Arctic Perspective Initiative
dal 20/5/2010 al 29/9/2010
Segnalato da
20/5/2010
Arctic Perspective Initiative
Canada House, London
Presented in conjunction with the London Festival of Architecture
The API exhibition will show specially commissioned architectural models of the winning entries from an international open design competition for the mobile unit, which received more than 100 entries from over 30 countries. It will also showcase documentation of the project's development, including photographs and films from the team's trip in summer 2009 made with Igloolik elders and Isuma TV, re-visiting former settlements around the Foxe basin. The winning unit architectural designs by Richard Carbonnier (Canada), Catherine Rannou (France) and Giuseppe Mecca (Italy) will be displayed. The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. We aim to empower the North and Arctic peoples through open source technologies and applied education and training. By creating access to these technologies while promoting an open, shared network of communications and data, without a costly overhead, we can allow for further sustainable and continued development of culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology and education opportunities for peoples in the North and Arctic regions.