ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses perception, politics and culture in the fast-changing territories of the Arctic, and positions the Future North project within Arctic landscape discourses on observation, cultural landscapes, future thinking and place creation. Through architectural, ethnographic, performative and narrative forms of inquiry, the project has studied how landscapes engage us beyond our cultural preconditions for appreciation or aesthetic fascination. By engaging with local actors, and by reading and interacting with landscape materiality and territorial logics, we suggest ways to lead back from particular landscape configurations to imaginaries, expectations, hopes and future thinking in communities in ways that challenge dominant meta-narratives of the Arctic.
