Arctic Practices. Design for a Changing World

"Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World" is an edited volume that assembles forty-six contributors from designers, educators, artists, photographers, filmmakers, some Indigenous, some residents, and some visitors to the Circumpolar North—to create a polyvocal assembly of Arctic practices. The book aims to discuss Arctic ecosystems in a moment where they are hanging in a precarious balance due to human-induced climate change rooted in colonial extractive practices and industrial capitalism. The book’s curation and design integrate a range of editorial formats and visual documents, including maps, architectural and landscape plans, collages, archival materials, landscape and documentary photography, and speculative drawings, into a variety of configurations and layouts that highlight the specificity of the contents. The foldout cover overlays multiple interpretations of a single image, combining low-resolution, eroded and granular textures, line drawings, and high-relief varnish in unexpected combinations—each surface holding light the way different seasons hold water, now absorbing and scattering at new seasonal rhythms, evoking the shimmer of familiar states learning unfamiliar arrangements.