The Greenhouse: Completed Research Projects

Weathering Colonial Calcutta (2023-2025)

Weathering Colonial Calcutta: Climate, Cultures and Everyday Experiences of the Weather, 1800-1945, explores an urban, material and cultural history of colonial Calcutta as a story of changing ideas about, and everyday experiences of the weather. The project offers critical insights into the differential and multi-layered interactions between scientific knowledge-making and literary production of the weather, and also reveals everyday experiences of the weather as cultural acts infused with meanings that were socially constructed and historically specific. It highlights a culturally and spatially specific way of tracing not just what the effects of the weather were, but also how people felt and lived, thereby mobilising historical research and writing to enrich public engagement with climate change.

Project leader: Animesh Chatterjee. The project was funded by the EU Horizon MSCA PF 2021 programme.

Nuclear Nordics (2021-2022)

Nuclear Nordics explores the history of radioactive waste within the Nordic region from the 1960s to the late 1990s. Focusing on the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, the project analyses the transnational implications of radioactive waste within and between environments, societies, and technologies. This project is funded by the Research Council of Norway, International Mobility Grant (324293). placed at The Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger and at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Project leader: Melina Antonia Buns

EnviroCitizen: Citizen Science for Environmental Citizenship (2020-2023)

Envirocitizen is a Horizon 2020-funded project that is researching how to encourage environmental citizenship through engagement with citizen science. The project is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 fund.

Project leader: Finn Arne Jørgensen

Prehistoric Paradigms of 'Animalised' Art from Modernist Visions of Utopia to Post-History (2021-2023)

This project is funded by the EU MSCA IF 2019 program. It explores the relationship between avant-garde art, its prehistoric precursors, and contemporary inheritors to highlight the image of the animal in the history of art and archaeology, and to challenge anthropocentric assumptions underlying traditional research.

Project leader: Jean-Marie Carey

Locative Technologies and the Human Sense of Place (2019-2023)

Locative Technologies aims to show how people have historically navigated in nature and what that means for their relationship to nature. It examines how modern locative technologies appear to be cutting us off from nature, and considers whether the format of the locative technology affects our sense of place and relationship to nature. This project is a collaboration between the University of Stavanger and the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. It is funded by the Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO-programme.

Project leader: Finn Arne Jørgensen

Beyond Dodos and Dinosaurs (2018-2023)

This project examines how the history of species extinction and species recovery has been remembered and displayed publicly in nature-focused museums from the nineteenth century to the present day. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway's SAMKUL-programme.

Project leader: Dolly Jørgensen

Wildsmoke: Forest Fire and Our Senses in the North, 1911-1961 (2021-2023)

Wildsmoke is funded by the EU MSCA IF 2019 programme. Wildsmoke examines the history of transient wildfire smoke in the northern hemisphere as part of past and continuing environmental change. The project traces smoke across political and disciplinary borders. It implicates national and regional climate change policy, especially issues of social equity and environmental justice in areas of Europe most affected by smoke seasons.

Project leader: Mica Jorgenson

Red and White: The Globalization of Wine in the Anthropocene (2020-2022)

Red & White is funded by the EU MSCA IF 2019 programme. It asks how science and technology have been leveraged to expand the wine industry globally in the 20th and 21st centuries and how that has shifted the taste of the wines as the climate warms.

Project leader: Gabriella Petrick

Greening the Poles (2017-2022)

The central research focus of Greening the Poles is simple: when, why, and how did the polar regions go from being harsh spaces from which fragile people needed to be protected, to being fragile spaces in need of active management and protection from human agents? And do these two visions to some extent co-exist? It is funded by the European Research Council Horizon 2020 programme (starting grant #716211) and led by Peder Roberts.

Project leader: Peder Roberts

Extinction as Cultural Heritage (2018-2022)

This project is funded through the Joint Programming Initiative for Cultural Heritage, an EU-funded initiative. It explores how cultural heritage institutions can engage with species extinction and recovery of species threatened by extinction. The project investigates how the human-nature entanglements of contemporary extinction can be placed into cultural contexts within museum and art gallery exhibitions.

Project leader: Dolly Jørgensen