Outreach

Media coverage and outreach from the project, relevant courses and related research conducted by the team members are listed at this site, as well as a full list of the project's output.

A wooden primstav (runic calendar) with various symbols

A primstav from the 2021 primstav exercise: A tree with leaves for Spring, a table with food for Eid al-Fitr, a flag for 17th of May (National day), a rainbow for Pride, sea and ice cream for Summer, a rose for 22 July, an upset emoji for the start of the school year, and rainy clouds and leaves for Autumn.

Photo:

Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen

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Media coverage and outreach

Documentary: Tidelines by James Muir.
Seasons they are a-changing. News article on the 2024 book Changing Seasonality, uib.no, 01.02.24
Interview about the primstav (perpetual calendar) with PhD candidate Elisabeth Schøyen, NRK Opptur (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), 14.10.2023 (in Norwegian) The interview starts in the segment Årets første vinterdag at 15.58 (click on Tidspunkter to see the various segments).
Paper by PI Scott Bremer: How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula, Academic Programme of the 34th Annual Conference of Academia Europaea (AE), 10.10.2023
Two-day public symposium to discuss the project's findings: Re-patterning our seasonal cultures: A symposium. 11-12.09.2023
Art exhibition inspired by the project: "A path is a thought stretched out in time and space", 09-24.09. 2023
Paper in Seasonality panel by Scott Bremer: Practicing the Beekeeping Season in Western Norway, 09.08.2023
Lecture by Scott Bremer: Seasons in the city: how can municipalities adapt to shifting patterns of seasonal rhythms? under the sixth Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, NOCCA, Reykjavik, 17.04.2023
Presentation at parallel session Local Practices at Climate Change Temporalities: Narratives, Representations and Practices - A conference on humanistic approaches to climate change, University of Bergen, Norway, August 11-13, 2021. Title: Mapping local seasonal change using primstavs. - 11.08.2021
Portrait of a climate city: How climate change is emerging as a risk in Bergen, Norway - YouTube, 14.05.2021
Presentation by Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen in online seminar series Phenomenal Time: perceiving ecological temporalities: The Primstav exercise - an engaging and creative way to draw, think and talk about local seasons and climate adaptation - 28.10.2021
Article about the ERC Starting Grant - Forskning.no, 14.08.2018 (in Norwegian)
Article about citizen science and weather stations - nrk.no, 23.06.2018 (in Norwegian)

Related research projects

Changing Water Cultures (CANALS)
Co-production of Climate Services for East Africa (CONFER)
How Artifacts Aquire Agency: Towards a Philosophy of Automation (HAAA)
BeeWare, a spinoff project by researchers from NORCE and SVT, is investigating how weather and climate risk are challenging beekeeping in the Vestland region.

See relevant courses and other outreach under Related content below.

Overview of CALENDARS project output

CALENDARS project output 2019-2024

A path is a thought stretched out in time and space

In September 2023, the CALENDARS project co-hosted an exhibition where six contemporary artists gave visitors an alternative experience of the Arboretum and ways for sensing time.

Snowy mountains below blue sky and white clouds, a meadow of croci at the front

‘Changing seasonality’: a symposium rethinking what seasons mean in changeable times

This public symposium looked at how cultural frameworks of seasons are undergoing dramatic changes and explores creative ways of rethinking what seasons mean for us.

Tidelines

Film-maker James Muir documented the CALENDARS research in New Zealand for over two years. See the Coromandel Peninsula’s seasonal rhythms in this film!

Changing Water Cultures (CANALS)

CANALS explores how a community adapts to global warming when there is an increase in extreme weather events (such as heavy rainfall) due to climate change.

Poste for arrangementet: Kvit og rosa tekst på grøn bakgrunn, samt ein illustrasjon av ein stor, rosa blome

The Primstav Exercise

Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen, PhD candidate on the CALENDARS project at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, will do a presentation in the seminar series "Phenomenal Time: perceiving ecological temporalities."

Making a primstav of today

As part of our local communication and engagement work, we developed a creative exercise centered on the traditional Norwegian calendar stick, the primstav.

text on whiteboard for primstav excercise

Making a primstav of today - part II

This spring we ran the primstav exercise again, this time with a local 7th grade school class we have collaborated with and followed for one school year

Portrait of a climate city: How climate change is emerging as a risk in Bergen, Norway

Climate change is dramatically shifting the way cities interpret and live with their local climate. Historically, Bergen has a strong identity as Europe’s rainiest city, manifested in its cultural and social life. In the past 15 years, Bergen’s identity has been shifting from a ‘weather city’ to a ...

A woman, a man and a cake with a candle shaped as the number 3

Citizen science project wins 3rd place

The project Meet je Stad (Measure your City), which has links to two UiB research projects, has been named the 3rd most sustainable Dutch initiative.

Members of the Bergen Filharmonic Orchestra with umbrellas

Stories of climate adaptation across Europe

UiB researchers Scott Bremer and Diana Wildschut have together with Werner Krauss co-edited a special issue about narratives in the journal Climate Risk Management.

How to live with rapid seasonal change

How can we live by the rhythms of the seasons, when these rhythms seem to be changing quickly? Scott Bremer is looking at how rapid seasonal changes are affecting institutions in society and how we can re-learn and adapt to seasonal change in new ways.

National Science Week 2019

The CALENDARS team had a stand at the National Science Week expo (Forskningstorget) in Bergen in September.

Climate adaptation co-production course – because climate problems can't be solved alone

Erik Kolstad and Scott Bremer organise training in transdisciplinary climate adaptation research for early career researchers.

11.07.2024