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Mixed Reality and Audience Participation: Technological Practices of Performative Space (EKA 2025-2026)

The aim of the project would be to investigate in depth the application of new technologies in the performative environment of theater and exhibition spaces. Changes in the technical environment affect all areas of life, as well as theater ...

28 January 2025

Faculty of Fine Arts Ongoing Research Projects

Exhibition infrastructure. A study of the material and ideological conditions of exhibition production in the late Soviet period (2025-2026)

This project proposes to study the history of exhibitions in the late Soviet period. From the 1960s onwards, exhibitions have become an increasingly important medium for the mediation of ideologies, while their design has become ...

28 January 2025

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

The Winners of the EKA Design Showcase 2025 Design Award Announced

The Estonian Academy of Arts hosted the EKA Design Showcase gala and the opening of ...

27 January 2025

Faculty of Design

Ruth-Helene Melioranski Lecture at sTARTUp Day

Ruth-Helene Melioranski will give a lecture on "Responsive and Responsible Through Design" at sTARTUp Day in Tartu Ruth-Helene Melioranski will give a lecture at ...

27 January 2025

Faculty of Design

The Vello Asi Student Prize 2024: Laura Pormeister

Legendary interior architect Vello Asi was a key person for decades in educating interior architecture students and guiding them to maturity and professionalism in their field. His principles and ethics, attitudes toward ...

23 January 2025

Making Space

Congratulations to Risto Paju for Receiving His PhD

Huge congratulations to Risto Paju for receiving his PhD! On 20th January Risto Paju defended his thesis "The Art of Late Medieval Stone Carving in Tallinn: Fragments – History and ...

23 January 2025

Research and Development Office

Risto Paju “Tallinna hiliskeskaegne raidkivikunst. Fragmendid – ajalugu ja tõlgitsemine” (Dissertationes 47)

There are works of art and architecture that attract attention with their exceptionally well-preserved integrity, but there are also many that have survived only in fragments. This is also the case with the older carved stone artworks in this ...

22 January 2025

The impact of reintegration with the West on post-Soviet Estonian visual culture (2025-2026)

The follow-up grant’s research project builds upon the themes of the PRG team grant „Patterns of Development in ...

21 January 2025

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Built environments of care from the late Socialist to post-Socialist Estonia (PSG 2025–2029)

The project rethinks the developments in the Estonian built environment of the last forty years from the perspective of care. Based on the intersectional feminist viewpoint, the project asks how has architecture contributed to taking care of ...

21 January 2025

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Urbanites in the country. Spatio-cultural analysis of a summer house (KUM-TA64, 2025-2026)

The increase in leisure time has been one of the most critical factors shaping living environments and lifestyles in contemporary era. The movement between urban and rural areas reflects the need for city dwellers to maintain connections with ...

21 January 2025

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