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 theEnvironment, 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 changingbeneath our feet?). GREEN, 2, 1: 92-97.: https://geopolitique.eu/en/2022/07/04/is-europes-soil-changing-beneath-our-feet/ 

Articles and research by Emma Hakala: https://fiia.fi/henkilo/emma-hakala

Credits:

Producer: Paula Toppila, Saara Moisio

Host and guests: Antti Majava, Emma Hakala and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

Sound technician: Bailey Polkinghorne

IHME jingle: Viljami Valdén

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 theenvironmental 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 environmentalcrises. Our work is made possible by support from the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kone Foundation, and Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation.