Category: Architecture and Urban Design

11.09.2026 — 11.10.2026

“STUDIO” at EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026

“STUDIO: EKA Architecture and Urban Planning Graduation Projects 2004–2026”
EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026
Open Tue–Sat 12–6 pm Sun 12–4 pm
Opening: Friday, September 11 at 6 pm

Architecture is one of the disciplines through which societies imagine alternatives to present conditions. In Estonia too, architecture students have for decades asked in their graduation projects what other lives could be possible for us. Characteristically for the discipline, answers have been sought through imaginative representations – drawings, models and texts.

The graduation project, a creative genre in which realisation is not expected, has allowed students to wander and stake out a place of their own in this strange territory between hard reality and pure imagination, starting from existing conditions, yet able to play out possibilities more freely, sometimes well beyond the bounds of realism.

From 2004 to 2026, EKA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Planning has supervised this work in the studio format. “STUDIO” situates this format within the broader history of architectural education and practice-based research, while looking back at the rich archive of graduation projects that have accumulated over these years. What have successive cohorts considered worthy of attention, investigation and change? What architectural responses have they imagined? And what role has the studio played in shaping such inquiry?

Curators: Eik Hermann, Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, EKA)
Exhibition design: Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis
Design of light boxes: Raul Kalvo (InPhysica Technology)
Graphic design: Stuudio Stuudio
Technical support: Ats Kruusing, Eugenio Marini, Éric-Olivier Thériault-Raymond

Thanks: all the supervisors and students of the EKA department of Architecture and Urban Planning 2004–2026, Sander Haugas, Oliver Kanniste, Mikk-Mait Kivi, Jevgeni Krassi, Priit Kõiv, Tiina Tammet, Avo Tragel

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn City and Sadolin Estonia.
Opening drinks from mirai™ and Põhjala Brewery.

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“STUDIO” at EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026

Friday 11 September, 2026 — Sunday 11 October, 2026

“STUDIO: EKA Architecture and Urban Planning Graduation Projects 2004–2026”
EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026
Open Tue–Sat 12–6 pm Sun 12–4 pm
Opening: Friday, September 11 at 6 pm

Architecture is one of the disciplines through which societies imagine alternatives to present conditions. In Estonia too, architecture students have for decades asked in their graduation projects what other lives could be possible for us. Characteristically for the discipline, answers have been sought through imaginative representations – drawings, models and texts.

The graduation project, a creative genre in which realisation is not expected, has allowed students to wander and stake out a place of their own in this strange territory between hard reality and pure imagination, starting from existing conditions, yet able to play out possibilities more freely, sometimes well beyond the bounds of realism.

From 2004 to 2026, EKA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Planning has supervised this work in the studio format. “STUDIO” situates this format within the broader history of architectural education and practice-based research, while looking back at the rich archive of graduation projects that have accumulated over these years. What have successive cohorts considered worthy of attention, investigation and change? What architectural responses have they imagined? And what role has the studio played in shaping such inquiry?

Curators: Eik Hermann, Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, EKA)
Exhibition design: Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis
Design of light boxes: Raul Kalvo (InPhysica Technology)
Graphic design: Stuudio Stuudio
Technical support: Ats Kruusing, Eugenio Marini, Éric-Olivier Thériault-Raymond

Thanks: all the supervisors and students of the EKA department of Architecture and Urban Planning 2004–2026, Sander Haugas, Oliver Kanniste, Mikk-Mait Kivi, Jevgeni Krassi, Priit Kõiv, Tiina Tammet, Avo Tragel

The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn City and Sadolin Estonia.
Opening drinks from mirai™ and Põhjala Brewery.

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10.09.2026

EKA Arh Conference 2026 — “To Be Continued…”

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EKA Arh 2026 1920x1080 digiekraan

EKA Arh Conference 2026 “To Be Continued….From Scattered Facts to Shared Concerns

10 September 2026

EKA Arh Conference 2026 takes place as Day 1 of the two-day Tallinn Architecture Biennial TAB Symposium.

Tickets for the EKA Architecture Conference and the entire TAB Symposium can be purchased on Fienta.

Event on Facebook · LinkedIn


The 2026 EKA Arh Conference focuses on one of the central questions facing architecture and urban development today: how do we move forward when starting from scratch is no longer a viable option? While knowledge about climate transition, resource limits, and the built environment is abundant, translating that knowledge into collective action remains a challenge. Rather than asking only what comes next, the conference asks what can and should continue.

Across urban, building, and material scales, international speakers and researchers explore adaptation, reuse, and transformation in the built environment. The programme brings together perspectives from architecture, planning, construction, and research to discuss how existing places, buildings, and resources can support meaningful change, and how scattered knowledge can become shared concerns capable of shaping long-term action.

Participants can earn 10 Estonian Architects Union continuing professional development (CPD) credits for attending the conference.

Programme

09:30–09:45

Opening Words

09:45–10:30

Transformation Keynote

Aleksi Neuvonen (Demos Helsinki, Finland)
From Fragmentation to New Norm(ative)

Climate action in cities is pulled in different directions by varied priorities, worldviews, data sources, and levels of ambition. Shared, time-bound climate and carbon neutrality goals have helped, giving everyone a common target. But a goal alone isn’t enough. Every city’s material culture (buildings, infrastructures, technologies) shapes not just how it behaves today, but what future it can imagine. Because different cities inherit different material cultures, often shaped by past technology and finance decisions, they move towards the future at different speeds. The challenge is building a shared direction that still recognizes these differences.

