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“Vastutustundlik ese. Disainiideoloogia ajalugu tuleviku tarbeks” (edited by Marjanne van Helvert)

What might the archaeologists of the future think of our time when they excavate the ruins of our civilization? They would find countless landfills of discarded things: plastic and metal things, discarded bits of electronics, synthetic textiles ...

15 August 2022

New landmark “PESA” by EKA interior architecture students to be opened

Over the past year, the students of the interior architecture department of EKA have been working under the tutelage of Ardo Hiiuväin, an interior architect from Vilsandi Island, and several other tutors, to ensure that the people of Vilsandi ...

10 August 2022

Making Space

“The Last Lecture” by professor emerita Kadri Mälk

Honourable Rector Prof. Mart Kalm, distinguished friends and colleagues, dear students. I have been taught that if you have nothing to say, try to tell it as briefly as possible. However, I’ve also been taught to break ...

9 August 2022

International Office

Keller Easterling “Meediumidisain. Eemaldamine” (Library of Ehituskunst #3)

These two texts by Keller Easterling, a professor at the Yale School of Architecture, accompany the double issue (61/62) of Ehituskunst magazine, which focuses on the shrinking (small) cities of Estonia. The theme of shrinking reveals that the ...

8 August 2022

The installation-shelter KINO created by architecture students is here to still Tartu

This Friday, July 29, at 5 pm, the students of the Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture will open the wooden shelter/installation KINO on the bank of River Emajõgi in Tartu, which, according to the architects Alvin Järving ...

25 July 2022

Architecture and Urban Design

Architecture students start building KINO in Tartu

On July 18, the architecture students of EKA started erecting the KINO, a wooden shelter intended for public use, in the neighbourhood of the Atlantis building on the banks of the Emajõgi River in Tartu. The three-part shelter will ...

18 July 2022

Architecture and Urban Design

The coin card featuring the two-euro coin for Ukraine goes on sale

On Friday, Eesti Pank starts selling the coin card featuring the two-euro coin dedicated to Ukraine and freedom, and will give the income from sales of them to the Ukrainian central bank. The coin was designed by Daria Titova, a young ...

8 July 2022

International Office Ukraine

Nesli Hazal Oktay presented her research paper at the conference “DRS2022” in Bilbao, Spain

Nesli Hazal Oktay, lecturer and MA curriculum developer of EKA IxD.ma programme, visited Bilbao, Spain on 25th June - 3rd July to participate and present her paper at the conference “DRS2022”, a showcase for the best in ...

7 July 2022

Doctoral School Interaction Design

Study Modules for Ukrainians

STUDY MODULES FOR UKRAINIANS The training of beneficiaries of temporary protection organized by the state provides important information about the functioning of the Estonian state and everyday life, and offers A1-level ...

5 July 2022

Ukraine

Ehituskunst #61/62 SMALL TOWNS: NON-GROWING

The double issue of Ehituskunst #61/62 explores the perspective of the growth and decline of spatial life in small towns in Estonia. Shrinkage is generally considered a negative phenomenon, but in the era of climate warming, it ...

4 July 2022