Open Lectures

On Wednesday, 30 November at 5 pm there will be an open talk by artist Eléonore de Montesquiou. The talk will take place at the EKA Lembitu 10B building in room no 144.
Eléonore de Montesquiou: “Newspapers were everywhere, in households, in factories, they were part of the daily rhythm. This lasted until…? Recently? There were newspapers published regularly in Narva and there were factory newspapers written by and for Kreenholm workers. Today, Kreenholm has gone bankrupt and Narva’s newspaper has been replaced by “Viru prospect”.

In a film that I made with her in 2010, Dora Grafova told me that “… there was “Little Spark”, the children’s magazine. I could drown you with fifteen and more titles. “Little Spark”, then “Ural Tracker”, “Worker Woman”, “Peasant Woman”, “Soviet Woman”, “Young Naturalist”, and for my son we got “Young Technician”, “Technology for the Young”, “Radio” and “Model Constructor”. So that makes 17 magazines. We got those every month”.

Her words gave me the desire to publish a newspaper about newspapers in Narva. This newspaper is the natural continuation of my work in the region (ATOM CITIES in 2005 and NA GRANE in 2009, both projects consisting in films and books, FOR EXAMPLE FABRIKA in 2010: films and newspaper – Moscou and Narva- and RADIOTHENIKA in 2011 in Riga consisting also in a newspaper and a film).

This short presentation is actually to ask you whether you are interested in making a “new newspaper about newspaper and life” in Narva? Would you like to collaborate with me on this? We need to do a lot: gather more material, work on the archive, conceptualise our “new newspaper”, give it a graphic line, decide when and how often and for whom it is meant.”

Eléonore kutsub üles huvilisi tudengeid kaasa lööma projektis Gazette Narva (vt projekti kirjeldus manuses).
Eléonore is looking for interested students to participate at the Gazette Narva project (please find the project description attached).
Eléonore de Montesquiou on sündinud 1970. aastal Pariisis, elab ja töötab Berliinis ja Tallinnas. Tema töödele on iseloomulik dokumentaalne lähenemine, mis võtab filmi, joonistuste ja tekstide kuju. 2006. aastal toimus Tallinna Linnagaleriis tema näitus „Aatomilinnad”, mis keskendus Paldiskile ja Sillamäele. Viimastel aastatel on ta uurinud oma loomingu kaudu piirilinna Narvat.
Eléonore de Montesquiou was born in 1970 in Paris, she lives in Berlin and Tallinn. Her work is based on a documentary approach, translated in films, drawings and texts. In 2006 her exhibition Atom Cities took place in the Linnagalerii in Tallinn which concentrated on Paldiski and Sillamäe. In recent years the topic of her artistic research has been the border town Narva.
Vt rohkem: / See more:
http://eleonoredemontesquiou.blogspot.com.ee
VABRIK, KREENHOLM

GAZETTE

NAINEhttps://vimeo.com/50283261

Olete oodatud!
You are welcome!

Architect Kristy Balliet to give an Open Lecture in Tallinn, focussing on volume in architecture

On December 1st at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Kristy Balliet (BairBalliet) at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Kristy Balliet is an architectural designer and assistant professor at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture. She is currently a design faculty member at SCI-Arc. She is the co-founder of BairBalliet and the co-chair of the Possible Mediums Project – a series of events showcasing design investigations based in speculative architectural mediums. From 2006-2011, Balliet was an assistant professor at The University of Applied Arts, Vienna in Studio Greg Lynn. While there she was the co-creator of the IoA Sliver lecture/gallery series and published the collected work of the studio in Visual Catalog: Greg Lynn’s Studio. She is a graduate of Philadelphia University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design and has practiced architecture in Philadelphia at Erdy McHenry Architecture. Kristy is currently editing the forthcoming publication Massive Attack, IoA Sliver Lecture Series-Selected Friends and Enemies.

