{"id":1092,"date":"2025-01-15T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cr.hi.is\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:44:08","slug":"ny-bok-um-hlutverk-skapandi-athafna-i-heimi-loftslagsbreytinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cr.hi.is\/en\/ny-bok-um-hlutverk-skapandi-athafna-i-heimi-loftslagsbreytinga\/","title":{"rendered":"A new book about the role of creative activities in a world of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The essay collection Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature<\/a>has now been published. The book highlights the complex and important role of art, literature, and other creative practices in responding to a changing world shaped by climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editors are Au\u00f0ur A\u00f0alsteinsd\u00f3ttir, director of the University of Iceland\u2019s Research Centre in \u00deingeyjarsveit, and Katarina Lepp\u00e4nen, professor of the history of ideas at the University of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributors to the book include both established and emerging scholars in the field of Nordic ecocriticism. Several of them are connected to the University of Iceland and the Iceland University of the Arts. In addition to Au\u00f0ur, these include Angela Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kuls Rawlings and Sigr\u00fan Inga Hr\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir, both practicing artists who have taught at the Iceland University of the Arts; Ole Martin Sandberg, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland\u2019s Institute of Philosophy; and Ana Stani\u0107evi\u0107, who completed her PhD in the School of Humanities at the University of Iceland and is now a lecturer in Nordic literature at the University of Helsinki. Other authors include Katarina Lepp\u00e4nen, Johan Alfredsson, Torsten B\u00f8gh Thomsen, Georgiana Boz\u00eentan, Camilla Brudin Borg, Xin Liu, and Karoliina Lummaa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book also features artworks by \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds A\u00f0alsteinsd\u00f3ttir and Hildi H\u00e1konard\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The essay collection can be ordered with a 30% discount on the publisher\u2019s website<\/a>
Discount code: LXFANDF30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark the publication, a series of art exhibitions will be held exploring the interplay between the local, regional, and global in environmental art and activism. On 16 May 2025, the group exhibition Creative Responses will open at Galler\u00ed Specta in Copenhagen, and on 27 November 2025, the group exhibition Vi\u00f0brag\u00f0 (Response) will open at the Ketilh\u00fas gallery of the Akureyri Art Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00dat er komi\u00f0 greinasafni\u00f0 Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature. B\u00f3kin varpar lj\u00f3si \u00e1 fl\u00f3ki\u00f0 og mikilv\u00e6gt hlutverk listar, b\u00f3kmennta og annarra skapandi athafna \u00feegar kemur a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 takast \u00e1 vi\u00f0 breytta heimsmynd vegna loftslagsbreytinga, hnignunar l\u00edffr\u00e6\u00f0ilegs fj\u00f6lbreytileika og annarra umhverfis\u00f3gna. Ritstj\u00f3rar eru Au\u00f0ur A\u00f0alsteinsd\u00f3ttir, forst\u00f6\u00f0uma\u00f0ur Ranns\u00f3knaseturs H\u00e1sk\u00f3la \u00cdslands \u00ed \u00deingeyjarsveit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frett"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t