and Eco-Schools. Anna is currently writing her thesis on transformative pedagogy in Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Oulu in the Intercultural Teacher Education programme.