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Can tourism education take a “beautiful risk” of waiting and listening?
No full textIn his works Kiku-koto-no-chikara [The Power of Listening] and Matsu-to-iukoto [The Meaning of Waiting], Japanese philosopher and phenomenologist Kiyokazu Washida argues that both matsu [waiting] and kiku [listening] are not merely passive behaviours but actions that create space for the unexpected to arrive. Washida suggests that these acts involve being attentive rather than simply conscious, in a sense similar to that noted by Tim Ingold (2015) and Jan Masschelein (2010). In ecofeminist philosophy, Kato (2015) describes kiku not as simply catching a sound but as an act of honouring others. This involves surrendering one’s ego and allowing others to be subjects. Such practices of listening and waiting, or what Biesta (2011) calls “hesitation,” in educational settings may carry the risk of being addressed by others in unexpected ways. However, these encounters are not necessarily negative; Biesta frames them as a “beautiful risk” of education, arguing that if education does not contain this risk, it simply becomes uneducational.Drawing inspiration and guidance from these thinkers, I reflect on a community-based learning programme in rural Japan that I coordinated (2023/2024) for tourism degree students, where students, teachers, and local communities interchange their roles of teaching and learning. The presentation attempts to examine how a beautiful risk of waiting and listening can create spaces for tourism students, educators, and local communities to imagine alternative possibilities for living with tourism in ways that contribute to a global and sustainable future
Metaphorical Correspondences Between Law and Data
No full textThis study proposes a new lens for thinking about data law by combining legal semiotics with metaphor. It begins by questioning how legal systems represent data which can be referred to as an entity that is inherently shifting, relational, and abstract. Hence, metaphor is used not just for illustration, but as a method for rethinking legal meaning itself. Drawing from classical exegetic traditions and contemporary legal theory, the paper shows how interpretive flexibility can help navigate emerging challenges, particularly in contexts like that of blockchain technology. Here, legal concepts often fall short, given the transnational, decentralised nature of digital transactions. By resorting to devices like Broekman’s concept of conversion and the logic of differential calculus, the paper suggests ways legal meaning can adapt without losing coherence. In doing so, it offers a framework for transposing traditional legal principles into the infosphere; one that protects rights and preserves dignity, while acknowledging the fluid, interconnected nature of data in rapidly evolving social and technological landscapes
Finnish social work professionals’ interpretations of children’s sorrow in client encounters
No full textThis article examines professionals’ interpretations of children’s sorrow faced in social work. The research question is, How do professionals interpret children’s sorrow in social work? It focuses on understanding the types of sorrow that children manifest in encounters with social workers and how the different types are perceived. The study is based on data from five group interviews conducted between January and June 2022 with 17 social workers in Finland. The qualitative content analysis of the study reveals that children’s sorrow is often perceived as hidden and unrecognized in the context of social work. This invisibility is partly due to the difficulties faced by social workers in identifying sorrow. Also, the Finnish sorrow tradition, where manifestations of sorrow are often restrained or subtle, is linked to children’s sorrow. These factors make it challenging to acknowledge children’s sorrow. The study highlights the need for greater awareness and specialized training to help social workers identify and respond to the nuanced ways in which children manifest sorrow. By recognizing the hidden nature of children’s sorrow, the research calls for improved practices to ensure that children’s emotional and psychological needs are better understood and supported within social work frameworks.</p
Factors of Trust for Successfully Adopting Social Robots on the Campus
No full textSocial robots are making their way into different everyday use cases. Their adoption depends on getting many factors right. In this paper, we investigate the obstacles we might face when introducing social robots on the campus. In particular, we focus on trust, which is a crucial requirement between robots and humans. We collected data using questionnaires and interviews, and our analysis yields a set of factors of users’ trust that may affect the future adoption of social robots, a set of use-cases for social robots on campus and their associated user expectations. Adapting an established model of trust, we highlight operational and operator transparency as keys for gaining users’ trust in on-campus social robots. Our work contributes to the literature by providing practical considerations for setting up social robots for success on campuses
Rievdan:new genre arctic art education building cultural resilience in a time of global change
