Hyggestund – How do bees & flowers speak together? 

Workshop with Thomas Pausz

In this hands-on workshop for all audiences we will learn about the pollination of flowers by bees, which is a key process for biodiversity and growing food. We will listen to bee buzzing sounds in the work in the green house, explore how bees see the world and how they choose flowers. We will hear about the different ways flowers send messages to bees, and how bees make flowers vibrate. Together, the participants will invent and make some small prototypes of imaginary flowers and bees to celebrate this beautiful and important interspecies dance.

A fun and diverse Advent Children’s program will be held in the Nordic house on the same day from 10:30am-2pm, and it is ideal to end the day with this quality workshop starting at 3pm.

Thomas Pausz is a French designer and artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland. His practice bridges ecology, media art and experimental design. Thomas graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA RCA). In 2024, he was awarded a Stanley Picker Fellowship for the project Haunted Ecologies. In his work Double Capture, at the Nordic House, he invites us into the intimate, sensuous choreography of pollination, not as a biological process alone, but as a relational, time-based performance between species. The greenhouse becomes a living instrument, attuned to the secret signals exchanged between flowers and their pollinators

Opening hours and accessibility: The Children’s Library is open for all. Accessible for wheelchair users via the elevator and through Hvelfing exhibition space. Accessible restrooms and a restroom for families with babies is on the main floor. Opening hours are TUE-SUN 10 am-5 pm. Entrance to the library and all events is free of charge. This event will be in French, Icelandic and English.