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Reporting from the expedition to Disko Bay in Greenland

RIBA President Sunand Prasad is setting off with a mix of artists and scientists on 25 September on the Cape Farewell trip to Disko Bay on the west coast of Greenland. The team, which includes musicians such as Jarvis Cocker and KT Tunstall, will create art works responding to climate change. You can follow his journey here.

Learn more about his trip.

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The team prepare to board the ship

Successful landing

Perdlerfiup Kangerdlua is a remote fjord at about 710 North and two glaciers discharge into its Y shaped end.
  • Published:10 October 2008 15:19
Sunand on the top deck with the Northern Lights behind

Fjord heaven

Into the second half of the expedition the focus has moved on from assimilating masses of experience and information about the geography and culture of these parts, to what our own response to climate change might be.
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Beautiful icebergs and a history lesson

Qeqertarsuaq is a settlement of 800 people on the southern tip of Disko Island. The church, Lutheran like most of inhabited Greenland, sits at the highest point in the village and the houses are scattered on the hillsides mostly on individual plots.
Sailing past a glacier

Fantastic fjords and cool conversations

Kangerlussuaq means 'big fjord' and the big fjord that runs from the airstrip to the sea is 90 miles long. Karen Filskov, a native of Greenland, joins us here as guide, the first time Cape Farewell has had an Inuit crewmember.
David Keith talks about geoengineering

Thinking about geo-engineering

The participants on the Cape Farewell voyage were asked to respond to a talk by David Keith at Ted.com about geo engineering. Sunand's response was as follows.
The Grigory Mikheev

Discussing white balance with Lemn Sissay

On the chartered plane on the way to Kangerlussuac to meet the boat I am sitting next to the Lemn Sissay, who writes witty and beautiful poetry amazingly quickly. He is reading poetry and I am reading my new camera manual, which sums up a few things.