THE COLLABORATIVE NORDIC-ARCTIC
ATLAS
Part of the Laboratory of Planetary Diplomacy

RESEARCH PROJECT SUPPORTED BY UMARTS RESEARCH CENTER
SMALL VISIONARY PROJECT GRANT 2023-2024
An operative platform of environmental journalist-advocates for territorial research and geopolitical crisis.

The Laboratory of Planetary Diplomacy is a collaborative platform for territorial research and geopolitical advocacy.The research presents a series of intersectional cartographies that expose cases of territorial injustice and infrastructural violence in Nordic-Arctic socio-geographical scenarios, following a multiscale methodological approach from planetary networks to molecular evidence.
The research methodology encompasses the mapping of complex geo-spatial data to study disruptive phenomena while denouncing the agents of disturbance and the exhaustion of exceptional ecological resources and vulnerable lands and communities. The cases of study unfold social and environmental injustices, revealing hidden forces from industrial technoscapes and the traces and scars of extractivism and depletion.

The research-based project seeks new forms of correlation between social landscapes, ecosystem services, and post-industrial geographies, aiming for a global atlas of diplomacy and advocacy projects to address conflict zones and environmental constraints. The goal is to envision mediating forms and biostructures evolving from the scars of these urgent ecological challenges. The project's research by design envisions Post-Industrial Edens of high natural and cultural capital through art, science, and craftsmanship by revisiting the ecosystemic values and violations of the boundaries of human and nature's rights.

FOREST INDUSTRY

About us / AGENDA
Following McHale’s 'planetary housekeeping' (referring to the planet as an indoor space), the platform seeks new forms of correlations between social landscapes, ecosystem services, and post-industrial geographies, creating a global atlas of conflict zones and environmental constraints. It looks into digital network governance, services eco infrastructures, and responsive grounds by analyzing patterns from post-industrial geographies, diverse forms of ecologies, and cultural narratives, moving from the Planetary to the Molecular dimension.

The platform is fed by an active network of researchers, students and organisations on ground worldwide, operating remotely and decentralized. The research-projects develops digital collaborative cartographies and living maps, while denouncing agents of disturbance and the exhaustion of exceptional ecological resources and vulnerable lands and communities.
The research is controversial insofar as it addresses socially, culturally, and environmentally sensitive issues of governance and jurisdictions, and human labour. Looking into post-nation theoretical scenarios it unfolds new ways of digital citizenship and state sovereignty speculating concrete forms of territorial autarky and occupancy.

The meta territories and self-governing zones hypothesize on self-providing performative infrastructures: planetary ecosystem services for the future, able to reorient the life-existence within the established geopolitical territorial control.

DAM INFRASTRUCTURE

The research tackles climate change through art, science, and education by revisiting the ecosystem values and violations of the boundaries of human and nature's rights, envisioning post-industrial Edens of high natural and cultural capital.


With a strong pedagogical orientation, the territorial research projects open up for subjective experiences in distance learning methodologies, proposing the hybridization of immersive environments and open source technologies. The active network operates worldwide, remotely, and decentralized, creating cooperative cartographies and collaborative, living maps, while denouncing agents of disturbance and the exhaustion of exceptional ecological resources and vulnerable lands and communities.

The result is an agency/laboratory of advocacy and diplomacy research projects, performing complex social and environmental re-engineering of the past, present, and future.


The Laboratory develops an atlas of advocacy and diplomacy research projects focused on social and environmental re-engineering, by analysing pattern from post-industrial geographies, diverse forms of ecologies, and cultural narratives.


Geopolitical, social, and environmental concerns are analysed from molecular to planetary scale, proposing and testing infrastructure for engagement, able to host the life of humans and non-human species. By mapping the patterns of industries, the landscape as a productive surface, human and infrastructural geographies.

SAND MINING

LAND FILLS

The aim is to apply a variety of such frameworks to investigate specific sites of exceptional natural resources damaged drastically by disruptive industrial infrastructures. The mapping visualizations also assess their potential social and cultural values as part of these ecosystem services hypothesis for a nearly future. The main objective is to develop a global inventory based on territorial research on environmental issues.

The research tackles climate change through art, science, and education by revisiting the ecosystem values and violations of the boundaries of human and nature's rights, envisioning post-industrial edens of high natural and cultural capital.

ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE

Research
PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
team
  • Alejandro Haiek
    Research leader
    alejandro.haiek@umu.se
  • Luis Pimentel
    Researcher
    luis.pimentel@umu.se
  • Tomas Mena
    Researcher
    tomas.mena@umu.se
  • Raquel Colacios
    Researcher
    raquel.colacios@umu.se
  • Rebecca Rudolph
    Researcher
    rebecca.rudolph@umu.se
  • Aram Badram
    Researcher
    arambadrarch@gmail.com
  • Hana Osman
    Researcher
  • Cesar Velando
    Researcher
    cesarvelando@gmail.com
  • Raffaele Errichiello
    Researcher
    raffaele.errichiello@umu.se
CONTACT
Alejandro Haiek Coll

MSc Architect // PhD
MA Studio12 founder and leader at Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå University
Founder of Lab.Pro.Fab
SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden

Phone: +46 73 380 39 26
Email: alejandro.haiek@umu.se

www.labprofab.org
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