Fall 2022 Gjoa Haven

After losing a week in travel delays, there is a lot of preparation left to do for the final workshop in Gjoa Haven- starting with the organization of a "special meeting" with the HTA to finetune the agenda, invitees, and logistical set-up of the meeting.

Luckily, it is much easier to set up such meetings in Gjoa Haven, than it was in Coral Harbour. Due to the much wider relational network here, it was more clear how to engage in collective dialogue and logistically produce a gathering that meets community desires.

Keep going to find out what the final workshop agendas in both communities emerged to be, how we evaluated them and what was reported back to funders. You may also detour to a different cut that guides you along our preparation and workshop activities step-by-step. Taking this detour brings you into Cut 2: Aesthetic Action and provides an opening to engage with the affective dynamics of this final gathering in Gjoa Haven.

Cut 2: Gjoa Haven (Pre-)Gathering

Winter 2022 Final Workshops

In Gjoa Haven we organized a three-day gathering, that was preceded by a two-day pre-workshop that fed into the design of the gathering. The final gathering was kicked-off the evening before with a community feast and the screening of the three movies that were co-created with the community and the HTA. Following these screenings Marsha Branigan, the recently retired government-biologist of the North-western Territories, presented on the the governance structure of polar bears as to set an informative background for the upcoming three days.

The first day consisted of presentations from the BearWatch scientists.

The second day was designed to be a collective exercise, providing an opening to encounter each other in renewed ways and gain insights into what knowledge conciliation beyond a data-driven approach could look like.

The third day consisted of a collective discussion that included a community-panel on "living with polar bears", bringing together community insights, science and management to set a direction for future work.

Although in Coral Harbour we did not manage to organize a pre-workshop, we did combine our two-days workshop with multiple school activities - including a sponsored lunch, a science bingo, and the collective building of a Qamutiq, that was donated to the school after.

Keep going to find out how we evaluated both workshops and what was reported back to funders. You may also detour to a different cut that guides you along the preparation and workshop activities step-by-step. Taking this detour brings you into Cut 2: Aesthetic Action and provides an opening to engage with the affective dynamics of this final gathering in Coral Harbour.

Cut 2:Coral Harbour Gathering

BW Final Reporting

Stay with the trouble: Politics of In-action and Refusal

Landmark: The Wreck-site

Another Point of Beginning

Detour:Cut 2 Aesthetic Action Point of Beginning

Detour:Cut 2 Aesthetic (in)action in BearWatch

Detour:Cut 2 Point of Beginning Mx. Science

Detour:Cut 1 Voices of Thunder

Detour:Cut 3 Wayfaring the BW project

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