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Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar Imagery for Three-Dimensional Visualisation of Near-Surface Structures in Ice-Rich Permafrost, Barrow, Alaska

Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar Imagery for Three-Dimensional Visualisation of Near-Surface Structures in Ice-Rich Permafrost, Barrow, Alaska

ABSTRACT Three-dimensional ground-penetrating radar (3D GPR) was used to investigate the subsurface structure of ice-wedge polygons and other features of the frozen active layer and near-surface permafrost near Barrow, Alaska. Surveys were conducted at three sites located on landscapes of different geomorphic age. At each site,

Urine Recycling in Scientific American

Gee Whiz: Human Urine Is Shown to Be an Effective Agricultural Fertilizer

Relocatable Infrastructure

For communities like Kivalina who are looking for ways to relocate and spread out into their land more easily, movable and self-sufficient water and sanitation systems could be very helpful. These same systems can also be designed for use at current village sites where water and sanitation infrastructure is usually in urgent need of improvement, and they are generally far less expensive than traditional infrastructure. Decentralized and relocatable systems, like the Alaska Water and Sewer Challenge (AKWSC) system being

Physics Doesn’t Negotiate

Physics Doesn’t Negotiate: Notes on the dangerous difference between science and political science

Some notes from Bill McKibben on medium.com about President Obama’s trip to Alaska.

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In Memory of Etok Edwardsen: “One Bad-Ass Eskimo”

There is a legend told among the Inupiat Alaskans who live above the Arctic Circle, “Etok Tames the Green People.” It goes like this:

In the Old Days, as today, the peoples on the edge of the Arctic Sea killed whales. It’s just what they do. It’s what they eat. But the Green People didn’t like

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Re-Locate in Huffington Post

Interior Secretary Has ‘Much to Learn’ from Kivalina’s Inupiaq Elders and Hunters about Climate Change and Village Relocation

Last Monday morning in Inupiaq Alaska, at Kivalina’s McQueen School gymnasium, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell stood from her seat at a table surrounded by community elders, hunters and search and rescue volunteers. “For the elders that are willing to open up,” she gestured, “I’d be very interested in hearing
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation, Creative Time Reports, Michael Hardt

Artist-activist collective MTL’s clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine’s geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into “how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere” according to philosopher Michael Hardt.
-Creative Time

“Palestine is unexceptional, then, in the sense that it shares some of the primary axes of domination that characterize the current crisis across the globe. And Palestinians are discovering new means to rebel against
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An Attempt at a “Compositionist Manifesto”, Bruno Latour

“In this paper, written in the outmoded style of a ‘manifesto’, an attempt is made to use the word ‘composition’ as an alternative to critique and ‘compositionism’ as an alternative to modernism. The idea is that once the two organizing principles of nature and society are gone, one of the remaining solutions is to ‘compose’ the common world. Such a position allows an alternative view of the strange connection of modernity with the arrow of time: the Moderns might have
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Go Speak Out

Kivalina hunters and elders went to Go Speak Out on Monday, with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell present, listening, and in dialogue as part of her short visit to Kivalina earlier this week. Re-Locate helped set the table for intimate conversation in the McQueen School gym, turning down the overhead fluorescent lights except for one strip directed down onto a rectangular table for fifty covered in white paper.

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ArtPlace Names Re-Locate a Finalist for Creative Placemaking Grant

Re-Locate is one of 90 finalists for an ArtPlace America grant, an award that would fund immersive social artists and transdisciplinary partners working with Kivalina to reframe and support a community-led master planning process for village expansion.

ArtPlace invests in “‘creative placemaking’ projects that involve cross-sector partners committed to strengthening the social, physical, and economic fabric of their communities.” Forty out of nearly 1,300 nationwide applicants will receive grants.

If Re-Locate and Kivalina are selected for an
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The End of Nature, Slavoj Zizek

From the paper The End of Nature published in the New York Times by Slavoj Zizek:

“So what might the future hold? One thing is clear: We should accustom ourselves to a much more nomadic way of life. Gradual or sudden change in our environment, about which science can do little more than offer a warning, may force unheard-of social and cultural transformations. Suppose a new volcanic eruption makes a place uninhabitable: Where will
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Climate Justice: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation, Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, of Seattle University, at Luther College

The Luther Lecture was established by Luther College at the University of Regina in 1977 with the purpose of making a distinctive and stimulating contribution to the life of the University and the general community. Annually, a distinguished scholar or leader of note is invited to give a public talk on matters of spiritual and social importance.

