Barents at Risk - Resources at Play

NORD
Copenhagen

The game about the future of the Barents Region
Imagine that the Barents Region was a board game! What would the goals, stakes and risks be? What would the rules be, who would the players be? How would one win the game?
The Barents Region’s vast deposits of natural resources will be put into play over the next several years, involving many future opportunities for the region but also great risks. The region’s challenge is to develop while at the same time achieving a sustainable relationship between its resources and its cultural values. The region faces a major task in the coming years: it will have to handle the transformation of its natural resources into societal resources.

”Barents at Risk – Resources at Play”, is an exhibition concept that is built around a Barents Game board, presented as an outline of the region and acting as a negotiating table where the audience can interact and play with the Barents Region’s future. The game is equipped with playing pieces and 10 missions that the audience should try to achieve. The missions are formulated as possible future scenarios for the Barents Region. Four boards are respectively titled, «Barents», depicting a collage of the identity creating elements in the region, «at Risk», which describes the risks the region faces, «Resources», which describes the region’s resources as a whole, and «Play», which describes the rules for how to play the Barents Region game.

Team: Johannes Pedersen, Morten Rask Gregersen, Maika Moerner Jensen and Moa Björnson.

Barents

at Risk

Resources

at Play

Oslo

Tromsø

Murmansk

Rovaniemi

Moscow