Opening of the Research Gallery – on the theme of forest and sustainability
On 24 September, the new exhibition cube will be inaugurated at the University Library in Östersund. It is also the premiere of Miun Research Exhibition’s first exhibition “Man in the Forest, Forest in Man”.
The exhibition is based on research at Mid Sweden University, which highlights forests and sustainability from different perspectives. For example, how does a biologist’s view of the forest differ from a researcher in ecotechnology? And how does literature and tourism science, or a historian for that matter, take on the subject? During Miun Research Exhibition’s premiere exhibition, forest research is the focus and shaped in texts, images and conversations. The hope is that you as a visitor will be able to take on current research at Mid Sweden University that concerns and concerns us all.
– The whole exhibition activity is intended to bring research to life in a way that is accessible to visitors from different backgrounds. In our exhibition on forest and sustainability, we do this by bringing people’s and the forest’s relationship to each other in different ways and how the research shows that it is affected for different reasons," says Helen Asklund, who leads the inauguration panel discussion together with Carola Nordbäck, historian.
Panel discussion with participating researchers
During the inauguration, which runs between 13.00 and 16.00, some of the participating researchers gather to present their research and not least, meet. The conversation takes place in collaboration with Researcher Friday and participates in the researchers Torbjörn Skytt, ecotechnology, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, biology, and Stefan Dalin, history. The call will last between 14:00 and 14:45.
Digital exhibition
But not only that, while the physical opening takes place, the project also has a digital exhibition opening. You can reach it via the exhibition’s project page. It also highlights forests and sustainability, but has designed its exhibition space so that it is adapted to form and content according to the digital format. In this part of the exhibition you will be given a more artistic approach to the theme, but all the same, still with research in focus.
— In the work with Boreala images, as the virtual exhibition is called, we have both developed a way to work with exhibition-specific artistic research and found a sustainable digital format for the exhibition. It has been both exciting and instructive and we hope that future exhibitors will benefit from it, says Carola Nordbäck, who together with Linda Thompson, photographer and university lecturer in photography, has designed the exhibition.
About the project
MIUN Research Exhibition develops methods and working methods for building exhibitions based on current research at Mid Sweden University. The exhibitions are presented in both physical and digital spaces where the idea is that research from different subject fields should be dressed in a more experiential form. Later exhibitions will show other aspects of the research at Mid Sweden University.
Based on the experiences and lessons we take from the project, we look forward to working with several researchers at Miun in the coming years to find further themes that can be exciting and interesting research exhibitions, says Mikael Reberg, who together with Maria von Essen has been responsible for the physical part of the exhibition.
The opening and the conversation will also be able to access digitally, via a link that is posted on the project page of the Miun Research Exhibition.