The aims and objectives of this project are:

1. To contextualise knowledge of circumpolar dwellings and households;
2. To understand hearths and households as arenas of learning, knowledge, memory and communication;
3. To interpret similarities and differences in house construction and the organisation of domestic environments throughout the circumpolar region;
4. To study processes of change and cultural contact through households;
5. To elaborate a participatory method of the repatriation of knowledge between museums and local communities;
6. To write ethnographies of the use of space and of ceremonial dynamics in homes across the circumpolar North;
7. To apply new techniques in environmental archaeology to the study of the use of space in ancient dwellings.