WHO AM I?
Hi!
I'm Ann and I'm an environmental anthropologist, cultural historian and creative mind. My work focuses on interdisciplinary sciences, knowledge co-production, narrative cartography, visual storytelling and art-based research and is built largely on an awareness of culture and integrity.
I love to work with youth and communities, create engagement, co-creation and co-production of knowledge and ideas through creative spaces and workshops, and I have done so through a number of projects around the North and Arctic, using visual, engaging and playful tools!
How we humans interact and are connected to the natural world inspires me!
using CULTURAL HISTORY as a tool
Cultural history does not only bring to life a past time and place, it can also uniquely contribute to the intangible heritage of the future!
I love exploring this combining stories, folklore, local knowledge, photography and cultural landscapes. These I do by exploring the past, the present, but also contributing to the future.
I believe that landscape and nature have shaped people, culture and history throughout time - and although we often forget or take it for granted, this interaction with our surroundings still exists and likewise essential.
It is precisely this interaction with nature and the landscapes and our traces in the history that shapes our future. This history is not only created by our relationship to the landscape and nature, but also by our worldviews, trends, the way we move, interact and the value the place and space which surrounds us, not least how we reflect ourselves in this time.
Want to read about one of my travels?
design and Facilitate EDUCATION
bringing awareness and INSPIRING the Future of tomorrow!
Engaging youth in a palette creative ways is one of the most inspiring journeys I have taken. I love to combine art, research, nature, knowledge and storytelling, but also that youth take an active role and engage them in community and citizen science.
For me it is important to give them tools that inspire, create curiosity and find beauty and possibilities in their surroundings.
design and facilitate COMMUNITY SCIENCE & WORKSHOPS
Creating a space for interaction, learning and knowledge exchange!
A workshop is a fantastic tool for, idea generation, co-creation and co-production of knowledge, problem solving, gathering data and collaboration. They serve as catalysts for sparking creativity and generating groundbreaking ideas.
A successful workshop requires a clear purpose, well-defined objectives, and a structured approach to achieve the desired outcomes.
In turn, community science can play a role in highlighting value and connecting different knowledge systems. It encourages broad participation in public discussion about civic issues, policies, or decisions of consequence to individuals' lives, communities, and society. This results, in healthy, just and equitable communities, mutual benefits and sustainable out comes.
Workshops should create engagement, responsibility and ownership!
help you COMMUNICATE!
Visual communication is one of the strongest ways of telling a visual story. A transmission of information and ideas using symbols and imagery, are an significant tool to simplify the unsimplified, engage and kindle the curiousity of a wide audience and quickly share throughout media spaces.
I love communicating through storytelling, art, printouts, Photos, poster, booklets, infographics, narrative cartography...
A picture is worth a thousand words and the primary benefit of visual communication over verbal is its immediacy.
design EXHIBITIONS
BUILDING EXPERIMENTAL SPACES FOR PRODUCTIVE PLAY AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Exhibitions and events are fantastic! They can promote specific viewpoints and knowledge. Not at least, exhibitions and events give the frames to explore science and research with the wide range of senses, sight, touch, smell and sound.
LEAVING ROOM FOR ENGAGEMENT, MEMORIES, CURIOSITY AND THOUGHT...
creating LOGOS
We are visual creatures: 90% of the information transmitted to the brain is visual. We are drawn to the visual world by nature.
Logos grabs people attention, makes a strong first impression and is the foundation of your identity. It is what makes you stand out and make you memorable.