Recreating Environments of Inclusion with Catherine Girard

Recreating Environments of Inclusion: Northern Research is a unique, evolving audio visual series featuring the Inclusion in Northern Research knowledge exchange community; and debuts an equity and inclusion toolkit with tangible actions for research and impact creation communities, and their emerging, collaborative partnerships.

In this first installment debuting at ArcticNet Annual Scientific Summit 2021, Northern and Southern scientists, researchers, cultural impact creators and community builders outline experiential challenges and bridge their insights into required solutions for co-creating a collaborative impact movement to address planetary challenges being faced in the Arctic regions.

We are grateful to each contributor for informing this toolkit, and committing to aware action as one ecosystem.

Join our conversation and contribute your own insights and actions with InclusionNorthernResearch #RecreatorsDesigns on social media.

Recreating Environments of Inclusion: Northern Research is an original transformation design creation from the ongoing Recreators series by LembasWorks.

This Episode features Catherine Girard (she/her), Associate Professor, Microbial Ecology,
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

Footage: Courtesy of Microbial Heritage Lab

Co Writers: Catherine Girard & Tara Baswani

Series Conceptor, Creative Director & Producer, Theme Composer: Tara Baswani
Film Editor: River Prochaska
Background Score Producer, Sound Editor: Moses Baxter
Production Designer, Executive Producer: Remi Lemieux
Northern Inclusion advisory: Jamie Bell
EDI advisory: Marie-José Naud

Designed and Produced by LembasWorks

This experimental pilot program was made possible with financial investment from the following organizations and we gratefully acknowledge their encouragement and support.

Arctic Buying Company Kivalliq and Winnipeg
University of Minnesota Duluth Cultural Entrepreneurship Program and Winnipeg Manitoba
Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Program, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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