A Crisis Panel to participate in the Folkemødet (the People’s Meeting)
When decision-makers, organizations, the media, public entities and the business community meet this year for a democracy debate in Allinge, Bornholm it will be somewhat different than previous years. A year of shutdown and a virus that is still not entirely under control have forced organizers and not least participants to follow new paths. This also applies to Design School Kolding.
This year, the school has entered into a new and exciting partnership with folkekirken.dk (the Danish Lutheran State Church), and even though they are two different institutions, they stand together on common ground in order to seek meaning and purpose for people – both spiritually and in design.
A Crisis Panel
In concrete terms, the partnership has spawned three panel discussions that will shed light on the shady corners of the epidemic that has raged around the world. While primarily virologists, biologists, economists, doctors, labour market researchers, etc. have been at the forefront of contending with and advising on how we as individuals and as a society survive the current virus, an undercurrent of hope and concern has arisen for how we as humans can prepare ourselves for the future.
- At the Folkemødet, we have therefore established a crisis panel. The members of the panel have very different professional backgrounds e.g. psychologist, designer, historian, philosopher or theologian; everyone will participate in three debates and constitute the Crisis Panel, which jointly must identify and submit a number of concrete recommendations for politicians to make wise decisions for the future and for the crises that are likely to recur, says Charlotte Melin, Head of Communications at Design School Kolding.
Design School Kolding has three debaters on the stages. On Friday, Associate Professor Sune Gudiksen will participate in a panel that will shed light on the ‘Potentials of the Crisis’. Later the same day, Rector Lene Tanggaard will tackle the theme ‘Well-being in a Time of Crisis’. On Saturday morning, the discussion on the Generational Award with Lene Tanggaard and the 'young people's representative', Katrine Kjær Nielsen, Chair of the Student Council, will be streamed live.
The moderator for all three panel discussions is Gertrud Højlund, a host of TV2.
The SDG award
When the flow of speeches dies down in Allinge, it is awards time. In collaboration with the Danish Parliament’s 2030 panel, SDG prizes will be awarded to individuals, companies or institutions that have made a special effort to translate the Sustainable Development Goals into action in Denmark. This year, three students from Design School Kolding have been given the task of creating the SDG awards. They are Jack Canavan from the Master's programme Design for People, Lloyd Philip Revald from Design for Planet and finally Nanna Sandal from Design for Play. This will be the third year in a row that the three SDG awards – the Fiery Soul award, the Change award and the Inclusion award – will be presented. That event will take place on Saturday 19 June at 19.00 at the SDG Square.
Read more about the SDG Award here
Discussion programmes at the Folkemødet
Does the crisis have potential?
Is the pandemic a break from norms we want to return to or does it have the potential to prepare us for the future?
Friday, 18 June at 13.00-13.45
Karen Ingerslev, psychologist, Head of HR, Region Midtjylland Group Sune Klok Gudiksen, Associate Professor in co-design at Design School Kolding Poul Duedahl, Professor of History at Aalborg University Peter Birch, Theologian, Bishop, Elsinore diocese
Well-being in a time of crisis
How do we maintain mental health and meaning in life during and after one of the most profound crises of our time?
Friday 18 June 2021 at 15.00-15.45
Lene Tanggaard Professor of psychology, Rector of Design School Kolding Jane Sandberg, Museum Director of Inigma Lotte Blicher Mørk, Theologian, hospital chaplain at Rigshospitalet
The Generational Award (to be live-streamed)
Are young people owed a year in the generational contract which is the foundation of our welfare society?
Saturday 19 June 2021 at 14.00-14.45
Lene Tanggaard, Professor of psychology, Rector of Design School Kolding Katrine Kjær Nielsen, Chair of the Student Council at Design School Kolding Mickey Gjerris, Bioethicist, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen
See the full programme here
