The ASAD network has collaborated with many edited books. Also, many ASAD activities are reflected in co-authored articles and chapters.
The book Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders, published by the InSEA Publications, examines art, design, craft, and education in the North, Arctic, and near-Arctic regions. The chapters illuminate how contemporary art in these areas promotes and critiques sustainability through education, community engagement, and locally rooted artistic practices. Each chapter offers unique approaches to addressing urgent social, cultural, and environmental issues affecting Arctic regions, with art serving both as a pedagogical tool and a form of activism. The book showcase the richness and expansion of new genre Arctic art education.
The book Mapping the new genre Arctic art education opens a window to the enchanting world of the New Genre Arctic Art Education initiative, where creativity meets sustainability. Through the collaboration of two Thematic Networks of the University of the Arctic – Arctic Sustainable Art and Design, and Children in the Arctic – this endeavor intertwines art, education, and psychosocial activities to foster a vibrant and enduring Arctic. Inhabitants of the North, especially the youth, are at the heart of this initiative, as they are the architects of tomorrow’s Arctic. Through five illuminating chapters and 24 evocative visual essays, this book celebrates and ponders how New Genre Art Education in the Arctic nurtures local ecocultures, ensures cultural continuity, promotes well-being, and strengthens social identities. By doing so, it contributes to building social resilience and sustainability.
This book Arctic Sustainability Potraits offers glimpses into collaborative efforts between the University of the Arctic’s Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD) and the Children in the Arctic thematic networks. The book showcases the diversity of art and art education, and the variety within the Sustainability Portraits initiative, which simultaneously nurtures local eco-cultures, safeguards cultural continuity, strengthens social cohesion, and promotes well-being in the North and the Arctic. In this way, it supports building social resilience and sustainability in the rapidly changing Arctic region. The Sustainability Portraits approach is hopeful and emphasises the transformative power of art education in creating sustainable societies and communities in the North and the Arctic areas.
The book FieldSchool: inside a gathering circle that faces the forest showcases a live build at the GSA Highlands & Islands campus on the Altyre Estate in Moray. FieldSchool was part of a longer project called shielin-bough (www.shielinbough.co.uk) which explores cultures of shelter in Scotland and Finland. Shielin-bough is a longitudinal collaborative project which has brought participants from different places and cultural backgrounds to research, to converse, to design and to build together. The collaboration coalesced around the concepts of shelter, food and storytelling offering a variety of experimental modalities for learning and teaching.
In addition to these four edited books, the ASAD network has launched art exhibition catalogues.
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Edited books presenting ASAD network project 2024
- Jokela, T., Berliner, P., & Manninen, A. (Eds.) (2024). Arctic Sustainability Potraits. University of Lapland. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-337-459-1
- Jokela, T., Huhmarniemi, M. & Burnett, M. (Eds.). (2024). Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders. InSEA Publications. DOI: 10.24981/2024-RNNGAEB
- Jokela, T., Manninen, A. & Berliner, P. (Eds.) (2024). Mapping the new genre Arctic art education. University of Lapland. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-337-457-7
- Wall, G. & Jokela, T. (Eds.) (2024). FieldSchool: inside a gathering circle that faces the forest. University of Lapland. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-337-444-7
Art exhibition catalogues of ASAD network in 2024
- Härkönen, E., Burnett, K. Lundstedt, L., Permar, R. & Gårdvik, M. (Eds.) (2024). Flow: Currents of Change in our River Landscapes. University of Lapland. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-337-455-3
- Huhmarniemi, M. & Cahoon, N. (Eds.). (2024). Relate North 2024. New Genre Arctic Art Education: Exhibition catalogue. University of Lapland. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-337-453-9
- Jokela, T. (Ed.) (2024). New genre Arctic art and art education exhibition. University of Lapland. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-337-432-4
Research articles /chapters that present ASAD-activities or are co-written by ASAD-members
- Beer, R. & Huhmarniemi, M. (2024). Shifting Ground: Art exhibition as informal pedagogy on changing Arctic. In T. Jokela, M. Huhmarniemi & K. Burnett (Eds.), Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders. (pp. 38–60). InSEA Publications.
- Berliner, B-& de Casas, E. (2024). Pathways to go beyond the borders of the immediate: Siunissaq. In T. Jokela, M. Huhmarniemi & K. Burnett (Eds.), Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders. (pp. 62–60). InSEA Publications.
- Haavisto, E & Wall, G. (2024). Shielin-bough: Building Collaboration Across the North. In T. Jokela, M. Huhmarniemi & K. Burnett (Eds.), Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders. (pp. 86–113). InSEA publications.
- Jokela, T. (2024). A Way to Arctic Art Education — Intersections of Land, Art and Northern Knowledge. In S. Willis, R. Shin & A. Richards (Eds.), The Intersectionality of Critical Identities in Art Education (pp. 200–211). InSEA Publications. DOI:24981/2024-ICIAE
- Jokela, T. & Hiltunen, M. (2024). New genre Arctic art education as a way of knowing with the North. In T. Jokela, M. Huhmarniemi & K. Burnett (Eds.), Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders. (pp. 12–37). InSEA Publications.
- Kohtala, C., Manninen, A-M., Rylander, S.& Fernaeus, Y. (2024). Digital Fabrication and Sustainability: Beyond the Borders of Art, Design and Craft. In T. Jokela, M. Huhmarniemi & K. Burnett (Eds.), Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders. (pp. 156 – 179). InSEA publications.
- Rinne J., Jokela T., Hiltunen M., Korsström-Magga K. & Lintumäki A. (2024). Co-research through art-based action enhancing young peoples’ climate citizenship. In J. Gorman, T. Kiilakoski, E. Vallado, L. Pasic (Eds.) Youth Knowledge Book. Youth and democracy in the climate crisis (pp. 55–70) Council of Europe. Youth Knowledge books.
