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Arctic Human Enhancement: Focusing on Traditional Technologies of Arctic Indigenous People (Designerly Field Notes) (2017)

Garin, Nikolai (Author)
Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Svetlana (Author)

Technology's Stories
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Publication date: 2017

URI: http://www.technologystories.org/arctic-human-enhancement-focusing-on-traditional-technologies-of-arctic-indigenous-people-designerly-field-notes/

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Arctic indigenous peoples are widely recognized as living examples of successful adaptation to severe environmental conditions. However, ethnographic and anthropological studies tend to focus mainly on immaterial "traditional knowledge," while tangible artifacts and practices, related skills and technologies that still constitute the very existence of these communities remain largely unexplored. In this essay we suggest an alternative – designerly – look into the culture of Arctic natives in order to get closer to discovering secrets of withstanding extreme and ever-changing natural circumstances.

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