@inbook{d3301364ab1640fb92528e3cba9a2819,
title = "Foreword",
abstract = "When the Aalto WiTLAB Interplay of Cultures Studio embarked on an exploration of the S{\'a}mi culture, no one in our international group of 22 students and three teachers was familiar with the people that had inhabited the northern areas of Finnish Lapland for over 3000 years – not even the ones of Finnish origin. Te S{\'a}mi people had surfaced in our education as a trivial matter without particular importance, while the Finnish popular culture presented them as a peculiar, stereotyped minority. For the main population, the S{\'a}mi were just some “reindeer people” in the Lapland. For our group of architecture and design students and teachers alike, it was a humbling experience to realize how little we knew in the beginning of what turned out to be a fascinating journey.",
keywords = "interplay of cultures, humanitarian architecture and development, global sustainability",
author = "Saija Hollmen and Taru Niskanen and Maiju Suomi",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
series = "Aalto University publication series ART + DESIGN + ARCHITECTURE",
publisher = "Aalto-yliopisto",
number = "4",
pages = "10--17",
booktitle = "Interplay of Cultures Studio: S{\'a}mi. Contemplating Northern Indigenous Cultures in Present Global Challenges",
address = "Finland",
}