A FLIGHT OVER THE TUNDRA: DESIGN EXPLORATION INTO THE WORLD OF ARCTIC NOMADS SVETLANA USENYUK-­‐KRAVCHUK NIKOLAI GARIN ArcBc Design School| Ural State University of Architecture and Art | Yekaterinburg, Russia 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 PRESENTATION STRUCTURE PART I. Project “Visualizing ArcJc Mobility' InternaBonal fieldwork at the “End of the Land” PART II. ArcJc Human Enhancement Three stories of ArcBc-­‐originated arBfacts 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 PROJECT “VISUALIZING ARCTIC MOBILITY” (VAM) / 2013-­‐2014 Svetlana Usenyuk design researcher Aalto ARTS Finland / Russia Nuno Escudeiro film maker / videographer Finland / Portugal Marjukka Vuorisalo graphic arBst Aalto ARTS Finland IJnerary Ekaterinburg – Salekhard – Priuralskiy Region / Baidrat tundra Radmir Gelmutdinov BA student USUAA Russia Antonina Belyaeva BA student USUAA Russia Ilya Polyanskikh BA student USUAA Russia Funding Ella & Georg Erhnrooth FoundaBon Finnish Cultural FoundaBon /Lapland Regional Fund 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 DESIGN FIELDWORK: WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? “Design researchers are keenly sensiBve to parBcular aspects of what’s going on around them and these observaBons inform and inspire their work, oYen in subtle ways. Firsthand exposure to people, places, and things seems to be key, but there is no formulaic method for observaBon of this very personal kind…” Jane Fulton Suri, 2011 “Good design research is driven by understanding rather than data: it is the process of gaining an empathic grasp” Koskinen et al. 2012 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS: PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION, INTERVIEW 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 ARTISTIC METHODS: DRAWING ON LOCATION, REFLECTION DIARY 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT: MOBILITY PATTERNS OF THE COMMUNITY UNDER STUDY Map: I. Abramov, 2015 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 "To survive in such severe condi4ons, we invented ... a spaceship! It protects the emerged life and allows it to travel in the space-­‐4me…" (Gennady Kelchin) "The clothes is a man’s second skin, and the belt is his armor: it is the very him but invulnerable” (Olga Laptander) "Every woman has to know how to sew, otherwise she and all her family would freeze to death in the tundra.” (Anonymous female informant ) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ArcJc Design: Methods of Technical AestheJcs for Development and AppropriaJon of the Russian Far North Grant No. 17-­‐78-­‐20047 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017 WRAP-­‐UP: DESIGN FIELDWORK AND ARCTIC HUMAN ENHANCEMENT gaining an empathic grasp digging deeper / discovering the Arc4c hi-­‐tech 6th Relate North Symposium | University of Lapland | 13 November 2017
