Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD) thematic network has received funding from UArctic Norway/UiT to develop international research and educational summer Schools. The school series are called Living in the Landscape (LiLa).
Due to COVID-19 the school is now held online and the participants come from Nesna, Norway, Rovaniemi, Finland and Syktyvkar, Komi Republic of Russia. The school consists of researchers, lecturers and MA and PhD students from different disciplines to learn from each other in the study of landscape. The school was concluded with an exhibition that was opened at the UArctic Congress May 2021.
Due to COVID-19 the school is now held online and the participants come from Nesna, Norway, Rovaniemi, Finland and Syktyvkar, Komi Republic of Russia. The school consists of researchers, lecturers and MA and PhD students from different disciplines to learn from each other in the study of landscape. The school was concluded with an exhibition that was opened at the UArctic Congress May 2021.
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Go see the exhibition here
The school started in January 2021 and has gathered once a month via zoom meetings. The basis for the school was built on Tim Ingold's Temporality of Landscape and the tasks during the school have been related to dwelling, taskscapes and sociocultural layers of the landscapes from the three different locations of the school. The participants have shared insights into these landscape layers through folk stories, seasonal traditions and personal taskscapes. These workshops, discussions and multidisciplinary approaches have worked as reference material for the participants that are working individually or in teams to produce them into artistic products and research outcomes. The artistic processes resulted into a virtual exhibition that was published in May 2021. The images are glimpses from the works and the complete exhibition is available here. The art-based works in the exhibition examine different approaches to landscape and the exhibition is divived into prologue and five sections. The sections are Dialogic approaches to landscape, Everyday landscapes, Materiality of landscapes, Seeking community processes in online settings and Posthuman collaboration with the landscape. The publication of the school will be published in August 2021.
What is LiLa?
LiLa seeks to develop long-term multidisciplinary operational model for international Summer School organised in collaboration with 4 Universities (Nord University, Norway; University of Lapland, Finland; Syktyvkar State University, Komi, Russia; Arctic University of Norway. This multidisciplinary scientific collaboration is designed to meet the emerging challenges on environmental, population and economic life issues in the Arctic caused by climate change and globalization. LiLa aims to find culturally and socially sustainable solutions to meet the need of sustainable development and thus benefit its inhabitants, communities and other stakeholders. The model is developed on multidisciplinary expertise and culturally sensitive methods; nature sciences, ecology, environmental humanities, anthropology, literature, visual arts, media technology and education for sustainability come together to invest and study Northern environments and support sustainability of rural communities in cooperation with them. The intention is to create dialogue and support people living in the northern landscapes and traditional culture. More information Timo Jokela, timo.jokela (at) ulapland.fi Mette Gårdvik, mette.gardvik (at) nord.no Elina Härkönen, elina.harkonen (at) ulapland.fi Please note that the summer school is targeted to the students of the partner universities |
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