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Back in 2019, your editor was trying to catch a ride on a ship. This was no ordinary sea voyage: the Polarstern, a German research icebreaker, planned to sail to the Arctic, where it would tether itself to an ice floe. Then, as the sea froze around it, the ship and its passengers – engineers, researchers and a scattering of journalists – would be carried through the long Arctic winter with the drifting ice, eventually expelled into the Fram Strait come spring.

As a general sustainability principle, reuse of materials is usually preferable to recycling. REUSE applies this to the construction industry, developing technology for easy reuse across building projects, benefitting the environment with less carbon dioxide and polluting waste.

It’s always enlightening to see the village or city you live in as it was long before you were born. For people living in the Arctic however, this is very difficult if not downright impossible. The ARCVIS project aimed to right this wrong by digging into archives from the 19th century.