The current exhibition is part of the fifth Living in the Landscape (Lila) summer school. Lila is an international and interdisciplinary school on landscape research, where the participating master's and postgraduate students from five different universities produce art-based or artistic results from their research projects carried out during the school. The theme of this year's Lila is focused on the cultural landscapes of rivers and green energy productions that affect local cultures and ecosystems overall. The school was realized partly online and partly as a week-long field school in Rovaniemi and Vuotso in the spring 2024. The exhibition features the works of 19 students and teachers, who examine both the changed river and reservoir landscapes of Finnish Lapland and also their own river landscapes in their home regions in Sweden, Norway, Scotland and Shetland.
Photo: In the artwork Unnatural flow Sara Rylander from Umeå University examines the unintended consequences of human activities, such as migration, transitions, and disturbances, on ecosystems. Photo by Sara Rylander, 2024.
The fifth Lila book Flow: Currents of Change in our River Landscapes is published 4th November 2024, and can be found online here.
More information: Elina Härkönen, elina.harkonen@ulapland.fi