30 March 2026 | 15:00 - 19:00 CEST
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: Mødelokale 1.1
Organiser: Stefano Tornieri (Jade University of Applied Science, Germany)
Session Description:
This workshop explores the evolving relationship between extractive cultures and urban development in the European Arctic and sub-Arctic. In these regions, the rhetoric of the “smart city” is often promoted as a pathway to sustainability, yet development remains bound to extractive economies and their long-standing territorial and social imprints.
At the center lies the tension between technologically advanced iron ore production in mining towns and the ancestral intelligences of Indigenous communities, such as Sámi reindeer herding and traditional Arctic river fishing. These practices embody dispersed, relational, and ecologically attuned approaches to sustainability that challenge centralized industrial models and propose alternative futures for inhabitation.
Through the lens of assemblage, the workshop will examine how automation and ancestral knowledge, industrial infrastructures and fragile ecosystems, remote sensing and embodied traditions, coexist and collide. By engaging with these intersections, participants will develop critical tools and speculative scenarios to rethink sustainability, resilience, and the future of Arctic and sub-Arctic landscapes.