No full textAbstractRievdan – Muutos, meaning change in Davvi Sámi and Finnish, is an art-based action research (ABAR) project conducted by the University of Lapland in Finland. Beginning in 2025 in Sápmi, the Sámi homeland, it involves collaboration with inhabitants of Vuohčču village in Finland and Kárášjohka town in Norway. The project addresses the challenges of change faced by northern communities due to unilateral policies, environmental exploitation, and the climate crisis. It explores new Arctic ArtEducation (AAE) strategies that strengthen community resilience and participants’ agency. Guided by the ABAR approach and community-based art education theory, Rievdan engages participants in collaborative art and co-research. This article asks: What initial steps and ethical perspectives should guide co-research in culturally pluriversal northern communities? The research data include reflections from the first art workshop, diaries, and visual material. The findings emphasise the need for culturally sensitive and ethical research practices. The key outcomes include involvinglocal people as cultural assistants, prioritising listening, using participants’ languages in all interactions, considering research venues carefully, and respecting the right to decline participation.Keywords: community-based art education, new genre Arctic art education, cultural resilience, art-based action research, research ethicsRievdan – Muutos, meaning change in Davvi Sámi and Finnish, is an art-based action research (ABAR) project conducted by the University of Lapland in Finland. Beginning in 2025 in Sápmi, the Sámi homeland, it involves collaboration with inhabitants of Vuohčču village in Finland and Kárášjohka town in Norway. The project addresses the challenges of change faced by northern communities due to unilateral policies, environmental exploitation, and the climate crisis. It explores new Arctic Art Education (AAE) strategies that strengthen community resilience and participants’ agency.Guided by the ABAR approach and community-based art education theory, Rievdan engages participants in collaborative art and co-research. This article asks: What initial steps and ethical perspectives should guide co-research in culturally pluriversal northern communities? The research data include reflections from the first art workshop, diaries, and visual material. The findings emphasise the need for culturally sensitive and ethical research practices. The key outcomes include involving local people as cultural assistants, prioritising listening, using participants’ languages in all interactions, considering research venues carefully, and respecting the right to decline participation.Keywordscommunity-based art education, new genre Arctic art education, cultural resilienceDOIhttps://doi.org/10.26203/kqff-nc0
«Eai leat šat guovllut, gosa sirdašuvvat»:industriála eanangeavaheami sisabahkkemat Suoma beale Sámis
No full textSápmelaččat leat gártan dáistalit rivttiineaset ovddas jahkečuđiid. Guđege guovllus ja sohkabuolvvas leat iežaset vásáhusat eatnamiid massimis ja váldokultuvrii assimileremis. 1990-logu rájes dálkkádatrievdan lea váikkuhišgoahtán fámolaččat sámiid guovlluide ja sámi ealáhusaide. Dálkkádatrievdan lea buktán ođđa hástalusaid, go birrasa jođálmuvvi nuppástusat bággejit sápmelaččaid ollesáigge vuogáiduvvat. Seammá áigge energiijasirdašumi dárbbuide plánejuvvon ruvkket ja bieggafápmopárkkat šaddet boahtteáiggi stuorámus áittan
Il Polo: The Sámi, the Resilient Indigenous People of the European Arctic:Celebrating 80 Years of Il Polo
No full textThis special issue stems from a field research expedition carried out in September 2024 across Sápmi, and northern Finland, on the occasion of the presentation of a volume of Il Polo at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi. In addition to the presentation, a field research mission was conducted in Sápmi, the homeland areas of the Indigenous Sámi people. Thanks to the collaboration of researchers Francis Joy and Nuccio Mazzullo (University of Lapland and Arctic Centre) and Vesa Matteo Piludu (University of Helsinki), the research documented was concerned with both the values and importance of local sacred places, cultural practices, and contemporary forms of resilience linking the use of traditional heritage with the modern life of Sámi communities.This special issue also coincides with a year of particular significance for the“Silvio Zavatti” Polar Geographic Institute: in 2025, we celebrate both the80th anniversary of the founding of Il Polo (Forlì, 1945) and the 40th anniversaryof the passing of its founder, Silvio Zavatti (1985).Celebrating this double anniversary means not only paying tribute to a culturaland scientific legacy of great value, but also renewing the Institute’scommitment to promoting polar studies and intercultural dialogue in Italyand internationally. Alongside its editorial activity, the Institute continueswith renewed momentum the interdisciplinary Charter of Arctic Peoples project.Launched in 2002 and officially presented during the Fourth InternationalPolar Year (2007–2008), the first phase of this project was completed at theend of that cycle. Among its main thematic areas are contemporary shamanismand the role of art as a tool of intercultural mediation.In parallel, the Institute continues to preserve the memory of the great Italianpolar explorations, with particular attention to Luigi Amedeo, Duke ofthe Abruzzi (1873–1933), one of the foremost geographical explorers of histime. On this occasion, the Institute has launched a new and wide-rangingresearch and