From the 28th of July until the 3rd of August 2022 we had the privilege to get together to read, write, think, converse, and share at Rønningen Folkehøgskole, as part of the Nordic Summer University Summer Session.  We started our days with writing exercises. After the first fika of the day we read out loud together, a mix of workshops and paper presentations filled our afternoons.  What does it mean to write together?  Writing together can mean writing in the…

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A workshop called “Looking For Personal Connections With The Place” took place on July 31, organised by Circle 10 and Emilia Plichta. The central idea of the workshop was to visualise our connections with the new place. In order to find them, various tools where used, for example, mapping, drawing, photographing, etc. Creating a visual trace of us being at Rønningen folkehøgskole became quite an exciting task to memorize our presence and turn it into our history.

Why is it that we want to act in favour of the environment but end up compromising our believes and use e.g. one-way cups for our daily coffee to go? Why is effective climate action somehow not happening effectively for each of us, even if we have strong moral instances that tell us how to act environmentally friendly?My colleague Woochang Choi and myself started a discussion about these questions, as we wanted to better understand the root-causes of climate action…

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This reading is the transformation of a project that first was realized in 2014, among a group of civil rights activists from Eastern Europe. It started out from a poem by Ukrainian author Tanya-Mariya Litvinyuk. Here, Ms. Litvinyuk actually takes part at the NSU gathering, through a sound recording; her voice is heard from the laptop at the beginning. Then follows an English translation, read by Dr. Lucy Lyons; her reading proceeds with ten single words. These words were chosen…

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This year Circle 7 organised a different summer symposium in Oslo. We tried to focus on a few research questions, which guided us throughout the symposium, and which were approached by each participant in different ways. We looked together at what knowledges can our practices create or help to create and what methodologies we employ in our research, through the lens of phenomenology. The multiple answers to these questions were explored as experience, looking at embodied memory, how layering occurs…

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On August 3, after all of the study activities, football match took place. A one sided affair which they won 17-0.