Saturday
Welcome to the second day of the world’s largest sauna event! We have an exciting program full of the interesting presentations, fantastic speakers and plenty of sauna activities - find all the details here.
Saturday program at a glance
09.30 - 18:00 Congress and Sauna program at SALT Art & Music
18.00 Badstufest, closing celebration.
Global Sauna Culture
Arktiske
Sponsored by:
9:30 PANEL - coming soon
10:00 Becky Pelkonen
Toward a Global Framework for Regenerative Sauna: Culture, Commons, and the Future of Sauna Stewardship
10:30 BREAK ☕️
11:00 Eda Veeroja
Developments and Impacts of UNESCO Inscription on Estonian Smoke Sauna Culture
11:30 Anna Talasniemi
Towards more inclusive sauna culture
12:00 PANEL - Inclusive sauna: How to help everyone feel the heat
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 Rolf-Andreas Pieper
Löyly and Aufguss – characteristics that distinguish different sauna cultures
14:00 Katsuki Tanaka
The Evolution and Future of Japanese Sauna Culture
14:30 Jesús Álvarez
Sauna Under the Sun: Introducing Nordic Sauna Culture in a Hot Urban Context in Mexico
15:00 BREAK ☕️
15:30 James Mugavin & Jan Nåls
Sauna in Contemporary Film: Cultural, Architectural and Emotional Perspectives
16:00 PANEL - Sustainable sauna boom: How to keep sauna hot forever
Sauna & Health
Langhuset
Sponsored by:
9:30 Ashley Mason
Warming Up to a New Paradigm in Mental Health Treatment
10:00 Eva Hilland
Sauna and mental health – a pilot study
10:30 PANEL - Can sauna solve the mental health crisis?
11:00 BREAK ☕️
11:30 Rachael McGrath
Sauna culture improves physical and mental wellbeing in the UK through social connection and ritual
12:00 Charlie Duckworth
Sauna as Social Prescription: Evaluating an NHS-Linked Community Sauna Programme in the UK
12:30 PANEL - Prescription wellness: Sauna as a public health tool
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Nina Magatova
Holding Space: Women and the Unseen Labour in Sauna
14:30 Victoria Arnhold
What We Wear in the Sauna Matters
15:30 BREAK ☕️
16:00 PANEL - The future of sauna research (in cooperation with SRI)
Architecture, Technology & Sustainability
Pyramiden
Sponsored by:
9:30 PANEL - What’s the thing with sauna maps?
10.00 TTNE: Dai Matsuo, Daisuke Akiyama, Kenichiro Kasai
Japanese Sauna Culture to the World
10:30 Stephen Jaye
Designing the Hormetic Sauna™: Redefining Sauna as a New Architectural Standard for Measurable, Prescribable Heat Therapy
11:00 BREAK ☕️
11:30 Corentin Maqueron
Computational Sauna Dynamics: What Numerical Simulation Brings to the Sauna World
12:00 Lassi Liikkanen
A novel method for assessing the durability of sauna stones
12:30 PANEL - On the rocks: What are the best sauna stones?
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Pertu Rönkkö
From Ancient Practice to Smart Sauna: How Technology Can Support Experience, Health and Sustainability
14:30 Peter Jeitler
Wellness facilities for public use - Climated rooms requirements
15:00 PANEL - Hot saunas and clean air: Next generation wood heaters and why it matters
15:30 BREAK ☕️
16:00 PANEL - Is technology enhancing or ruining the sauna experience?
Sauna LIVE @ Árdna
Co-sponsored by:
In partnership with:
Welcome to Sauna Live at Árdna!
During ISC26, the massive 90-seater theater sauna at SALT designed by architect Sami Rintala, will be turned into a stage for live interviews with some of the most exciting congress speakers and guests, hosted by your favorite sauna podcasts.
On the big screen, ISC26 partner Sauna Channel will show some of its most epic sweat bathing productions from around the world, including the premiere of a brand new documentary about the Norwegian badstue boom.
Feel the sweat while seeing and hearing some of the sauna world’s most prominent personalities! It gives you a “behind the sweat” experience that only International Sauna Congress can provide.
Naustet Sauna Library
Book talks and bookstore:
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Sauna program
Sauna rituals and experiences across 10 saunas:
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