valorisation project, led and curated by Flavia Orsati, dedicatedto the Duke of the Abruzzi. This project explores his role not only in polar andHimalayan expeditions, but also in his African ventures, as well as the culturaland material heritage he left behind. After leading the Arctic expeditionof the Stella Polare (1899–1900), which reached the northernmost latitudeachieved at that time, and the historic K2 expedition (1909), the Duke also6 undertook missions in East Africa, where he founded the Villaggio Duca degliAbruzzi in Jowhar, Somalia. Today, the Polar Museum conserves essential artefacts from the Arctic expedition, donated by the Association Grande Nordin Turin.This special issue is entitled “Sámi, the Resilient Indigenous People of the European Arctic.” The title highlights the cultural significance of the Sámi, theonly officially recognised Indigenous people of Europe, who inhabit Sápmi– a region encompassing northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the KolaPeninsula in the Russian Federation. The Sámi embody a remarkable exampleof resilience: despite centuries of linguistic and cultural assimilation followingthe colonisation of their lands and traditions by kingdoms, empires,regimes, and states; the traumas of the two world wars; and today’s severeimpacts of climate change and global warming, the Sámi have managed torecover and therefore, preserve much of their traditions, languages, andecological knowledge tied to fishing and reindeer herding. They have also established Sámi parliaments in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, as well as vocational schools, radio stations, and news programs in various Sámi languages.Contemporary arts and music have brought Sámi culture to global attention,including participation in the Venice Biennale. Sámi museums are now activelyengaged in the process of repatriating and contextualising Sámi objectsonce dispersed across Europe, reconnecting them with local communities.Only fragments of the pre-Christian cosmology that underpinned shamanismhave survived. These can still be traced in the symbols and figures ofancient rock art landscapes and in the painted depictions on sacred drums,reflecting oral traditions and sacred narratives dating back to predominantlyto the 17th century. Several Sámi sacred places are being reactivated todaythrough contemporary offering practices, as individuals and groups recover,revitalize and reclaim knowledge systems in the forms of traditions, beliefs,and practices that were once banned. Today, ten Sámi languages are still spoken; some have been lost, while others survive in fragments across different regions.The volume presents contributions addressing Sámi ontology and ritual traditions, the interpretation and contextualisation of Sámi artefacts in Italianand Vatican Museum collections, contemporary Sámi art and photography,as well as current debates on Indigenous rights, sustainability, and energyjustice. It also includes reflections on the 80th anniversary of Il Polo and therelaunch of the Charter of Arctic Peoples project in preparation for the International Polar Year 2032–33. A photographic reportage by Valentina Tamborra, capturing hidden lives and remote landscapes, enriches the volume with a sharp and powerful gaze.This issue brings together contributions from scholars and researchers affiliatedwith prestigious academic and museum institutions, including theUniversity of Helsinki and the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science 7(HELSUS), the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the University ofBologna, the “Museo delle Civiltà” (MUCIV) in Rome, the “Anima Mundi” Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums, the Italian Geographical Society,and other Italian and international organisations engaged in safeguardingcultural heritage, ensuring the sustainability of traditions, and studying Arcticknowledge and practices.This volume has been jointly curated by a group of Italian and internationalscholars in a spirit of multidisciplinary collaboration that brings together scientific research, cultural heritage, and Indigenous knowledge.Alongside myself, the curators are Flavia Orsati (art historian and editor ofIl Polo), Francis Joy (postdoctoral researcher, Arctic Anthropology ResearchTeam, University of Lapland Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi), Marco Volpe (ArcticCentre, University of Lapland), Daniela Zanin (anthropologist, specialist inthe Americas), and Vesa Matteo Piludu (University of Helsinki)
Evaluating Thermal Color Palettes for Manual Human Detection in Aerial Search and Rescue Imagery
No full textThermal imaging plays a vital role in search and rescue, yet little is known about how color palette selection affects human recognition performance. While AI-based detection dominates current research, manual identification remains crucial in unpredictable or ethically sensitive conditions. This study evaluates three commonly used thermal palettes, White Hot, Ironbow, and Rainbow, using a recently available dataset of challenging aerial images. In an online user study with 75 participants, task time, hit accuracy, and not found responses were measured. Results show that White Hot enabled faster and more accurate performance, while Rainbow significantly hindered detection. These findings offer practical guidance for designing thermal interfaces and highlight the importance of perceptual optimization in augmented vision systems
