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Revisiting Arctic StoryWorlds: Frozen Matters

We’re excited to launch a new social media series revisiting Arctic StoryWorlds: Frozen Matters—the exhibition that ran from May 29 to June 8, 2024, at Siggerud Galleri in Bodø, Norway.

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YELLOWKNIFE 2023

MUST team visited Yellowknife, Canada in June 2023.

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Informal Roads

Informal Roads: The Impact of Unofficial Transportation Routes on Remote Arctic Communities (Informal Roads), 2019–2023

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Frozen Commons

Frozen Commons: Change, Resilience and Sustainability in the Arctic (Frozen Commons), 2021–2026

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We promote convergence of diverse knowledge systems such as Arts, Science, Local and Indigenous Knowledge (ArtSLInK). It encompasses synchronous, equitable, co-productive engagement across the social and natural sciences, the arts and place-based local and Indigenous knowledge systems, each with their distinct modes of exploration and expression.

Our Projects

MUST

Measuring Urban Sustainability in Transition
2021–2026

Co-Designing Future Arctic Cities in the Anthropocene

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Frozen
Commons

2021–2026

Change, Resilience and Sustainability in the Arctic

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Informal
Roads

2019–2022

The Impact of Unofficial Transportation Routes on Remote Arctic Communities

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Collaborative projects

2020–2023

Building Socio-Ecological Resilience through Urban Green, Blue and White Space (SERUS)

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News

Frozen Commons at UNI: Celebrating 10 Years of ARCTICenter

Feb 15, 2026

On January 30, the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) hosted a special celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the Arctic, Remote, and Cold Territories...

Frozen Commons team at AGU

Dec 20, 2025

AGU Fall Meeting is an opportunity to meet the best experts in geosciences and beyond. It was a great venue to share the Frozen Comons project’s research...

Fostering Indigenous-Led Dialogues to Govern Frozen Commons

Nov 17, 2025

Location: Cryosphere Pavilion, Blue Zone, Hangar Convention and Fair Centre of the Amazon, Belém, Brazil Time and date: 19:45 - 20:30, November 11, 2025...

The Frozen Commons team organized several events at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil, on November 10-15, 2025

Nov 16, 2025

Fostering Indigenous-Led Dialogues to Govern Frozen Commons 11 November 2025 | Belém, Brazil This UNFCCC event brought together Indigenous Peoples, nomadic...

Co-Creative Workshop on Frozen Commons: Building Shared Visions Across Cultures and Lands

Aug 12, 2025

Co-creative workshop: On August 10-11, 2025, the Frozen Commons team, collaborated with experts – social and natural scientists, artists and artizans, and...

PhotoVoice workshop in Tsagaannuur

Aug 8, 2025

August 5-6, 2025 Let’s express our gratitude to Dr Tsendpurev Tsegmid for leading the workshop PhotoVoice: Telling Our Stories Through Images for reindeer...

Exhibitions

We organize exhibitions all over the world, with scientists, photographers, and artists.

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On November 15, 2025, Vera Kuklina opened an exhibit booth at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 30 in Belém, Brasil.

The exhibit showcased digital works and a poster featuring projects and initiatives co-created by Indigenous Peoples, nomadic communities, scientists, artists, and leaders. These works combined cutting-edge research with Indigenous and traditional knowledge to...

Art of Indigenous Science / Science of Indigenous Art

On 24 March, the exhibition Art of Indigenous Science / Science of Indigenous Art, curated by Indigenous scholars Vera Kuklina (GWU, USA) and Tatiana Degai (University of Victoria), was launched. A new exhibit, Art of Indigenous Science/Science of Indigenous Art,...

Arctic StoryWords: Weaving Different Ways of Knowing

Arctic StoryWorlds: Frozen Matters

Figure. Exhibition opening. Photo by Mariia Kuklina CURATORSOlga Zaslavskaya // Vera Kuklina // Tatiana DegaiARTISTSAndrey Adukanov // Aryuna Bulutova // Liudmila Gileva // Tatiana Khelol // Galina Koryakina // Ikuru Kuwajima // Ekaterina Lazareva // Yulia Levykina //...

Arctic InfraScapes 2023

Arctic InfraScapes was a series of events during the ASSW 2023 including a science session, an exhibition, and a roundtable, where INFRA stands for infrastructures and the SCAPES refers to the multiple ways of convergence of Arts with diverse knowledge systems such as Scientific, Local and Indigenous Knowledge (ArtSLInK).

Latest Expeditions

Frozen Commons expedition in Khövsgöl aimag, Mongolia

by artslink.editor | Mar 30, 2024 | Expeditions, News

Dates: 16-26 March 2024 In March 2024 Frozen Commons team members organized knowledge sharing gathering with scholars, artists and knowledge holders in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in collaboration with the Institute of Geography and Geoecology Mongolian Academy of Sciences...