Although the speakers have included such outstanding minds as Northrop Frye, Helen Caldicott, John Ralston Saul, and Margaret Somerville, the lectures are aimed at a
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Tradition and Modernity: The Feasibility of Regional Architecture in Post-Modern Society, Juhani Pallasmaa on Fluxwurx

“The diversity of building in traditional societies is brought about by the impact of local conditions and the specificity of culture. In our own culture the sheer force of industrial technology, combined with mobility, mass-communication, and uniformity of life-style, is causing cultural entropy that minimalizes diversity. What is the feasibility of regional culture and architecture in a world in which two billion people gather simultaneously around TV sets to watch the same football match? Are we not gradually becoming detached
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Collaborative Systems: evolving databases and the ‘conditions of possibility’ — artificial life models of agency in on-line interactive art.

This paper will discuss interactive on-line artworks modeled on cellular automata that employ various types of agents, both algorithmic and human, to assist in the evolution of their databases. These works constitute what will here be referred to as “Collaborative Systems,” systems that evolve through the practice of inter-authorship.

- a paper authored by Sharon Daniel

EPA Issues Letter of Congratulations for Biochar Project

On March 4, the international Commission for Environmental Cooperation awarded an $85,000 grant to Climate Foundation and the Re-Locate project to work with the Tribal and City Councils of Kivalina, Alaska, to develop a shovel ready project to provide biochar sanitation to the village.

The project received a letter of congratulations from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Ms. Gina McCarthy, on being chosen as a recipient of the 2013-15 North American Partnership on Environmental Community Action grant for the biochar
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Kivalina to Turn Waste into Energy—The Arctic Sounder

In the next year or so, Kivalina residents might get to say farewell to the honey bucket.

Earlier this month, two organizations, Re-Locate and the Climate Foundation, were awarded an $85,000 grant through the Commission for Environmental Cooperation to work with tribal and municipal governments in the community to revamp the village’s sanitation system. Read more. (See also article in Alaska Dispatch.)

International Funding Grant Awarded to Re-Locate and the Climate Foundation

Kivalina, Alaska – On March 4, the international Commission for Environmental Cooperation awarded funding to the Climate Foundation and Re-Locate to work with the Tribal and City Councils of Kivalina to develop a shovel ready project to provide biochar sanitation to the village. Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo community in the Northwest Arctic, is among seventeen other communities that received an
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Re-Locate Featured at SF MOMA

Last Friday, Re-Locate participated in the weekend-long Visual Activism symposium curated by SF MOMA. The symposium explored ways that art takes the form of political and social activism, and ways that activism takes on specific, and sometimes surprising, visual forms.

SF MOMA asked: How is our broader visual culture shaped by activist practices that circulate in public space? How can we better understand
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The Modelling Kivalina Project

I. Interviews

The Modelling Kivalina project hopes to locate and make visible a variety of political perspectives on the erosion of Kivalina’s shoreline, and to place future discussions about the village’s relocation within the broader context of issues contributing to climate displacement around the globe.

At the end of June, from our base in London, we built a model of the village of Kivalina. We decided to
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Video: Elinor Ostrom at NYU: The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas

“The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas” — Elinor Ostrom

Outcomes of Nansen Initiative’s Pacific Regional Consultation

link to the YouTube video

Read about the Nansen Initiative Pacific Regional Consultation: Human Mobility, Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific.

Racism’s Frontier: The Untold Story of Discrimination and Division in Alaska

Having been born a Native, raised in my village and having lived my life in Alaska, I can say with conviction that there has not been a worse moment in Alaska’s recent history for Alaska’s Native peoples than now. In spite of all the gains Natives have made for themselves in virtually every area of public and private endeavor, the result is a society in Alaska that only dimly comprehends their existence and seems more and more unwilling to accept,
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United States General Accounting Office Testimony and Re-Locate government-structural origins

In conclusion, Alaska Native villages are being increasingly affected by flooding and erosion problems being worsened at least to some degree by climatological changes. They must nonetheless find ways to respond to these problems. Many Alaska Native villages that are small, remote, and have a subsistence lifestyle, lack the resources to address the problems on their own. Yet villages have difficulty finding assistance under several federal programs, because as currently defined the economic costs of the proposed project to control
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Alaska Village Erosion Technical Assistance Program

This report was prepared as a response to legislation that directed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to investigate issues surrounding erosion at several Alaska Native villages. As part of this effort, the Corps examined erosion rates and control, potential relocation, and impacts to Alaska Native culture and tradition. The Alaska Village Erosion Technical Assistance (AVETA) program is a compilation of efforts in numerous communities funded through the Tribal Partnership Program and subsequent legislation.

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Alaska Baseline Erosion Assessment

the Corps designated 26 communities “Priority Action Communities”—indicating that they should be considered for immediate action by either initiating an evaluation of potential solutions or continuing with ongoing efforts to manage erosion. Sixty-nine communities where erosion problems are present but not significant enough to require immediate action were designated “Monitor Conditions Communities.” Eighty-three communities where minimal erosion-related damages were reported or would not be expected in the foreseeable future were designated “Minimal Erosion Communities.”

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United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods

Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods: the stewardship role of indigenous peoples and new challenges:

Indigenous peoples are among the first to face the direct consequences of climate change, owing to their dependence upon, and close relationship with the environment and its resources. Climate change exacerbates the difficulties already faced by vulnerable indigenous communities, including political and economic marginalization, loss of land and resources, human rights violations, discrimination and unemployment.

link to pdf

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Chantal Mouffe in Art&Research Journal: Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces

To be sure the modernist idea of the avant-garde has to be abandoned, but that does not mean that any form of critique has become impossible. What is needed is widening the field of artistic intervention, by intervening directly in a multiplicity of social spaces in order to oppose the program of total social mobilization of capitalism. The objective should be to undermine the imaginary environment necessary for its reproduction. As Brian Holmes puts it, ‘Art can offer a chance
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Architecture: A New Conversation in Kivalina

Architecture without Borders Austria is designing a new Re-Location center in Kivalina. The Re-Location center will be owned by the people of Kivalina as a space where the village and its collaborators can discuss and design relocation possibilities. Their participatory design process is creating opportunities for the village and related agencies to co-develop models for buildings in Kivalina to be designed more specifically to reflect climate, site, and social life
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“The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas” — Elinor Ostrom

“The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas” — Elinor Ostrom

NANA Comprehensive Plan

Link to NANA’s Comprehensive Plan from 1982

NWAB Comprehensive Plan

Click to open the Northwest Arctic Borough’s Comprehensive Plan prepared in 1993.

NorthwestArcticBorough-CP-1993

Camp Two: July 2013

On July 25, 2013, Kivalina will host an open house to exhibit works of the Re-Locate Project (www.relocate-ak.org). There will be a project review at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage on July 30, 2013, with members of the Kivalina city and tribal councils attending.

The Re-Locate Project is a multidisciplinary group of partners working with Kivalina to support a community-led and culturally specific relocation process. The international collaborative
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Camp One: August 2012

At the invitation of people in Kivalina, Anchorage-based artist and architect Michael Gerace invited fourteen international researchers and artists to visit Kivalina for a 10-day work camp last August. Re-Locate was co-produced by the Alaska Design Forum with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and other partners. The camp launched the Re-Locate Project, a multidisciplinary group of partners working with the village to support a community-led and
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Modelling Kivalina is on its way to Alaska

The Modelling Kivalina group based out of the Centre of Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, is happy to share the first pictures of the Kivalina model that will be presented to different agencies, stakeholders and community members this month in Alaska. In a series of interviews with different actors, the group will investigate the role and responsibility of different federal and state agencies in responding to the changing shoreline.

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Voices from the Flats (themudflats.net) – How Many Votes Will Lisa Murkowski Get in Kivalina?

