Private film screening of "Dammed" (2025) and "Killing Aliens Everyday" (2018)

The 2025 BIOrdinary Summer School explored the interplay of nature, culture and extractive industries – hydropower in particular – in the north of Sweden through a four-day-long journey along Luleälven. Documentary filmmakers Verity White, Nicholas Turner and Andrew Mitchell (who holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University) documented the journey and produced a short film, which beautifully captures the group's discussions around the various socio-ecological dilemmas emerging from our ever-expanding need for electricity.

Dammed: Conversations Against the Current

The BIOrdinary research group is made up of anthropologists and dedicated researchers from mixed disciplines from Stockholm University, Sweden, brought together to investigate biodiversity dilemmas in ordinary places. For the 2025 annual summer school, the research group visited Norrbotten in northern Sweden, and travelled along the Lule River, one of the most industrialised in the country, to understand the effects of infrastructure on biodiversity from a range of local perspectives. Since 1915, invasive hydropower operations have…