Event: Perspectives on Environmental Impacts
Date: Tuesday 5 March 2024
Time: 15:30 - 17:00 (CET)
Venue: Online
Agenda:
- Environmental impact of digitalisation with Lotta Toivonen, Specialist of Biodiversity and everyday life in The Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra.
- Lynxes’ perspective documented with the director Juha ܴDzԱää
Hosts: Kirsi Karimäki and Tuomo Joronen, Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Environmental Impact of Digitalisation:
Lotta Toivonen talks about Environmental impact of digitalisation. Lotta Toivonen is Specialist (Biodiversity and everyday life) in The Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra.
- Digitalisation and environmental impact overall
- Footprint and handprint
- Case study on websites’ carbon emissions
- Nature footprint
Lynxes’ Perspective Documented:
Juha ܴDzԱää talks about his documentary film Lynx Man. In this film the lynxes have been filmmakers, the raw material consists of 200,000 trail camera videoclips. In the documentary we watch the lynxes, and the lynxes watch us, interspecies dialogue is important. At Mountainfilm Graz in Austria, the film won the Grand Prize in the "Man and Nature" category.
Juha ܴDzԱää (Adjunct Professor, Doctor of Arts, Master of Education), is Finnish artist, researcher and Principal Lecturer working at TAMK (Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Applied Research Centre).
In his works ܴDzԱää often explores the natural world and our relationship with the environment. His artist work investigates the beauty, complexity, and fragility of nature, how humans interact with and impact the natural world, looking at both harmony and conflict between humanity and the environment.
ܴDzԱää has exhibited internationally and published documentary films, numerous academic monographs and articles and researched, for example, topics related to photography, visualising science and the construction of the identity of a place.
His latest feature length documentary film Lynx Man has reached international recognition and can be seen at the moment cinemas in Estonia and is available .
About the Green Screen International Lecture Series:
The event series are organised by the GEM project consortium. With this event series GEM (Green Education in Media) wants to empower students and teachers to make green changes in their institutions by providing knowledge resources and tools.
Furthermore GEM wants to strengthen self-reflection about the sustainability of media professions by promoting dialogue and creative collaboration with science.
Further information is available .
The online sessions will be recorded in order to create sustainable teaching material for teachers and students of Green Education in Media.
This event is being organised by GEM - Green Education in Media. GEM is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership between nine international partners:
- Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany (Project Lead)
- Tampere University, Finland
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- University of Malta, Malta
- Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
- Lodz Film School, Poland
- Institute for Art and Innovation e.V., Germany
GEM aims to reconnect media curricula to today’s environmental reality by introducing subjects and methods that reflect on and work at the intersection between environmental reality and digitality.
“Environmental reality” encompasses nature and its phenomena, as well as the interrelation of man-made environments and the natural environment.
Together the partners are:
- Fighting against climate change
- Supporting digital and green capabilities of the higher education sector
- Enhancing green skills
- Creating new, innovative joint curricula and courses
- Developing digital content, technologies and practices