William Takak from Shaktoolik understands the impact of climate change. The Alaska Native Science Commission quotes him in a survey of the impact of climate change[1]. “Last Spring we only got six walrus because of the weather and the ice moving out to quick. A long time ago it used to be real nice for weeks and even sometimes for months. Now we have a day or two of good weather and this impacts our hunting. The hunters talk about
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KCRW Santa Monica and Public Radio International Interview with Colleen Swan

“Melting ice and rising sea levels are driving native Alaskans out of their homes. Entire villages are struggling with the need to move. We hear about the earliest ravages of climate change and what they could mean for other places in the US and the rest of the world.”

City council woman Colleen Swan is interviewed by Public Radio International about Kivalina’s relocation, climate change, and Re-Locate.

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Early Alaska Native Land Cases and Acts

With the steady stream of outsiders coming into Alaska, demand and competition for land continued to increase. Churches sought land and acquired it through the Missions Act of 1900, which allowed a religious denomination to acquire up to one square mile of land in Alaska. Disputes over land, particularly between miners, resource developers, and Alaska Native people arose. A string of court cases concerning Alaska Native land rights began, and continued up to the settlement of the Alaska Native Claims
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Culture as Corporation – Juneau Empire

Culture as Corporation - NANA shareholders adapt corporate life to the ways of the people. By LORI THOMSON, THE JUNEAU EMPIRE

At 23, Jimmy Baldwin, has racked up a sum of money most villagers only dream about. He’s poured about $100,000 into his snowmachine shop in Kiana by working behind the steering wheel of a front-end loader at the Red Dog zinc mine, owned by NANA Regional Corp.

For people such as Baldwin, NANA is fulfilling one of its
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Newtok to Mertarvik Relocation Plan

RELOCATION REPORT:: Newtok to Mertarvik
FINAL DRAFT ISSUED FOR REVIEW
by the Community of Newtok and the Newtok Planning Group, August 2011.
Prepared by by Agnew::Beck Consulting with PDC Engineers and USKH Inc.
for the State of Alaska
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (DCCED)
Division of Community and Regional Affairs.
Coastal Impact Assistance Program, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation,
and Enforcement, U.S. Department of
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ANTHC – “Climate Change in Kivalina, Alaska – Strategies for Community Health”

“This is the second in a series of community specific analyses describing climate change effects in Northwestern Alaska. It was prepared by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Center for Climate and Health with funding from the United States Indian Health Service. The first report focused on Point Hope, the northern most community in the Maniilaq Association’s health service area. Assessments in other communities are on-going and will ultimately contribute to a comprehensive report for the Northwest Arctic region.”

ANTHC

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Is the future behind us? An interview with Kenneth Frampton and Juhani Pallasmaa

Link Here to the article.

“So I would say that we don’t even need to speak about stylistic issues or aesthetically different architectural approaches – just simply, architecture as a human endeavour is in opposition to the prevailing ideas of industry, economy, and commerce. Which means that any profound, sincere work of architecture is a force of resistance. It’s bound to be a cultural resistance. Because we have abandoned architecture as a means of
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How Stuff Works – Barrier Islands

How Stuff Works Barrier Islands

Get to know Kivalina

Kivalina Infrastructure Map

2006 Army Corps Kivalina Relocation Master Plan

Link to the Corps’ plan.

Mapping the Political and Economical Entities

The area where Kivalina originated from is rich both in soil and in subsistence. Over hundreds of years the people in Kivalina have been living of hunting, fishing and picking. The rich grounds filled with Zinc and Iron have led to the opening of the Red Dog Mine. The Red Dog mine is the largest Zinc mine in the world and is a huge source of income to the NANA region. The mine bought the land out of NANA back in the 1980
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NANA Kivalina Information Page

Link

Spring Whaling Camp

Kivalina Consensus Building Project 2010

Kivalina_Consensus_Building_Project_Final_Report_July_2010

Kivalina_survey_summary

Situation_Assessment_Final_July_2010

final_annotated_bibiliography_July 2010

Traditional architecture

People in the Kivalina region were historically nomadic and lived in various types of seasonal housing. The longest time people would stay at the same place was three months in mid winter and three months during spring. Location was dependent on seasonal subsistence practices.

