In Ume\u00e5 we invite researchers including artists, architects, designers and scientists who would like to come together to remotely join the Uppsala workshop and have our own dialogue about the questions raised in the workshop and our future research collaborations. More info here and booking details here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This SLU Researcher Workshop titled Green dreams and workforce realities: Swedish forests and forest labour, is run by the SLU Future Forests platform to discuss new research networks and projects. 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The Small Visionary Project research started by examining the evidence of historical and contemporary arenas of conflict over the use of northern forests and how they can be interpreted and visualized artistically. The old-growth northern forest can be read as an archive where layer is written on layer and traces in living and dead trees bear witness of unique events, both recent and far back in time. 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The research will highlight some of the hidden power structures and narratives underlying the global race for resources that often neglects biodiversity and cultural identities in affected territories. Since the early 1990s there has been an increased procurement of forest lands in neighbouring countries such as Russia, Estonia, Latvia by the Swedish state and private companies. In some cases, this has radically changed the land ownership maps of local municipalities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Toms Kokins will investigate the extent of Swedish-owned forest land beyond its borders and its relationship to architecture. Using diverse mapping methods, Kokins aims to create an holistic quantitative and qualitative map of the new Swedish timber empire, researching who and what should be included and how it can be communicated? 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Working closely with professional house movers Tonia Carless is investigating the northern Swedish practice of moving whole houses from one location to another. Her research into the spatial politics of house-moving is particularly focused on how the space between the land and a building changes. The relationship between a building and its ground is a space in which to consider the material, economic and legal frameworks which construct ideas of V\u00e4sterbotten and Norrland. The project will create new works, as an object and an accompanying archive, which investigates the social, cultural and economic factors in the space between a building and its location. 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Yet, there are very few mapping tools that combine non-visible fluxes and infrastructures, and their impact on the human scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The goal of the Collaborative Arctic-Nordic Atlas is two-fold: on one hand it aims to embed social and environmental justice in future design strategies of climate change adaptation; and on the other hand, it aims to empower and give voice to traditionally unheard communities affected by processes of injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project aims to develop and apply an intersectional mapping and territorial analysis methodology, to spatially visualize natural resources, and agents of disturbance (economic activities such as mining, infrastructure related to marine routes, energy or communications, deforestation or forest fires), and their implication on a larger planetary scale regarding economic exploitation, ecological racism or indigenous disenfranchisement. 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