10:30–10:45 — Coffee Break


Parallel Session I

10:45–12:15

Spatial and Architectural Transformation

Location: Main Hall
Chair: Kaja Pae

This session explores processes of spatial transformation across urban and architectural scales, examining how cities, landscapes, and built environments adapt to changing social, ecological, and cultural conditions. Contributions address themes such as urban restructuring, adaptive reuse, spatial continuity, and the relationship between territorial systems, public space, and architectural intervention.

Ivana Angelova
Farms and Buried Rivers as Connective Infrastructure in Nerima, Tokyo
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University

Elina Liiva
Architectural Practice and Institutional Systems in Transition
Estonian Academy of Arts

Jaak-Adam Looveer
How E-Scooters Made Tallinn Cycle: Induced Disruption as a Planning Strategy
Estonian Academy of Arts

Helmi Marie Langsepp
Energy as Site: Place-Responsive Renewable Energy Infrastructure in Baltic Sea Edge Conditions
Tallinn University of Technology

Gizem Bakioğlu Apaydın
Futures Foreclosed: Scenario Thinking and Urban Design in Post-Disaster Antakya
Istanbul Technical University

Soenke Zehle and Dan Dubowitz
Sounding Archipelagic Imaginaries: Holding Relations of Sense and Care across Stranded Sites
K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik / HBKsaar

In parallel

Prefabrication, Retrofit, and Adaptive Reuse

Location: Monumental Studio
Chair: Siim Tuksam

This session examines prefabricated and industrialized approaches to the transformation of existing buildings and urban fabric. Contributions explore themes such as adaptive reuse, modular retrofit systems, circular renovation strategies, and the extension of building lifecycles, addressing how contemporary construction methods can support more sustainable and resource-conscious forms of spatial transformation.

Chieh-Hsuan Jasmy Chen
Multi-Resolution Fabrication: A Notation-to-Fabrication Framework for Volumetric Point Printing
University of Innsbruck

Andriy Golovchenko
Designing for Continuity: Environmental and Production-Informed Development of the 3Cycle Modular Timber System for Crisis Response and Long-Term Reconstruction
Estonian Academy of Arts

Kaiko Kivi
Topological Modelling for Design–Fabrication Continuity: A Case Study in CLT Panel Systems
Estonian Academy of Arts

Alvin Järving
Building Longevity as a Heterogeneous Design Question: Mapping Preservation and Transformation Across Scales
Estonian Academy of Arts

Katrin Stöhr
The Seasonal Plan: Spatial Gradients and Seasonal Patterns of Inhabitation
University of Innsbruck

Anni Martin
The Bar We Set: Making Architectural Critique Actionable in Mass-Housing Renovation
Estonian Ministry of Climate


12:15–13:15

Lunch


13:15–14:00

Adaptation Keynote

Hiroto Kobayashi (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Do-It-Together-Anyway: Design-Build Action toward Participatory Architecture
The Veneer House Project, developed by Hiroto Kobayashi and the Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University, is an affordable, participatory architecture system using CNC-fabricated plywood panels. Inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, its interlocking components can be assembled and disassembled without specialized tools, nails, or heavy hardware. Originally conceived after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the project enables communities, students, architects, and volunteers to build flexible and resilient shelters and community spaces together. Adaptable to local climates and cultures, Veneer House projects have been realized in Japan and internationally, exploring new possibilities for self-build, disaster recovery, and community empowerment.

14:00–14:15 — Coffee Break


Parallel Session II

14:15–15:45

Material Systems and Circular Construction

Location: EKA Main Hall
Chair: Sille Pihlak

This session focuses on material systems, construction processes, and circular approaches to the built environment. Contributions examine themes such as material reuse, prefabrication, tectonics, fabrication methods, and resource-aware design strategies, addressing how construction systems can support more adaptive and sustainable spatial practices.

Xiao Wang
Abductive Reasoning for Bio-digital Computational Design: Generating Relations Across Fragmented Nonhuman Domains
University of Innsbruck

Samantha Ratanarat
Building with Byproducts: Circular Construction and Land Use in the Plantation Landscapes of Southern Thailand
MIT

Kateřina Klímová
Pop-up Learning Landscape: Towards a Modern Educational Environment Through Furnishing Rather Than Construction
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

Eva Toom
Building an Unfinished Transition: Negotiating Bioconstruction, Local Practices and Habitability in a Rural Off-Grid House in Southern Chile
Ecotectura

Muchen Yan
Rubbles: Material Features as Design Data
University of Innsbruck

In parallel

Participatory Planning and Urban Transformation

Location: EKA Monumental studio
Chair: Panu Lehtovuori

This session explores participatory approaches to urban transformation through digital mapping, GIS-based spatial analysis, and collaborative planning tools. Contributions address themes such as tactical urban interventions, community engagement, and urban greening strategies, examining how localized actions and participatory processes can inform broader spatial and policy frameworks and vice versa.

Juulia Aliide Salulaid
Between Rules and Practice: Emergent Practices in Urban Planning Systems
Tallinn University of Technology

Kimmo Lylykangas
Climate Jeopardy: Representational Mismatch in Urban Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Tallinn University of Technology

Milda Kuraitytė and Gediminas Viliūnas
From Visual Graph Analysis to Eye-Tracking Stimuli: A Methodological Framework for Three Urban Genotypes
Vilnius Academy of Arts

Antti Heinonen
Immersive Co-Design as Posthumanist Pedagogy: A Studio Study of Collaborative XR Sketching
LAB University of Applied Sciences

Chiara Chioni
From UTOPIA to Practice: Technology-Mediated Participation for Climate-Responsive Public Spaces
Aalto University

Hawke Gihm
Between Compliance and Character: Architectural Diversity Under Carbon Limits
Tallinn University of Technology


15:45–16:00

Coffee Break

16:00–16:45

Panel Discussion

16:45–17:00

Closing Words

EKA Arh Conference 2026 forms the first half of the two-day Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Symposium. We thank our partners and supporters: the Estonian Centre for Architecture, TAB, the City of Tallinn, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Research Council, and the Estonian Doctoral School. The project “University Cooperation in Promoting Doctoral Studies” (2021-2027.4.04.24-0003) is co-funded by the European Union.

