During the last 3 years, Velferden has run the interdisciplinary programme WASTE / DEPOSIT. Through art, workshops and dialogue, we have explored issues related to resource extraction, waste and the environment, based on mining and landscape changes in Sokndal.
On Friday, June 5th, we invite you to a full-day seminar on this topic in Jøssingfjord.
TIME AND PLACE:
Jøssingfjord Science Museum,
Friday 5 June 2026 at 08:30 - 16:00.
The seminar is held in English.
To join, you must register in the form.
Go to the registration form!
The event and transport are free!
Lunch costs 250 and dinner costs 300.
More about today's programme further down the page.
The dialogue about WASTE / DEPOSIT is complex. We make money from mining, while at the same time undermining the nature we live in. Established mines are allowed to continue their activities, while new mines are met with skepticism and protest.
In the seminar we ask how we can better manage the enormous amounts of waste we generate. Are there other ways to manage resources that simultaneously protect nature and make us more responsible consumers? How do the rapid interventions affect our relationship with nature, and what do the interventions do to us?
We are pleased to present contributions from artists, researchers, mining company executives, environmentalists and economists for the seminar. It will be a day full of nuanced dialogue between people who are usually on different sides of the table, but who all have their own professional and personal relationship to the topic.
The seminar is divided into two parts. First we present problems, and after lunch we explore potential solutions. The program consists of professional presentations followed by participant-based workshops where we divide into groups and discuss problems and solutions together.
The seminar is conducted in English to include our international guests and make the dialogue relevant to our network.
The seminar is streamed via this link: SEMINAR live stream
WELCOME!
Registration is required to join. It is a first-come, first-served basis.
Go to the registration form!
TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM SEMINAR (check the box on the registration form for the transportation you need!) :
We are setting up a free bus with Veteranbussen Lynet. You can board from Egersund Station, Egersund city center or Hauge City Center. For those of you coming from Stavanger and Jæren, we have set up the bus times so that they match the local train from Stavanger. See times below:
Friday afternoon:
at 4:00 PM Jøssingfjord - Hauge Center - Egersund
(the bus is coordinated with the train to Stavanger
from Egersund at 17:20)
at 6:30 PM Velferden - Hauge Center - Egersund
(the bus is coordinated with the train to Stavanger
from Egersund 19:20)
We arrange car transportation if someone is going to Sogndalsstrand Kulturhotell.
Friday morning:
at 08:07 Egersund Station (the bus is coordinated with
train from Stavanger at 06:40 - 08:05)
at 08:15 Grand Hotel (bus)
at 08:45 Hauge Center (bus)
at 08:20 Sogndalstrand Kulturhotell (car)
