Updated 2025-08-25 at 09:12 DM
Assignment and mandatory seminar
Your time planning for part 3
The course runs full time 100% 40 hours per week during 3 weeks and 2 days during the summer semester. You are responsible for your own time planning, study time, and that time will be different for different people with different study techniques, experience and pre-knowledge of issues in the course. A rough estimate of the 40 hours you have allocated for the course during part 3 are:
- Project report seminar assignment: 36 hours
- Mandatory seminar: 2 hours
- Filling out course evaluation and reflecting on the course: 2 hours
Course goal examined part 3
The course goal that is examined during part 3 are:
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- critically discuss how artistic expressions and scientific knowledge interact in the communication of climate change in public space;
Syllabus for Climate Histories: Science and Art in the Public Space.
Course book
During the course you will read one book (mandatory). Click on book cover for free open access.
Pearson K. R. (2025). [Re]Generative Imaginaries: Cultivating Cultures of Possibility for a Healthy Planet with Arts-Based Practices. Wageningen: Wageningen University
Direct link: https://edepot.wur.nl/681063
Tech and communication
To be able to study the course you will need a computer, tablet or smartphone with access to the internet. Seminars, workshop and online meetings will be easier if you have external headphones with a microphone. It’s important that you download Zoom here: https://www.uu.se/en/students/it-for-students/software/zoom and install it on the device you’re using for the course. You can test video and audio in the settings.
Course coordinator Daniel Mossberg is available every week day Monday to Friday via text/sms 073-065 02 28, call if there’s anything urgent. Emails will be responded to within one week at daniel.mossberg[a]cemus.uu.se.
Written preparation assignment and project report part 3
This is your assignment in preparation for this Friday’s mandatory seminar and finalizing the course. This assignment is graded Fail-3-4-5.
1. Summarize your interactive activity as a handbook chapter
Describe and summarize your interactive activity to a general reader, someone who didn’t take part in the activity. It should be in the style, format of a handbook chapter, basically detailing step-by-step how you organized, prepared and ran your activity during the Uppsala conference week. Try to be clear and engage the reader, and explain the thinking behind the activity. Use reference when relevant and when you’re building upon somebody else’s work.
600-700 words, photos, other graphics.
2. Critically reflect over and ground your interactive activity in art (practice) and climate science (research)
Write an academic text – scientific article, essay or similar – with relevant references where you critically discuss and reflect over the activity you organized, how it relates to different artistic expressions, forms, practices, climate science, research in a public space.
600-700 words.
3. A letter to an older you
Write a letter from yourself in the now we’re in – last week of August 2025 – to yourself in 2050, whatever age that is, with words of advice, things to remember down the line, hopes and fears you carry, and anything else worth remembering about this course and these three weeks.
400 words or more, if needed.
Submit the assignment with your name no later than August 29 at 13.00 here: https://uppsala.instructure.com/courses/107297/assignments/341119
Mandatory seminar part 3 – Friday August 29 at 13.15-15.00
Join Zoom-meeting here: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/68579048755
Coming.