Multidisciplinary field work method; Living in the landscape (5op)

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The course is an international and interdisciplinary summer school Living in the Landscape: Environmental Humanities, Arts and Education for Sustainability in the North (LiLa). It is organized annually in collaboration with different higher education institutions around Circumpolar North.
The central themes of the summer school are cultural, ecological and social sustainability and posthuman issues related to the circumpolar North’s sociocultural environments and the various expressions of Northern culture and nature. These are approached through multidisciplinary research methods, for instance the arts, handicrafts and nature sciences through living in and exploring the culture and environment in different location participating the school. The focus of the school is in the encounters between traditions and modern times: traditional forms of culture and contemporary practices are brought to dialogue and work as materials for the school. The landscapes are explored and interpreted with culturally sensitive investigations and art-based processing. The landscapes are explored and interpreted with culturally sensitive and new materialistic investigations and art-based processing.

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EDUCATION PROGRAM
Faculty of Art and Design, Art Education, multidisciplinary
Master level, Doctoral level
Course requirements MA level:
Pre-assignment: pre-reading
Active participation and completion of group assignments
Final Artistic production and artistic statement
(Reflection essay on landscapes based on own field of study and multidisciplinary approaches) (+ 5 credits)
Course requirements PhD level:
Pre-assignment: pre-reading
Active participation, facilititation and completion of group assignments
Final Artistic production and artistic statement
Joint or Individual research article/visual essay (+ 5 credits)
TEACHING LANGUAGE
English
COORDINATING TEACHER
Elina Härkönen/ Art Education, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland

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Lecture course
The spring school consists of lectures and seminars from relevant fields. The investigations of cultural landscapes are executed through multidisciplinary approaches in virtually each location ad during a fieldwork period in one of the locations relevant to the school. During the school, the students will explore different aspects of culture, landscapes and communities through active exploration, research, art and community engagement.