{"id":17741,"date":"2021-03-16T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/?p=17741"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:33:22","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"school_subject":[],"school_grade":[],"class_list":["post-17741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn"],"acf":{"page_navigation_title":"","page_navigation_links":false,"visa_som_tips":false,"ingress":"Utopian Stories is a project in which students collaborate with research scientists to study the changes we want to make for a sustainable future. ","main_image":{"ID":17557,"id":17557,"title":"US15feb","filename":"US15feb.jpg","filesize":39811,"url":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/om-projektet\/us15feb\/","alt":"","author":"39","description":"","caption":"Illustration: Dan Borg","name":"us15feb","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":17411,"date":"2021-02-15 13:53:37","modified":"2021-02-15 13:54:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":768,"height":512,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb.jpg","large-width":768,"large-height":512,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb.jpg","1536x1536-width":768,"1536x1536-height":512,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb.jpg","2048x2048-width":768,"2048x2048-height":512,"380x305":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US15feb.jpg","380x305-width":570,"380x305-height":380}},"must_be_portrait":false,"info":false,"post_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"
Utopian Stories is a large citizen science project in which school classes are invited to collaborate with research scientists to study the changes we are preparing to make for a sustainable future.<\/p>\n
2020 was an unusual year for many of us. In order to protect one another from the coronavirus, we\u2019ve refrained from doing many of the things we\u2019re used to doing. But even greater changes are needed to put the breaks on climate change. We need to stop what we\u2019re doing and ask ourselves what kind of future we want to have, but at the same time we need to move forward as quickly as possible with the process of adapting to climate change.<\/p>\n
Utopian Stories links together the behavioural changes we made during the pandemic with climate change adaptation and our visions for the future. Students become co-researchers who collaborate with climate scientists, literary scholars, future researchers and educators. Teachers will gain valuable input for their classes, focusing on the scientific method, working with literature, and the global sustainability goals \u2013 all while providing researchers with important data collected by their students.<\/p>\n
Throughout the spring of 2021, the project will be conducted entirely online. When it is once again possible for us all to meet, there will be several opportunities to take part in person. All of the activities will continue to be available online to make it possible to participate from anywhere.<\/p>\n
Utopian Stories is rooted in the pandemic and the climate crisis, but it takes aim at a brighter future \u2013 maybe by seizing on the power of imagining a utopia! Does this sound interesting? Read more and register yourself and your classes.<\/p>\n
Please join us!<\/p>\n
In Utopian Stories, you and your students can contribute to important research while you gain valuable input from scientists and other experts on the front lines of climate research, literary criticism, humanities, future research and education.<\/p>\n
As a teacher, you\u2019ll get access to:<\/p>\n
Teachers can choose which parts of the project they want to participate in. The project will touch on subjects in areas such as literature and language studies, the natural sciences, social sciences and aesthetics. We will be live streaming school programmes directly to students and online seminars for teachers with opportunities for discussion with the researchers. All the materials will be available in English, and the data, questionnaires, videos, results and more will be collected at nobelprizemuseum.se\/utopianstories.<\/p>\n
The project starts in August 2021 with two online data collections.<\/p>\n
Questionnaire 1 is called What Didn\u2019t You Do in 2020?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>This collection of data is now completed. We thank everyone that have contributed to important research.<\/em><\/p>\n Questionnaire 2 is called Share Your Future<\/em><\/strong>!<\/em> and is a collection of stories about the future that also includes a semi-structured writing assignment. You can choose the extent to which your classes work with either or both questionnaires.<\/p>\n To start, your students will answer the questionnaire themselves. Then the students become co-researchers assigned to interview four people each in various age groups. A simple description of the students\u2019 assignment may be found on the website. There are also short videos featuring researchers Alasdair Skelton and Camilla Brudin Borg intended specifically for students in the programme.<\/p>\n The preliminary schedule on the website will be filled out over time, but you can already get started with the questionnaires now.<\/p>\n The researchers will be studying and visualising the positive climate impacts of different kinds of adaptations \u2013 the changes we\u2019ve made during the pandemic, but also potential futures that are imagined in various stories of the future. You will receive those materials and much more later on in the project. The project will be filled out during 2021\u201323 to offer even more activities for teachers and students.<\/p>\n The Nobel Prize Museum together with researchers from the University of Gothenburg and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University.<\/p>\n Literature researcher Camilla Brudin Borg from the University of Gothenburg will analyse the many collected stories of the future and summarise the various potential future worlds they envision.Who is responsible for this project?<\/h2>\n
Contacts<\/h3>\n
\ncamilla.brudin.borg@lir.gu.se<\/a><\/p>\n