InfraNorth invites to an in-person Community Meeting to share information about the project and to talk about Arctic transport infrastructures in general in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and snacks.
The meeting is convened by Philipp Budka & Peter Schweitzer and will take place on February 20 from 18:15 to 20:00 (GMT+1) at Seminarraum 2.
InfraNorth’s 2nd future scenario workshop is organized in partnership with the Barents Institute, Sør-Varanger Municipality Sør-Varanger Utvikling and Sør-Varanger Library Join us to discuss and co-create possible futures of infrastructure and community development in Kirkenes and Sør-Varanger! The KIRKENES SCENARIO WORKSHOP is a free and open event, hosted by the project InfraNorth in collaboration with […]
InfraNorth’s 1st future scenario workshop is organized in partnership with the Town of Churchill. The workshop aims to bring local residents together to discuss possible future scenarios and their implications for the community of Churchill. In such scenarios, which are also visualized by local artist Nickia McIvor, Churchill could develop into a growing transportation hub […]
NONAM (Nordamerika Native Museum) in Zurich is hosting an event, where Peter Schweitzer and Katrin Schmid will present their research in the framework of the InfraNorth project. Peter Schweitzer and Katrin Schmid will talk about the impact of climate change and infrastructure development on the indigenous communities of North America. Their presentations will be forwarded […]
Philipp Budka will present a paper at the 16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF2023) in Brno, Czech Republic. In his paper for the panel “Contested futures? Sustainability conflicts and local practices in the age of global uncertainty”, he explores how tourism and transport infrastructures are entangled in the town of […]
The Paper “Ignoring environmental change? On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya)” written by InfraNorth team members Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer was published by Ambio, a journal of environment and society issued by the Royal Swedish academy of Sciences. The paper is discussing the impact of climate change on the […]
After a decade of rising popularity of treating infrastructure anthropologically, the time seems ripe to look at how we have been studying infrastructure. This workshop intends to address three critical questions in that respect: 1) What are the theoretical and methodological tools anthropology brings to the table when studying infrastructure? 2) How can the traditional […]