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Master’s Studio: Urban Stocks

The first year of the MA study in the autumn semester of 2023 was based on the topic “Urban Deposit”. The course was held in collaboration with the EKA Faculty of Design curriculum Design and Applied Arts. Supervised by Juss ...

20 December 2023

Making Space

Britta Benno defended doctoral thesis

On 14 December 2023, Britta Benno succesfully defended her PhD thesis “Thinking in Layers, Worlding in Layers: Posthuman Landscapes in Expanded Field of Printmaking and Drawing”. Britta Benno was awarded the degree of Doctor of ...

19 December 2023

Doctoral School

Algae for design-led transition towards blue bioeconomy

The variety of blue bio-economies in the Nordic-Baltic region call for increased cross-sectoral cooperation if we are to truly envision practices capable of bringing about the transition towards more sustainable ...

15 December 2023

Faculty of Architecture Faculty of Art and Culture Faculty of Design

Mariann Raisma „Muuseumi võim. Muuseum kollektiivse mälu kujundajana Eestis 20. sajandi murranguperioodidel“ (Dissertationes 41)

Museums have shaped societies' understanding of the past in many ways over the past two centuries. The museum guides the way we think about history, determines the balance points of forgetting and remembering, and shapes the hierarchy of values ...

8 December 2023

Arife Dila Demir „Extended (Textile) Soma: Somaesthetics of Bodily Discomforts“ (Dissertationes 40)

Human existence in the world is corporeal; we live and exist in the world through our moving and perceiving bodies – our somas. Our somas continuously perceive internal and external stimuli that shape our perception of our environment and ...

8 December 2023

Britta Benno “Mõtlemine kihtides, kujutlemine kihtides. Posthumanistlikud maastikud laiendatud joonistus- ja graafikaväljal” (Dissertationes 39)

Britta Benno's artistic research based doctoral thesis “Mõtlemine kihtides, kujutlemine kihtides. Posthumanistlikud maastikud laiendatud joonistus- ja graafikaväljal” (“Thinking in Layers, Worlding in Layers: Posthuman Landscapes in Expanded ...

7 December 2023

Change Agents – Blueprints for Inter-institutional Collaborations in Social Design

Partners: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Estonia Fundacio Privada Elisava Escola Universitaria, Spain Universitat der Kunste Berlin Libera, Germany Universita di Bolzano Hadassah, ...

7 December 2023

Previous Research Projects Research and Development Office

Anders Härm “Allumatud kehad: radikaalsed performatiivsed praktikad 20. ja 21. sajandi kunstis ja kultuuris”

"Allumatud kehad" ("Disobedient Bodies") is a genealogical study of radical artistic, post-artistic and trans-artistic performative practices through the transformation of their formats, strategies and tactics. The coincidence of the subject ...

2 December 2023

EKA Rector discussed cooperation opportunities with the mayor of Tallinn

Today, December 1, 2023, members of the Rectorate of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) met with the mayor of Tallinn, Mihhail Kõlvart, to discuss cooperation opportunities between the city and the university. Also, the development visions of ...

1 December 2023

International Office

Victor Papanek “Disain tegelikule maailmale: inimökoloogia ja sotsiaalne muutus”

The translation of "Design for the Real World" (1971, revised edition 1984) by Victor Papanek tries to lead us away from a wasteful mindset towards a moral and environmentally friendly design. This book is part of a wave in the 1960s when ...

1 December 2023