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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

Ezio Manzini “Disain, kui kõik disainivad. Sissejuhatus sotsiaalset innovatsiooni edendavasse disaini”

What is the role of design in a world moving to a sustainable model? Today, each of us is a designer to some extent. The technological revolution that has taken place in the last couple of decades provides certain possibilities for bringing ...

10 December 2019

Interview with Lorna Phillips

Lorna Phillips (1999), had her exhibition “100 cups” at Vent Space from 13th till 19th of November 2019. She is a girl from Scotland and she is doing her Erasmus exchange studies in sculpture at EKA. We met up on a ...

9 December 2019

Vent Space Blog

Design students of the Estonian Academy of Arts reach out to the international markets

On 13th December, the MA-students from fashion, textile, accessories’ and jewellery design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) will get a rare chance to pitch their newly refined brands and concepts to influential Scandinavian ...

9 December 2019

Accessory Design Fashion Design Jewellery and Blacksmithing

Mark Fisher “Kapitalistlik realism: kas alternatiivi ei ole”

Mark Fisher's book is a revelatory description of the social and cultural atmosphere of the past few decades, which the author refers to as "capitalist realism" and which represents the "broad recognition that capitalism is not only not the only ...

9 December 2019

Specialty studio “Living room + wool” 2019 / student work: Linda Zupping

What is a home and what makes be a good living space if the starting point and unit for the space is an ascetic, ubiquitous sea container? And so that the task given to 2nd year undergraduate students would not be too simple: ...

6 December 2019

Making Space

Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

A lake and a port. Summer housing and mass housing. Metal, steel, automobiles, and the not-so distant memories of phosphorus mining. Beyond the towers of Vanalinn and the limestone of Lasnamäe exists this municipal assemblage that over 15,000 ...

5 December 2019

Urban Studies

Bernt Notke: The Research and Conservation of the Retable of the Church of the Holy Spirit

The late medieval retable of the High Altar of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn, is an outstanding masterpiece of woodcarving and painting of international renown, completed in 1483 in the workshop of Bernt Notke, a prominent master of ...

2 December 2019

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Ongoing Research Projects

Katrin Aasmaa victorious at VIRUS FASHION’24 competition

MA-students Katrin Aasmaa and Cärol Ott have once again brought a great deal of pride to Estonia and the Estonian Academy of Arts by presenting their ERKI 2019 collections to an esteemed international panel at an ...

25 November 2019

International Office