Art and social practice in support of young people dealing with societal threats

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Art and social practice in support of young people dealing with societal threats

Plenary Session: People of the North
Theme - Inclusion and empowerment of young people in the North
Title of Panel: Art and social practice in support of young people dealing with societal threats
Chair: Roxane Permar
Speakers: Mette Gárdvik, Wenche Sørmo, Karin Stoll and Annamari Manninen

This interdisciplinary panel considered how art and social based practices can help young people in the North deal with issues that threaten society, such as climate change, environmental pollution, and contamination from plastics. Industrialisation of natural resources such as fish farming and new forms of colonisation involving the industrial scale extraction of nature for export and profit, as in wind power, disrupt our relation to land as well as impacting cultural heritage and identity.
The premise for this panel is based on the belief that creativity is essential for sustainable development (D'Orville 2019), and that the arts can create impact and achieve societal change by offering imaginative approaches to the complex issues affecting our society. The environmental, social, cultural, and economic changes occurring in the North are charged with far reaching geopolitical consequences alongside human and environmental impact that require young people’s voices.
Panel members shared research findings from their projects as a foundation for wider discussion with the audience:.
Presentations:
1 Dealing with Environmental Challenges in the Arctic - The Marine Debris Project - Mette Gårdvik, Associate Professor in Art Education; Wenche Sørmo, Dr.Scient. Associate Professor in Natural Science; Karin Stoll, Associate Professor in Natural Science Education; all three presenters are researchers at Nord Universitet, Nesna Campus.

2 Communities in Artistic Dialogue - Sharing the visualisations of the Arctic. DA Annamari Manninen, Lecturer in Art Education, University of Lapland.
3 The Landscape in Pain: Art for shifting relations with the land’ - Roxane Permar, Professor in Art and Social Practice, Centre for Island Creativity UHI Shetland

Period	31 May 2024
Event title	Arctic Congress
Event type	Other
Location	Bodø, NorwayShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International