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EKA Arh Conference 2026 — “To Be Continued…”

Thursday 10 September, 2026

EKA Arh 2026 1920x1080 digiekraan
EKA Arh 2026 1920x1080 digiekraan

EKA Arh Conference 2026 “To Be Continued….From Scattered Facts to Shared Concerns

10 September 2026

EKA Arh Conference 2026 takes place as Day 1 of the two-day Tallinn Architecture Biennial TAB Symposium.

Tickets for the EKA Architecture Conference and the entire TAB Symposium can be purchased on Fienta.

Event on Facebook · LinkedIn


The 2026 EKA Arh Conference focuses on one of the central questions facing architecture and urban development today: how do we move forward when starting from scratch is no longer a viable option? While knowledge about climate transition, resource limits, and the built environment is abundant, translating that knowledge into collective action remains a challenge. Rather than asking only what comes next, the conference asks what can and should continue.

Across urban, building, and material scales, international speakers and researchers explore adaptation, reuse, and transformation in the built environment. The programme brings together perspectives from architecture, planning, construction, and research to discuss how existing places, buildings, and resources can support meaningful change, and how scattered knowledge can become shared concerns capable of shaping long-term action.

Participants can earn 10 Estonian Architects Union continuing professional development (CPD) credits for attending the conference.

Programme

09:30–09:45

Opening Words

09:45–10:30

Transformation Keynote

Aleksi Neuvonen (Demos Helsinki, Finland)
From Fragmentation to New Norm(ative)

Climate action in cities is pulled in different directions by varied priorities, worldviews, data sources, and levels of ambition. Shared, time-bound climate and carbon neutrality goals have helped, giving everyone a common target. But a goal alone isn’t enough. Every city’s material culture (buildings, infrastructures, technologies) shapes not just how it behaves today, but what future it can imagine. Because different cities inherit different material cultures, often shaped by past technology and finance decisions, they move towards the future at different speeds. The challenge is building a shared direction that still recognizes these differences.

10:30–10:45 — Coffee Break


Parallel Session I

10:45–12:15

Spatial and Architectural Transformation

Location: Main Hall
Chair: Kaja Pae

This session explores processes of spatial transformation across urban and architectural scales, examining how cities, landscapes, and built environments adapt to changing social, ecological, and cultural conditions. Contributions address themes such as urban restructuring, adaptive reuse, spatial continuity, and the relationship between territorial systems, public space, and architectural intervention.

Ivana Angelova
Farms and Buried Rivers as Connective Infrastructure in Nerima, Tokyo
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University

Elina Liiva
Architectural Practice and Institutional Systems in Transition
Estonian Academy of Arts

Jaak-Adam Looveer
How E-Scooters Made Tallinn Cycle: Induced Disruption as a Planning Strategy
Estonian Academy of Arts

Helmi Marie Langsepp
Energy as Site: Place-Responsive Renewable Energy Infrastructure in Baltic Sea Edge Conditions
Tallinn University of Technology

Gizem Bakioğlu Apaydın
Futures Foreclosed: Scenario Thinking and Urban Design in Post-Disaster Antakya
Istanbul Technical University

Soenke Zehle and Dan Dubowitz
Sounding Archipelagic Imaginaries: Holding Relations of Sense and Care across Stranded Sites
K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik / HBKsaar

In parallel

Prefabrication, Retrofit, and Adaptive Reuse

Location: Monumental Studio
Chair: Siim Tuksam

This session examines prefabricated and industrialized approaches to the transformation of existing buildings and urban fabric. Contributions explore themes such as adaptive reuse, modular retrofit systems, circular renovation strategies, and the extension of building lifecycles, addressing how contemporary construction methods can support more sustainable and resource-conscious forms of spatial transformation.

Chieh-Hsuan Jasmy Chen
Multi-Resolution Fabrication: A Notation-to-Fabrication Framework for Volumetric Point Printing
University of Innsbruck

Andriy Golovchenko
Designing for Continuity: Environmental and Production-Informed Development of the 3Cycle Modular Timber System for Crisis Response and Long-Term Reconstruction
Estonian Academy of Arts

Kaiko Kivi
Topological Modelling for Design–Fabrication Continuity: A Case Study in CLT Panel Systems
Estonian Academy of Arts

Alvin Järving
Building Longevity as a Heterogeneous Design Question: Mapping Preservation and Transformation Across Scales
Estonian Academy of Arts

Katrin Stöhr
The Seasonal Plan: Spatial Gradients and Seasonal Patterns of Inhabitation
University of Innsbruck

Anni Martin
The Bar We Set: Making Architectural Critique Actionable in Mass-Housing Renovation
Estonian Ministry of Climate


12:15–13:15

Lunch


13:15–14:00

Adaptation Keynote

Hiroto Kobayashi (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Do-It-Together-Anyway: Design-Build Action toward Participatory Architecture
The Veneer House Project, developed by Hiroto Kobayashi and the Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University, is an affordable, participatory architecture system using CNC-fabricated plywood panels. Inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, its interlocking components can be assembled and disassembled without specialized tools, nails, or heavy hardware. Originally conceived after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the project enables communities, students, architects, and volunteers to build flexible and resilient shelters and community spaces together. Adaptable to local climates and cultures, Veneer House projects have been realized in Japan and internationally, exploring new possibilities for self-build, disaster recovery, and community empowerment.

