This participatory workshop explores how can we care for Arctic Ice – and how is ice caring for us as it participates in maintaining the liveability of the planet? The workshop invites participants to engage with the precarity and our inescapable indebtedness to Arctic ice through speculative, feminist storying grounded in vernacular knowledge, everyday encounters, and collective imagination.
If we think of it, we all share a molecular kinship with ice. What melts, circulates, and solidifies in, around, and through ice also circulates within and through us (Pihkala & Heikkinen, fc.)
The session begins with a short talk woven together with poetic storying vignettes – small, ordinary ice encounters from the subarctic edge that open onto questions of care, relationality, and more-than-human worlds. The stories locate ice in different registers: as something fragile underfoot, something that carries bodies and joy, something that enables multispecies lives, and something that can be listened to, remembered, or sensed even in its absence.
Echoing the remixing ethic of folk feminisms, the workshop treats storying as a practice of reworking inherited narratives – scientific, climatic, geopolitical – by drawing on lived experience, sensory memory, and speculative attunement. From the vignettes, participants are invited to imagine their own ice story. Rather than requiring direct experience or expertise, the workshop encourages remixing memory, imagination, sensation, and indirect relation to explore how ice is already entangled in our worlds. Storying becomes a way to cultivate ethical proximity, response-ability, and care across distance, through shared, minor, and situated forms of feminist knowing.
Remixing Folk Feminisms 