From an interview Kristy Balliet gave to Modelo Blog: “Through several speculative projects, I became fascinated with the idea of looking at architecture primarily through the lens of volume: how architectural materials — walls, floors, grounds — collectively give us volume in architecture. The main design driver within my practice is looking and thinking about architecture through the lens of volumetric relationships. Whether that’s room to room, atrium to larger building context, outdoor room to indoor room — these questions of the relationships between inside/outside, one room to the next become primary questions within my design projects.”

More about Kristy Balliet: http://www.kristyballiet.com/
More about BairBalliet project for La Biennale di Venezia Architecture Exhibition USA pavillion: https://archpaper.com/2016/05/bairballiet-detroit-venice-biennale/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department.
Series 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

What’s ‘good’ design?
It’s so hard to be original.
We’re saturated, don’t we need less, so why design more?
How can we evolve truly unique ideas?
Should ‘good design’ be commercial or could it provide escapism and tempt us to ‘fly’ ?
We’ll examine, contradict, deconstruct, agree and disagree.

You’ll understand how a true designer thinks and be provided with tools to unravel idea generation and creativity as a process, which may then be applied to any design field.

Suitable for: Designers / Students, wanting to become a designer

About Basia Szkutnicka

Susie Menkes described her graduation collection as ‘a breath of fresh air’ in 1988.

Basia has in the last 25 years worked as a freelance design / creative consultant, forecaster, writer, commentator, course director, fashion design educator and run her own label, which provides her with a wealth of knowledge to pass on to this generation of designers to innovate and generate original work.

‘I teach reality, fashion ‘the way it is.

My aim is to excite, be realistic as well as fantastical, to re-energise and above all – wake people up.

Her books, ‘Technical Drawing for Fashion’ (an essential skill for any designer) and ‘Vintage Details: A fashion source book’, are available worldwide.

She is currently based in the UK and works as a freelance consultant. From January 2017, she will be based in Hong Kong as Professor of Practice (Fashion) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Leon van Schaik (RMIT) talking in Tallinn about differentiation within an innovative community of practice

On November 17th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture department is happy to welcome on stage of Kanuti Gildi SAAL prof Leon van Schaik from the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design. The Open Lecture series welcomes all architecture students from across Estonia, professionals of the field and general audience interested in architecture.

Professor Leon van Schaik, Innovation Professor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, promotes local and international architectural culture. His research focuses on creating and sustaining innovative communities of practice. His practice-based research program for architects and designers has become a ground breaking innovation in architectural education worldwide and an important template for research institutions. This approach considers innovative architectural practice as research in of itself, and has far-reaching consequences for how we view architectural practice in an academic context. Van Schaik was awarded the inaugural Neville Quarry Prize for Architectural Education and has been recognised an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his services to both architecture and education. Writings include monographs compiled on Edmond and Corrigan, Ushida Findlay, Guilford Bell, Tom Kovac, Poetics in Architecture, The Guthrie Pavilion, The Practice of Practice, and Sean Godsell. Publications include Mastering Architecture (2005), Design City Melbourne (2006) and Spatial Intelligence (2008), Procuring Innovative Architecture with Geoffrey London and Beth George (2010), By Practice By Design: Design Practice Research at RMIT (2011) and Meaning in Space: Housing the visual arts, or Architectures for Private Collections (2012). His most recent book, Practical Poetics in Architecture, was published by Wiley in April 2015.

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department.
Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee
FB-page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1003032906475473/

More info:
Pille Epner
arhitektuur@artun.ee

In connection with “Design Education 50: 9 Faces of Design Lecture Series” Wednesday 16th Nov, 2016 6.00pm
Venue: Apollo Bookstore, Solaris Centre, Estonia puiestee 9, 11314 Tallinn

The Estonian Academy of Arts cordially invites you to attend the launch event of Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age, recently published by Bloomsbury. The book presents an overview of the concept and role of craft in textile creation and digital technology and the current context and approach taken to the crafting of contemporary digital textiles.

