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01.04.2022

Caring for Ida-Viru? Tracing Frontiers of Shrinkage

Faculty of Architecture

We kindly invite you to the exhibition and final grading of Urban Studies and Interior Architecture Urban Models studio tutored by Kristi Grišakov & Keiti Kljavin. Please join us 1st of April, 15:00 in the EKA courtyard. The exhibition has been collectively curated by students of urban studies, architecture and urban planning and interior architecture.

Urban decline in East-Estonia presents itself in a state of flux: it is tied to the area’s contested past but also allows a peek into the future. Multiple facets of shrinkage manifest in landscapes of extractivistic production, where the line between nature and man-made environment is increasingly difficult to draw. Although urban shrinkage is often associated with deteriorated buildings, abandoned and fragmented urban environments, if we choose to look through another lens there are multiple layers of phenomenologically dense experiences of decline that can provide acceptance and perseverance. Whether shrinking cities are distressing cities is a point of contention that urges us to rethink why cities are only ever received positively and linearly through growth, and whether or why shrinkage is seen as the opposite of growth. Should it be?

The Urban Models studio and its final project Caring for Ida-Viru? Tracing Frontiers of Shrinkage explores various questions related to tangible and intangible aspects of habitation in Ida-Viru county. Urban districts and towns of Ahtme, Järve and Kiviõli, where changing policies and approaches in urban governance aim to respond to the surplus of housing caused by the outmigration of people are in focus. Students of urban studies, architecture and interior architecture collaborated in exploring, reinventing and rethinking approaches towards shrinkage, adaptation and re-use. Some try to trace the stories that are subsumed in the industrially toxic air of Ida-Virumaa. Others attempt to take a peek into the everyday life that has somehow frozen in time. The students’ used relevant literature and explored case studies with experimental media and techniques in order to deliver final projects challenging the condition of shrinkage in Eastern Estonia.

Students: Paula Veidenbauma, Ljudmila Funika-Müür, Kush Badhwar, Augustas Lapinskas, Karen Isabel Talitee, Kelli Puusepp, Nabeel Imtiaz, Luca Liese Ritter, Julia Freudenberg, Kristiina Puusepp, Paul Simon, Christian Hörner, Hannah Mühlbach, Loviise Talvaru, Khadeeja Farrukh, Nora Soo, Jannik Kastrup.

Guest critics: Roland Reemaa (https://www.rloaluarnad.com/), Gregor Taul (EKA), Jüri Kermik (EKA), Johanna Holvandus (TÜ)

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Opposing the Desert

EKA courtyard terrace

an interactive installation by Paula Veidenbauma and Ljudmila Funika-Müür

Shrinking cities are aging cities. Enclosed by panels, slippery roads, railway tracks, and liminal landscape, elderly tend to be tied closely with their homes, not receiving enough soft care from the local municipality. While focusing on the topic of the invisibility of loneliness amongst the retried, the project tackles spatial isolation while looking at it from the perspective of the city district of Ahtme. It investigates public space in relation to a private space once inhabited by a senior teacher living in Ahtme’s Sõpruse street Soviet panel building. The installation tackles the findings revealed through critical geography, in parallel exploring the state of social services in Ahtme. How many borders does one have to overcome in order to be cared for? Can public space enable caring relationships between people, place, and materials, towards a city interested in investing resources beyond growth?

———————————————————

Ida

EKA library

illustrated children’s book presentation and readings by Kush Badwahr, Augustas Lapinskas and Karen Isabel Talitee

Ida (meaning ‘east’ in Estonian but also referring to the ancient Germanic root ‘id’ meaning ‘labor, work’) is an eight year old resident of Ida-Virumaa asking herself what she would like to do when she grows up. On her way home from school, she has various interactions – with a soon to retire army officer, a group of young boys, a bird, her visiting aunt and an ex-miner – that relate to their life and work in the region in which they live. The interactions Ida has and the illustrations that make up the book are based on interviews and research exploring the nature of work, unemployment and retirement and its connections to issues of shrinkage and de-growth in the area. Ida is both a metaphor of the contemporary state of the region and a children’s book that makes these topics accessible through an illustrated narrative form.

