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Monday, November 23rd, 2020The Nordic Drama-pedagogical Magazine invited me to write an article about Ecoscenography in their issue about sustainability. So this was my summer-job this year. I never would have done it without the help and encouragement of my co-author Ida Fugli. She´s a dear friend and an excellent academic AND contemporary theatre-maker. This is a mile-stone […]
ENERGIZE!
Friday, November 20th, 2020This year´s Global Science Opera production focused on energy and sustainability. 16 countries participated, from 5 continents. In 60 minutes of song, dance, music, stop-motion, rap, symphony orchestras, puppetry, choir and theatre, the students perform their own creations teaching us about all types of energy, from kinetic energy to renewable solar-power. I am humbly proud […]
How can we make theatre more sustainable?
Monday, September 28th, 2020Now, that is the million-dollar-question! How to make theatre more sustainable? In my master-thesis I made a model, a suggestion to an approach of how it can be improved at least in every department in every phase of a production. This fall I will be able to test it out in practice in collaboration with […]
Art on the moon
Friday, August 28th, 2020What a weird title you might think. But it is absolutely true! At least it will be in a couple of years. This image is from @euromoonmars and it contains 100 artpieces that will actually go to the moon! Each square artpiece is 1 x 1 x 1 cm, so totally it will be a […]
A real-life researcher
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020Hello. My name is Janne, and I´m a researcher. The past years, as the market for new-built offshore vessels have gone down, and the shuffeling of jobs in the theatre-section has led to less (paid) artistic work for me, I have gone back to my “roots”. Taking all my experience and knowledge both from the artistic […]
GSSO4SCHOOL
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020GSO4SCHOOL is the Global Science Opera teacher training project. (Click logo to get to website). The main aim of the project is to propose an innovative transdisciplinary method to motivate school students and teachers to participate in science and arts initiatives and to develop and establish a network that will work together, exchange practices and maintain […]
CASE
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020CASE stands for “Creativity, Arts and Science in Education”. (Click logo to get to website). The CASE project relies on an understanding that scientific inquiry must be known more as an integral part of daily life and less as a faraway myth occurring in isolated institutions. In our increasingly knowledge-based economy, education systems need the […]
Gravity!
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019The Global Science Opera premiers today with its 5th opera: Gravity! It is a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Eddington´s effort to acquire solid scientific support for Einstein´s Theory of General Relativity. He sent two expeditions to Sobral in Brazil and Principe in Sao Tome & Principe in Western Africa, where they would photograph […]
GSO4SCHOOL
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019The kick-off meeting for our newest research-project: GSO4SCHOOL. In collaboration with partners from Greece, Portugal, Italy and Cyprus, and funded by the EU, this Erasmus+ project will train teachers in the GSO methodology and STEAM education. As th coordinator of the project it is especially exciting!
CASE summer school 2019
Saturday, July 6th, 2019The second summer-school for CASE – Creativity, Arts and Science in Primary Education is back in Marathonas, Greece. This year with four workshops: Learning Science through Puppetry (aboe they are making their puppets), Learning science through theatre, learning science through slowmation (stop-motion) and learning science through digital storytelling. Together and in groups, the participants […]
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