The contemporary-art-commissioning agency IHME Helsinki is continuing its collaboration with Helsinki Open Waves on new episodes of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast series. The members of the IHME Helsinki Advisory Board are hosting the second season of the podcast, carrying on discussions started in 2021. The new episodes update ideas about ecocide, sustainable energy, and energy identity, and about the role of the arts in all this, topics that are even more urgent today than in 2021.
IHME Helsinki unites the worlds of art, science, and climate work. We promote the cultural change needed in the environmental crisis and motivate citizens to adapt to a life within planetary boundaries. Each year we produce a public artwork and a series of events with international artists and local partners to bring hope amid the environmental crises. Our work is made possible by support from the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kone Foundation, and Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation.
Sustainable Energy and Identity, part 2
In the first episode of this second season of the Art, Science, Ecology podcast, recorded in February 2025, IHME Helsinki Advisory Board member, artist and researcher Antti Majava continues the discussion about sustainable energy and identity with Emma Hakala, Leading Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Professor at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. They discuss the green energy transition, the importance of protecting democracy, and the role of art in energy identities. Tynkkynen specialises in the ecological energy transition in Finland and Russia, and Hakala studies environmental and climate security, Finland’s security supply during climate change, and sustainable energy.
Reading recommended in the podcast:
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, How Europe Got Russia Wrong: Energy, Violence, and the Environment, 2024. https://www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/book/9781035319503/9781035319503.xml
Stephen Markley, The Deluge, Simon & Schuster 2023
Latour, Bruno (2022). Le sol européen est-il en train de changer sous nos pieds? (Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?). GREEN, 2, 1: 92-97.: https://geopolitique.eu/en/2022/07/04/is-europes-soil-changing-beneath-our-feet/
Articles and research published by Emma Hakala: https://fiia.fi/henkilo/emma-hakala
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Credits
Host and guests: Antti Majava, Emma Hakala and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
Producers: Paula Toppila, Saara Moisio
Sound recording and editing: Bailey Polkinghorne
IHME jingle: Viljami Valdén
*The audio piece was recorded and edited at the Helsinki Open Waves performance & recording room located at Caisa.
**The views expressed in this audio piece and texts are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the view of Helsinki Open Waves.
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