Theme: New Consciousness

We live in an era when it is a luxury to disconnect. Technology enables us humans to create and share content to an extent that has never been possible before.

We have access to endless information about the world, its challenges and realities of people that are miles away from us. Similarly, our world, its challenges and stories are accessible to others. We therefore have to live consciously.

Conscious of our biases
Conscious of the how others live and how our lives affect them
Conscious of what needs to change

Consciousness ultimately leads us to challenge existing frameworks enforced to us through education, religion, geographical locations and culture. By challenging these, we open up to different possibilities which makes us better participants in the society, better to one another and to ourselves. By freeing our minds we gain consciousness.

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Norway

Museai

Trym Syversen and Erlend Kartvedt are musicians and co-founders of Museai. As musicians they felt a need for a better tool to collaborate and share their musical ideas. That´s why they started to make Museai, the collaborative voice recorder app for musicians. During the songwriting experiment at TEDx Oslo, they were joined by: Theo Saenger (Vocalist in Teddy and the Love Gang), Jonas Barsten (Session drummer), and Bjørnar Ekse Brandseth (Guitarist in The Northern Bell).

Adam MacDonald

Adam MacDonald is an Australian backpacker who threw down his bag in Norway and never got around to picking it back up again. He is a former World Champion in Bartending. Author of The Long Pour and owner of Liquid Engineers and Brick Lane Café.

Ageliki Lefkaditou

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Community Medicine

Ageliki Lefkaditou is a historian of science with background in biological sciences. In her current research, she is interested in the political potency of scholarly—mainly biological—accounts of identity and origins, how they affect and are affected by social and cultural understandings, and how to study their multiple workings within society.

Alexandria Algard

Alexandria Algard is an architect and was elected President of Norway's National Association of Architects in 2015, as the youngest president ever. She also runs her own business in addition to holding this coveted position.Algard founded her architectural firm in Stavanger in 2012. Prior to this she had spent 10 living and working in a number of countries worldwide. She is educated as an architect in Denmark and Japan. Her previous employers include some of the top names in Architecture; REX in New York, OMA in Rotterdam and Herzog & deMeuron in Basel, Switzerland.

Ash Koosha

Ash Koosha is a composer,record producer and filmmaker exploring new ideas in digital art and the future. He grew up in Iran and studied classical music at the Tehran Conservatory of Music. Since then and being based in London he has been exploring new mediums in approaching sound and taking a multidisciplinary approach towards it.

Ben Malley

Director

Ben Malley is the Founder and Director of Insonify Ltd, a startup based in South West of England. He studied Music Production at the University of St Mark and St Johns (MarJon) and is dabbling in video editing, video games and photography in in his free time.

David Gianotten

Managing Partner-Architect

David Gianotten is the Managing Partner-Architect of OMA. In this role he is responsible for the management, business strategy, and growth of the company worldwide. He also oversees design and construction of various projects, including the Taipei Performing Arts Centre, the conceptual study for Feyenoord City, the CIFCO building in China, and the Prince Plaza Building in Shenzhen.

Elise By Olsen

Editor of Recens Paper

16 years old, Oslo-based and the editor of Recens Paper.

Erik Gomez-Baggethun

Erik Gómez-Baggethun is a Professor of Environmental Governance at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Nature Research and a senior visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. He is Vice-President of the European Society for Ecological Economics and an expert for the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, an intergovernmental body which assesses the state of biodiversity and ecological life-support systems under the auspices of the United Nations.

Glenn D. Rolfsen

Psychotherapist

Glenn D. Rolfsen is a psychotherapist working in corporate health service in Oslo. He has also worked as a teacher to educate gestalt therapists in Norway and several European countries. He is particularly concerned with the psychosocial work environment in enterprises. As corporate counsel and leadership consultant, he works daily to improve working life quality for employees.

Harald Eia

Harald Eia is a trained sociologist who works in television with comedy and documentaries.

Ole André Solbakken

Associate professor

Associate professor Ole André Solbakken is Head of the Clinical Psychology Section at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. He has done extensive research into the concept of affect integration, i.e. the capacity to adaptively experience and express emotions.

Seshen Arts

Seshen (Seshen Arts) is a vocalist, dancer and artist from Japan who performs and teaches internationally. After living in different countries, she has been based in Norway since 2014.

Sven Mollekleiv

Sven Mollekleiv is considered as one of Norway’s most experienced humanitarian voices. The current and longstanding President of the Norwegian Red Cross, Mollekleiv aims to cement the country's’ commitment to providing aid and support to struggling communities both home and abroad as well as ensuring that society’s eyes and ears are kept firmly open so people in need do not go unnoticed.

Tara Haelle

Tara Haelle is a freelance science and multimedia journalist who writes regularly at Forbes, NPR, Scientific American, Slate, Medscape, and other U.S.-based publications. She co-wrote “The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Guide to the First Four Years” with science journalist Emily Willingham, and she blogs about science and parenting at Red Wine & Applesauce. She holds a master's in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin and has published her images in several publications.

Thora Helene Støren Soot

Art director

Thora Helene Støren Soot is an art director with a masters degree in innovation. She currently work as a market consultant for Spitsbergen Travel in Longyearbyen.