Underneath the layers

@ the EKA spiral staircase

panorama installation by Kelli Puusepp and Nabeel Imtiaz

As the stones burned in the beginning of the 20th century, the towns in the East of Estonia started to grow. As the terrain in the backdrop was being dug deep, people moved in – families with all their personal belongings. Children played in the parks and their familiarity brought households closer. Memories of good times were made – over on the sidewalks and alleys, behind and in between the walls of Kohtla-Järve homes. As the underground sphere expanded, the mines got deeper, consequently developing the life on the surface. Though the estates grew denser, their expansion was halted by the end of the century. It all fell back inwards, imploding into themselves, throwing the community into an uncertainty. What was left were the remnants of the spaces once inhabited.

The story traces the history of socio-spatial formations and disintegration of the society that once formed Kohtla-Järve.

——————————————————

Nothing Power: where absent matter matters

A-500

exhibition by Luca Liese Ritter and Julia Freudenberg

In Ida-Virumaa, shrinkage refers to the complex consequences of going away, becoming less, fading into thin air. People move, things disappear, services close, concrete panels decay and houses are demolished. What remains in those places that were inhabited by heterogeneous matter is a void. But this emptiness is not empty in the sense of a nothingness, a nirvana; rather, it continues to be quasi-present, conceivably retaining many of its material aspects and thus its place in the fabric of socio-material relations that shape the experience of living in and coping with urban shrinkage.

Our project explores the affective flows between what is gone and what remains, and seeks to highlight the complicated intertwining of cause and effect that residents and policymakers must navigate as they confront the challenges of population loss and subsequent over-provision of housing infrastructure.

—————————————————-

…so we can keep on watching eesti laul in the future

A-400

house by Kristiina Puusepp and Paul Simon

In the future, Ida-Virumaa will see rapid transformation. The excavation of oil shale, one of the main social and economic pillars of the region, is not in keeping with the reality of the climate crisis. The concept of a ‘just transition’ demands a change-over satisfying both workers rights and environmental care. Originally being required by labor- and environmental activists, the term is meanwhile used by different governmental actors. In Ida-Virumaa, the EU supports the endeavor of a just transition with 340 Million Euros. While the funding will not directly finance housing, by striving for a future-oriented industry, it is the base structure for securing homes for local residents. Despite attempts for widespread participation of just transition, the transformation is mostly directed by demands and plans from external groups and higher institutions. By thematizing the ambiguous relationship between this ‘outside’ and the local population, the project raises the question how we should position ourselves in the process of transition.

—————————————————–

The Last Layer, the Next Layer? Signs for those who choose to stay

B-205

video installation by Christian Hörner and Hannah Mühlbach

When exploring the abandoned flats of Kohtla-Järve, we came across an outstanding phenomenon of personal expression and appropriation of space: through its multiple colors, patterns and layerings, wallpaper became the collage-like visual theme of our experience as explorers of Ida-Virumaa shrinking cities’ interiors. Inspired by the creativity and self-expression of those who have left the area, our search for shrinkage re-centered around the idea of creating something for those who still live in the cities that de-grow. We began to play with the idea of decorating facades of abandoned buildings with wallpaper in a graffitti-like manner, as a vehicle of intention, resistance and visibility. This next layer on Ida-Virumaa loses the fatality of linear decline until disappearance and points to an alternative future where abandoned buildings become monuments of persistence rather than unwanted obstacles for liveability. Our installation represents the hypothesis that people, when provided with the means to care for their cities, can re-frame narratives of shrinkage and create an optimistic outlook on Ida-Virumaa’s future.

——————————————————

The Other side of the Coin: Must Shrinkage be Only Tormenting?

A-200

mixed media by Loviise Talvaru and Khedeeja Farrukh

Emptiness becomes even more emptier because of our need to define society through community. Kiviõli, one of the many mining towns in Ida-Virumaa, is categorized as an example of urban shrinkage, where dilapidated conditions of facades, rustic reminders of laundry lines, empty apartment buildings, sounds of sea gull penetrating the otherwise silent urbanity urges an outsider to call this environment tormenting. But is that really so?

Must shrinkage be only tormenting? Why is shrinkage antagonistic to growth? Isn’t growth also tormenting? Through this project, a process of personal experiences, of how we perceived shrinkage and how our experience changed it, is depicted. There came a point in our research where we realized that this top-down trajectory of perceptions is quite acute and that urbanity is not an abstraction only to be lived on papers, rather it is an everyday experience. So, we went back to Kiviõli. For good. And for surprises.

