We began with a recap of the project, highlighting its focus on creating safe spaces and strengthening capacities through creative making practices. In this light, we emphasized Indigenous forms of production, knowledge transmission, and material culture as central to the initiative, while also noting its exploration of possibilities for North–South collaboration.
Together, we reflected on the project’s aims:
We also prepared for our first in-person workshop at Sámi University of Applied Sciences, the starting point for a series of three workshops around which the network will develop. Each workshop will focus on specific making practices and materials (see table). Participating researchers will engage in sense-making through these practices, using them as a lens to explore and discuss research skills and resources.
| WORKSHOP 1 | WORKSHOP 2 | WORKSHOP 3 |
| Making TerritoriesSpace: duodji studio
Host: Sámi University of Applied Sciences |
Making KnowledgeSpace: dyeing studio, mix material workshop
Host: Aalto |
Making TransformationSpace: makerspace
Host: Institute of Design and the Várdduo Centre for Sámi Research at Umeå University |
Maker/speakers from both indigenous contexts and artistic and design research backgrounds will guide the making processes. Through participatory design approaches and hands-on exploration, the workshops will foster collective reflection on Indigenous methods and epistemologies, principles of just and sustainable design, and knowing-through-making. Tangible objects will be produced as extensions of these discussions.