Dokumentation Nature Interpretation webinar no.3

I oktober genomförde CNV det första webinariet och nu bjuder vi in till den andra delen i serien. Målet är att erbjuda en plattform till alla som är intresserade av naturvägledning i gränslandet mellan natur och kultur. På webinarierna träffas forskare och praktiker som får lära sig mer om och diskutera konkreta fall och projekt för ett gemensamt utbyte av kunskap och erfarenheter.

Friction fire, tea ceremony and transformative conversations

Mingle through a Fire-making workshop
with Nature Interpretation Lab Workshop, with Society for Transformative Conversation

The mingle was held on March 18th 2025

Maxim Vlasov is a researcher-practitioner from Umeå with interest in ancestral skills and cultural rewilding, including applications of these ideas in the contemporary outdoor education and recreation. Alongside his academic work, he runs his own practice as wilderness skills instructor and currently teaches at the year-long course Naturliv at Munka Folkhögskola. At this workshop, he demonstrated the ancient technique of bow drill (friktionseld med bågdrill) and shared fireweed tea. We gathered around the fire, listened to stories and tasted the fireweed tea.

A bow drill is an ancient tool to start fires with. Photo: Kiljan Eckerman.

We talked about our thoughts on friction and relations: how can ancestral life skills help us repair the broken relationship with more-than-human kin? We will also reflected together on this type of nature interpretation – what types of conversations are enabled in these situations, what is opened up and what is closed?