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Intergenerational Encounters – Exploring Ándaras Kitti’s Heritage in Utsjoki
In the Footsteps of Andaras Kitti project, dialogical and participatory art-based methods were implemented, with the core idea of ‘knowing the past and acting proactively today’ driving the initiative. Our aim was to foster intergenerational encounters, knowledge creation, and exchange in the experiment carried out in Sápmi, Utsjoki, Finland, with local kindergarten and elderly care…
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Art can Build a Sustainable Future in the North
The University of Lapland’s doctoral researchers and artists Aki Lintumäki and Korinna Korsström facilitated the art-based process which was a starting point for the larger research project called On the Frontline of the Climate Crisis coordinated by the Youth Research and Development Centre Juvenia of South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences and the University of…
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A Sustainability Portrait of Educators for Sustainability
The four-day workshop participants were the six teachers at the Majoriaq Centre in Maniitsoq in Greenland and Elena de Casas and Peter Berliner, community psychologist in Association Siunissaq. Majoriaq is a second-chance educational option for the educational and social system to grant educationally marginalised young people the right to education, knowledge, and cultural activities.
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Portraits as Artivism for Humanization and Sustainability
Siunissaq is an Association that engages in eco-cultural, community-based activities for sustainability. It combines community art and psychosocial activities to overcome social suffering and to contrib- ute to self-determination, social justice, and creativity. We have done that in close and continuous dialogue with the local communities, especially with children.
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Observations of Change – Exhibition
The exhibition Observation of Change reflects and communicates ecological restoration that helps nature to become more natural: decolonize birch forests from planted spruce trees. Artists have engaged in residencies in Nordland’s Junkerdal Nature Reserve, and worked with park managers to explore ecological restoration, raising questions about environmental ethics and the human role.
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Crafting Connections – A Fungal Approach
The project Crafting Connections – A Fungal Approach explores fungi as both a metaphor and a method for collective learning and making. Inspired by Let’s Become Fungal (Ostendorf-Rodríguez, 2023), the project uses mycelium not only as a biological system but also as a way of thinking and teaching
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Lessons of the Land, Nomadic hub, Greenland
This interdisciplinary workshop was part of the Nomadic hub in Narsaq, Greenland, which consisted of several workshops were the collaborative activities focused on exploring understandings of one’s local environment and culture, while also enabling artistic processes and visual expressions across age groups and generations. The visit offered a unique experience of a Greenlandic school and…
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Creative Practice of Sustainable Art
The goals of the projects illustrated in this visual essay aim at participatory engagement. All participants must have direct involvement, engagement, observation, reflection, and results through art making.
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Mapping our Landscapes of Practice: Visualizing Situated Learning for Social Art Practitioners
This piece examines the utility of an individual social artist mapping their ‘Landscape of Practice’, proposing this exercise as a beneficial activity for individuals working in new genre Arctic art and a tool for mapping routes towards new collaborations and ways of working.
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Swap Shots Mobile Film Exchange
The mobile film exchange, Swap Shots, offered a new way for care experienced young people in Shetland to creatively engage with each other during lockdown restrictions in the coronavirus pandemic.
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