Our approach is not an end-point, but a device of researching, where our visits to Kiviõli enabled an important aspect of experimentation and co-creation, transforming our approach towards shrinkage.

——————————————————

Help yourself with Energy

B-205

video and installation by Nora Soo and Jannik Kastrup

The electricity meter operates between the public and the private realm. Subject to regular control, it softly breaks their boundaries. In economically deprived regions like Ida-Virumaa its reading frequently decides the fate of the inhabitants, pressuring those who are financially incapable to upgrade to more efficient devices.
Tampering with the electricity meter is therefore a common disruptive practice.
However in the spheres of en vogue online life coaching, energy is portrayed as a personal property that can be manipulated according to spiritual practices, detached from economic and political circumstances. Does it mean that anyone can achieve anything being only restricted by imaginary boundaries? Paradoxically, the imaginaries of inhabitants in Ida-Virumaa are limited in a situation of energy poverty. Within this dichotomy of energy as a contested public good and as an individualized spirituality lies one of the challenges of neoliberal capitalist societies. The (video) installation plays with diverging concepts of energy by audiovisually overlapping and rearranging these distinct narratives.

Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink

Caring for Ida-Viru? Tracing Frontiers of Shrinkage

Friday 01 April, 2022

Faculty of Architecture

We kindly invite you to the exhibition and final grading of Urban Studies and Interior Architecture Urban Models studio tutored by Kristi Grišakov & Keiti Kljavin. Please join us 1st of April, 15:00 in the EKA courtyard. The exhibition has been collectively curated by students of urban studies, architecture and urban planning and interior architecture.

Urban decline in East-Estonia presents itself in a state of flux: it is tied to the area’s contested past but also allows a peek into the future. Multiple facets of shrinkage manifest in landscapes of extractivistic production, where the line between nature and man-made environment is increasingly difficult to draw. Although urban shrinkage is often associated with deteriorated buildings, abandoned and fragmented urban environments, if we choose to look through another lens there are multiple layers of phenomenologically dense experiences of decline that can provide acceptance and perseverance. Whether shrinking cities are distressing cities is a point of contention that urges us to rethink why cities are only ever received positively and linearly through growth, and whether or why shrinkage is seen as the opposite of growth. Should it be?

The Urban Models studio and its final project Caring for Ida-Viru? Tracing Frontiers of Shrinkage explores various questions related to tangible and intangible aspects of habitation in Ida-Viru county. Urban districts and towns of Ahtme, Järve and Kiviõli, where changing policies and approaches in urban governance aim to respond to the surplus of housing caused by the outmigration of people are in focus. Students of urban studies, architecture and interior architecture collaborated in exploring, reinventing and rethinking approaches towards shrinkage, adaptation and re-use. Some try to trace the stories that are subsumed in the industrially toxic air of Ida-Virumaa. Others attempt to take a peek into the everyday life that has somehow frozen in time. The students’ used relevant literature and explored case studies with experimental media and techniques in order to deliver final projects challenging the condition of shrinkage in Eastern Estonia.

Students: Paula Veidenbauma, Ljudmila Funika-Müür, Kush Badhwar, Augustas Lapinskas, Karen Isabel Talitee, Kelli Puusepp, Nabeel Imtiaz, Luca Liese Ritter, Julia Freudenberg, Kristiina Puusepp, Paul Simon, Christian Hörner, Hannah Mühlbach, Loviise Talvaru, Khadeeja Farrukh, Nora Soo, Jannik Kastrup.

Guest critics: Roland Reemaa (https://www.rloaluarnad.com/), Gregor Taul (EKA), Jüri Kermik (EKA), Johanna Holvandus (TÜ)

——————————————————-

Opposing the Desert

EKA courtyard terrace

an interactive installation by Paula Veidenbauma and Ljudmila Funika-Müür

Shrinking cities are aging cities. Enclosed by panels, slippery roads, railway tracks, and liminal landscape, elderly tend to be tied closely with their homes, not receiving enough soft care from the local municipality. While focusing on the topic of the invisibility of loneliness amongst the retried, the project tackles spatial isolation while looking at it from the perspective of the city district of Ahtme. It investigates public space in relation to a private space once inhabited by a senior teacher living in Ahtme’s Sõpruse street Soviet panel building. The installation tackles the findings revealed through critical geography, in parallel exploring the state of social services in Ahtme. How many borders does one have to overcome in order to be cared for? Can public space enable caring relationships between people, place, and materials, towards a city interested in investing resources beyond growth?

