Northern Worlds - Challenges and Solutions. Report from Workshop 2 at the National Museum, 1 November 2011

On 1 November 2011 the National Museum’s cross-disciplinary research initiative 'Northern Worlds' held a workshop with a presentation and discussion of a number of projects which, under the heading 'Challenges and solutions', demonstrated the breadth of this initiative. A cross-disciplinary initiative like Northern Worlds, built up on the basis of projects that came in from seven of the museum’s ten research-conducting units, is thus not a project in itself. It is rather a concept that can concentrate and challenge thinking as long as one knows what 'the northern' actually is. However, there seems to be no doubt about this in the following presentations of the projects involved; and yet there is a search for another approach to the concept than geography and climate, both of which are postulated to constitute and determine 'the northern'.