​In a series of talks, Carlo Aall (Head of the Norwegian Research Centre for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation), Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa (Energy Director at the University of Bergen), and Jannecke Heien (exhibiting artist in Moments of Blackout) will discuss topics related to energy. Among other things, they will explore the energy transition from the perspectives of research and industry, the changes and adaptations this entails, speculation on how economic and cultural shifts are felt on the ground, and not least, the role imagination plays in envisioning future conditions.
Following the seminar, we will continue on to KRAFT, where the conversation carries on over light refreshments and a guided tour of the exhibition Moments of Blackout.

Carlo Aall holds a master in Nature conservation from the Agricultural University of Norway (1987) and took his PhD at the University of Aalborg in 2002. He has been working at WNRI since 1990, and from 2006 - 2017 he was head of the environment research group. From 2012 to 2014 Aall acted as a visiting professor in Sustainable Development at Aarhus University Herning (DK), and from 2016 and onwards he has acted as professor II in Sustainable Development at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). Aall has prior to WNRI worked as an environmental adviser in the municipality of Ølen (1988-90), and has worked with a number of large research projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council as well as international EU funded projects. As from 1 January 2019, Aall is leading the Norwegian Research Centre on Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation (Noradapt)  https://klimatilpasningssenter.no/

Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa holds a dr. scient. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Bergen (UiB). She has a wide range of experience from science (fish stock assessment, reservoir mechanics and seismic) and from private sector (marketing and management) before she started to work with offshore wind energy in 2010. She was the director of Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) from 2010 to 2017 at Christian Michelsen Research (now NORCE). She was appointed energy director at UiB in spring 2018, being responsible for the committed research area Climate and energy transition. She has been collaborating with textile artist Margrethe Kolstad Brekke for many years on topics like sustainability, reduced consumption and energy transition.

Jannecke Heien was educated at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. She works with installation, image, and video, often revolving around social structures. How different economic, structural, and cultural processes of change appear at ground level has been the source for much of Heien’s work. Since 2010 she has been developing projects emphasising the human ability to imagine and envision future conditions. In 2006 she was one of the co-founders of the art journal B-Post, which was published yearly until 2015. Heien has exhibited at, amongst others, Möbius Gallery, Kunsthall 3,14, Kunstgarasjen, and Trykkeriet.

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