by Denis Dabaev | Aug 12, 2025 | News
Co-creative workshop: On August 10-11, 2025, the Frozen Commons team, collaborated with experts – social and natural scientists, artists and artizans, and Indigenous and local knowledge holders from Khovsgol, Kamchatka, and Alaska, teachers and herders, to start...
by Denis Dabaev | Aug 8, 2025 | News
August 5-6, 2025 Let’s express our gratitude to Dr Tsendpurev Tsegmid for leading the workshop PhotoVoice: Telling Our Stories Through Images for reindeer herders and local community members in Tsagannuur, Khövsgöl aimag, Mongolia. Participants learnt how to tell...
by Denis Dabaev | Aug 8, 2025 | News
August 1, 2025 Institute of Geography and Geoecology MAS, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Frozen Commons collaborated with AIVAN to organize a workshop titled Science-culture exchange between scientists and traditional knowledge holders of the North. The goal of the meeting was...
by Denis Dabaev | Jul 8, 2025 | News
This summer, the Frozen Commons project brought together the McGrath Native Village Council, Alaska Pacific University (APU), and Yup’ik artist Amber Webb, owner of Imarpik Ink, to co-create a new community mural in McGrath, Alaska. In May, APU hosted a Community...
by Denis Dabaev | Jul 7, 2025 | News
June 12-15, 2025 Recent changes in science policy risk undermining advances made in building trust and collaboration between Western and Indigenous knowledge systems in the last decade. Accordingly, there is a need to reemphasize the necessity of bridging different...
by Denis Dabaev | May 6, 2025 | News
The Frozen Commons team deeply mourns the passing of Jenny Irene Miller, a gifted Iñupiaq artist, collaborator, and friend. Jenny led our PhotoVoice workshop in Alaska and was preparing to work with communities in Mongolia in the summer of 2025. In January 2024, we...