Along the coast people lived in sodhouses, at the river they used willow branch and moss structures, and in the hills they stacked rocks to build housing. People also used willow and caribou hide tents
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Ownership Structures

The following section is focused on the ownership-structure in Kivalina. According to the 2010 census, 374 people are living in Kivalina in 99 houses, of which 85 are in use; in 2012 we counted 112 houses in the village. The housing units are located on the southern end of the peninsula, because the landfill and the airport (property of the state) to the North do not allow room for community expansion. Two streets, Channel and Bering, run through Kivalina
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Residential housing conditions

Being on site in Kivalina in August and September 2012 we had to learn that the buildings are in a relatively low condition. Even nowadays, none of the residential houses in Kivalina come with a sewage and water system. Instead of using a toilet, people are using honeybuckets made of plastic. The houses’s waste and honeybucket storages on the streets are spilling over, water which is usually collected from one of the two watertanks in the city, couldn’t
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Waste(d)?

In Kivalina each household is responsible for collecting its own waste and bringing it to a 3.4 acre dump site, located just north of the airport. There is no separation system in the city. All solid and human waste ends up at a non-managed landfill. Although seeing a lot of the residents disposing their waste to the landfill, garbage is pilling up around the city, human waste spilling out of the plastic bags.

See Google
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Public Spaces in Kivalina

The cold climate in Kivalina forces the public interactions and assemblies to be held indoors.

1. The community center and Bingo Hall

The community center, located in the center of the village, is used in special events for public gathering (f.ex. Community meetings, or when a whale is caught for a feast), but also regularly for traditional Eskimo dancing classes. Next door’s Bingo Hall is owned and operated by the municipality, but was on suspension period
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On foundations

The melting of the permafrost in the North Arctic region causes a shifting of houses which eventually damages the buildings and results in cracks of walls and windows. In Kivalina, only the school’s foundation
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Threats to Kivalinas Water System:

The Material: Part of the existing water and sewage system in Kivalina is now 36 years old and therefore at the end of its expected life span.

Apart from that the pipe-line which connects the river with the water treatment plant when being re-filled is broken. This is a result of the most recent storm in the area happening in mid August 2012:

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Water and Sewage System

The following section focuses on the system of water supply and waste water treatment in Kivalina based on an on-site research, done between August, 27th and September 3rd 2012:

TECHNICAL INFORMATION SHEET

Kivalina relies on water coming from the Wulik River. The water is being collected about 2 and a half miles upstream. Usually the water tanks are beiRead More »

Lagoon Floods

In a recent article, Robert Martin compels the U.S. President to use his executive authority to move the village of Kivalina out of harm’s way of its landfill. Kivalina’s open dump site is about one-and-a-half miles from the village. Villagers haul their own waste, which exposes them to considerable health risks. The Indian Health Service found in 2011 that Kivalina’s open dump posed a ”high health threat.”

When it floods,
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Water Situation in Kivalina, August 2012

Situated on a small island – the Chukchi Sea to the west, a lagoon and the mouth of the Wulik river to the east – Kivalina is surrounded by water. Potable water on the other hand is not so accessible in this Arctic town. When we arrived in late August 2012 Kivalina faced a severe lack of potable water due to another heavy storm in the area of NW arctic Alaska.

See: Residents collecting
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Sources of Access to Potable Water in Kivalina

Outside the water plant building there is a coin operated machine where people buy their water (25ct. per 5 Gallon).

People go upstream to collect water from the river. To do so, access to a boat and fuel is needed. Usually they collect from the Wulik river. Since the Zinc Mine discharges into the water shed of the Wulik river, Read More »

“Storms Force School Postponement in Kivalina”

A few of us from the Re-Locate Project flew back to Anchorage from Kivalina last night to start pulling together all of the information, stories, and research from our weeklong trip to Kivalina. (Photo: aerial view of Kivalina from yesterday’s flight.) Today, for the first time in over a week, we are showered and have a reliable internet connection.

