Bye Bye Bryggen

Bye Bye Bryggen, is an interactive audio walk based on research about how climate change will affect urban environments toward the year 2100. Climate change is a complex challenge that can be difficult to understand due to its long-term perspectives. Audio walks are an innovative method for making climate research accessible to a broad audience. An app on the phone tracks the listener’s location and provides instructions to move, touch things, and reflect on the surroundings. This creates a bodily experience of possible climate futures. The purpose of the project is to make research findings about future climate change relevant in the here and now, and to give target audiences the opportunity to explore how different choices influence different futures.

In Bye Bye Bryggen, we use sea level rise in the historic Bryggen area in Bergen as the framework for the audio walk, which places the participant in possible climate futures in 2100. The audio walk can also be experienced without being physically present at Bryggen. We communicate social science research on climate policy, climate adaptation, and risk management from the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen. The basis for climate change projections is built on research from the Bjerknes Centre, the Norwegian Climate Services Centre, and Bergen Municipality’s technical reports on climate adaptation. A website with in-depth information will also be created.