———————————————————

Ida

EKA library

illustrated children’s book presentation and readings by Kush Badwahr, Augustas Lapinskas and Karen Isabel Talitee

Ida (meaning ‘east’ in Estonian but also referring to the ancient Germanic root ‘id’ meaning ‘labor, work’) is an eight year old resident of Ida-Virumaa asking herself what she would like to do when she grows up. On her way home from school, she has various interactions – with a soon to retire army officer, a group of young boys, a bird, her visiting aunt and an ex-miner – that relate to their life and work in the region in which they live. The interactions Ida has and the illustrations that make up the book are based on interviews and research exploring the nature of work, unemployment and retirement and its connections to issues of shrinkage and de-growth in the area. Ida is both a metaphor of the contemporary state of the region and a children’s book that makes these topics accessible through an illustrated narrative form.

Underneath the layers

@ the EKA spiral staircase

panorama installation by Kelli Puusepp and Nabeel Imtiaz

As the stones burned in the beginning of the 20th century, the towns in the East of Estonia started to grow. As the terrain in the backdrop was being dug deep, people moved in – families with all their personal belongings. Children played in the parks and their familiarity brought households closer. Memories of good times were made – over on the sidewalks and alleys, behind and in between the walls of Kohtla-Järve homes. As the underground sphere expanded, the mines got deeper, consequently developing the life on the surface. Though the estates grew denser, their expansion was halted by the end of the century. It all fell back inwards, imploding into themselves, throwing the community into an uncertainty. What was left were the remnants of the spaces once inhabited.

The story traces the history of socio-spatial formations and disintegration of the society that once formed Kohtla-Järve.

——————————————————

Nothing Power: where absent matter matters

A-500

exhibition by Luca Liese Ritter and Julia Freudenberg

In Ida-Virumaa, shrinkage refers to the complex consequences of going away, becoming less, fading into thin air. People move, things disappear, services close, concrete panels decay and houses are demolished. What remains in those places that were inhabited by heterogeneous matter is a void. But this emptiness is not empty in the sense of a nothingness, a nirvana; rather, it continues to be quasi-present, conceivably retaining many of its material aspects and thus its place in the fabric of socio-material relations that shape the experience of living in and coping with urban shrinkage.

Our project explores the affective flows between what is gone and what remains, and seeks to highlight the complicated intertwining of cause and effect that residents and policymakers must navigate as they confront the challenges of population loss and subsequent over-provision of housing infrastructure.

—————————————————-

…so we can keep on watching eesti laul in the future

A-400

house by Kristiina Puusepp and Paul Simon

In the future, Ida-Virumaa will see rapid transformation. The excavation of oil shale, one of the main social and economic pillars of the region, is not in keeping with the reality of the climate crisis. The concept of a ‘just transition’ demands a change-over satisfying both workers rights and environmental care. Originally being required by labor- and environmental activists, the term is meanwhile used by different governmental actors. In Ida-Virumaa, the EU supports the endeavor of a just transition with 340 Million Euros. While the funding will not directly finance housing, by striving for a future-oriented industry, it is the base structure for securing homes for local residents. Despite attempts for widespread participation of just transition, the transformation is mostly directed by demands and plans from external groups and higher institutions. By thematizing the ambiguous relationship between this ‘outside’ and the local population, the project raises the question how we should position ourselves in the process of transition.

—————————————————–

The Last Layer, the Next Layer? Signs for those who choose to stay

B-205

video installation by Christian Hörner and Hannah Mühlbach

When exploring the abandoned flats of Kohtla-Järve, we came across an outstanding phenomenon of personal expression and appropriation of space: through its multiple colors, patterns and layerings, wallpaper became the collage-like visual theme of our experience as explorers of Ida-Virumaa shrinking cities’ interiors. Inspired by the creativity and self-expression of those who have left the area, our search for shrinkage re-centered around the idea of creating something for those who still live in the cities that de-grow. We began to play with the idea of decorating facades of abandoned buildings with wallpaper in a graffitti-like manner, as a vehicle of intention, resistance and visibility. This next layer on Ida-Virumaa loses the fatality of linear decline until disappearance and points to an alternative future where abandoned buildings become monuments of persistence rather than unwanted obstacles for liveability. Our installation represents the hypothesis that people, when provided with the means to care for their cities, can re-frame narratives of shrinkage and create an optimistic outlook on Ida-Virumaa’s future.

——————————————————

The Other side of the Coin: Must Shrinkage be Only Tormenting?

A-200

mixed media by Loviise Talvaru and Khedeeja Farrukh

Emptiness becomes even more emptier because of our need to define society through community. Kiviõli, one of the many mining towns in Ida-Virumaa, is categorized as an example of urban shrinkage, where dilapidated conditions of facades, rustic reminders of laundry lines, empty apartment buildings, sounds of sea gull penetrating the otherwise silent urbanity urges an outsider to call this environment tormenting. But is that really so?

Must shrinkage be only tormenting? Why is shrinkage antagonistic to growth? Isn’t growth also tormenting? Through this project, a process of personal experiences, of how we perceived shrinkage and how our experience changed it, is depicted. There came a point in our research where we realized that this top-down trajectory of perceptions is quite acute and that urbanity is not an abstraction only to be lived on papers, rather it is an everyday experience. So, we went back to Kiviõli. For good. And for surprises.

Our approach is not an end-point, but a device of researching, where our visits to Kiviõli enabled an important aspect of experimentation and co-creation, transforming our approach towards shrinkage.

——————————————————

Help yourself with Energy

B-205

video and installation by Nora Soo and Jannik Kastrup

The electricity meter operates between the public and the private realm. Subject to regular control, it softly breaks their boundaries. In economically deprived regions like Ida-Virumaa its reading frequently decides the fate of the inhabitants, pressuring those who are financially incapable to upgrade to more efficient devices.
Tampering with the electricity meter is therefore a common disruptive practice.
However in the spheres of en vogue online life coaching, energy is portrayed as a personal property that can be manipulated according to spiritual practices, detached from economic and political circumstances. Does it mean that anyone can achieve anything being only restricted by imaginary boundaries? Paradoxically, the imaginaries of inhabitants in Ida-Virumaa are limited in a situation of energy poverty. Within this dichotomy of energy as a contested public good and as an individualized spirituality lies one of the challenges of neoliberal capitalist societies. The (video) installation plays with diverging concepts of energy by audiovisually overlapping and rearranging these distinct narratives.

Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink

18.02.2022

EKA Research Cafe: What do urbanists do?

Research and Development Office

EKA Research Cafe:

What do urbanists do? From urban research to practice

Urban Studies have been taught at the Estonian Academy of Arts for sixteen years, 48 students have altogether received a master’s degree. Urbanists educated in Estonia work in research, in public and private sectors, here and all over the world. We invite you to take part in an evening of discussions where we will explore expressions of this interdisciplinary speciality situated at the border of theory and practice and talk about what do urbanists do.

We ask, what are the most relevant research directions on the field today, is there anything specific about Estonian Urbanism and what is the role of the urban studies curriculum in understanding and developing the field.

The head of the curriculum, Prof. Maroš Krivý will talk about his own research, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie early stage researcher grant for contemporary urban history. Lecturers Keiti Kljavin and Kaija-Luisa Kurik will give an insight into their practices as educators and urbanists. Additionally, Mattias Malk and Sean Tyler, both PhD students of urban studies, will join the discussion.

We offer coffee and snacks!

The event is in English.

The event is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.

Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink

EKA Research Cafe: What do urbanists do?

Friday 18 February, 2022

Research and Development Office

EKA Research Cafe:

What do urbanists do? From urban research to practice

Urban Studies have been taught at the Estonian Academy of Arts for sixteen years, 48 students have altogether received a master’s degree. Urbanists educated in Estonia work in research, in public and private sectors, here and all over the world. We invite you to take part in an evening of discussions where we will explore expressions of this interdisciplinary speciality situated at the border of theory and practice and talk about what do urbanists do.

We ask, what are the most relevant research directions on the field today, is there anything specific about Estonian Urbanism and what is the role of the urban studies curriculum in understanding and developing the field.

The head of the curriculum, Prof. Maroš Krivý will talk about his own research, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie early stage researcher grant for contemporary urban history. Lecturers Keiti Kljavin and Kaija-Luisa Kurik will give an insight into their practices as educators and urbanists. Additionally, Mattias Malk and Sean Tyler, both PhD students of urban studies, will join the discussion.