Editors: Nithikul Nimkulrat (Estonian Academy of Arts, EE), Faith Kane (Massey University, NZ) and Kerry Walton (Loughborough University, UK).
Programme

6.00pm – 6.45pm
Welcome and presentations about textile design in the digital era by contributors to the book

Speakers

• Kerry Walton (Loughborough University, UK)
Title: New Creative Opportunities: Textiles, Education & Context

• Anne Louise Bang (Design School Kolding, DK),
Title: Hand Weaving, Digital Tools and Textile Design Education in Denmark

• Susan Carden (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Title: A Novel Process within Digitally Printed Textile Design

• Katherine Townsend (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Title:Closely Held Secrets: Embodied Knowledge in Fashion and Textile Practice

6.45pm – 7.00pm
An informal conversation chaired by Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat (Professor and Head of Department of Textile Design, Estonian Academy of Arts) exploring the themes addressed in the book and the future of textile design education

7.00pm – 7.10pm Q&A
7.10pm – 7.30pm Reception

About the Book
In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture between traditional craft processes and newer digital technologies. Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now elect to make use of digital processes in their work, but often choose not to abandon craft skills fundamental to their practice, and aim to balance the complex connection between craft and digital processes. The essays collected here consider this transition from the viewpoint of aesthetic opportunity arising in the textile designer’s hands-on experimentation with material and digital technologies available in the present.

For further information, see here
Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age Series of Public Lectures

During the week of the book launch, a series of the following public lectures will take place at the Estonian Academy of Arts’ main building (Estonia puiestee 7, 10143 Tallinn), 4th floor, room 440A

Tuesday 15.11, 3.40pm – 4.30pm Anne Louise Bang
Hand Weaving, Digital Tools and Textile Design Education in Denmark
How are the knowledge and practical experience of traditional processes, specifically hand skills, applied in the context of digital jacquard handloom weaving? This lecture discusses ways in which the introduction of a digital jacquard handloom at the Design School Kolding have influenced the textile design education and thereby the craft and practice of hand weaving in Denmark.

Weavers are generally trained in systematic thinking, as they need to operate traditional looms that require a highly organized way of working, threading warp ends on a number of shafts and inserting weft picks in an accurate order. Regarding the organization of weft yarns, countermarch looms have a number of treadles connected to the shafts, whereas manual or computerized dobby looms work with lift plans. This means that the weaver must understand the interaction between shafts and treadles or lift plans in order to achieve the desired woven pattern. All this changed when we got access to the digital jacquard handloom. With this it became possible to use the loom as a dynamic design tool in textile design education. The lecture will exemplify ways in which digital tools in combination with hand skills and expertise represent a great potential for professional development.

Tuesday 15.11, 4.40pm – 5.30pm Susan Carden
A Novel Process within Digitally Printed Textile Design
In her lecture ‘A Novel Process within Digitally Printed Textile Design’ Dr Susan Carden will be describing a new technique discovered during her practice-led doctoral study at the Glasgow School of Art. While working in the studio she noticed a range of textile samples that she had previously been crafting were extremely cool after a number of days. Following a series of experiments conducted at the Electrical Engineering Department of Glasgow University, this effect was found to be an endothermic reaction, a process that absorbs heat from the surrounding area. This new technique was created during the printing process and numerous potential applications were identified including uses in health, fashion and sports products.

Susan’s presentation will describe the stages this discovery took and the implications for both her study and practice-led projects in general when alternative research methods are required. The scientific nature of the discovery was also a challenge in an art school setting, and this will be explored with references to the methodologies and research techniques she needed to adopt in order to successfully complete her doctoral project.

