Mobile Lab for Environmental Art and Community Art

The Mobile Lab makes it possible to set up a research and learning environment outside the university for different types of needs and projects. In addition to equipment for creating environmental and community art, the laboratory includes a wide range of tools for audio-visual recording and documenting. 

The Mobile Lab is an essential part of the Faculty of Art and Design’s work in increasing cultural and business cooperation in the Barents region. The Mobile Lab is also used in cooperative projects with other educational institutions. 

This is how we work through art-based approaches: 

• Workshops and training
  In workshops, partners and target groups learn by doing, individually and collectively.
• Artworks, events and event environments
  In the spirit of environmental art, our works often have a natural life cycle depending on materials and methods – from just a few days to several years.
• Service environments and services
  Many services can benefit from an artistic dimension. For example, in the field of tourism, we have developed ecologically and culturally sustainable programme services.

Photos from fieldwork

We are keen to follow the cycle of the year, making use of different conditions and materials, drawing inspiration from local culture and enlivening it sustainably while also renewing it.

Contact

Antti Stöckell

University Lecturer

Faculty of Art and Design

+358 40 484 4408 antti.stockell@ulapland.fi Research profile

Action and research

Northern Art, Community and Environment Research (NACER) is a research group in the Faculty of Art and Design in the University of Lapland. NACER conducts research in the academic discipline of art education, including research on visual art education in schools, educational institutions and universities as well as in the broad field of visual art, including traditional Indigenous and other-than-Indigenous arts and contemporary collaborative art forms. NACER emphasises cultural and social cooperation and sustainable tourism, reflecting the profile of the University of Lapland.

NACER – Northern Art, Community and Environment Research

Projects

Rievdan

Rievdan – Change is an arts-based action research project that applies methods of community-based art education to strengthen and support Sámi and multicultural communities in the North during an era of rapid environmental and societal changes.