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APPENDIX A
exhibition around the ideas that came in, which ran during 10–20 May
2019 at the Bergen Public Library. This included a selection of books
related to energy transitions as well as prints of 17 motifs from a 6.25
square metre textile art from the other exhibition, alongside the idea
box itself.
The collaboration with Margrethe Brekke’s exhibition emerged organically during late 2018. Hosted at the Hordaland Kunstsenter art gallery
during May–July 2019, this exhibition provided visual portrayals of existing possibilities for energy transitions. We discussed ways of depicting a
future energy system powered largely by renewable energy, with her visualisations and my technical inputs. This resulted in her textile piece titled
‘Rhythmic energy mixes: Days and years with Dr. Siddharth Sareen’,
which emphasised flexible daily and annual cycles of such energy systems.
Details of the motifs she developed for this large piece were part of the
parallel idea box exhibition. The Hordaland Kunstsenter exhibition also
featured a poem I wrote and performed during an event called ‘Fest for
Fesken’ (party for the fish) organised by the people’s campaign for a fossilfree Arctic (Folkeaksjonen oljefritt Lofoten, Vesterålen og Senja) at
Bergen’s Café Opera on 14 November 2018, reflecting on my time spent
engaging with climate activism in the sister city of Seattle during
September–October 2018. This poem, ‘The case for hope amidst climate
change catastrophe’, was recorded and displayed on headphones with
accompanying visuals that featured Brekke’s textile art, and the book concludes with it.
During the mid-May workshop, I anchored a discussion between
Margrethe Brekke and Benjamin Sovacool on the ‘Imaginaries of energy
transition: Public, artistic and academic’ at the art gallery. Judith Dalsgård
developed this into a podcast as part of a series at the Centre for Climate
and Energy Transformation. Workshop participants and interested local
residents toured Brekke’s exhibition and were also given a tour of the idea
box exhibition. These activities constituted a form of engagement with
various publics beyond academia, including Bergen’s cultural and artistic
community. They also enabled two-way engagement rather than outreach,
providing a window of insight into what people think about energy transitions and inviting them into a sustained exchange with energy scholars.
The exhibitions built a basis for collaboration with public institutions such
as Bergen Public Library and Hordaland Kunstsenter. Opening and closing sessions as well as six keynote talks (five of them based on the case
chapters and a sixth by Sunila Kale) during the mid-May workshop were
APPENDIX A
exhibition around the ideas that came in, which ran during 10–20 May
2019 at the Bergen Public Library. This included a selection of books
related to energy transitions as well as prints of 17 motifs from a 6.25
square metre textile art from the other exhibition, alongside the idea
box itself.
The collaboration with Margrethe Brekke’s exhibition emerged organically during late 2018. Hosted at the Hordaland Kunstsenter art gallery
during May–July 2019, this exhibition provided visual portrayals of existing possibilities for energy transitions. We discussed ways of depicting a
future energy system powered largely by renewable energy, with her visualisations and my technical inputs. This resulted in her textile piece titled
‘Rhythmic energy mixes: Days and years with Dr. Siddharth Sareen’,
which emphasised flexible daily and annual cycles of such energy systems.
Details of the motifs she developed for this large piece were part of the
parallel idea box exhibition. The Hordaland Kunstsenter exhibition also
featured a poem I wrote and performed during an event called ‘Fest for
Fesken’ (party for the fish) organised by the people’s campaign for a fossilfree Arctic (Folkeaksjonen oljefritt Lofoten, Vesterålen og Senja) at
Bergen’s Café Opera on 14 November 2018, reflecting on my time spent
engaging with climate activism in the sister city of Seattle during
September–October 2018. This poem, ‘The case for hope amidst climate
change catastrophe’, was recorded and displayed on headphones with
accompanying visuals that featured Brekke’s textile art, and the book concludes with it.
During the mid-May workshop, I anchored a discussion between
Margrethe Brekke and Benjamin Sovacool on the ‘Imaginaries of energy
transition: Public, artistic and academic’ at the art gallery. Judith Dalsgård
developed this into a podcast as part of a series at the Centre for Climate
and Energy Transformation. Workshop participants and interested local
residents toured Brekke’s exhibition and were also given a tour of the idea
box exhibition. These activities constituted a form of engagement with
various publics beyond academia, including Bergen’s cultural and artistic
community. They also enabled two-way engagement rather than outreach,
providing a window of insight into what people think about energy transitions and inviting them into a sustained exchange with energy scholars.
The exhibitions built a basis for collaboration with public institutions such
as Bergen Public Library and Hordaland Kunstsenter. Opening and closing sessions as well as six keynote talks (five of them based on the case
chapters and a sixth by Sunila Kale) during the mid-May workshop were