Wednesday 16.11, 4.40pm – 5.30pm Katherine Townsend
Closely Held Secrets: Embodied Knowledge in Fashion and Textile Practice
This lecture provides an overview of Closely Held Secrets, a research project and exhibition inspired by the hidden working relationship between the artist Grayson Perry and artisan Tony Taylor, which was adopted as a model by a group of individual artists/designers to explore digital embroidery as a new media. It will also discuss emerging methodologies and outcomes from current collaborative research projects that Katherine is involved in:Crafting Anatomies, The Electric Corset and Emotional Fit, which draw upon concealed material resources and embodied human interactions to inform design innovation.

Thursday 17.11, 4.40pm – 5.30pm – Kerry Walton
Technology, Tradition, Transition: Defining and Negotiating New Pathways in Contemporary Textile Design Education.
Change defines the modern world and Textile practitioners have always adapted to and ultimately thrived in response to the adaptation of new technologies. The fast pace of change in the last 2 decades, largely driven by the wide availability of digital media, and production capability within a broader global context, has necessitated a swift response by educational institutions, and significant reflection on where the priorities might lie for our students. With experience of design education spanning 5 decades I will be mapping a journey through this changing terrain, both as educator, researcher and practitioner, reflecting on the integration of traditional craft skills, digital opportunities and the ability of drawing to facilitate this relationship.
Speakers’ Biographies
Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat
Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat intertwines research with textile practice, focusing on experiential knowledge in craft processes in the design research context. Her PhD research completed in 2009 at Aalto University examines the expressivity of textile material that is beyond visible, touchable qualities. Nithikul has worked at Aalto University (2004–10) and Loughborough University (2011–2013), and is currently Professor and Head of Department of Textile Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Kerry Walton
Kerry Walton
Kerry Walton is the Programme Director for Textiles: Innovation & Design, at Loughborough University, rated 1st in the UK for Fashion and Textiles (The Guardian University Guide 2017). Her current research explores the relationship between drawing and textiles, both within her own practice and within the scope of a contemporary Textiles education.

Dr. Anne Louise Bang
Dr. Anne Louise Bang
Dr Anne Louise Bang is an Associate Professor at Design School Kolding in Denmark. She earned her PhD in 2011 with the thesis Emotional Value of Applied Textiles. Bang was educated as a textile designer in 1994, and before entering academia around 2007 she worked with textile art, freelance design and as a lecturer.

Dr Susan Carden
Dr Susan Carden
Dr Susan Carden is an Assistant Professor in Textile Design at Heriot-Watt University and a Visiting Lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art’s Graduate School.Her monograph Digital Textile Printing: Art, Design, Culture describes the historical and cultural context from which digital textile printing emerged and engages critically with the many issues it raises.

Dr Katherine Townsend
Dr Katherine Townsend
Dr Katherine Townsend is a Reader in Fashion and Textile Crafts at Nottingham Trent University. Her current research projects, Emotional Fit and The Electric Corset explore design issues in fashion and aging and the use of costume archives to inform interactive wearable technology. She is a supervisor and external examiner for PhD theses on digital crafting approaches, including 3D knitting and weaving, laser cutting and sustainable fashion and textile design. She has co-curated various exhibitions, including: Metallic Sound, Closely Held Secrets and Crafting Anatomies. Since 2010 she has acted as co-editor of the journal of Craft Research (Intellect).

* The book launch and series of public lectures are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

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Bernhard Sommer and Galo Moncayo Open Lecture to focus on energy efficient future cities

On November 3rd at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Bernhard Sommer from Exikon and architect and installation artist Galo Moncayo at Estonian Architecture Centre (Kultuurikatel, Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn). Sommer teaches energy design at one of the most exciting architecture schools in the world, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, and leads Exikon arc & dev architecture office, dedicated to the application of cutting-edge planning and building technology. Moncayo is an established installation artist and architect who teaches at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. Open Lecture Series welcome all architecture students from across Estonia, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

From this academic year, and with generous help from Merko construction company, Sommer will also be teaching at the Estonian Academy of Art architecture department. In his Open Lecture, Sommer will explain how energy design can fundamentally change the way future cities are designed. In Estonia, the prevailing method of raising energy efficiency of a building has been dealt with by adding energy efficient components and materials to a project, whereas Sommer guides his students to employ smart spatial geometry to make cities and buildings more efficient. Sommer’s architecture office, Exikon arc & dev in Vienna, is dedicated to the application of cutting-edge planning and building technology. Its aim is the integration of scientific findings into the design process.

