This day will be future-oriented, with an emphasis on how we can meet the global polycrisis through partnerships, place-based engagement and future literacy. The opening and closing events of day 2 is now full. The streaming link for the morning session (9.15-11.15) will be published here. The parallell sessions in part II generally do not require registration – please check details under each event.
8.30 am Registration and coffee in Vrimle, Deichman Bjørvika
9 AM: Part I The future is here!
The significance of place-based partnership for sustainability and social transformation in education and lifelong learning (streamed session, open for public, NB: Physical attendance for Part I is now closed). The full programme for Part I will be announced shortly.
Speakers:
- Mariann Youmans (Deichman Bjørvika)
- Youth and alumni, Deichman Uråd
- Minttu Jaakkola (House of Science and Hope)
- Darren Axe (SOS International)
- Julie Giæver (The Green Student Movement)
Conversation between Green Office University of Oslo, Green Office NTNU, Sustainability Pilots University of Bergen, Sustainability Committee NMBU, The Green Student Movement, and President of the Student Parliament OsloMet Victoria Skogsletten Dalen. Moderated by Yosef Ihdego, Student Parliament OsloMet.
11.45 AM: Part II The future is sustainable!
Parallel self-organised sessions at Deichmann Bjørvika, in Oslo and other university cities in Norway:
Civil society organisations, teacher and student unions, neighbourhood incubators, university “satellites” and many more explore and share insights on the mighty power of joining forces.
4.30 PM: Part III The future is now!
Closing event (open for public, NB: Physical attendance for Part III is now closed). The full programme for Part III will be announced shortly.
4.30 pm Register, finger food and (non-alcoholic) welcome drinks.
Performance
Dance performance and talk by Diego Antonio Marin Bucio, Doctoral Research Fellow, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo.
Dancing Embryo is a dance duet between a human and an AI. The dancer moves alongside the avatar, while the AI generates its own movements influenced by the human performance, forming a kinematic relationship that exists only in the act of dancing. The work embraces the fragility of technology, showcasing the tense and unpredictable entrainment between human and AI motion rhythms. It invites us to question what it means to dance with someone, to reconsider the concept of the body, and to examine how shared creation emerges between a sentient and a non-sentient dancer. Concept and performance by Diego Marín, AI development by Benedikte Wallace, sound supervision by Pedro Lucas-Bravo.
Premiered 8 October 2022 at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge University).
One Dance UK Awards 2022 shortlisted nominee.
Panel discussion «AI and Caring Futures: Creativity, Learning and Empowerment»
With Professor Barbara Wasson (University of Bergen, member of the committee on artificial intelligence in higher education, head of the AI centre ‘Empowerment for Human Learning’, 2025-2030), Dr. Adio-Adet Dinika (Distributed AI Research Institute) and Professor Alexander Refsum Jensenius (UiO, head of “Center for AI & Creativity”, 2025-2030). Moderated by Birgitte Aga, Head of innovation & research at MUNCH.
The learning points from the conference and the Future Literacy Lab will be presented, before we engage in a conversation between future literacy expert Riel Miller and Chair of the Future Library Trust Anne Beate Hovind.
We end the evening with the announcement of the topic and host of SDG Conference 2027. Master of ceremonies is pro-rector for social impact and collaboration Carl Christian Thodesen (OsloMet).
7.00 pm The official program of the SDG Conference 2026 is over, but the engagement continues – check out the conference resources (coming).