We offer coffee and snacks!

The event is in English.

The event is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.

Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink

18.12.2021

Urban Studies exhibition-expedition@Paljassaare… through time capsules

Faculty of Architecture

Paljassaare time capsules: hiding, making, stalking, digging, hopping, skipping, crawling, barking, hawking, hoping, expecting, lingering, sludging, metabolizing, digesting, dismantling, defending, demolishing, augmenting, building, intending, archiving, recreating … (etc never-ending)

Paljassaare, a place of wonderment in the periphery of Tallinn’s imagination, a nature’s reserve, a utopian paradise, a blessing in disguise, a magic potion, a myth, a cradle of birds, so green, so much green and so much peace. On the other side, Paljassaare has a disturbing presence of a parallel reality of illusions of all kinds that makes this peninsula a multiplicity of time capsules. It invites us to break beyond the realms of past, present, and future, and to peel through its endless secrets and triumph over this highly contested land.

Armed with warm clothing and winter boots, we invite you to join the group of first-year Urban Studies Master students at the Estonian Academy of Arts for the final critique of their works developed in the framework of the Urbanization Studio, tutored by Keiti Kljavin and Andra Aaloe.

The exhibition-expedition will take place in situ all across Paljassaare and includes ten individual project stations (audio-walks and talks, immersive projections and installations, parties and screenings, exhibitions) approachable by foot. Be prepared for crispy cold temperatures, a lot of walking and long hours spent outside and bring along an extra pair of warm socks, snacks and a mug for tea refills along the way.

We kindly ask you to bring along your own earphones and devices with a data connection. If possible, take along a charger and/or a power bank to make sure your device can successfully endure this expedition.

Practicalities:

We will meet on Saturday, the 18th of December, at 10.45 (bus nr. 59 arrival time) at Pikakari bus stop, where, followed by a short introduction, we will collectively move towards the first project location of the day. The tour will end around 17.00. The event will be held in English.

The authors exposed: Kush Badhwar, Khadeeja Farrukh, Christian Hörner, Nabeel Imtiaz, Luca Liese Ritter, Paul Simon, Nora Soo, Katrin Tomiste, Paula Kristiāna Veidenbauma, Friederike Zängl.

Studio leads: Keiti Kljavin and Andra Aaloe

** FOR EMERGENCIES: if you get lost during the day you can call Paula Veidenbauma +37128642280**

More information and programme here!

Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink

Urban Studies exhibition-expedition@Paljassaare… through time capsules

Saturday 18 December, 2021

Faculty of Architecture

Paljassaare time capsules: hiding, making, stalking, digging, hopping, skipping, crawling, barking, hawking, hoping, expecting, lingering, sludging, metabolizing, digesting, dismantling, defending, demolishing, augmenting, building, intending, archiving, recreating … (etc never-ending)

Paljassaare, a place of wonderment in the periphery of Tallinn’s imagination, a nature’s reserve, a utopian paradise, a blessing in disguise, a magic potion, a myth, a cradle of birds, so green, so much green and so much peace. On the other side, Paljassaare has a disturbing presence of a parallel reality of illusions of all kinds that makes this peninsula a multiplicity of time capsules. It invites us to break beyond the realms of past, present, and future, and to peel through its endless secrets and triumph over this highly contested land.

Armed with warm clothing and winter boots, we invite you to join the group of first-year Urban Studies Master students at the Estonian Academy of Arts for the final critique of their works developed in the framework of the Urbanization Studio, tutored by Keiti Kljavin and Andra Aaloe.

The exhibition-expedition will take place in situ all across Paljassaare and includes ten individual project stations (audio-walks and talks, immersive projections and installations, parties and screenings, exhibitions) approachable by foot. Be prepared for crispy cold temperatures, a lot of walking and long hours spent outside and bring along an extra pair of warm socks, snacks and a mug for tea refills along the way.

We kindly ask you to bring along your own earphones and devices with a data connection. If possible, take along a charger and/or a power bank to make sure your device can successfully endure this expedition.

Practicalities:

We will meet on Saturday, the 18th of December, at 10.45 (bus nr. 59 arrival time) at Pikakari bus stop, where, followed by a short introduction, we will collectively move towards the first project location of the day. The tour will end around 17.00. The event will be held in English.

