The 2014 summer school ends with reflections by the conveners Allan Watt, Taru Peltola and Steve Redpath. Always a good time to learn some lessons from the whole school experience and share some challenges for the future that lies ahead. Everyone involved gains a lot of new insights from each summer school. Now that’s a highly valuable non-material benefit!
Allan Watt, Taru Peltola and Steve Redpath
This year the creative communication of the students’ project was a land art event. Properly advertised in the village of Peyresq to invite the stakeholders.
Land Art advertisement
Explaining the concept of the activity to stakeholders.
Land Art presentation to stakeholders
The “collaborative” turtle: let’s make art together to build a shared vision! Different parts of the turtle can represent different sectors/stakeholders of the Verdon region.
The “collaborative” turtle – before
Stakeholders and researchers at work!
Embellishing the turtle
Embellishing the turtle
The final turtle
Final turtle
And there were other art projects like this turtle farm!
Turtle farm
Making shadows on the turtle farm
The talk by Mary Colwell-Hector on science communication was much appreciated by the audience and it sparked interesting discussions!
Students discussing with Mary Colwell-Hector
John Muir:
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and to pray in, where nature may heel and cheer and give strength to the body an soul alike”
The agriculture group developing scenarios that sustain livelihood & ecosystem services in the Verdon Region…
an “office” with inspiring view.
Steve Redpath
Here in particular showing wordclouds of the contents of the summer school and keywords of the LTER
Michael Mirtl
Biodiversity conflicts are not conflicts between people and wildlife but conflicts between people with different interests and stakes.
Do words matter?
Should we use a different frame for describing these issues?
Speaking about “biodiversity conflicts”
Timo Lehesvirta
