Open Lectures

“Architecture and Materiality: From Vitruvius to the Digital Era”. Open Lecture by Antoine Picon

On May 11th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the faculty of architecture will be happy to present architect and historian researching the history of architecture and urban technologies, Antoine Picon, at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Open Lectures are open to all architecture and design students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial and design matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Research at the Harvard GSD and Director of Research at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. He has published extensively on this subject.

Four of his books are devoted to the transition from early-modern societies to the industrial era.
With La Ville territoire des cyborgs (1998), Picon began to investigate the changes brought to cities and architecture by the development of digital tools and digital culture.
His three most recent books are dealing extensively with this question. Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Profession (2010) offers a comprehensive overview of this important transition. Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (2013) focuses on the “return” of ornament in digital architecture to further the investigation. Finally, Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence (2015) discusses its impact on cities.

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
Series is curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee

https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

About Antoine Picon: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/antoine-picon/

More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

How to build up a fashion brand in the heart of fashion world?

Luxury Womenswear designer Roberta Einer moved from her hometown of Tallinn to London to study on the prestigious fashion courses at Central Saint Martins and the University of Westminster. During her studies she completed internships with Mary Katrantzou and Alexander McQueen, before moving to Paris upon graduation to assist at Balmain for a year where she continued to develop her craft. Establishing her label upon her return to London, the Roberta Einer brand is now in its third season creating experimental, luxury womenswear which focuses on textiles and working with traditional couture techniques. Her innovative designs have been featured in the likes of American Vogue, Teen Vogue, Dazed & Confused, HUNGER and i-D Magazine.

www.robertaeiner.com

Apophenic Machines. Open Lecture by M. Casey Rehm (Kinch, SCI-Arch)

On April 27th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present Los Angeles based architect M. Casey Rehm at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Open Lectures are open to all architecture and design, IT and robotics, but also fine arts students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial, urban and design matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

M. Casey Rehm founded his design and algorithmic consulting studio to explore the area spanning from architectural design and interactive media to robotic software development, data visualization and algorithmic consulting. The studio currently focuses on projects driven by the use of non-human intelligent agents to mediate and amplify the relationship between the digital, analog, and the human. Rehm’s lecture in Tallinn will discuss Kinch’s interest in the role non-human intelligences and contemporary developments in automation can inform new aesthetics and reshape the practice of design; he will present a series of research lines ranging from media, robotics, and pavilion design and construction.

M. Casey Rehm received a MSAAD from Columbia University in 2009 and his BARCH from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He has over 10 years of architectural experience, working for firms in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, and London prior to opening Kinch. Currently he teaches design studios and seminars in architecture, programming and robotics in design at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

More on M. Casey Rehm: http://kinch-d.com/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts faculty of architecture. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

Series is curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

At an international conference – “Architectures, Natures & Data: The Politics of Environments” – taking place in Tallinn on April 21-22, architecture’s turn to nature and data will be explored from political and historical perspectives.

Altogether 24 papers will be presented by architects, urban geographers, historians, ecologists, and artists from 15 countries. Keynote speakers are Matthew Gandy and Douglas Spencer from the UK. The conference is organised by the Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia in cooperation with the Department of Geography, Cambridge University, UK.

The conference is open to the public and free of charge, but prior registration is needed, deadline April 15. Here’s the registration form: http://architecturesnaturesdata.com/Registration

The conference is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia, European Research Council Advanced Grant “Rethinking Urban Nature”, Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (Hasartmängumaksu Nõukogu).

Read more: http://architecturesnaturesdata.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/877292232410440/
Contact: Karin Kahre, conference coordinator
architecturesnaturesdata@gmail.com, +372 5099886

Estonian Academy of Arts TASE ’17 Graduation Show sites and dates announced!
The Estonian Academy of Arts Graduation Show TASE ’17 and its satellite festivities will take place from 27 May – 12 June, 2017 at the historic Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11 and other venues in Tallinn.

Sat 27 May ERKI Fashion Show 30
The most scandalous fashion show of Estonia will present its 30th show in a last-chance-top-secret-site! Not to be missed!
Follow the lead

Tue 30 May 4pm TASE ’17 Opening Ceremony
Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11, Tallinn

TASE ’17 Graduation Show
Wed 31 May – Sat 12 June
Noblessner valukoda

TASE ’17 Portfolio Café
Fri 2 June and Sat 3 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

TASE ‘ 17 Graduation Works Lift Talks
Wed 2 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

SISU Symposium of Interior Architecture and Spatial Use 2017 “Naked Space”
7. – 8. 06. Luzern, Neubad, Switzerland and Mobile Classroom of the EAA Dept of Interior Architecture, in Tallinn

The SISU 2017 symposium will focus on re-use of interior space and community-driven redesign processes. The symposium will shed light on the question, how interior architecture is able to create an identity for naked space while ‘re-dressing’ it, and how this can contribute new value to the whole neighbourhood. What are our needs today and how does it influence the re-purposing process? How can we investigate the space inside the buildings of the past?

SISU will approach these questions across different disciplines including interior architects/designers, architects, filmmakers, academics and students from different cultures for the first time in parallel in Switzerland and in Estonia.

The Estonian Association of Interior Architects, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art / School of Engineering and Architecture, the Estonian Academy of Arts / Department of Interior Architecture and the Association of Swiss Interior Architects have the honour of inviting You to the 4th International Interior Architecture Symposium SISU
Read on and sign up at sisu.esl.ee

TASE FILM ’17
9. 06.
Sõpruse Cinema
Vana-Posti 8, Tallinn

The programme is developing, more info soon! Please save the dates and visit us!

Keiu Krikmann
TASE Head Coordinator
keiu.krikmann@artun.ee
Solveig Jahnke
Head of Communications
solveig.jahnke@artun.ee
Tel +372 6267 111
Mob +372 5626 4949
www.artun.ee

Graphic designer, blogger and enterpreneur Helene Vetik:

Self presentation in internet.
10 years on the field – evolution of the field and myself.

www.uustuus.ee

Open lecture series in the Faculty of Design

THE LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE END OF APRIL. 

Fashion designer Roberta Einer:
How to build up a fashion brand in the heart of fashion world?

Luxury Womenswear designer Roberta Einer moved from her hometown of Tallinn to London to study on the prestigious fashion courses at Central Saint Martins and the University of Westminster. During her studies she completed internships with Mary Katrantzou and Alexander McQueen, before moving to Paris upon graduation to assist at Balmain for a year where she continued to develop her craft. Establishing her label upon her return to London, the Roberta Einer brand is now in its third season creating experimental, luxury womenswear which focuses on textiles and working with traditional couture techniques. Her innovative designs have been featured in the likes of American Vogue, Teen Vogue, Dazed & Confused, HUNGER and i-D Magazine.

The talk will be held in English.

www.robertaeiner.com

Open lecture series in the Faculty of Design

Open Lecture Series – Design

On March 30th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present Newcastle-based architect and academic Rachel Armstrong at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Armstrong focusses on living architecture and believes that to improve sustainability, we should connect our buildings to the nature, not cut them off from it, and will in her lecture focus on what it means to design for a lively unpredictable world. What happens when a city starts to grow the same way nature does? Open Lectures are open to all architecture and design students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial and design matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University and an internationally acclaimed academic and pioneer in innovating environmental solutions and interdisciplinary practice. She designs and engineers architectural applications in the built environment, which are based on the properties of life-like chemical and biological systems. She produces prototypes that have been internationally exhibited at festivals such as the Venice Biennale (2010; 2015), which demonstrate how it may be possible to harness the properties of living systems to address environmental solutions. She also consults with industry to advise on convergent technologies and low carbon solutions.

She is also a 2010 Senior TED Fellow who is establishing an alternative approach to sustainability that couples with the computational properties of the natural world to develop a 21st century production platform for the built environment, which she calls ‘living’ architecture.

Armstrong is looking into Tallinn more deeply this year also in connection with the Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2017, due to being on the jury of the international TAB Vision Competition, which focusses on Paljassaare Peninsula area and ends on 25th April 2017.

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment. The lectures are held in English, free of charge.

More on Rachel Armstrong: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/staff/profile/rachelarmstrong3.html and https://www.ted.com/speakers/rachel_armstrong

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
Series is curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

On 15th of March Patricia Toti (Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, coach
motivator, consultant) will give a lecture at the Wednesday Design Faculty Open Lecture Series.
How to turn negative experience into the positive outcome?
Looking at limiting beliefs such as self-sabotage, fear, addictions etc
and how to replace them with artistic confidence and productivity. More
positive than negative. Conflict resolution and networking skills.
The talk will be held in English.

Full programme of open lecture series in the Faculty of Design:

Disainiteaduskonna avatud loengud/Open Lectures in Faculty of Design

Fashion editor, stylist and blogger Aljona Eesmaa will talk about product in medias distorting mirror.