The Indigenous Pavilion at ASSW 2025, during the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV), will weave together immersive, place-based, and community-centered learning—with a focus on Indigenous Knowledge, consultation, and creativity. The Indigenous Pavilion is driven by respect, curiosity, passion, and a deep connection to the world around us. It involves creating, preserving, and sharing knowledge. The Indigenous Pavilion will highlight Indigenous research, prioritizing slow, intentional collaboration and valuing research that builds reciprocal research relationships with communities over time. The Indigenous Pavilion will be a place to hold meaningful conversations that connect students, knowledge holders, researchers, and communities in shared learning and discovery.
The Indigenous Pavilion will include:
- A gathering place for consultation, community, dialogue, cultural exchange, and shared wisdom. Two large heated tents assembled alongside the ASSW/ICARP IV meeting venue at the University Memorial Center (UMC) will serve as this in-person meeting space.
- Art exhibits to showcase Arctic creativity and storytelling.
- Film Festival to illuminate Arctic perspectives.
In addition to the Indigenous Pavilion program, there are numerous sessions in the ICARP IV Summit Program that are either directing informing the work of ICARP Research Priority Team (RPT) 5 on “Coproduction and Indigenous-Led Methodologies” or are sessions that the RPT5 co-chairs and secretaries identified as related to Indigenous research and/or projects utilizing co-production of knowledge methodologies. The sessions listed here were highlighted based on the titles and descriptions in the ASSW 2025 program, searching for the words “Indigenous,” “co-production,” “Alaska Native,” and/or names of Tribal Nations and Arctic Indigenous Peoples.
Special thanks to the following groups for their support in organizing, planning, and helping to fund the Indigenous Pavilion.
Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO). The NNA-CO is supported through a cooperative agreement (Award # 2040729) with the U.S. National Science Foundation.
NNA Research: Collaborative Research: Frozen Commons: Change, Resilience and Sustainability in the Arctic” (NSF, award #2127343)
Indigenizing Arctic Research
AIVAN - Arctic Indigenous Virtual Artists Network
