The CHARTER project in collaboration with two other projects, POVAUS and CLIMINI have held numerous workshops across Finnish Lapland, and also in northern Sweden. These workshops are held local people, often folks practicing traditional livelihoods such as herding and fishers with researchers, and administrators.
The workshops have taken different formats and had varying themes as their focal point. A workshop tool developed by Irina Wang, in collaboration with any others, but principally Sirpa Rasmus, has been a custom designed set of playing cards that are designed to foster small group discussion, and explore themes related to the future of reindeer herding in the Arctic. Developing more narratives around Arctic futures can help local communities, policy makers, and other actors anticipate plausible developments/surprises, understand ongoing dynamics, and aid in decision making.
While Irina, who was a Fulbright visiting scholar with the CHARTER project, has designed several striking sets of illustrated cards for these future scenario oriented workshops, she has now created a series of pdf files so that anyone can print these cards out for themselves. The cards are available in Finnish, Swedish, North Sámi, Norwegian and English. You can download them all here on Zenodo.
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