14:00–14:15 — Coffee Break


Parallel Session II

14:15–15:45

Material Systems and Circular Construction

Location: EKA Main Hall
Chair: Sille Pihlak

This session focuses on material systems, construction processes, and circular approaches to the built environment. Contributions examine themes such as material reuse, prefabrication, tectonics, fabrication methods, and resource-aware design strategies, addressing how construction systems can support more adaptive and sustainable spatial practices.

Xiao Wang
Abductive Reasoning for Bio-digital Computational Design: Generating Relations Across Fragmented Nonhuman Domains
University of Innsbruck

Samantha Ratanarat
Building with Byproducts: Circular Construction and Land Use in the Plantation Landscapes of Southern Thailand
MIT

Kateřina Klímová
Pop-up Learning Landscape: Towards a Modern Educational Environment Through Furnishing Rather Than Construction
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

Eva Toom
Building an Unfinished Transition: Negotiating Bioconstruction, Local Practices and Habitability in a Rural Off-Grid House in Southern Chile
Ecotectura

Muchen Yan
Rubbles: Material Features as Design Data
University of Innsbruck

In parallel

Participatory Planning and Urban Transformation

Location: EKA Monumental studio
Chair: Panu Lehtovuori

This session explores participatory approaches to urban transformation through digital mapping, GIS-based spatial analysis, and collaborative planning tools. Contributions address themes such as tactical urban interventions, community engagement, and urban greening strategies, examining how localized actions and participatory processes can inform broader spatial and policy frameworks and vice versa.

Juulia Aliide Salulaid
Between Rules and Practice: Emergent Practices in Urban Planning Systems
Tallinn University of Technology

Kimmo Lylykangas
Climate Jeopardy: Representational Mismatch in Urban Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Tallinn University of Technology

Milda Kuraitytė and Gediminas Viliūnas
From Visual Graph Analysis to Eye-Tracking Stimuli: A Methodological Framework for Three Urban Genotypes
Vilnius Academy of Arts

Antti Heinonen
Immersive Co-Design as Posthumanist Pedagogy: A Studio Study of Collaborative XR Sketching
LAB University of Applied Sciences

Chiara Chioni
From UTOPIA to Practice: Technology-Mediated Participation for Climate-Responsive Public Spaces
Aalto University

Hawke Gihm
Between Compliance and Character: Architectural Diversity Under Carbon Limits
Tallinn University of Technology


15:45–16:00

Coffee Break

16:00–16:45

Panel Discussion

16:45–17:00

Closing Words

EKA Arh Conference 2026 forms the first half of the two-day Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Symposium. We thank our partners and supporters: the Estonian Centre for Architecture, TAB, the City of Tallinn, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Research Council, and the Estonian Doctoral School. The project “University Cooperation in Promoting Doctoral Studies” (2021-2027.4.04.24-0003) is co-funded by the European Union.

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27.08.2026

Seminar: Circular and Modular Construction Systems for Small Structures

At the seminar, we will introduce Met(s)aRING, a joint research and development project by EKA PAKK (Estonian Academy of Arts) and RMK (State Forest Management Centre), which aims to develop a circular and modular construction system for RMK’s visitor infrastructure, including small-scale structures and cabins.

The project explores how infrastructure can be designed to be adaptable, upgradable, and reusable over time. The focus is on recurring standardized timber components, the use of production residues, and solutions that reduce material consumption, simplify maintenance, and extend the lifespan of structures.

The aim of the seminar is to gather practical feedback from builders and manufacturers on the applicability of the system currently under development. We will discuss how standardized or flexible a construction system should be, the opportunities for using reclaimed or lower-grade timber, and how procurement models and collaboration frameworks influence the implementation of sustainable solutions.

You can register for the event HERE!

PROGRAMME

27 August 2026, 9:30–12:30
EKA White Building (Kotzebue 10, Tallinn)

9:30 Introduction to the ongoing research project, RMK’s long-term goals and ambitions (RMK)

9:45 Eight Design Principles for Visitor Infrastructure Design (EKA)

10:00 Introduction to the Construction System (EKA)

10:15 The Use of Underutilized and Lower-Value Timber in Construction (TalTech)

10:30 Coffee Break and Introduction to the Construction System Prototype

11:00–12:30 Workshop

Research at EKA PAKK is co-funded by the European Union and the Estonian Research Council through the project “PUUSTER: Development of Methods for Valorising Underutilized Timber and Wood Materials in Construction” (TEM-TA80).

This event is part of the Adapter Network Collaboration Club Series, a platform where researchers, companies, and representatives of the public and private sectors come together to engage in meaningful discussions and explore opportunities for collaboration. You can find all Adapter Collaboration Clubs here.

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Seminar: Circular and Modular Construction Systems for Small Structures

Thursday 27 August, 2026

At the seminar, we will introduce Met(s)aRING, a joint research and development project by EKA PAKK (Estonian Academy of Arts) and RMK (State Forest Management Centre), which aims to develop a circular and modular construction system for RMK’s visitor infrastructure, including small-scale structures and cabins.

The project explores how infrastructure can be designed to be adaptable, upgradable, and reusable over time. The focus is on recurring standardized timber components, the use of production residues, and solutions that reduce material consumption, simplify maintenance, and extend the lifespan of structures.

