Vuotso

Living in the Landscape (LILA 2024) Methods Summer School at Vuotso, Lapland. Students from across the ASAD network worked on tasks in the landscape focusing on “green energy” across several sites including here at Vuotso, Lapland.

Vuotso Forest CC-BY EalaCreative

Working together for #UWS #EalaCreative Scotland in LILA 2024 Methods Summer School

LILA 2024 Vuotso Methods Summer School Lapland

Seeing clearly … distilling ideas and practice

We like to point out that the EalaCreative team might well need to explore a little more the links to botanicals such as juniper! Berries for knowledge is an ancient theme we might discuss elsewhere!

Both our Arctic and Scottish creative industries and cultural economies include long histories and shared connections across brewing and distilling. These sectors offer key shared experiences and exchange of knowledge production in regard of biodiversity, design and quality with the Arctic and circumpolar regions. Biodiversity, sustainability, creativity and social wellbeing are just some of the aspects that offer conections for research and creative practice in regard of our food and drink cultures and economies across Scotland and the Arctic.

Reading Resources:

See especially here on Arctic biodiversity.

See also Relate North publication on Art and Design for Sustainability and Education (2018) (Editors T. Jokela & G. Coutts).

Juniper and Scots Pine Research … #EalaCreative Scotland Arctic Distilled –
creative practice and landscape taskscape “EALA” gin made with collected pine needles from the Trossachs forest, Scotland and show poured into a ‘circumpolar’ glass, a gift to visiting delegates to a previous Relate North ASAD thematic event held at ULapland.
Image by EalaCreative (CC-BY-SA)

In Finland, for example, although only one species of juniper grows here it is widespread. Juniper is traditionally used in various containers, centrepieces and utility articles as well as medicine. The smoke of juniper and the berries are also used as seasoning. Source: https://puuproffa.fi/

Foraging in the Forest” by Olly F is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. at Open Verse