Birgejupmi: Indigenous Knowledge & Sustainable Arctic Futures

WP6 New actors and spaces for improved knowledge building
WP6 explores new ways for museums, archives, and libraries to become active knowledge stewards and new Elders and strengthen their relationships with coastal Arctic communities. Building on WP3, it explores how landscapes and seascapes can act as living archives, holding knowledge, memories, stories, and experiences that can contribute to more inclusive approaches to marine environmental governance.

Through walking, storytelling, embodied research, and journeys across land and sea, WP6 brings together different ways of experiencing and understanding the Arctic. These sensory and experiential approaches create opportunities to uncover and share knowledge that is embedded in places, practices, and relationships.
We will explore the empowering potential of sea- and landscapes as living archives of memories, stories, and histories. By bringing archival research together with local and Indigenous practices, WP6 connects past memories with present landscapes and fosters new understandings of coexistence across diverse worlds. In addition WP6 will map and strengthen the involvement of local museums, heritage sites, and libraries in making Traditional Indigenous and local knowledge more visible. This work contributes to ongoing efforts to broaden historical narratives and support a peaceful and sustainable Arctic. Explore museums, archives, and libraries as new knowledge stewards and safer spaces for knowledge-building and exchange. WP6 aims to develop innovative approaches that respond to community needs and transform these institutions into more vibrant, inclusive spaces for research, learning, and collaboration.