The aim of the seminar is to gather practical feedback from builders and manufacturers on the applicability of the system currently under development. We will discuss how standardized or flexible a construction system should be, the opportunities for using reclaimed or lower-grade timber, and how procurement models and collaboration frameworks influence the implementation of sustainable solutions.

You can register for the event HERE!

PROGRAMME

27 August 2026, 9:30–12:30
EKA White Building (Kotzebue 10, Tallinn)

9:30 Introduction to the ongoing research project, RMK’s long-term goals and ambitions (RMK)

9:45 Eight Design Principles for Visitor Infrastructure Design (EKA)

10:00 Introduction to the Construction System (EKA)

10:15 The Use of Underutilized and Lower-Value Timber in Construction (TalTech)

10:30 Coffee Break and Introduction to the Construction System Prototype

11:00–12:30 Workshop

Research at EKA PAKK is co-funded by the European Union and the Estonian Research Council through the project “PUUSTER: Development of Methods for Valorising Underutilized Timber and Wood Materials in Construction” (TEM-TA80).

This event is part of the Adapter Network Collaboration Club Series, a platform where researchers, companies, and representatives of the public and private sectors come together to engage in meaningful discussions and explore opportunities for collaboration. You can find all Adapter Collaboration Clubs here.

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30.04.2026

KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Emma Cheatle “Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity “

Emma Cheatle FHD_Emma Cheatle 13-11-25

New Date!

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

Architecture will be addressed from the perspective of the ethics of care: how does architecture take care of people’s physical, emotional and social needs, both today and in a historical perspective?

On April 3oth at 6 pm Dr Emma Cheatle will give a lecture “Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity”.

This research, and my book of the same name, studies the spatial, architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity (lying in) spaces and buildings and a creative exploration of those that we use today.

Where conventional architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the objectification of the maternal body), the book presents a creative-critical autotheory of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist, subjective modes of thinking, which travel across disciplines, registers and arguments. The research assesses the transformation of maternity spaces—from the female bedchamber of the eighteenth-century marital home, to the lying-in hospitals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries purpose built by man-midwives, to the late-twentieth-century spaces of home and the modern hospital maternity wing—and the parallel shifts in maternal practices. The spaces are not treated as mute or neutral backdrops to maternal history, but as a series of vital, entangled atmospheres, materials, practices and objects that are produced by, and, in turn, produce particular social and political conditions, gendered structures and experiences.

Moving across spaces, systems, protagonists and their subjectivities, I show how historic hospital design and protocol altered ordinary birth at home and continues to shape maternal spatial experience today.

Dr Emma Cheatle is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University of Sheffield. She trained as an architect in the UK and has a PhD in Architecture from the Bartlett, UCL which was awarded RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2014. Her research is interdisciplinary and examines the political, cultural and social implications of architecture, art and urban space, with a particular interest in addressing health, gender, race and disability inequalities. Her monograph Part-Architecture: The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris (Routledge 2017) is a complex architectural humanities project, which engages critical and creative writing and drawing to analyse the building the Maison de Verre and the artwork “the Large Glass”, placing new primary and archival material in the context of social, sexual and medical histories of 1920s and 30s Paris. Her second book, Lying in the Dark Room: the Architectures of British Maternity (Routledge 2024), examines how the spatial histories of lying-in and maternal practices continue to shape the maternal body today. Emma is the UK Editor for the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2015 (Bloomsbury 2025), and part of several feminist projects including the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC). Her collaboration with Hélène Frichot, University of Melbourne, led to a major edited collection of articles on the feminist theorist Jennifer Bloomer, for the Journal of Architecture (2024).

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series is organised in collaboration between the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture, and is connected to the research project Built environments of care from the late Socialist to post-Socialist Estonia (PSG 2025–2029).

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

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KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Emma Cheatle “Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity “

Thursday 30 April, 2026

Emma Cheatle FHD_Emma Cheatle 13-11-25

New Date!

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

Architecture will be addressed from the perspective of the ethics of care: how does architecture take care of people’s physical, emotional and social needs, both today and in a historical perspective?

On April 3oth at 6 pm Dr Emma Cheatle will give a lecture “Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity”.

This research, and my book of the same name, studies the spatial, architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity (lying in) spaces and buildings and a creative exploration of those that we use today.

Where conventional architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the objectification of the maternal body), the book presents a creative-critical autotheory of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist, subjective modes of thinking, which travel across disciplines, registers and arguments. The research assesses the transformation of maternity spaces—from the female bedchamber of the eighteenth-century marital home, to the lying-in hospitals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries purpose built by man-midwives, to the late-twentieth-century spaces of home and the modern hospital maternity wing—and the parallel shifts in maternal practices. The spaces are not treated as mute or neutral backdrops to maternal history, but as a series of vital, entangled atmospheres, materials, practices and objects that are produced by, and, in turn, produce particular social and political conditions, gendered structures and experiences.

Moving across spaces, systems, protagonists and their subjectivities, I show how historic hospital design and protocol altered ordinary birth at home and continues to shape maternal spatial experience today.

Dr Emma Cheatle is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University of Sheffield. She trained as an architect in the UK and has a PhD in Architecture from the Bartlett, UCL which was awarded RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2014. Her research is interdisciplinary and examines the political, cultural and social implications of architecture, art and urban space, with a particular interest in addressing health, gender, race and disability inequalities. Her monograph Part-Architecture: The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris (Routledge 2017) is a complex architectural humanities project, which engages critical and creative writing and drawing to analyse the building the Maison de Verre and the artwork “the Large Glass”, placing new primary and archival material in the context of social, sexual and medical histories of 1920s and 30s Paris. Her second book, Lying in the Dark Room: the Architectures of British Maternity (Routledge 2024), examines how the spatial histories of lying-in and maternal practices continue to shape the maternal body today. Emma is the UK Editor for the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2015 (Bloomsbury 2025), and part of several feminist projects including the Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC). Her collaboration with Hélène Frichot, University of Melbourne, led to a major edited collection of articles on the feminist theorist Jennifer Bloomer, for the Journal of Architecture (2024).

