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Sinopse
What is Radio Luftballet?Radio Luftballetanchored at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)is a place for imagining new worlds and sharing peoples stories about how we can contribute to the transition to a more sustainable society. Radio Luftballet hopes to open up connections and collaborations between the many sectorscultural, commercial, social, politicalworking on transitions within their fields. In this project we wish to keep alive the historic ambitions of utopian thinking. But instead of creating fiction, we aim to enhance and promote already existing initiatives and bring attention to those at work on their tasks.What is transition?Around the world people are searching for pathways out of the carbon-intensive era. Transition takes many forms and is approached from many different angles. There must be a transition not only within the energy sector, but in most aspects of how we live our lives.Why do we need a transition?This year atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have surged at a record breaking speed and carbon dioxide levels have reached the highest level in 800,000 years. Humans have played the substantial part in this unprecedented increase. Human-induced climate change affects us all, however, there are a lot of things that can be done and the actions we take over the next few years will have massive consequences for those directly affected by climate change.Is this an art project?Yes.Within the arts there is a strong tradition of imagining better worlds. Thomas Mores book Utopia, published in 1516, describes an imaginary island without private property and inspired policies and politics for years to come. William Morris, a textile artist and founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, described his craft-rich ideal society in 1888 in News From Nowhere. Ernest Callenbach inspired the politics of the German Green Party through his book Ecotopia (1975), which describes his ideal view of a society located in Oregon.Is this something more than an art project?Yes.Framed within an art project, this is an interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at developing new forms of Transition Communication. We acknowledge that climate change is a complex issue that overlaps cultural, political, ethical, and psychological issues, and often appears daunting. We hope that in light of the complexity of transition, stories create a space for making changes in real life. Narratives provide a way for us to imagine our way out of the carbon-intensive era. Radio Luftballet strongly believes that the stories we share are part of the solution.Who are we?Radio Luftballet consists of Radio Luftballet initiator, Margrethe Kolstad Brekke, located in Bergen, Norway; Climate Change Management Masters Program students, Calum Macintyre, Adam Gairns and Victoria Slaymark, located in Sogndal, Norway; and poet Alicia Cohen, located in Portland, Oregon. We hope the interdisciplinary of the project will generate a creative space from which to take a step back from our professional perspectives. We hope to form common human ground, distill the essence of transition stories and evaluate and discuss what we find to be effective Transition Communication.Radio Luftballett is produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke.Soundscapes and jingles by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad-- based on Jon Gjerde`s recordings of hanggliderloops.
Episódios
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How to mobilise the masses? with Andreas Ytterstad
07/02/2018 Duração: 33minAndreas Ytterstad on the topic of constructive narratives, role of the media, and the need for climate jobs as a brigde to the future. Andreas Ytterstad https://www.hioa.no/tilsatt/andreasy Brigde to the Future http://broentilframtiden.com/english/ Radio Luftballett is produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke. Soundscapes and jingles by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad-- based on Jon Gjerde`s recordings of hanggliderloops.
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Protect Our Winters: Ørjan Kongsvik Aall
29/11/2017 Duração: 17minØrjan Kongsvik Aall is the founder of Protect Our Winters Norway. https://protectourwinters.org Radio Luftballett is produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke. Soundscapes and jingles by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad-- based on Jon Gjerde`s recordings of hanggliderloops.
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Surfing the Margins with the Natural Circus
17/11/2017 Duração: 10minRADIO LUFTBALLETT met LARS SCHMIDT and his NATURAL CIRCUS on the train from Bergen to Oslo. www.larsschmidt.org Lars might be described as a sort of modern day drop out. He is a nature lover. Some say he is a poet. He grew up in a small village, spending most of his time outside. Since then he has been wearing many hats. He has worked as ice-cream vendor, truck driver, actor for film and television, dancer, as gardener and landscaper, theater director, filmmaker and shepherds help, doorman and photographer... International conferences with academics and politicians, club or contemporary art scenes, life on organic farms, collaborations with movie stars, or times at the military are parts of his pathway. He has lived in luxury villas, run down squats, expensive hotels, and a couple of vans, and knows the life of mountain shepherds as well as the bustling of metropoles like New York, Paris, Buenos Aires or Berlin. In short: He has made the round enough to experience the absurdity of modern civilized life a
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How To Sue The Norwegian State? With Truls Gulowsen
16/11/2017 Duração: 11minRadio Luftballett met Norwegian Greenpeace leader Truls Gulowsen in the midst of a historic trial. Produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke, 2017. Soundscapes and Jingles - based on Jon Gjerde`s recorded hangglider loops- by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad.
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Drawdown : GIRLS
20/10/2017 Duração: 03minDRAWDOWN is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Based on ten years of research, the book outlines one hundred solutions for drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back to safe levels within thirty years. Over the next months, Portland based poet Alicia Cohen will read DRAWDOWN. For each of the solutions she will write a poem, to be read out load on Radio Luftballett. Alicia Cohen is a poet based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of three books of poetry: Coherer (Verge Books), Debts and Obligations (O Books), and Bear (Handwritten Press). Her work is included in anthologies including Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, Salt: Poetry on the Oregon Coast and forthcoming Earth Bound: Compass Points Toward an Ecopoetics and Counter-Desecration Phrasebook: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene both from Wesleyan University Press. She had a doctorate from the poetics program at SUNY Buffalo and has written on the politics of visibility in contemporary poetry; presently
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Drawdown Intro
20/10/2017 Duração: 03minDRAWDOWN is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Based on ten years of research, the book outlines one hundred solutions for drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back to safe levels within thirty years. Over the next months, Portland based poet Alicia Cohen will read DRAWDOWN. For each of the solutions she will write a poem, to be read out load on Radio Luftballett. Alicia Cohen is a poet based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of three books of poetry: Coherer (Verge Books), Debts and Obligations (O Books), and Bear (Handwritten Press). Her work is included in anthologies including Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, Salt: Poetry on the Oregon Coast and forthcoming Earth Bound: Compass Points Toward an Ecopoetics and Counter-Desecration Phrasebook: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene both from Wesleyan University Press. She had a doctorate from the poetics program at SUNY Buffalo and has written on the politics of visibility in contemporary poetry; presently
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Bergen Energylab with Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa
19/10/2017 Duração: 19minKristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa holds a dr. scient. degree in applied mathematics from University of Bergen. She has a broad experience from science (fish stock assessment, reservoir mechanics and seismic) and from private sector (marketing and management). She was the director of Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) from January 2010 to June 2017. She has been an associate professor at Geophysical institute, UiB, since 2016. She is involved in the development at Bergen Energy Lab where she now chairs the programme committee. Radio Luftballett is produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke, October 2017. Soundscapes and Jingles - based on Jon Gjerde`s recorded hangglider loops- by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad.