Events
18.08.2021 — 21.08.2021
New international animation festival Animist Tallinn on August 18-21
Animist Tallinn is a new annual animation festival that offers the audience an overview of the best contemporary films, values animation as an art form, promotes creative thinking and contributes to the distribution of Estonian animation.
The festival centre is located at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where film screenings, workshops, lectures and meetings with authors take place. Close by are several additional screening venues, the attractive and developing North Tallinn area with the city’s best cafes and party locations. Animist brings together animation enthusiasts and filmmakers in a relaxed atmosphere, creates an opportunity to exchange and generate ideas.
In addition to the international competition program, the festival aims to explore the connection between animation and other fields of life. The theme for 2021 is animation and anthropology. Experts in their field will dissect the topic at various film screenings and lectures.
20th August 2021 will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Estonian Restoration of Independence and Animist will celebrate this event with a special screening “The Free Line”.
The festival will also include screenings and events for families and children.
See the full programme here: https://animistfestival.eu/en/
Festival access is free for EKA students!
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/animisttallinn
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/animisttallinn/
The festival is organized by MTÜ Animist Tallinn.
New international animation festival Animist Tallinn on August 18-21
Wednesday 18 August, 2021 — Saturday 21 August, 2021
Animist Tallinn is a new annual animation festival that offers the audience an overview of the best contemporary films, values animation as an art form, promotes creative thinking and contributes to the distribution of Estonian animation.
The festival centre is located at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where film screenings, workshops, lectures and meetings with authors take place. Close by are several additional screening venues, the attractive and developing North Tallinn area with the city’s best cafes and party locations. Animist brings together animation enthusiasts and filmmakers in a relaxed atmosphere, creates an opportunity to exchange and generate ideas.
In addition to the international competition program, the festival aims to explore the connection between animation and other fields of life. The theme for 2021 is animation and anthropology. Experts in their field will dissect the topic at various film screenings and lectures.
20th August 2021 will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Estonian Restoration of Independence and Animist will celebrate this event with a special screening “The Free Line”.
The festival will also include screenings and events for families and children.
See the full programme here: https://animistfestival.eu/en/
Festival access is free for EKA students!
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/animisttallinn
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/animisttallinn/
The festival is organized by MTÜ Animist Tallinn.
15.08.2021 — 22.08.2021
??? Summer School open for applications
??? Summer School is a week-long experimental workshop with a focus on type design and typography, taking place on August 15-22 in the beautiful countryside of Oandu village, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia.
Typography is often closely related to the urban environment but ??? Summer School aims at finding new methods and inspiration in the practice of typography by experimenting with it in rural Estonia.
??? Summer School is being held for the 2nd time and the theme of 2021 is: GRAVITY.
We welcome graphic designers, artists, architects, theorists, critics, curators and everyone else interested to participate.
Our tutors are Laura Linsi & Roland Reemaa (UK/EST) and César Rogers (FRA/NL) + guest lecturers.
Apply to ??? Summer School HERE
More info on our official website
Most current info on our Instagram account
All questions You can send here: info@qoqoqo.ee
??? Summer School open for applications
Sunday 15 August, 2021 — Sunday 22 August, 2021
??? Summer School is a week-long experimental workshop with a focus on type design and typography, taking place on August 15-22 in the beautiful countryside of Oandu village, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia.
Typography is often closely related to the urban environment but ??? Summer School aims at finding new methods and inspiration in the practice of typography by experimenting with it in rural Estonia.
??? Summer School is being held for the 2nd time and the theme of 2021 is: GRAVITY.
We welcome graphic designers, artists, architects, theorists, critics, curators and everyone else interested to participate.
Our tutors are Laura Linsi & Roland Reemaa (UK/EST) and César Rogers (FRA/NL) + guest lecturers.
Apply to ??? Summer School HERE
More info on our official website
Most current info on our Instagram account
All questions You can send here: info@qoqoqo.ee
18.06.2021
EKA Graduation Ceremonies 2020/21
The Graduation Ceremonies of this year will take place on Friday, June 18th in the EKA assembly hall (room A101, Põhja puiestee 7, Tallinn).
- 11 am – Faculty of Design
- 1 pm – Doctoral School and the faculties of Architecture and Art Culture
- 3 pm – Faculty of Fine Art
Seating is reserved for the graduates in the assembly hall, family and friends can watch the ceremony from the big screens placed in the open areas of the 1st floor or via tv.artun.ee.
EKA Graduation Ceremonies 2020/21
Friday 18 June, 2021
The Graduation Ceremonies of this year will take place on Friday, June 18th in the EKA assembly hall (room A101, Põhja puiestee 7, Tallinn).
- 11 am – Faculty of Design
- 1 pm – Doctoral School and the faculties of Architecture and Art Culture
- 3 pm – Faculty of Fine Art
Seating is reserved for the graduates in the assembly hall, family and friends can watch the ceremony from the big screens placed in the open areas of the 1st floor or via tv.artun.ee.
04.06.2021
Pre-reviewing of Taavet Jansen’s project „Hundid/Wolves“
On Friday, June 4th at 16.00, pre-reviewing of Art and Design programme PhD student Taavet Jansen’s project „Hundid/Wolves” will take place via Zoom. Link HERE
Project is part of the artistic (practice-based) doctoral thesis of Taavet Jansen.
Supervisor – Dr Anu Allas
Pre-reviewers of the exhibition: Peeter Jalakas and Dr Raivo Kelomees
Dramaturgy: Liis Vares
Actress: Marion Tammet
Camera: Jürgen Volmer
Text: Marion Tammet, folklore and the audience
Video and sound: Taavet Jansen
Production: e⁻lektron
Pre-reviewing of Taavet Jansen’s project „Hundid/Wolves“
Friday 04 June, 2021
On Friday, June 4th at 16.00, pre-reviewing of Art and Design programme PhD student Taavet Jansen’s project „Hundid/Wolves” will take place via Zoom. Link HERE
Project is part of the artistic (practice-based) doctoral thesis of Taavet Jansen.
Supervisor – Dr Anu Allas
Pre-reviewers of the exhibition: Peeter Jalakas and Dr Raivo Kelomees
Dramaturgy: Liis Vares
Actress: Marion Tammet
Camera: Jürgen Volmer
Text: Marion Tammet, folklore and the audience
Video and sound: Taavet Jansen
Production: e⁻lektron
15.06.2021 — 17.06.2021
PhD Vitamin: Open lectures, consultations and workshop
The registration to the PhD Vitamin consultations and workshop is open! (link below)
The second PhD Vitamin at the Estonian Academy of Arts will take place this year on June 15-17 via ZOOM. The event consists of public lectures, consultations and a workshop for drafting a doctoral thesis. The event will once again bring together experts in creative research with those interested in entering doctoral studies in art and design.
All interested parties are welcome to participate in public lectures by creative research experts June 15-16:
Tuesday, 15.06. 14:00-15:00 – Mick Wilson
Mick Wilson is an artist, educator, and researcher. He is currently Professor of Art and Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand Academy of Art & Design, University of Gothenburg. He has been actively involved in developing and promoting artistic research on the academic, institutional, and public levels. His current research deals with questions of art as public culture; political community with the dead; exhibition-making as inquiry; and the rhetorical dynamics of knowledge conflict and symbolic violence. His co-edited volumes include: How Institutions Think (2017) and The Curatorial Conundrum (2016), both MIT and with Paul O’Neill and Lucy Steeds, and SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education (2013), ELIA with Schelte van Ruiten. Wilson is currently involved in projects like PARSE On the Question of Exhibition (2020-2021), Open Up (2019-2023), and Public Art Research Report II (2020-2022).
In his lecture entitled “Meeting Friends and Parting Ways,” Mick Wilson will give a personal exploration of the potentials and tensions of the artistic research field based on his collaborative experience as an artist, writer, researcher, and organizer.
Tuesday, 15.06. 17:00-18:00 – Britta Benno
Britta Benno is a Tallinn-based artist who specializes in drawing and printmaking. She is interested in various hybrid techniques and materials that open up new perspectives. In recent years Benno has been working on a series depicting posthuman urban landscapes. Her conceptual keywords include memory, power, and loss of meaning (ruins), imagination (worlding), printmaker’s tools of thought (thinking in layers), and posthuman philosophy.
Since 2018 Benno is a doctoral student on the EKA art and design doctoral curriculum. Her practice-based research focuses on thinking in layers and imagining in layers inherent to her medium: posthuman landscapes in the field of extended drawing and printmaking. In her lecture, she will present her research, shed light on how it has evolved and changed during the studies, and how the academic and artistic practices work together.
Wednesday, 16.06. 16:00-17:30 – Thomas Markussen & Eva Knutz
Thomas Markussen is associate professor and co-founder of the Social Design Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark. In his work, Markussen focuses on how design can be used as a political and critical aesthetic practice, notably in social design, design activism, and design fiction.
Eva Knutz is an artist and designer, an associate professor within practice-based design research, and co-founder of the Social Design Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark. The group works on participatory design processes leading to social value for the individual and society at large, with particular attention to marginalized or vulnerable groups in society. Knutz has a developed number of prototypes (games) and research artifacts (probes, self-aid kits, tools) focusing on two large public sectors, healthcare, and criminal care.
Markussen’ and Knutz’ shared lecture is titled “Practice-based research in art and design – an introduction”.
Consultations and Workshop: June 16-17
In addition to the lectures, individual consultations take place within the framework of the PhD Vitamin on June 16. They offer the opportunity to talk about artistic work and ideas for a doctoral thesis with an expert of your choice. To register for a consultation, please provide your portfolio with the registration form (see below).
On June 17, the workshop about ideation and preparation for one’s PhD proposal with Thomas Markussen and Eva Knutz will take place. To take part in the workshop, please provide a 1-pager of your idea. Instructions can be found on the registration form.
To participate in the consultation or the workshop, register HERE. [Registration for consultations and the workshop is closed. Please join the open lectures instead: no registration is required for that.]
We encourage artists and designers, alumni, and graduates of the Estonian Academy of Arts and other universities working with creative research methods to register. Registration is open until 11.06.2021. The exact consultation times will be sent directly to the provided e-mail addresses. Be quick – the number of free spots for the consultations is limited!
The lectures and consultations will take place in digital environments.
If you have any questions, please contact madis.luik@artun.ee
PhD Vitamin was first initiated in 2020 by the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2021, it is being organized as a collaboration between the faculties of fine art, design and the EKA doctoral school.
PhD Vitamin is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.
PhD Vitamin: Open lectures, consultations and workshop
Tuesday 15 June, 2021 — Thursday 17 June, 2021
The registration to the PhD Vitamin consultations and workshop is open! (link below)
The second PhD Vitamin at the Estonian Academy of Arts will take place this year on June 15-17 via ZOOM. The event consists of public lectures, consultations and a workshop for drafting a doctoral thesis. The event will once again bring together experts in creative research with those interested in entering doctoral studies in art and design.
All interested parties are welcome to participate in public lectures by creative research experts June 15-16:
Tuesday, 15.06. 14:00-15:00 – Mick Wilson
Mick Wilson is an artist, educator, and researcher. He is currently Professor of Art and Director of Doctoral Studies at HDK-Valand Academy of Art & Design, University of Gothenburg. He has been actively involved in developing and promoting artistic research on the academic, institutional, and public levels. His current research deals with questions of art as public culture; political community with the dead; exhibition-making as inquiry; and the rhetorical dynamics of knowledge conflict and symbolic violence. His co-edited volumes include: How Institutions Think (2017) and The Curatorial Conundrum (2016), both MIT and with Paul O’Neill and Lucy Steeds, and SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education (2013), ELIA with Schelte van Ruiten. Wilson is currently involved in projects like PARSE On the Question of Exhibition (2020-2021), Open Up (2019-2023), and Public Art Research Report II (2020-2022).
In his lecture entitled “Meeting Friends and Parting Ways,” Mick Wilson will give a personal exploration of the potentials and tensions of the artistic research field based on his collaborative experience as an artist, writer, researcher, and organizer.
Tuesday, 15.06. 17:00-18:00 – Britta Benno
Britta Benno is a Tallinn-based artist who specializes in drawing and printmaking. She is interested in various hybrid techniques and materials that open up new perspectives. In recent years Benno has been working on a series depicting posthuman urban landscapes. Her conceptual keywords include memory, power, and loss of meaning (ruins), imagination (worlding), printmaker’s tools of thought (thinking in layers), and posthuman philosophy.
Since 2018 Benno is a doctoral student on the EKA art and design doctoral curriculum. Her practice-based research focuses on thinking in layers and imagining in layers inherent to her medium: posthuman landscapes in the field of extended drawing and printmaking. In her lecture, she will present her research, shed light on how it has evolved and changed during the studies, and how the academic and artistic practices work together.
Wednesday, 16.06. 16:00-17:30 – Thomas Markussen & Eva Knutz
Thomas Markussen is associate professor and co-founder of the Social Design Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark. In his work, Markussen focuses on how design can be used as a political and critical aesthetic practice, notably in social design, design activism, and design fiction.
Eva Knutz is an artist and designer, an associate professor within practice-based design research, and co-founder of the Social Design Research Unit at the University of Southern Denmark. The group works on participatory design processes leading to social value for the individual and society at large, with particular attention to marginalized or vulnerable groups in society. Knutz has a developed number of prototypes (games) and research artifacts (probes, self-aid kits, tools) focusing on two large public sectors, healthcare, and criminal care.
Markussen’ and Knutz’ shared lecture is titled “Practice-based research in art and design – an introduction”.
Consultations and Workshop: June 16-17
In addition to the lectures, individual consultations take place within the framework of the PhD Vitamin on June 16. They offer the opportunity to talk about artistic work and ideas for a doctoral thesis with an expert of your choice. To register for a consultation, please provide your portfolio with the registration form (see below).
On June 17, the workshop about ideation and preparation for one’s PhD proposal with Thomas Markussen and Eva Knutz will take place. To take part in the workshop, please provide a 1-pager of your idea. Instructions can be found on the registration form.
To participate in the consultation or the workshop, register HERE. [Registration for consultations and the workshop is closed. Please join the open lectures instead: no registration is required for that.]
We encourage artists and designers, alumni, and graduates of the Estonian Academy of Arts and other universities working with creative research methods to register. Registration is open until 11.06.2021. The exact consultation times will be sent directly to the provided e-mail addresses. Be quick – the number of free spots for the consultations is limited!
The lectures and consultations will take place in digital environments.
If you have any questions, please contact madis.luik@artun.ee
PhD Vitamin was first initiated in 2020 by the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2021, it is being organized as a collaboration between the faculties of fine art, design and the EKA doctoral school.
PhD Vitamin is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.
21.05.2021 — 22.05.2021
Burn_Slow Workshop – EKA New Media at Pixeache
EKA New Media has been enlisted as an educational partner in this years Pixelache festival online event #Burn_Slow
Events are starting this Friday and Saturday with #Burn_Slow, a series of talks and workshops organized by Liepaja University MP Lab. These events are free and specially made for students. Students varying from Fine Art to Design are welcome, as well as others interested.
“Burn_Slow: Nordic-Baltic Sound and Radio Art for Mental Well-being” is an international audio art project which unites sound artists and art students from Nordic-Baltic region exploring mental ecology in times of crisis and social seclusion, via online lectures, skill-sharing, discussion and innovative networked audio performances.
YouTube live stream for artist talks and discussion
Application form for attending workshops
Burn_Slow Workshop – EKA New Media at Pixeache
Friday 21 May, 2021 — Saturday 22 May, 2021
EKA New Media has been enlisted as an educational partner in this years Pixelache festival online event #Burn_Slow
Events are starting this Friday and Saturday with #Burn_Slow, a series of talks and workshops organized by Liepaja University MP Lab. These events are free and specially made for students. Students varying from Fine Art to Design are welcome, as well as others interested.
“Burn_Slow: Nordic-Baltic Sound and Radio Art for Mental Well-being” is an international audio art project which unites sound artists and art students from Nordic-Baltic region exploring mental ecology in times of crisis and social seclusion, via online lectures, skill-sharing, discussion and innovative networked audio performances.
YouTube live stream for artist talks and discussion
Application form for attending workshops
24.05.2021
Cultural Policies of the Transition Era. Conference from the series “Studies in Contemporary Culture”
The 15th conference from the series “Studies in Contemporary Culture” is dedicated to analyzing the cultural policies of the transition era (~1986–1998) in Estonia. The conference is organized by the Research Group of Contemporary Estonian Culture (EKA, TLÜ, TÜ) and the Estonian Writers’ Union.
The conference is supported by the Estonian Research Council (grant PRG636), the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, and the research fund of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Cultural Policies of the Transition Era. Conference from the series “Studies in Contemporary Culture”
Monday 24 May, 2021
The 15th conference from the series “Studies in Contemporary Culture” is dedicated to analyzing the cultural policies of the transition era (~1986–1998) in Estonia. The conference is organized by the Research Group of Contemporary Estonian Culture (EKA, TLÜ, TÜ) and the Estonian Writers’ Union.
The conference is supported by the Estonian Research Council (grant PRG636), the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, and the research fund of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
14.05.2021
A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa
A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa is a final grading of Estonian Academy of Arts Urban Studies and Interior Architecture Urban models studio, tutored by Kristi Grišakov, Keiti Kljavin and Laura Linsi.
Students: Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir, Ardo Hiiuväin, Janosh Heydorn, Daria Khrystych, Veera Gontšugova, Juss Heinsalu, Eeros Lees, Oleksandr Nenenko, Mira Samonig, Fernanda Torres, Semele Kari, Mirell Ülle, Triin Juhanson.
Guest critics: Anna Anna Bitkina (The Creative Association of Curators TOK), Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla and Maroš Krivy (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Join us online: https://zoom.us/j/94968674543
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Hope Against Hope
The In-Betweenness of Emptiness
by Mirell Ülle and Mira Samonig
Emptiness does not necessarily equal a state of something being empty; in fact, it can be very full, but full with the wrong things. This renders emptiness to a condition of disorder, of unclearness. It constitutes a state in-between the tension of something that has ended, and another thing that is not yet graspable.
This project investigates the concept of emptiness within the shrinking context of the east Estonian town Kiviõli. It highlights the varying aspects of emptying traced throughout Kiviõli’s history and intends to make emptiness informed by a feeling of hopelessness comprehensible. Eventually, a glimpse into a possible future is offered that re-approaches emptiness neither through the lens of hopelessness nor hope, but as a potentiality for both.
Plural Preservations
by Janosh Heydorn and Juss Heinsalu
Plural Preservations reflects on the complexity of maintaining areas of milieu value. A compiled album of the possible futures of Lehola Street ansambel takes a close look at the Stalinist architecture and its prospect. Engaging with theories and formal guidelines of preservation, speculative scenarios unfold seemingly disappearing options to navigate protective regulations, ownership division, financial segregation, architectural value and will. This project is a flow of thought, an experiment to explore the concepts of preservation in the context of shrinkage.
DachaIn
By Oleksandr Nenenko and Triin Juhason
The focus t of the project is to find a conceptual vision for a ‘green’ strategy which could help to deal with the decline of the Järve district in Kohtla-Järve. Inspired by the experience of countries like Germany and the US, we looked into the possibility of bridging urban farming and post-soviet dacha culture (its structure, functions and practices). Our work investigates possible ways of bringing those two phenomena into the urban context of Kohtla-Järve in order to create sustainable and ecological urban blocks that through supporting various forms of gardening lifestyles help to reactivate the town.
Sompa Sanctum
By Semele Kari
The condition of living in godforsaken Ida-Virumaa declining settlements made me wonder, “Why do people stay in these ghost-towns and how?” Since then, I have rephrased the question to: Why should someone new go and live there? If this environment symbolises an abandoned territory, could it speak out to those whose environment has neglected them?
In this interaction between human and built environment I see a way for redemption. This shrinking physical world is giving back something by going backwards, dying a slow death. And in the process of leaving this world it represents an ongoing prospect of decay.
The user of this world harvests the last it has to offer: silence, solitude and sanctuary, the spirits of this long gone functional world. These last men standing are giving back to architecture in means of mercy, worship and care which manifest in the coexistence of decline.
Adaptation of Facades in Times of Decadence
By Eeros Lees and Fernanda Ayala Torres
Our project investigates the aesthetic change of Kohtla-Järve central boulevard Keskallee. Here the adaptation and transformation of the facades of Stalinist architecture are reflected, as their ornamentation and symbolism are making a way for small businesses on the first floors bringing along new signs, window stickers, painting practices, new entrances and perhaps also new hope? Our vision marks the changing reality of a decadent city that reinvents itself through its facades but must still follow heritage requirements.
To Keep Or Not To Keep: Reconsideration of Khrushchevka
By Veera Gontšugova and Daria Khrystych
The project is an online archive aiming to recover the public image of the Soviet-time mass housing building typology, known as the Khrushchevka. Such a typology tends to be not favored in the post-Soviet environment, occasionally entailing the abandonment and demolition of these buildings. By gathering and structuring information, our goal is to present a future-oriented point of view to showcase the potential and hope for this particular residential building typology. We base our storytelling on the historical findings, empirical data as well as presenting the examples of dealing with the similar issue in different contexts. By looking at both material and social aspects, we are referring to the retrofitting and collective living strategies that can be implemented in order to rebound the reputation of Khrushchevka.
Rethinking Growth
Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir and Ardo Hiiuväin
Our project explores the idea of “giving land back to nature” within the context of spatial shrinkage and half-emptiness, with a focus on rewilding. Accepting the half-empty future of Sompa, we aim to question the concept of wilderness and emphasise the importance of the shared sense of responsibility required to create a sustainable living environment.
These ideas are implemented through proposing a vision competition for the rewilding of a selected housing complex in Sompa. With the hope of bringing in a wide array of ideas and perspectives, the competition entries would reflect the different ways of which rewilding can be a tool for engaging with spatial shrinkage. Furthermore, the goal of hosting the competition is to bring attention to this subject, inviting the public to ask what shrinkage actually entails, what it means for those affected and ultimately valuing the already existing qualities embedded in these shrinking communities.
A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa
Friday 14 May, 2021
A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa is a final grading of Estonian Academy of Arts Urban Studies and Interior Architecture Urban models studio, tutored by Kristi Grišakov, Keiti Kljavin and Laura Linsi.
Students: Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir, Ardo Hiiuväin, Janosh Heydorn, Daria Khrystych, Veera Gontšugova, Juss Heinsalu, Eeros Lees, Oleksandr Nenenko, Mira Samonig, Fernanda Torres, Semele Kari, Mirell Ülle, Triin Juhanson.
Guest critics: Anna Anna Bitkina (The Creative Association of Curators TOK), Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla and Maroš Krivy (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Join us online: https://zoom.us/j/94968674543
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Hope Against Hope
The In-Betweenness of Emptiness
by Mirell Ülle and Mira Samonig
Emptiness does not necessarily equal a state of something being empty; in fact, it can be very full, but full with the wrong things. This renders emptiness to a condition of disorder, of unclearness. It constitutes a state in-between the tension of something that has ended, and another thing that is not yet graspable.
This project investigates the concept of emptiness within the shrinking context of the east Estonian town Kiviõli. It highlights the varying aspects of emptying traced throughout Kiviõli’s history and intends to make emptiness informed by a feeling of hopelessness comprehensible. Eventually, a glimpse into a possible future is offered that re-approaches emptiness neither through the lens of hopelessness nor hope, but as a potentiality for both.
Plural Preservations
by Janosh Heydorn and Juss Heinsalu
Plural Preservations reflects on the complexity of maintaining areas of milieu value. A compiled album of the possible futures of Lehola Street ansambel takes a close look at the Stalinist architecture and its prospect. Engaging with theories and formal guidelines of preservation, speculative scenarios unfold seemingly disappearing options to navigate protective regulations, ownership division, financial segregation, architectural value and will. This project is a flow of thought, an experiment to explore the concepts of preservation in the context of shrinkage.
DachaIn
By Oleksandr Nenenko and Triin Juhason
The focus t of the project is to find a conceptual vision for a ‘green’ strategy which could help to deal with the decline of the Järve district in Kohtla-Järve. Inspired by the experience of countries like Germany and the US, we looked into the possibility of bridging urban farming and post-soviet dacha culture (its structure, functions and practices). Our work investigates possible ways of bringing those two phenomena into the urban context of Kohtla-Järve in order to create sustainable and ecological urban blocks that through supporting various forms of gardening lifestyles help to reactivate the town.
Sompa Sanctum
By Semele Kari
The condition of living in godforsaken Ida-Virumaa declining settlements made me wonder, “Why do people stay in these ghost-towns and how?” Since then, I have rephrased the question to: Why should someone new go and live there? If this environment symbolises an abandoned territory, could it speak out to those whose environment has neglected them?
In this interaction between human and built environment I see a way for redemption. This shrinking physical world is giving back something by going backwards, dying a slow death. And in the process of leaving this world it represents an ongoing prospect of decay.
The user of this world harvests the last it has to offer: silence, solitude and sanctuary, the spirits of this long gone functional world. These last men standing are giving back to architecture in means of mercy, worship and care which manifest in the coexistence of decline.
Adaptation of Facades in Times of Decadence
By Eeros Lees and Fernanda Ayala Torres
Our project investigates the aesthetic change of Kohtla-Järve central boulevard Keskallee. Here the adaptation and transformation of the facades of Stalinist architecture are reflected, as their ornamentation and symbolism are making a way for small businesses on the first floors bringing along new signs, window stickers, painting practices, new entrances and perhaps also new hope? Our vision marks the changing reality of a decadent city that reinvents itself through its facades but must still follow heritage requirements.
To Keep Or Not To Keep: Reconsideration of Khrushchevka
By Veera Gontšugova and Daria Khrystych
The project is an online archive aiming to recover the public image of the Soviet-time mass housing building typology, known as the Khrushchevka. Such a typology tends to be not favored in the post-Soviet environment, occasionally entailing the abandonment and demolition of these buildings. By gathering and structuring information, our goal is to present a future-oriented point of view to showcase the potential and hope for this particular residential building typology. We base our storytelling on the historical findings, empirical data as well as presenting the examples of dealing with the similar issue in different contexts. By looking at both material and social aspects, we are referring to the retrofitting and collective living strategies that can be implemented in order to rebound the reputation of Khrushchevka.
Rethinking Growth
Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir and Ardo Hiiuväin
Our project explores the idea of “giving land back to nature” within the context of spatial shrinkage and half-emptiness, with a focus on rewilding. Accepting the half-empty future of Sompa, we aim to question the concept of wilderness and emphasise the importance of the shared sense of responsibility required to create a sustainable living environment.
These ideas are implemented through proposing a vision competition for the rewilding of a selected housing complex in Sompa. With the hope of bringing in a wide array of ideas and perspectives, the competition entries would reflect the different ways of which rewilding can be a tool for engaging with spatial shrinkage. Furthermore, the goal of hosting the competition is to bring attention to this subject, inviting the public to ask what shrinkage actually entails, what it means for those affected and ultimately valuing the already existing qualities embedded in these shrinking communities.
30.04.2021
Online Symposium: Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public private boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city
This Friday, 30 April there will be an online symposium “Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public private boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” in four sessions 13:00–17:00.
Join the symposium here or on the Crafting Conversations platform here.
“Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public private boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” is an experimental symposium conducted and developed through a collaboration between the projects Crafting Situations of Knowledge Exchange at HDK Valand Academy of Art and Design Gothenburg, SE, and curation of conversations that investigate the different public private boundaries in the city at Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), EE.
Schedule of the symposium:
13:00–13:45 EET
“weaving urban intersections on the crossroads of nature connections” – A Game of Associations moderated through the “Polledge” format
Guest speaker: Ott Kagovere
“weaving urban intersections on the crossroads of nature connections” – A Game of Associations curated by Louise Borinski, Björn Giesecke, Malin Hilding
Format “Polledge” crafted by Hanna Peterson, Emil Söderberg, Fanny Däldborg, Bekhar Azimov, Malene Valentin
14:00–14:45 EET
“Surveillance: Losing Control” discussed “in the Dark”
Guest speaker: Damiano Cerrone
“Surveillance: Losing Control” curated by Nursultan Barun and Bruce Shujun Wang
Format “In the Dark” crafted by Anna Roth, Daniela Kaiser, Shirun Zheng
15:00–15:45 EET
“Outsiders” negotiated via “Bread for the Table”
Guest speaker: Marge Monko & Margit Säde
“Outsiders” curated by Francesca Keaveney
Format “Bread for the table” crafted by Lea Wilhelm, Julia Tienvieri, Daniel Palatz, Hannah Simann Ax, Lucrezia Sterrantino, Victor Nilsson
16:00–16:45 EET
“A Wish to Meet” via “The Pace”
Guest speakers: Marek Glow & Uku Sepsivart
“A Wish to Meet” curated by Paula Buskevica and Katarina Sarap
Format “The Pace” crafted by Julia Niklasson, John Wattström, Ellen Solding, Katarina Frisö, Gabriella Di Feola
About Crafting Conversations
Crafting Conversations is a platform and approach to investigate situations of knowledge exchange as a matter for design. This means, to shift focus from WHAT to HOW knowledge is exchanged, transferred, created and thus shapes/influences WHAT content can be said, perceived, shared and created.
The Symposium “Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” is the result of a collaboration between the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn and HDK Valand – Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg. It is conceived and mentored by Sandra Nuut, and Prof. Judith Seng, Berlin/Gothenburg. HDK Valand MFA Design students have developed scores and formats of knowledge exchange and the students of Estonian Academy of Arts have curated topics through the provided formats. The final contributions for the Symposium have been developed through a collaborative rehearsing week in which the relation between HOW and WHAT has been explored by the students.
The Symposium “Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” takes place as part of the public programme of the exhibition Acting Things VIII – Silent Conversations by Judith Seng and curated by Sandra Nuut at the Tallinn Art Hall, 5 June–1 August, 2021.
Symposium is supported by CIRRUS/Nordplus
Online Symposium: Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public private boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city
Friday 30 April, 2021
This Friday, 30 April there will be an online symposium “Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public private boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” in four sessions 13:00–17:00.
Join the symposium here or on the Crafting Conversations platform here.
“Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public private boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” is an experimental symposium conducted and developed through a collaboration between the projects Crafting Situations of Knowledge Exchange at HDK Valand Academy of Art and Design Gothenburg, SE, and curation of conversations that investigate the different public private boundaries in the city at Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), EE.
Schedule of the symposium:
13:00–13:45 EET
“weaving urban intersections on the crossroads of nature connections” – A Game of Associations moderated through the “Polledge” format
Guest speaker: Ott Kagovere
“weaving urban intersections on the crossroads of nature connections” – A Game of Associations curated by Louise Borinski, Björn Giesecke, Malin Hilding
Format “Polledge” crafted by Hanna Peterson, Emil Söderberg, Fanny Däldborg, Bekhar Azimov, Malene Valentin
14:00–14:45 EET
“Surveillance: Losing Control” discussed “in the Dark”
Guest speaker: Damiano Cerrone
“Surveillance: Losing Control” curated by Nursultan Barun and Bruce Shujun Wang
Format “In the Dark” crafted by Anna Roth, Daniela Kaiser, Shirun Zheng
15:00–15:45 EET
“Outsiders” negotiated via “Bread for the Table”
Guest speaker: Marge Monko & Margit Säde
“Outsiders” curated by Francesca Keaveney
Format “Bread for the table” crafted by Lea Wilhelm, Julia Tienvieri, Daniel Palatz, Hannah Simann Ax, Lucrezia Sterrantino, Victor Nilsson
16:00–16:45 EET
“A Wish to Meet” via “The Pace”
Guest speakers: Marek Glow & Uku Sepsivart
“A Wish to Meet” curated by Paula Buskevica and Katarina Sarap
Format “The Pace” crafted by Julia Niklasson, John Wattström, Ellen Solding, Katarina Frisö, Gabriella Di Feola
About Crafting Conversations
Crafting Conversations is a platform and approach to investigate situations of knowledge exchange as a matter for design. This means, to shift focus from WHAT to HOW knowledge is exchanged, transferred, created and thus shapes/influences WHAT content can be said, perceived, shared and created.
The Symposium “Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” is the result of a collaboration between the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn and HDK Valand – Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg. It is conceived and mentored by Sandra Nuut, and Prof. Judith Seng, Berlin/Gothenburg. HDK Valand MFA Design students have developed scores and formats of knowledge exchange and the students of Estonian Academy of Arts have curated topics through the provided formats. The final contributions for the Symposium have been developed through a collaborative rehearsing week in which the relation between HOW and WHAT has been explored by the students.
The Symposium “Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city” takes place as part of the public programme of the exhibition Acting Things VIII – Silent Conversations by Judith Seng and curated by Sandra Nuut at the Tallinn Art Hall, 5 June–1 August, 2021.
Symposium is supported by CIRRUS/Nordplus
15.04.2021
Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen. Presentation and conference
On April 15, a special issue of Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen will be presented and a memorial conference will be held.
The access to the conference will be on the Zoom channel from 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia). Pre-registration is not required, presentations are in English.
All are welcome!
The special issue of Ehituskunst focuses on the legacy of the deceased architect and lecturer Jan Verwijnen (1949–2005) in interpreting urban space. The authors of the publication and former colleagues exchange views on the development of urban planning, architectural thought and education, and Jan Verwijnen’s contribution to it.
EHITUSKUNST #60 JAN VERWIJNEN. CREATIVE THOUGHT AND URBAN CHANGE
Link to the event April 15, 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia):
PROGRAM
14:00 Opening
Andres Ojari, Dean Faculty of Architecture EKA Tallinn
14:10 Introduction to Ehituskunst journal
Eik Hermann, Editor-in-chief Ehituskunst, EKA Tallinn
14:20 Ehituskunst #60 Jan Verwijnen: Creative Thought and Urban Change
Introduction by the editors of the issue
Panu Lehtovuori, Professor of Urban Theory Tampere University
Klaske Havik, Professor Methods of Analysis and Imagination, TU Delft
14:45 Session 1 Creative thought
Talks by authors of the issue and discussion
Toni Kauppilla, Professor and Head of the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway.
Verena von Beckerath, Heide&Von Beckerath architects Berlin, professor Design and Housing, Bauhaus-University, Weimar.
15:45 break
16:00 Session 2 Urban Change
Talks by authors of the issue and discussion
Pia Ilonen, architect, ILO architects, Helsinki
Steve McAdam & Christina Norton, Fluid architecture, urbanism, participation, London / Soundings, London
17:00 About the Urban Studies program at EKA
Maros Krivy, Professor of Urban Studies, EKA
17:30 Discussion and celebration
JAN VERWIJNEN (1949–2005) graduated as an architect from ETH Zürich in 1976. After work in Switzerland and the Netherlands, including a period in Rem Koolhaas’ OMA in Rotterdam, he moved to Helsinki at the turn of the 1990s. In the quickly evolving Nordic and Baltic context, Jan Verwijnen took active academic and societal positions. He reshaped the education and research of interior architecture at the University of Art and Design (UIAH), today part of Aalto University, and initiated the Urban Studies programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2004
Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen. Presentation and conference
Thursday 15 April, 2021
On April 15, a special issue of Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen will be presented and a memorial conference will be held.
The access to the conference will be on the Zoom channel from 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia). Pre-registration is not required, presentations are in English.
All are welcome!
The special issue of Ehituskunst focuses on the legacy of the deceased architect and lecturer Jan Verwijnen (1949–2005) in interpreting urban space. The authors of the publication and former colleagues exchange views on the development of urban planning, architectural thought and education, and Jan Verwijnen’s contribution to it.
EHITUSKUNST #60 JAN VERWIJNEN. CREATIVE THOUGHT AND URBAN CHANGE
Link to the event April 15, 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia):
PROGRAM
14:00 Opening
Andres Ojari, Dean Faculty of Architecture EKA Tallinn
14:10 Introduction to Ehituskunst journal
Eik Hermann, Editor-in-chief Ehituskunst, EKA Tallinn
14:20 Ehituskunst #60 Jan Verwijnen: Creative Thought and Urban Change
Introduction by the editors of the issue
Panu Lehtovuori, Professor of Urban Theory Tampere University
Klaske Havik, Professor Methods of Analysis and Imagination, TU Delft
14:45 Session 1 Creative thought
Talks by authors of the issue and discussion
Toni Kauppilla, Professor and Head of the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway.
Verena von Beckerath, Heide&Von Beckerath architects Berlin, professor Design and Housing, Bauhaus-University, Weimar.
15:45 break
16:00 Session 2 Urban Change
Talks by authors of the issue and discussion
Pia Ilonen, architect, ILO architects, Helsinki
Steve McAdam & Christina Norton, Fluid architecture, urbanism, participation, London / Soundings, London
17:00 About the Urban Studies program at EKA
Maros Krivy, Professor of Urban Studies, EKA
17:30 Discussion and celebration
JAN VERWIJNEN (1949–2005) graduated as an architect from ETH Zürich in 1976. After work in Switzerland and the Netherlands, including a period in Rem Koolhaas’ OMA in Rotterdam, he moved to Helsinki at the turn of the 1990s. In the quickly evolving Nordic and Baltic context, Jan Verwijnen took active academic and societal positions. He reshaped the education and research of interior architecture at the University of Art and Design (UIAH), today part of Aalto University, and initiated the Urban Studies programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2004