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.