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<\/p>\nWe 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\u2013South collaboration.<\/p>\n
Together, we reflected on the project\u2019s aims:<\/p>\n
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We also prepared for our first in-person workshop at S\u00e1mi 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.<\/p>\n
| WORKSHOP 1<\/td>\n | WORKSHOP 2<\/td>\n | WORKSHOP 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Making Territories<\/u>Space<\/strong>: duodji studio<\/p>\n Host<\/strong>: S\u00e1mi University of Applied Sciences Host<\/strong>: Aalto Host<\/strong>: Institute of Design and the V\u00e1rdduo Centre for S\u00e1mi Research at Ume\u00e5 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.<\/p>\n |