Bernhard Sommer teaches energy design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and has been a visiting professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. Sommer also teaches building physics and holds seminars on sustainable design at the Technical University of Graz, the University of Cagliari and in the context of the Master Program Urban Strategies. In 2000, he has been awarded the Arch + Prize 2000, in 2002, the Schindler Scholarship of the MAK Center in Los Angeles. There he developed the transforming „desert cloud“ project that later was exhibited in West Hollywood and Vienna.

Galo Moncayo is an installation artist and architect currently teaching in the Energy Design Department at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as a Assistant Professor in the Experimental Architecture Department at Innsbruck University. He has exhibited throughout the United States including in New York, and in Germany, Mexico, Austria, Spain and has been invited as a visiting artist/ lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, The George Washington University, among other universities in North America and in Germany, Mexico, Austria and Ecuador. Galo Moncayo received a Magister of Architecture from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the Zaha Hadid Master Class, a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in the United States.

More about Exikon: http://www.exikon.at/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. The architecture department would also like to thank Merko for their support for this event.

Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee

More info:
Pille Epner
arhitektuur@artun.ee

+372 642 0071

This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Julia.

MARTTA TUOMAALA: Artistic methods for making a difference
On Wednesday, 19 October at 5 pm there will be an open lecture Artistic methods for making a difference by Finnish artist and filmmaker Martta Tuomaala. She is the guest lecturer at the graphic art and installation/sculpture departments at the autumn semester. The lecture will take place at EKA Lembitu 10B building in room no 144
Martta Tuomaala (b. 1983) is a visual artist, currently living and working in Helsinki. She gained a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Aalto University, School of Arts and Architecture in 2014.

Tuomaala is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses mainly on various forms of film, video and socially engaged art. Her works deals with social, societal structures and power relations. Tuomaala has been working in several low-paid sectors, which has made a strong impact in her artistic practice. The main focus of her interest is work: research of working culture, working conditions, labor struggles, workers’ rights and different forms of organizing, especially in the low-paid and precarious women-dominated fields. One of her biggest projects Cleaner’s Voice, which combines different methods of artistic practice and militant research, consists of a 16-channel installation which is based on the interviews of cleaners.

Currently she is working on a project Finn-Spinning-Soumi-Perkele! dealing with generalized ideas of ‘Finnishness’, precarious work and the effects of austerity politics in Finland.

More information:

www.marttatuomaala.com
www.facebook.com/cleanersvoice

Olete oodatud!
You are warmly welcome!

We are glad to inform You about an upcoming open lecture in the Department of Art Education expanding upon the topic “Perspectives on art education in today’s global economy”.

Lecturers: Tomaž Zupančič, Professor at the Faculty of Education, University in Maribor, Slovenia
and
Jan van Boeckel, Professor in Art Pedagogy at the Faculty of Art and Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts

In our conversation we bring together the themes of art, art education and economy. Some people would hold that art is only worthwhile if it is completely interest-free (“l’art pour l’art”). But what happens when one engages with art for purposes that are external to its supposed own domain, for example when artmaking becomes an instrument to seek economic gains, to draw a spicy personal career plan or even to push society into a more sustainable direction? Is it still art then? And what are the implications of our views on this issue for the kind of art education we provide to young people?

Time: Wednesday 19 October, 12.30-14.30

Place: Estonian Academy of Arts,
Department of Art Education, Room 103, Suur-Kloostri 11, Tallinn

Info: Helen Arov (helen.arov@artun.ee)

Hope to see You soon!
Department of Art Education