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series is organised in collaboration between the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture, and is connected to the research project Built environments of care from the late Socialist to post-Socialist Estonia (PSG 2025–2029).

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

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09.04.2026

KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Katarina Bonnevier “Living Organisms”

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

On April 9 at 6 pm Katarina Bonnevier will give a lecture “Living Organisms – Queerying Architecture with Trolls and Clay” at EKA lecture hall A-101.

She says: Let’s go on a date with my Heartlands. The talk will depart from a Pit of Clay, wander through the Secret Garden and into the Living Legend of the former casino in Malmö. A site that me and my pack MYCKET are courting right now. In my practice I engage with folklore, legends, and the unhuman to imagine relational futures – because the visions of trolls are sometimes helpful to overcome the technocrats’ devastating business as usual.  

Dr. Katarina Bonnevier practices through the art and architecture collective MYCKET working with co-creation across species, across disciplines, and across realities. Their practice blends artistic research (supported by Swedish Research Council and Linnaeus University) with hands-on making of public places, installations, and social situations. An architect by training, Bonnevier connects queer and feminist perspectives with ecological care and spatial justice through storytelling and hands-on crafting.

MYCKETs work has received national and international recognition, including the Ganneviksstipendiet (2021), and Architectural Review’s and the Architects’ Journal’s joint W-award (2024) for Heaven by MYCKET at Oslo National Museum. Her dissertation Behind Straight Curtains: Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture (Stockholm: Axl Books, 2007) from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, is available open access (DiVA portal, more than 35 000 downloads). In her early career she was engaged in Kalamaja, Tallinn, and was awarded the National Endowment of Estonia’s Cultural Prize for Young Architects (1995).

Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

Spring programme:

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series is organised in collaboration between the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture, and is connected to the research project Built environments of care from the late Socialist to post-Socialist Estonia (PSG 2025–2029).

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

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KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Katarina Bonnevier “Living Organisms”

Thursday 09 April, 2026

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

On April 9 at 6 pm Katarina Bonnevier will give a lecture “Living Organisms – Queerying Architecture with Trolls and Clay” at EKA lecture hall A-101.

She says: Let’s go on a date with my Heartlands. The talk will depart from a Pit of Clay, wander through the Secret Garden and into the Living Legend of the former casino in Malmö. A site that me and my pack MYCKET are courting right now. In my practice I engage with folklore, legends, and the unhuman to imagine relational futures – because the visions of trolls are sometimes helpful to overcome the technocrats’ devastating business as usual.  

Dr. Katarina Bonnevier practices through the art and architecture collective MYCKET working with co-creation across species, across disciplines, and across realities. Their practice blends artistic research (supported by Swedish Research Council and Linnaeus University) with hands-on making of public places, installations, and social situations. An architect by training, Bonnevier connects queer and feminist perspectives with ecological care and spatial justice through storytelling and hands-on crafting.

MYCKETs work has received national and international recognition, including the Ganneviksstipendiet (2021), and Architectural Review’s and the Architects’ Journal’s joint W-award (2024) for Heaven by MYCKET at Oslo National Museum. Her dissertation Behind Straight Curtains: Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture (Stockholm: Axl Books, 2007) from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, is available open access (DiVA portal, more than 35 000 downloads). In her early career she was engaged in Kalamaja, Tallinn, and was awarded the National Endowment of Estonia’s Cultural Prize for Young Architects (1995).

Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

Spring programme:

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series is organised in collaboration between the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture, and is connected to the research project Built environments of care from the late Socialist to post-Socialist Estonia (PSG 2025–2029).

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

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26.03.2026

KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Jos Boys “Doing Disability Differently in Architecture”

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

On March 26 at 6 pm Jos Boys will give a lecture “Doing Disability Differently in Architecture” at room A-501.

Disabled people are almost always treated as an afterthought in built environment education and practice. But what if we instead start from disability, valuing our rich bio- and neurodiversity as a creative generator for design and as a critical means of challenging normative building and urban design? In this talk, Jos will explore how, over the last 18 years, DisOrdinary Architecture has been collaborating internationally with disabled artists, designers and architects to co-develop innovative and even radical ways of thinking and doing architecture.

Dr. Jos Boys is co-founder and co-director, with disabled artist Zoe Partington, of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, a UK-based platform which brings disabled artists into built environment education and practice to critically and creatively re-think access and inclusion. Originally trained in architecture, she was co-founder of Matrix feminist architecture and research collective in London UK in the 1980s, and currently leads on the development of the Matrix Open online archive. Always a design activist, Jos has also been a journalist, critic, researcher, consultant, educator, photographer and artist; and has published many books and articles. These include authoring Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability, and designing for everyday life (Routledge 2014); editing Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017) and co-editing Neurodivergence and Architecture (Elsevier 2022).

Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

Spring programme:

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

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KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Jos Boys “Doing Disability Differently in Architecture”

Thursday 26 March, 2026

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

On March 26 at 6 pm Jos Boys will give a lecture “Doing Disability Differently in Architecture” at room A-501.

