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.
Working together for #UWS #EalaCreative Scotland in LILA 2024 Methods Summer School
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).
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/
At EALA we have been learning more and more about how to attribute materials and resources of others and our own. This can be a bit of a thorny process (!) and we soometimes get it wrong but we are working hard to revise and correct it. As we have progressed through our EALA project we have explored the learning, sharing and creating landscape of OER. We have learned together directly from key experts working in the field of learning technology and open education resources both in Scotland and the Arctic and circumpolar region.
We have also made good use of the great online materials and guides such as the Creative Commmons ‘best practice’ guide for attribution : https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/best_practices_for_attribution. And we are especially keen to direct interested readers and creative content makers to the UArctic ASAD thematic network resources available for research and learning.
Respectful and Responsible Research -Foraging for Wild Plants
For more information on responsible and respectful wild plant and botanical foraging see here a downloadable guide to this practice by Roddy Maclean that includes both Scots and Gaelic language botanical references at Nature Scot
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