UiB SDG Conference Bergen 2024 Day Zero Event: What does the sea mean to you?
Date: Wed., 7 February 2024
Time: 13:30 – 15:00 CET
This session is organized by the Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities (MENSA) project at the University of Bergen, funded by the Research Council of Norway (2020 – 2024). We invite participants to share, via an interactive survey, what the sea means to them, what activities they engage in, on, and by the sea, and what values and identities they associate with the sea. The collective results will be discussed by the group.
Next, we will present some results of a national seascapes survey in Norway which probed the “sense of sea” of respondents, that is, how attached respondents were to the sea, what factors contribute to this attachment, as well as their perceptions of marine industrial and ecological threats. We invite entries from Norwegians to our Norwegian seascapes photo and prose contest to ignite a conversation of what the sea means to Norwegians!
Then the audience will be invited to participate in and have an opportunity to discuss an interactive seascape images-sorting exercise to explore how people value the sea. The results will be collated and analyzed after the workshop. Participants are encouraged to contact the session chair for more information about the research and the results.
To conclude, Veronica Relano, our Onewater panellist, will introduce and show a short video from her Somos OceanoS (SOS) – We are Oceans project, where coastal residents in Argentina and Mexico describe what the sea means to them, elevating local voices into the global conversation for equitable management and conservation of marine resources.
Our aim, by the end of this interactive session, is for participants to reflect upon and engage in conversations about the diverse values, identities, and meanings that individuals or communities attach to the coasts and oceans and to brainstorm strategies to resolve ensuing management and policy conflicts.
Chair: Mimi E. Lam, University of Bergen, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities
Panelist: Veronica Relano, Onewater
Relevant for:
SDG 14: Life Below Water
SDG 15: Life on Land
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Session Format:
13:30 – 13:35 Welcome and introduction by Mimi E. Lam
13:35 – 13:45 Interactive seascapes survey
13:45 – 13:50 Group discussion
13:50 – 14:00 Norwegian seascapes survey results and contest
14:00 – 14:45 Interactive seascape images sorting exercise
14:45 – 14:50 Group discussion
14:50 – 15:00 Closing video by Veronica Relano
To participate in the interactive research elements of this session, participants will need to consent to being part of the MENSA research project. In particular, some personal demographic data may be collected in the survey, anonymized, and analyzed. By clicking on the session zoom link, you consent to participating in the MENSA research, including the recording of the session. However, you can withdraw at any time by contacting the project leader (Mimi E. Lam) or simply exiting the session. To read more about the MENSA project, click here, and to read more about your rights and how your research information will be used, analyzed, and stored, click the UiB´s Privacy Policy regarding processing of personal data.
This session will be held on zoom via the secure link and recorded.