Disabled people are almost always treated as an afterthought in built environment education and practice. But what if we instead start from disability, valuing our rich bio- and neurodiversity as a creative generator for design and as a critical means of challenging normative building and urban design? In this talk, Jos will explore how, over the last 18 years, DisOrdinary Architecture has been collaborating internationally with disabled artists, designers and architects to co-develop innovative and even radical ways of thinking and doing architecture.

Dr. Jos Boys is co-founder and co-director, with disabled artist Zoe Partington, of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, a UK-based platform which brings disabled artists into built environment education and practice to critically and creatively re-think access and inclusion. Originally trained in architecture, she was co-founder of Matrix feminist architecture and research collective in London UK in the 1980s, and currently leads on the development of the Matrix Open online archive. Always a design activist, Jos has also been a journalist, critic, researcher, consultant, educator, photographer and artist; and has published many books and articles. These include authoring Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability, and designing for everyday life (Routledge 2014); editing Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017) and co-editing Neurodivergence and Architecture (Elsevier 2022).

Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

Spring programme:

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

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12.03.2026

Open Architecture Lecture: Eero Paloheimo

On March 12 at 6 pm, Finnish engineer, scientist and environmental researcher Eero Paloheimo will give a special lecture “Ecological city planning” in the EKA auditorium.

Eero Kalervo Paloheimo has defended his doctoral theses at the University of Munich and the University of Helsinki.

He worked at the company Eero Paloheimo & Matti Ollila from 1965 to 1994, and then was a professor (timber construction) at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1995 to 2000. In 2009, Paloheimo founded Eero Paloheimo EcoCity Ltd., a company specializing in the research and construction of eco-cities.

As a researcher of environmental problems and sustainable development opportunities, Paloheimo has traveled throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. Since 2007, he has consulted on the establishment of eco-cities in China, based on the ideas he originally presented in his book “Syntymättötien sukupolvien Eurooppa” (1996, in Estonian 2004 ). He has also repeatedly introduced the possibilities of establishing eco-cities in Estonia.

Paloheimo served as a representative of the Green Party Vihreä Liitto in the Finnish Parliament from 1987 to 1995 and has been a member of several authoritative international committees dealing with environmental problems.

He is the author of more than ten books on the nature and state of the world.

The lecture will be held in English and is free and open to all interested parties.

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Open Architecture Lecture: Eero Paloheimo

Thursday 12 March, 2026

On March 12 at 6 pm, Finnish engineer, scientist and environmental researcher Eero Paloheimo will give a special lecture “Ecological city planning” in the EKA auditorium.

Eero Kalervo Paloheimo has defended his doctoral theses at the University of Munich and the University of Helsinki.

He worked at the company Eero Paloheimo & Matti Ollila from 1965 to 1994, and then was a professor (timber construction) at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1995 to 2000. In 2009, Paloheimo founded Eero Paloheimo EcoCity Ltd., a company specializing in the research and construction of eco-cities.

As a researcher of environmental problems and sustainable development opportunities, Paloheimo has traveled throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. Since 2007, he has consulted on the establishment of eco-cities in China, based on the ideas he originally presented in his book “Syntymättötien sukupolvien Eurooppa” (1996, in Estonian 2004 ). He has also repeatedly introduced the possibilities of establishing eco-cities in Estonia.

Paloheimo served as a representative of the Green Party Vihreä Liitto in the Finnish Parliament from 1987 to 1995 and has been a member of several authoritative international committees dealing with environmental problems.

He is the author of more than ten books on the nature and state of the world.

The lecture will be held in English and is free and open to all interested parties.

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26.02.2026

KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Kaisa Karvinen “From Care to Concrete: Exhibiting Architecture”

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

 

On February 26 at 6 pm Kaisa Karvinen will give a lecture “From Care to Concrete: Exhibiting Architecture”.

Architect, curator, and researcher Kaisa Karvinen’s lecture examines exhibitions within architectural discourse in a time of ecological crisis, when questions of repair and maintenance become increasingly urgent. The analysis draws on Karvinen’s exhibitions, including Stripped Frame, at Merihaka, Helsinki (2022), which addressed the demolition and reuse of modernist concrete buildings; FIX: Care and Repair, at Architecture & Design museum, Helsinki (2024), which approached maintenance and care as forms of skilled labour and as aesthetic questions; and Teo Ala-Ruonas Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture, Nordic Countries Pavilion, Biennale Architettura, Venice (2025), which examined the entanglements of fossil culture, architectural production, and the body.

Kaisa Karvinen works across exhibition-making and academic research. She is currently preparing an exhibition for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale and is undertaking doctoral research at the University of Oulu. Karvinen is also a co-founder of the Trojan Horse collective.

Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

 

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KVI + ARH Open Lecture: Kaisa Karvinen “From Care to Concrete: Exhibiting Architecture”

Thursday 26 February, 2026

The 2025/2026 academic year open lecture series will be held in collaboration with the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture and the Faculty of Architecture. The theme of this academic year is “Architecture and the Ethics of Care” and the lectures will be curated by KVI Senior Researcher Dr. Ingrid Ruudi.

 

On February 26 at 6 pm Kaisa Karvinen will give a lecture “From Care to Concrete: Exhibiting Architecture”.

Architect, curator, and researcher Kaisa Karvinen’s lecture examines exhibitions within architectural discourse in a time of ecological crisis, when questions of repair and maintenance become increasingly urgent. The analysis draws on Karvinen’s exhibitions, including Stripped Frame, at Merihaka, Helsinki (2022), which addressed the demolition and reuse of modernist concrete buildings; FIX: Care and Repair, at Architecture & Design museum, Helsinki (2024), which approached maintenance and care as forms of skilled labour and as aesthetic questions; and Teo Ala-Ruonas Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture, Nordic Countries Pavilion, Biennale Architettura, Venice (2025), which examined the entanglements of fossil culture, architectural production, and the body.

