About the SPACE Team

 

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Janne Robberstad - Assistant Professor of Arts Education

Janne Robberstad is an assistant professor of arts education at HVL. Her research focuses on creativity and eco-design. Janne is the Norwegian national contact for the EU Erasmus+ project Creativity, Art and Science in Primary Education(CASE), a team-member creating the pilot-project Global Hands On Oceans within the Norwegian Research Council project iSCOPE. She is the production manager of Global Science Opera (GSO), and is especially engaged in promoting sustainable approaches to quality design in the GSO. She has taught workshops in Japan, Norway and the USA, piloting eco-scenography into the GSO initiative (www.globalscienceopera.com). Janne has also held talks presenting eco-design and the GSO at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and at ESA´s stand at the Paris Air Show 2017.

She has a masters degree in Creative Disciplines and Learning Processes and a Bachelor in Design, Arts and Crafts in Education, with an additional course in Textile Culture. Janne has a fifteen-year teaching experience in the Norwegian Folk High School-system, mainly within theatre, costume- and fashion-design and creativity-based projects. Her artistic career spans over two decades and includes both visual arts and theatrical design. As a member of the Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK), she has held several solo-exhibitions and has delivered a sizable amount of art commissioned by larger private companies. She is also a member of Association of Norwegian Scenographers (NSC), and has a long list of productions she´s designed and produced costumes and sets for, including the Norwegian premiere of Chess and Miss Saigon.

In the Spring of 2018, Janne Robberstad will begin her PhD research on the topic of creativity and eco-scenography in the Global Science Opera, and the relations of these to a European understanding of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).