The Arctic Commons

• Main Author: Zeitz, A. Gavin
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@RISD 2018
• Subjects: geopolitics - Arctic regions; human ecology - Arctic regions; collectivism; landscape architecture - design; Arctic stability; Landscape Architecture; Arctic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/275; https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/context/masterstheses/article/1274/viewcontent/Zeitz.Andrew.LDAR.2018.pdf

The Arctic Commons envisions a world where geopolitical cooperation and transnational friendship generate an ethos of planetary collectivism promoting the future stability in the Arctic and rest of the world. This book will be a guide to understanding the Arctic at a range of scales, from governmental to regional, and finally the experiential and phenomenal that engages the unique ground conditions. The Arctic Commons encourages political action to create a new network of infrastructure that operates as a model for retrofiting global systems which currently fail to represent the common interests of the everyday citizen. Humankind’s current standards for social and environmental politics are underachieving at a moral and ethical level, but also failing at the spatial scale that operates in the realm of landscape architecture. Landscape architects have the power to envision futures at multiple scales and from a range of perspectives. This project seeks to traverse these scales and propose a collective perspective for the Arctic.