In mid-June 2020 HIAP launched an Open Call for Trans-Siberian Land-based Long-distance trip where we asked people to join a group that would together plan a trip from Helsinki to Japan with train (and ferry) and invited those interested to send a letter stating their motivation as well as experience and activities from their background that they felt relevant in terms of questions related to art, research and ecological aspects linked to travelling. The focus was to find people from the field of art and research that could think of ecological modes of travel and also map how this method of travelling (long-distance land- and group based) could be utilized more commonly and consistently in the future.
