SESSION 2: POSSIBLE PEDAGOGIES
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 27
9:00-10:00 UTC -7 | 18:00-19:00 UTC +2
Moderator: Elina Härkönen
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Arts for future-making
Maria Huhmarniemi & Arto O. Salonen
The potential of arts to make and share visions for the future, and to increase the inclusiveness of future-making processes, are increasingly essential areas of research to increase hope for a good future. The current climate change and the sixth wave of extinction show the grown impact of the human species on the world. Therefore, deeper care for other-than-human nature is part of a desirable vision of the future. In this research, we consider, how contemporary art and arts-based participatory methods can support the construction of such a vision of the future and human experience of being part of the web of life. Art is a way to imagine something that does not exist yet. The visions of a desirable future may help individuals and communities transform their lifestyles towards the needed change.
Maria Huhmarniemi (DA) is an associate professor in the University of Lapland. Her interest is in enhancing sustainability through creativity and art education. She makes political art and develops arts-based methods for societal needs in the Arctic.
Arto O. Salonen is a professor at the University of Eastern Finland. He is also an adjunct professor in the following universities: the University of Helsinki (Faculty of Educational Sciences), University of Eastern Finland (Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies), and Finnish National Defence University (Department of Leadership and Military Pedagogy).
Understanding landscape through interconnection between different forms of knowledge
Karin Stoll, Wenche Sørmo, & Mette Gårdvik
The Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design network`s summer school, Living in the Landscape (LiLa) aim to develop culturally sensitive and sustainable research on the sociocultural dimension of arctic landscapes. The goal is to meet emerging challenges related to environment, population and economic life through multidisciplinary and artistic approaches (Jokela & Härkönen, 2021). Outcomes are physical products presented in a digital exhibition and visual essays as essential part of the holistic art-based expression, where process and associated reflection emerged.
In this presentation we reflect on our three examples which describe an holistic understanding of landscape through interconnections between natural science and cultural/art-based aspects. With Ingold (2020 a, b) as theoretical background we shed light on how the synthesis of different forms of knowledge contributes to our understanding of landscapes and materials, and why this understanding is essential to illuminate how we can meet today's ecological challenges in an Eco Cultural Sustainability perspective.
Karin Stoll, Associate Professor of Natural Science. Faculty of Education and Arts, Nord University. Background: Zoology, education officer at a Natural History Museum. Research: Education for Sus-tainable Development in Teacher Education.
karin.stoll@nord.no
Wenche Sørmo, Associate Professor (Dr. Sci.) Natural Science. Faculty of Education and Arts, Nord University. Background: Comparative physiology. Research: Education for Sustainable Development in Teacher Education.
wenche.sormo@nord.no
Mette Gårdvik, Associate Professor of Arts and Handicrafts. Faculty of Education and Arts, Nord University. Background: Arts and Design Education. Research: Education for Sustainable Development in Teacher Education and conservation of handicraft skills.
mette.gardvik@nord.no
Living in the landscape – Developing summer schools through ASAD
Elina Härkönen & Mari Parpala
In our presentation I introduce the series of international and multidisciplinary summer school Living in the Landscape (LiLa). We will focus especially on the third school that took place in Spring 2022. The series of summer schools is organised by the University of the Arctic’s thematic network, Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD). The aim of the LiLa series is to bring together students and scholars from different disciplines and circumpolar higher-education institutions to develop culture-sensitive and sustainable research on the sociocultural landscapes of the Arctic region. Another aim is to create encounters and dialogue between traditional forms of culture and contemporary practices and discover how these could be presented through art. The participating MA and PhD students and scholars of the third school came from the ASAD partner institutions Nord University of Norway, University of Lapland (Finland), Umeå University (Sweden) and University of West of Scotland.
Elina Härkönen works as a lecturer in art education at the University of Lapland, Finland. She is a doctor of Arts and Master in Intercultural Education. Her research focus is on cultural sustainability on art-based and international university pedagogics in the context of the North and the Arctic.
Yukon School of Visual Arts: Strategies for Adapting to Place
Hannah Jickling & Reed H. Reed
Hannah Jickling is originally from the Yukon and is currently based in Vancouver, on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̍əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories. Atypical forms of distribution, entrepreneurial scheming and audience-seeking are important strategies for supporting and disseminating her work which is (most often) based in public practice, performance and artists' multiples. She frequently collaborates with her partner Helen Reed and in each of their projects, collaboration is a working process from which artwork emerges. In a recent series of projects with children, the artists have been exploring the ‘contact high’ intrinsic to collective work. Big Rock Candy Mountain, their ongoing platform for research and production, has been established at Queen Alexandra Elementary School since 2015. They are the recipients of numerous grants and awards including the Ian Wallace Award for Teaching Excellence (2016), the Mayor’s Art Award for Emerging Public Art (2017), the Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award (2018) and the Sobey Art Award Longlist for BC and Yukon (2018). Their artists’ book cum exhibition catalogue, Multiple Elementary, published by YYZbooks (Toronto, CAN), was released in 2017. They are currently developing soda with Grade 6 students in Edmonton and working quietly on a series of drawings in their studio.
Reed H. Reed is an artist based on the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her projects take shape as public installations, social situations, and events that circulate as photographs, videos, printed matter, and artists’ multiples. She frequently collaborates with her partner, Hannah Jickling. Together, they are fascinated with the contact high intrinsic to collaborative research, especially in their recent projects with children. Jickling and Reed have exhibited and performed internationally, with both individual and collaborative work appearing in such venues as: The Portland Art Museum (OR), The Dunlop Art Gallery (SK), Smack Mellon (NY), Doris McCarthy Gallery (ON), The Yukon Arts Centre Gallery (YT), YYZ Artists’ Outlet (ON), Carleton University Art Gallery (ON), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (NS), Bästa Biennalen (SE), The Vancouver Art Gallery (BC), The Power Plant (ON) and Flat Time House’s first issue of NOIT (UK). In Fall 2017 they released Multiple Elementary, a book that explores the elementary school classroom as a site of invention and reception of contemporary art practices, published by YYZBOOKS. Jickling and Reed are recipients of the 2016 Ian Wallace Award for Teaching Excellence (Emily Carr University of Art & Design), a 2017 Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Public Art (City of Vancouver) and a 2018 VIVA Award (Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts).