Constructions of North landscape / imagery / society

Thursday January 23 the fourth conference on northern landscapes in connection with the Arctic Frontiers took place. After a welcoming introduction by Janike Kampevold Larsen the following speakers, and moderator Andrew Morrison, contributed to a highly inspirational and interesting day:
William L. Fox - Backwards Landscape the Reading
Johan Schimanski - Constructing imagery, narratives of the Arctic
Stepa Mitaki - Inspiring citizens to change Murmansk through participatory planning
Kathleen John-Alder - The House We Live In: Ian McHarg’s Adaptable Concept of Habitat
Aileen A. Espiritu - Shifting rhetoric – From Barents to Arctic
Stine Barlindhaug - Constructing cultural landscapes through participatory mapping
Silje Figenschou Thoresen - The Indigenuity Project, Improvised design in Sápmi
Arvid Viken - Construction of knowledge: Tourism, research, and governmental institutions building Svalbard as image and place
Larissa Riabova and Vladimir Didyk - Arctic Single-Industry Towns in Russia: social problems, ways to solve them and the role of resource corporations