ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the exhibition as an example of anthropological action to communicate and educate about climate change and its significance for local livelihoods and indigenous traditions in a global context. Generally, most scientific research on Arctic indigenous understandings of climate change have focused on inventorying local observations of change rather than on analyzing the cultural framings that inform these observations. While the social conditions of Inuit community life changed drastically, Inuit managed to maintain much continuity in their lifeways. In 1998, a Nunavut working group introduced the concept of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional institutions'), noting its holistic character. The Inuit logic of human-environment relations interconnects the moral, physical, social, religious, aesthetic, technological, and the economic domains. The multi-dimensionality of Arctic indigenous objects together with the simultaneous visibility of next to all objects in the exhibition was our attempt to translate the holistic character of Inuit life ways into design.
