Nils Klim-seminar: “The challenge of transformation: Nurturing collective convivial commons”

Siddharth Sareen
Nils Klim-prisvinner Siddharth Sareen etter prisutdelingen 6. juni 2024. (Foto: Eivind Senneset.)

Siddharth Sareen ble tildelt Nils Klim-prisen 2024. Den 20. november arrangerer han to seminarer over temaet “Mobilising Change and Changing Mobility”.

Hvert år får mottageren av Nils Klim-prisen midler til å arrangere et symposium/seminar. Siddharth Sareen mottok prisen i 2024 og vil 20. november 2024 arrangere to tvilling-seminarer over temaet “Mobilising Change and Changing Mobility”. Nils Klim-seminaret har tittelen “The challenge of transformation: Nurturing collective convivial commons”.

Seminar I: The Nils Klim Seminar (08:00-11:00)

The challenge of transformation: Nurturing collective convivial commons

The winner of the Nils Klim award 2024, Siddharth Sareen (Fridtjof Nansen Institute), takes up the difficult question of changing aspirations to reflect those compatible with a sustainable society. How can we transition from our high-metabolism context of Norway with its obsession with cars, planes, luxury and petro-paid life, to a more convivial and less egotistical form of community wealth and brimful commons that prioritises local connection?

Illustrious invited seminar speakers will discuss how to get from the one to the other when the ones in the driving seat are most often busy and high-powered people, who are only occasionally attuned to such values in their everyday lives. Like Nils Klim, whose adventures in the underground are also a form of self-exploration (and social commentary for the reader), this seminar will be an invitation to turn the lens onto ourselves as a collective of individuals and the challenge of transformation.

340 years from birth, what collective legacy can we hope to be commemorated for, as Ludvig Holberg (born 1684) is today for Nils Klim?

Programme

08:00-09:00 Social breakfast in the DNVA foyer

09:00-09:15 Scene-setting by the Nils Klim Laureate

09:15-10:00 How can we transition to community wealth and local connection?
Featuring Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg (Fridtjof Nansen Institute), Karina Standal (CICERO) and Bård Lahn (University of Oslo) 

Panel discussion moderated by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (University of Bergen)

10:00-10:45 Are powerful decision-makers equipped to enable this transition?
Featuring Irja Vormedal and Lars Gulbrandsen (both Fridtjof Nansen Institute), Kjetil Rommetveit (University of Bergen) and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (University of Oslo, TBC)

Panel discussion moderated by Tuva Widskjøld, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Norway

10:45-11:00 Questions from the audience and closing reflections by panel moderators

The seminar is sponsored by the Nils Klim Prize Secretariat located at the University of Bergen and funded by the Norwegian Government.

Seminar II: UH-nett Vest Seminar (13:00-16:00)

Convivial urban transport transitions: Mobilising future mobility in Norwegian cities


The Norwegian Government recently announced funding for three national transport research centres to start in 2025. This seminar takes stock of what the future of mobility looks like for Norwegian cities, and how to mobilise it. It unearths and examines various aspects of priorities for urban transport transitions towards not only a low-carbon sector but also one that is centred on conviviality, inclusion and local community and connection to nature.

This seminar arises from a recently completed JPI Climate and Research Council of Norway funded project entitled Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies. It takes up the vital concerns identified by this project, captured in the simple mantra ‘inclusion, organising, commoning’ (see https://jpi-climate.eu/project/roles/). A host of invited seminar speakers will address themes from their wide-ranging experience of and expertise on urban transport transitions in Norway and the context in which these changes are taking place.

Attendees will receive a free art-science co-production comic book.

Programme

13:00-13:15 Scene-setting talk by the project leader Siddharth Sareen

13:15-14:00 What do just urban transport transitions look like for Norway? (in English)

Featuring Dan Pietkowski (author of ‘Bicycle city’), Anine Hartmann (Asplan Viak) and Tanu Priya Uteng (Institute of Transport Economics)

14:00-14:45 Hvordan får vi til en rettferdig omstilling av norsk bymobilitet? (in Norwegian)

Featuring Ulrik Eriksen (forfatter av ‘Et land på fire hjul‘) and Eivind Trædal (forfatter av ‘På ville veier‘). Moderated by Per Gunnar Røe (Universitetet i Oslo)

14:45-15:00 Questions from the audience / spørsmål fra salen

15:00-16:00 Networking reception with light refreshments in the DNVA foyer
 

The seminar is sponsored by a dissemination grant funded by UH-nett Vest, including the University of Stavanger and the University of Bergen where the ROLES project was held.

Venue: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA) is located at Drammensveien 78, Oslo.

It is possible to sign up for one or both seminars. Sponsored breakfast and reception are included. There is no participation fee but spaces are limited.

For registration and more information, see this page.

Detaljer

Onsdag 20. november 2024
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