The authors exposed: Kush Badhwar, Khadeeja Farrukh, Christian Hörner, Nabeel Imtiaz, Luca Liese Ritter, Paul Simon, Nora Soo, Katrin Tomiste, Paula Kristiāna Veidenbauma, Friederike Zängl.

Studio leads: Keiti Kljavin and Andra Aaloe

** FOR EMERGENCIES: if you get lost during the day you can call Paula Veidenbauma +37128642280**

More information and programme here!

Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink

07.12.2021 — 18.12.2021

Urban Studies: Exhibition and Walk

Urban Studies

In December the Urban Studies department organizes two public events. The student exhibition “Fitness and the city” (opening 7 December, 15.00) encompasses topics ranging from housing and care to normativsity and semiocapitalism to ask how “fitness” produces value in the contemporary city.

On 18 December, a student-led
walk through Tallinn’s Paljassaare will explore how neoliberal urbanism and
resistances to it shape this contested urban landscape. Resulting from two separate resarch studio courses, the exhibition and the walk illustrate Urban Studies’s twin emphasis on critical theory and field research. More info on the program’s homepage.

Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink

Urban Studies: Exhibition and Walk

Tuesday 07 December, 2021 — Saturday 18 December, 2021

Urban Studies

In December the Urban Studies department organizes two public events. The student exhibition “Fitness and the city” (opening 7 December, 15.00) encompasses topics ranging from housing and care to normativsity and semiocapitalism to ask how “fitness” produces value in the contemporary city.

On 18 December, a student-led
walk through Tallinn’s Paljassaare will explore how neoliberal urbanism and
resistances to it shape this contested urban landscape. Resulting from two separate resarch studio courses, the exhibition and the walk illustrate Urban Studies’s twin emphasis on critical theory and field research. More info on the program’s homepage.

Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink

09.12.2021

Urban Studies MSc programme online info session

Urban Studies

EKA Urban Studies programme invites prospective Master’s students to join the online info session on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 16:00 (GMT+2).

This online info session will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions directly from people behind Urban Studies programme. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.

Registration is closed.

Recording of the session HERE.

More information about Urban Studies MSc programme:

Next admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2022 and application deadline is 1st of March 2022.

https://artun.ee/admissions

More information:

Maarja Pabut
maarja.pabut@artun.ee

Posted by Maarja Pabut — Permalink

Urban Studies MSc programme online info session

Thursday 09 December, 2021

Urban Studies

EKA Urban Studies programme invites prospective Master’s students to join the online info session on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 16:00 (GMT+2).

This online info session will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions directly from people behind Urban Studies programme. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.

Registration is closed.

Recording of the session HERE.

More information about Urban Studies MSc programme:

Next admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2022 and application deadline is 1st of March 2022.

https://artun.ee/admissions

More information:

Maarja Pabut
maarja.pabut@artun.ee

Posted by Maarja Pabut — Permalink

16.10.2021

Presentation of Workshop “Reports from the field” Results

Urban Studies

Presentation of workshop results and talk on the potential of urban interventions.

“Reports from the field” is a presentation of the workshop results of the MA Urban Studies students from the Estonian Academy of Arts and a talk on creating urban interventions as a research method, but also as a civic exercise and public right.

The presented projects will review and reflect the process of constructing vernacular interventions and their reception in Tallinn. Topics included in the presentation concentrate on infrastructure, public space, care, maintenance and social responsibility on the examples of the T1 mall, unpaid female labor in Majaka, private security in public space and new cycling lanes among others. There will also be a presentation about EKKM’s role in public space and a display of the interventions.

You are very welcome to take part in this talk and contribute to the discussion on the role and responsibility of urban intervention. The event is in English.

The authors are: Kush Badhwar, Yu-Li Anne Boonen, Khadeeja Farrukh, Timothée Girault, Christian Hörner, Nabeel Imtiaz, Marie Lucet, Agota Maziliauskaitė, Dorothea Müller, Luca Liese Ritter, Zeno Schnelle, Paul Simon, Nora Soo, Akvilė Stundytė, Katrin Tomiste, Paula Kristiāna Veidenbauma, Friederike Zängl.

Studio lead: Mattias Malk

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Presentation of Workshop “Reports from the field” Results

Saturday 16 October, 2021

Urban Studies

Presentation of workshop results and talk on the potential of urban interventions.

