The fifth international and interdisciplinary art methods school Living in the Landscape (LiLa) took place in 2024. This series of schools is organized by the University of Arctic’s thematic network Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD). This year (2024) we undertook our hybrid delivery of online collaboration with locally situated task activity in each country; coupled with intensive feldworking in situ in the hydro and ‘green’ energ yriverscapes of Finnish Lapland.
This collection of essays offers comment here on our Lila (2024) as a celebration of the fow of ideas, understandings and activity. Together we have shared – struggled, and we hope succeeded – to express our stillness, our currents, our ebbs, and drifts but so too cascades, eddies, and waves of artistic response. Powerfully Lila makes connections between us; and with our key local contributions from artists, curators and others we have been brought together: energised.