We arrived in Anchorage to this headline in the Read More »

Re-Locate is building artistic and web-based platforms that intend to make the social, political, and environmental issues related to relocation visible to global audiences.
With support from: ArtPlace America; the National Endowment for the Arts; North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA); Alaska Design Forum; First Nations Development Institute; BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna; Embassy of the United States, Austria; California College of the Arts, Center for Art and Public Life; McCool Carlson Green Architects; mayer sattler-smith architects; The World Justice Project; Wochenklausur; Architects Without Borders Austria; IoA, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University, University of London; Three Degrees Warmer; Department of Anthropology, Simpson Center for Humanities, Canadian Studies Program in the Jackson School of International Studies, Program on Climate Change and Atmospheric Sciences in the College of the Environment, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington; Seattle University; the City of Vienna, Austria; National Endowment for the Humanities; Anthropology and Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association; Civilization; Creative Time; CoDA; NANA Village Economic Development program; Teck; Lynden Freight; JADE Craftsman Builders; University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Lab; MapSmith; and Alaska Pacific University.

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It’s Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (And Not Just for the Reasons You Think)—Wired Magazine Article

Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar Imagery for Three-Dimensional Visualisation of Near-Surface Structures in Ice-Rich Permafrost, Barrow, Alaska

Urine Recycling in Scientific American

Relocatable Infrastructure

Physics Doesn’t Negotiate

Re-Locate Receives 2015 ArtPlace America Grant

Seattle University’s Just Sustainability: Hope for the Commons Conference, 2014 Saturday morning panel on Climate Displacement and Indigeneity: The State, “Governance-beyond-the-state”, and Prospects for Re-location

Re-Locate at the Creative Time Summit, Venice Biennale

In Memory of Etok Edwardsen: “One Bad-Ass Eskimo”

Re-Locate in Huffington Post

Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation, Creative Time Reports, Michael Hardt

An Attempt at a “Compositionist Manifesto”, Bruno Latour

Go Speak Out

ArtPlace Names Re-Locate a Finalist for Creative Placemaking Grant

The End of Nature, Slavoj Zizek

Climate Justice: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation, Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, of Seattle University, at Luther College

Tradition and Modernity: The Feasibility of Regional Architecture in Post-Modern Society, Juhani Pallasmaa on Fluxwurx

Collaborative Systems: evolving databases and the ‘conditions of possibility’ — artificial life models of agency in on-line interactive art.

EPA Issues Letter of Congratulations for Biochar Project

Kivalina to Turn Waste into Energy—The Arctic Sounder

International Funding Grant Awarded to Re-Locate and the Climate Foundation

Re-Locate Featured at SF MOMA

The Modelling Kivalina Project

Video: Elinor Ostrom at NYU: The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas

Outcomes of Nansen Initiative’s Pacific Regional Consultation

Racism’s Frontier: The Untold Story of Discrimination and Division in Alaska

United States General Accounting Office Testimony and Re-Locate government-structural origins

Alaska Village Erosion Technical Assistance Program

Alaska Baseline Erosion Assessment

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods

Chantal Mouffe in Art&Research Journal: Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces

Architecture: A New Conversation in Kivalina

“The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas” — Elinor Ostrom

NANA Comprehensive Plan

NWAB Comprehensive Plan

Camp Two: July 2013

Camp One: August 2012

Modelling Kivalina is on its way to Alaska

Voices from the Flats (themudflats.net) – How Many Votes Will Lisa Murkowski Get in Kivalina?

KCRW Santa Monica and Public Radio International Interview with Colleen Swan

Early Alaska Native Land Cases and Acts

Culture as Corporation – Juneau Empire

Newtok to Mertarvik Relocation Plan

ANTHC – “Climate Change in Kivalina, Alaska – Strategies for Community Health”

Is the future behind us? An interview with Kenneth Frampton and Juhani Pallasmaa

How Stuff Works – Barrier Islands

Get to know Kivalina

2006 Army Corps Kivalina Relocation Master Plan

Mapping the Political and Economical Entities

NANA Kivalina Information Page

Spring Whaling Camp

Kivalina Consensus Building Project 2010

Traditional architecture

Ownership Structures

Residential housing conditions

Waste(d)?

Public Spaces in Kivalina

On foundations

Threats to Kivalinas Water System:

Water and Sewage System

Lagoon Floods

Water Situation in Kivalina, August 2012

Sources of Access to Potable Water in Kivalina

“Storms Force School Postponement in Kivalina”