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Freakishly fierce and fabulous Drag Race sparked the end of the year

The five-day Drag Show – the Identity Cabaret – at the end of December gave 2019 a worthy and fabulous goodbye. 24 students from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in collaboration with students from Make-up School and EKA ...

10 January 2020

Fashion Design Fashion Styling

Estonian Research Council funds two new research projects at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Estonian Research Council has announced the results of its 2019 round of personal research grant applications, including funding for two new research projects by scholars working at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, starting in ...

7 January 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Baltic German Identity and Heritage in Estonian Art Historiography (EKA Personal Grant, 2019–2020)

This personal research grant allows Kristina Jõekalda to go deeper into the interdisciplinary topics with which she has been dealing with in her previous articles, MA (2010) and PhD thesis (2020) and during the Estonian Research Council-funded ...

1 January 2020

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Previous Research Projects

Tudengite interpretatsioon looduslikule ja linnatriibule projektis TRIIPprojekt

26 December 2019

Fashion Styling

“Eesti linnaehituse ajalugu. Keskajast tsaariaja lõpuni”

"History of Estonian Urban Planning" is the first book that deals with the formation, development, and in some cases also the demise of all historical cities that remain on the territory of today's Estonia from the Middle Ages to the First World ...

20 December 2019

Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

"After a long semester attempting to grasp hold of the elusive Maardu, I ended my final project not with answers but with more questions about the process of urbanisation. The whole study experience was a roller ...

19 December 2019

Urban Studies

Specialty project “Stairs”, 2019 / student work: Germo Ausin

The stair studio invites 2nd year interior architecture students to create conceptually and spatially clear architecture, where the idea and detailed implementation are constantly related to the context of the work. Through analysis and spatial ...

19 December 2019

Making Space

New international business opportunities for the design students of EKA

For the first time ever, a course that would help the students get a grasp of the business world and reach international markets was held for the MA-students ...

16 December 2019

Fashion Design Jewellery and Blacksmithing Textile Design

Maris Mändel “Tehiskivimaterjalid eesti 20. sajandi arhitektuuris. Kasutuslugu ja väärtustamine” (Dissertationes 29)

Could the most common building material be so valuable that it should be considered for preservation and restoration as a precious original material? The doctoral thesis shows that in some cases it is possible. The problem of valuation is ...

14 December 2019

RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION FROM THE FRONTIER: BERLIN-SCHÖNEWEIDE

A501 16:00 Põhja pst 7 While few outside Berlin know where Schöneweide is, new developments led by the likes of Bryan Adams and Olafur Eliasson position the neighbourhood as a silent frontier of gentrification dynamics in the ...

12 December 2019

Urban Studies