As part of their engagement in the “Skole i Verden” open schooling network, Kuben and the environmental organization “Framtiden i våre hender” (“The Future in our Hands”) are arranging an event at the new Climate House (“Klimahuset”) next Monday 31th August. Our The SEAS team was there last week to coordinate with Klimahuset’s staff.
Monday 31th of August, 120 freshmen students from Kuben upper secondary school and their teachers will be visiting the recently inaugurated Climate House as part of their engagement in the SEAS project. The event, which is combined with a visit to one of Oslo’s municipality’s sports arena, will serve as an opportunity for first year students to get to know each other better as they begin to dig deeper into issues of sustainability and about their role as agents of change.
Climate House’s project coordinator Torkjell Leira and lecturer and pedagogue Marianne Guriby were very kind to receive a team of SEAS members to discuss and plan the arrangement and to show us their building and exhibition, which were inaugurated just this June.
The Climate House has received a lot of attention since it opened in June 2020, with a digital green week including a multitude of events.
And even before the doors opened it was listed by the Lonely Planet as one of the best new openings for travelers in 2019.
During the visit, SEAS members had the chance to explore the Climate House’s amphitheater, a meeting space for dialogue around climate and the environment, as well as their splendid exhibition on climate and climate change.
Through a minimalist, but visually and sensorially stunning proposal, the exhibition leads the visitor through an exploration not only of what we know about climate change, and it causes and consequences, but also about what we like and appreciate in life, and about ways to care and fight for and preserve through responses and agency
The Climate House furthermore aims to be a meeting arena for sharing, reflection and action on climate change, which also aligns with the SEAS project’s ambitions.
