{"id":411,"date":"2025-06-26T00:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogi.eoppimispalvelut.fi\/ngaea\/?p=411"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:46:24","slug":"planning-workshops-for-utsjoki-snow-and-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogi.eoppimispalvelut.fi\/ngaea\/2025\/06\/26\/planning-workshops-for-utsjoki-snow-and-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshops for Utsjoki snow and winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Text: Tiina M\u00e4nnist\u00f6, Anselmi Pet\u00e4j\u00e4aho and Roosa Pyykk\u00f6nen, University of Lapland, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this land-based art education project, pupils in Utsjoki\u2019s local schools joined in different snow and winter-themed workshops. The project aimed to develop Arctic art education through workshops and explore and support schoolchildren\u2019s relationship with nature and local culture through contemporary art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Land-Based learning in Utsjoki. Figure: Tiina M\u00e4nnist\u00f6, Anselmi Pet\u00e4j\u00e4aho & Roosa Pyykk\u00f6nen. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Land is seen as a reciprocal teacher in the communal Land-based learning method. Media pedagogy based on digitalisation played an important role in the project, too.  During the time at Utsjoki, there were four different winter-themed art workshops, and in collaboration, a group of students from the University of Lapland did snow sculpting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of the workshops was snow and winter, which are an essential part of the area and people\u2019s lives at Utsjoki. The background of the implementation of the project was land-based learning, Utsjoki as a place, S\u00e1mi culture, New Genre Art education and Arctic contemporary art, curriculum and local beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project implemented four snow-themed art workshops for the school\u2019s pupils, from pre-school to upper secondary school students. The school\u2019s pupils participated in the initial brainstorming of the workshops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos: Tiina M\u00e4nnist\u00f6, Anselmi Pet\u00e4j\u00e4aho & Roosa Pyykk\u00f6nen, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The topics of the workshops were:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n