For the researchers, artists, and teachers from the participating Karasjok activities serves as a platform for the development of new genre Arctic art education (AAE). For the university students, it is an international course that begins with distance learning and culminates in on-site fieldwork as art education practice.

In this interdisciplinary workshop we used artistic and inquiry-based methods to engage participants in the Sámi mythology of the starry sky.

This essay explores the possibilities and challenges of art-science integration in facilitating collaborative sustainability action in local settings with a spotlight on plankton.

We use the tradition of making coffee on a bonfire to connect people and give a sense of belonging to our Arctic region. In this art-based investigation, we ex-changed knowledge with each other, local people and visitors in the Arctic.

With the aim of sustainability, Living in the Landscape (LiLa) summer school in 2022 fostered a posthumanistic approach to art-based landscape research.

The learning of our shared New Genre Art Education field school in Karasjok is that we can create art together and through that, we create togetherness in between us as people, but also between us and our environment.

To get an insider perspective on young people’s thoughts about being an islander in the Arctic region, we carried out a workshop in a local school where the students were asked about their thoughts and experiences from their life on the island.

This essay presents Wence Sørmo’s process and reflections on making wooden eggs to help the vulnerable eider duck, which is an important species for the local cultural heritage in Helgeland.

This essay lifts the crafting tradition of grass shoe making and its significance for forging close ties between nature, culture and one’s own identity. It seeks to overcome divisions between culture and nature, human and non-human.