My Place

My Place - Minun paikkani - Mu báiki

Young people hope that their favorite places will not disappear in the future. Stop and have a look! The landscapes are yours too.
My Place - Minun paikkani - Mu báiki video artwork presents young people's feelings about their favorite places and thoughts on climate change. Twenty-two young people from the Arctic and Eastern Finland participated in the video production. The video artwork includes photos, videos, and texts received from young people. The University of Lapland’s doctoral researchers and artists Aki Lintumäki and Korinna Korsström-Magga facilitated the video production. The video artwork was published at the Aurora future event in Levi Fell, Finland, on 18 November 2022. Aurora was produced by Visit Levi and the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.

The video artwork was produced On the front line of the Climate Crisis research project, coordinated by the Youth Research and Development Centre Juvenia of South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences and the University of Lapland. The project started in 2022 and will continue until the end of 2025. The project is funded by Kone Foundation, and it is carried out in Lapland, Eastern Finland, and Tampere region.

Video artwork, 2022 (duration 22 min 19 s).