Day by day-program

THANK YOU for the participators and audience. We had a very nice and interesting conference and discussions!

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15.7. Wednesday / 19:15-22:00 (Finnish time) 18:15-21:00 (Austrian time) /ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE

Pre-discussion – Climate Change in Perspective: 19:15-19:50pm (finnish time) 18:15-18:50pm (austrian time): Laura Beloff (FI), Antero Järvinen (FI), Heikki Henttonen (FI), Leena & Oula Valkeapää (FI) + audience in discussion.

ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE / 20:00-22:00pm (finnish time) 19:00-21:00pm (austrian time) :

Heikki Henttonen: Professor, PhD, The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Unit. Expert talk on adaptation of animal populations to changing climate, especially mammals and rodents (such as lemmings and arctic fox) and impact of climate change on ecosystems and how this is affecting human cultures.
Leena Valkepää: Leena Valkeapää approaches art that is incorporated into the culture and landscape where it emerges from. Many of her recent productions are collaborations with her husband reindeer- herder Oula A. Valkeapää who is continuing the traditional Samí lifestyle with reindeers in the tundra.
Antero Järvinen: Järvinen is Professor, PhD, and the Director of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of Helsinki University. He is a zoologist specialized in the nature of the arctic fells, and an expert in long-term studies of changes in nature.

16.7. Thursday/ 19:15-22:00 (Finnish time) 18:15-21:00 (Austrian time) / WATER FLEAS IN FOCUS

Pre-discussion – Climate Change in Perspective: 19:15-19:50pm (finnish time) 18:15-18:50pm (austrian time): Leslie Hyde (FI/UK), Tarja Trygg (FI), Anu Osva (FI), Milla Rautio (CA/FI), Antti Tenetz (FI) + audience in discussion.

WATER FLEAS IN FOCUS / 20:00-22:00pm (finnish time) 19:00-21:00pm (austrian time):

Iris Zellmer: Dr Iris Zellmer has conducted over 10 years field research on water fleas at the Biological Station of the University Helsinki in Kilpisjärvi and the Subarctic Research Institute in Kevo, Finland. Merja Talvela: Talvela is a multi-disciplinary agent in the field of culture, taking theatre and performing arts into unexpected places. Together with the scientist Iris Zellmer she will present Water Flea Circus – a peepshow on ecology.
Milla Rautio: Professor in the Aquatic Sciences Laboratory in Université du Quebéc à Chicoutimi, Canada. Expert talk: Lake sediments store hundreds of years of environmental history.
Martin Kainz: P.h.D.- currently Research Scientist at Interuniversity Center for Aquatic Ecosystem Research, WasserCluster Lunz – Biologische Station, and the Head of Aquatic Lipid and Ecotoxicology Research Group (LIPTOX).

17.7. Friday/ socializing in Kilpisjärvi: Beyond Arctic Circle

Evening, 18pm >>: sauna (“ranta-sauna” of the biological station) and dinner (with mosquitoes?) at “kota” (smoked fish, vegetables, fire, refreshments). The screening of the selection of artists’ videos relating to Climate Change, Arctic, future visions and relating topics.

18.7. Saturday/ 19:15-22:00 (Finnish time) 18:15-21:00 (Austrian time) / FUTURE, ADAPTATION, MITIGATION…

Pre-discussion – Climate Change in Perspective: 19:15-19:50pm (finnish time) 18:15-18:50pm (austrian time): Erich Berger (FI/AT), Kari Laine (FI), Marc Nuttal (CA), Tapio Mäkelä (FI/UK), Antero Järvinen (FI), Anu Osva (FI) + audience in discussion.

LINZ – KILPISJÄRVI / 20:00-22:00pm (finnish time) 19:00-21:00pm (austrian time):

Kari Laine (FI) -Professor, and the Director of the Thule Institute University of Oulu and Marc Nuttal (CA) – expert in arctic anthropology and Professor in University of Alberta,  in discussion with Gerfried Stocker (AT) -The Director of Ars Electronica Center, Linz Austria. The discussion will take place between Kilpisjärvi and Linz via skype, and streamed online.

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Climate Change: local is global

At the core of the 80+1 project are the discussions and debates on our future visions of how to achieve a beneficial impact at both local and global level. Kilpiscope / 80+1 Kilpisjärvi organizes live transmissions of art productions, artists’ statements, discussions, lectures and it will produce short documentaries from its base at the Kilpisjärvi Research Centre. The Kilpisjärvi climate change program will generate art by means of different works and Finnish visualisations of current research on climate change.

Research in Finland on understanding the dynamics of climate change is multifaceted and international in scope: for example, it focuses on relationship between the globe, the atmosphere and the sun; the geophysics of the arctic environment and the biology and ecosystems of the arctic zone, among other topics. The program extends its range to cover societies and communities and everyday living as well as international political dimensions. It will include future scenarios for the conditions that will prevail in the natural and social worlds of the northern areas.

The research mentioned so far is mainly concentrated on the arctic and northern zones. The 80+1 project facilitates a different forum to share work and research on climate change. Via the internet the discussion is widened into a global discussion and transmitted to Linz, where there is a direct link and local experts and an audience ready to ask questions and engage in a dialogue with Kilpisjärvi. The aim is to disseminate the discussions via Linz to the world following the events in Linz and recycle them back to Finland and to the Finnish forums.