Konstfack Research Seminar: Research platform - Heritage, Culture, Community

Seminar title: "Duddjon as activity, and duddjon as method for research"

Presenting: Gunvor Guttorm

Professor Gunvor Guttorm, Sámi University of Applied Sciences (SUAS), will discuss what duodji and duddjon as concepts mean, and how it can be useful for our research. She will also present some recent research that she has participated in, like AIDA (Arctic Indigenous Design archives), and Architecture of Aroha. She will also talk about ládjogahpir, a special hat that women used, and has “revitalized” again.

Gunvor Guttorm is Professor in duodji (Sámi arts and crafts, traditional art, applied art) at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) in Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino in Norway. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in duodji, both practically and theoretically. She has written several articles about how the traditional knowledge of sami art and craft is transformed to the modern lifestyle. She has written articles on contemporary Sami handicrafts. She has also participated in exhibitions in Sápmi and abroad. Gunvor Guttorm is one of the researchers in the Research environment Textile Heritage, led by Professor Maja Gunn, Konstfack.