Kaisa Karvinen works across exhibition-making and academic research. She is currently preparing an exhibition for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale and is undertaking doctoral research at the University of Oulu. Karvinen is also a co-founder of the Trojan Horse collective.

Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Faculty of Architecture of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.

The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture.

All lectures are held on Thursdays at 6 pm in the EKA main auditorium. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

The lecture series is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Previous open architecture lectures can be viewed at www.avatudloengud.ee

 

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06.01.2026 — 31.01.2026

Model exhibition “H-school” in the lobby of EKA

Starting from the first week of January 2026, an exhibition of ideas for renewing standard school buildings will be on display in the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

The exhibition features works completed by 2nd and 3rd year architecture and urban design students in the 2025 autumn semester, illustrated by school models.

“The studio looked for ways to design an H-shaped Soviet-era standard school building into a modern school space. Five H-type school buildings were considered, located in locations with different population densities, environments, and spatial needs.
All solutions are diverse, but they also share similar features, which, when compared, can be used to establish more general architectural principles to modernize H-type school buildings.”

Supervisors of the “School Studio”: Kertu Johanna Jõeste, Tristan Krevald, Ra Martin Puhkan, Siim Tanel Tõnisson (studio TÄNA); Mart Kalm (theory, history)

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Model exhibition “H-school” in the lobby of EKA

Tuesday 06 January, 2026 — Saturday 31 January, 2026

Starting from the first week of January 2026, an exhibition of ideas for renewing standard school buildings will be on display in the lobby of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

The exhibition features works completed by 2nd and 3rd year architecture and urban design students in the 2025 autumn semester, illustrated by school models.

“The studio looked for ways to design an H-shaped Soviet-era standard school building into a modern school space. Five H-type school buildings were considered, located in locations with different population densities, environments, and spatial needs.
All solutions are diverse, but they also share similar features, which, when compared, can be used to establish more general architectural principles to modernize H-type school buildings.”

Supervisors of the “School Studio”: Kertu Johanna Jõeste, Tristan Krevald, Ra Martin Puhkan, Siim Tanel Tõnisson (studio TÄNA); Mart Kalm (theory, history)

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20.01.2026

Public lecture: Dan Dubowitz: Cultural Masterplanning

The Estonian Academy of Arts will organize its 2026 workshop “Abandoned Landscapes” in Tallinn from 19 to 22 January, with the City Hall as the focus.

The aim of the workshop, which is already being held for the 14th time, is to practice international cooperation between students of architecture, heritage conservation and interior architecture, and to understand the needs and opportunities for preserving and using local heritage. This year, the workshop will be held in collaboration with lecturers and students of the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA).

On Tuesday, January 20 at 5 pm, Dan Dubowitz will give a public lecture in the EKA auditorium: Cultural Masterplanning.

Dan Dubowitz, Visiting Professor from Manchester School of Architecture, will introduce his celebrated work on Cultural Masterplanning, which has been developing new methods for engaging people earlier and better in the transformation of their city across the UK. He will introduce his current research project, Megalomania, which includes sites in Estonia (Naissaare and Hiiumaa), the Helsinki Archipelago, Latvia (Karosta) and Lithuania (Visiginas).

 

This lecture is the inaugural event of a new research and public pedagogy collaboration between MSA and EKA to investigate how mobile architectural methods, such as walking and talking after dark, choreographic things and slow photography can give voice and awaken a building with narcolepsy.

Several events open to the public will also take place as part of the workshop. All interested parties are welcome to attend for free.

  • Wednesday, January 21st at 5 pm, Ingel Vaikla’s documentary “The Housekeeper” (2015) will be screened in the EKA auditorium.
  • On Thursday, January 22nd at 5 pm at lobby stairs, student groups will present their short films about Linnahall made during the week.

 

 

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Public lecture: Dan Dubowitz: Cultural Masterplanning

Tuesday 20 January, 2026

The Estonian Academy of Arts will organize its 2026 workshop “Abandoned Landscapes” in Tallinn from 19 to 22 January, with the City Hall as the focus.

The aim of the workshop, which is already being held for the 14th time, is to practice international cooperation between students of architecture, heritage conservation and interior architecture, and to understand the needs and opportunities for preserving and using local heritage. This year, the workshop will be held in collaboration with lecturers and students of the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA).

On Tuesday, January 20 at 5 pm, Dan Dubowitz will give a public lecture in the EKA auditorium: Cultural Masterplanning.

Dan Dubowitz, Visiting Professor from Manchester School of Architecture, will introduce his celebrated work on Cultural Masterplanning, which has been developing new methods for engaging people earlier and better in the transformation of their city across the UK. He will introduce his current research project, Megalomania, which includes sites in Estonia (Naissaare and Hiiumaa), the Helsinki Archipelago, Latvia (Karosta) and Lithuania (Visiginas).

 

This lecture is the inaugural event of a new research and public pedagogy collaboration between MSA and EKA to investigate how mobile architectural methods, such as walking and talking after dark, choreographic things and slow photography can give voice and awaken a building with narcolepsy.

Several events open to the public will also take place as part of the workshop. All interested parties are welcome to attend for free.

  • Wednesday, January 21st at 5 pm, Ingel Vaikla’s documentary “The Housekeeper” (2015) will be screened in the EKA auditorium.
  • On Thursday, January 22nd at 5 pm at lobby stairs, student groups will present their short films about Linnahall made during the week.

 

 

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