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Lab: Luxury of the North

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 Photo by Patrick B. McDermott 

Luxury of the North


date:  2010
location:  Pond Inlet, Canada

local partner: University of Alberta

In the face of modernity, the North is losing its remoteness. Global warming is opening up international trade routes, the unique yet changing ecosystem brings scientists, tourists and protectionists, and prospects of natural resources bring the excavators. As humans are showing they can even colonize the North, the world is losing an ‘out there,’ a part of nature that seems stronger than us.
 
Intrigued by how extreme conditions shape people’s daily lives and mindsets, the Lab suspects there are lessons on ‘how to sustain’ to be discovered there.
 
Project team
Renny Ramakers, director (Droog)
Tim Antoniuk, partner (University of Alberta)
Cynthia Hathaway, leading designer
Winy Maas, leading designer (MVRDV, t?f) 
Christien Meindertsma, designer (Flocks)
Pirjo Haikola, designer (The Why Factory)
Stuart Sproule, designer (Red Flag Design) 
Ole Bouman, consulting expert (Netherlands Architecture Institute)
Ed van Hinte, consulting expert 
Agata Jaworska, content & project manager (Droog)
Katrin Murbach, Daniela Dossi, Libby Scarlett, Tom Merrell, lab interns (Droog)

Supported by:
Canada Goose
 
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