Living in the Landscape

Living in the Landscape is an international, collaborative research project that aims to find culturally and socially sustainable solutions to meet the need of sustainable development and thus benefit its inhabitants, communities, and other stakeholders, including education, the creative industries and cultural tourism. It is designed to meet the emerging challenges of environmental, social, cultural, and economic changes in the northern and Arctic region caused by megatrends, such as climate change and globalisation. Participants in the project, including researchers, scholars, artists and postgraduate students from universities, museums and arts organisations in Scandinavia, North America, and Scotland, are seeking ways to implement community and place-based research through residential field work combining online and real-life research and knowledge exchange using arts-based methodologies. Collaboration produces new understanding and creative capacity, research methods, artistic outputs, and processes to support people’s sustainable living in the northern and Arctic region. Living in the Landscape comprises four stages in each of two years: planning and preparation, virtual seminars, onsite place-based fieldwork, and exhibitions arranged on site at the University of Lapland and Umeå, Sweden, and virtually. Each annual realisation is evaluated and further developed using art-based action research and design research methodologies. University partners: University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland; Nord University, Nesna, Norway; University of Umeå, Sweden; UHI Shetland; University of the West of Scotland; University of Alaska; Yukon University (Canada).

University of the Arctic