The Quiet Places studio is a speculative research expedition into the Vatnajökull Glacier in Iceland – a complex landscape tied into multi-scalar earthly systems, and quickly disappearing due to Global Warming. 

Our attention to climate change is mostly directed towards its impact on human landscapes, leaving faraway places/ barely inhabited landscapes in obscurity. These faraway places are what Donna Haraway calls Quiet Places, fragile landscapes sitting on the extreme periphery of our imagination but playing a vital role in the changing of our climate.  

The Quiet Places studio is centered on the specificity of the Vatnajökull Glacier in Iceland as a Quiet Place, engaging with the qualities that define it, such as inaccessibility, extreme conditions, and incredible dynamic processes. The studio focuses on the conception of unique landscape proposals engaging with the complexity of such dynamic landscapes, through extensive experimentation, multi-scalar dynamic thinking, scientific instruments and design fiction.