“Reports from the field” is a presentation of the workshop results of the MA Urban Studies students from the Estonian Academy of Arts and a talk on creating urban interventions as a research method, but also as a civic exercise and public right.

The presented projects will review and reflect the process of constructing vernacular interventions and their reception in Tallinn. Topics included in the presentation concentrate on infrastructure, public space, care, maintenance and social responsibility on the examples of the T1 mall, unpaid female labor in Majaka, private security in public space and new cycling lanes among others. There will also be a presentation about EKKM’s role in public space and a display of the interventions.

You are very welcome to take part in this talk and contribute to the discussion on the role and responsibility of urban intervention. The event is in English.

The authors are: Kush Badhwar, Yu-Li Anne Boonen, Khadeeja Farrukh, Timothée Girault, Christian Hörner, Nabeel Imtiaz, Marie Lucet, Agota Maziliauskaitė, Dorothea Müller, Luca Liese Ritter, Zeno Schnelle, Paul Simon, Nora Soo, Akvilė Stundytė, Katrin Tomiste, Paula Kristiāna Veidenbauma, Friederike Zängl.

Studio lead: Mattias Malk

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22.05.2021 — 05.06.2021

Exhibition A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa

Faculty of Architecture

The master students from the Interior Architecture and Urbanism Departments of the Estonian Academy of Arts present their projects on Ida-Virumaa’s living spaces at the White Hall of Kohtla-Järve Oil Shale Museum. The landscapes of Ida-Viru, where distinguishing between the man-made and the natural has become increasingly difficult, conceal hope. They speak of a future different from the one that was planned in the past. That difference, despite the bleak outlook, is still liveable—these are environments of adaptation where a new tale is being made. Students of urban studies and interior architecture were asked to question how various experiences of habitation could be connected to the governance of decline and strategic shrinkage of the built environment. In the beautiful interiors of the White Hall, they present installations, drawings, photos, that represent topics relating to living in declining places, such as preservation, re-wilding and enchantment of emptiness.

The related courses were tutored by Mariann Drell, Kristi Grišakov, Keiti Kljavin and Laura Linsi.

Participants:

Mira Samonig, Mirell Ülle, Janosh Heydorn, Alexander Nenenko, Juss Heinsalu, Ardo Hiiuväin, Triin Juhanson, Veera Gontšugova, Eeros Lees, Þórhildur Guðmundsdóttir, Daria Khrystych, Fernanda Ayala Torres, Semele Kari

Exhibition design:

Mirell Ülle, Juss Heinsalu, Ardo Hiiuväin, Veera Gontšugova, Eeros Lees, Semele Kari

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Exhibition A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa

Saturday 22 May, 2021 — Saturday 05 June, 2021

Faculty of Architecture

The master students from the Interior Architecture and Urbanism Departments of the Estonian Academy of Arts present their projects on Ida-Virumaa’s living spaces at the White Hall of Kohtla-Järve Oil Shale Museum. The landscapes of Ida-Viru, where distinguishing between the man-made and the natural has become increasingly difficult, conceal hope. They speak of a future different from the one that was planned in the past. That difference, despite the bleak outlook, is still liveable—these are environments of adaptation where a new tale is being made. Students of urban studies and interior architecture were asked to question how various experiences of habitation could be connected to the governance of decline and strategic shrinkage of the built environment. In the beautiful interiors of the White Hall, they present installations, drawings, photos, that represent topics relating to living in declining places, such as preservation, re-wilding and enchantment of emptiness.

The related courses were tutored by Mariann Drell, Kristi Grišakov, Keiti Kljavin and Laura Linsi.

Participants:

Mira Samonig, Mirell Ülle, Janosh Heydorn, Alexander Nenenko, Juss Heinsalu, Ardo Hiiuväin, Triin Juhanson, Veera Gontšugova, Eeros Lees, Þórhildur Guðmundsdóttir, Daria Khrystych, Fernanda Ayala Torres, Semele Kari

Exhibition design:

Mirell Ülle, Juss Heinsalu, Ardo Hiiuväin, Veera Gontšugova, Eeros Lees, Semele Kari

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14.05.2021

A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa

Faculty of Architecture

In Ida-Virumaa the politics of the climate neutral futures, the deprived status quo and the infrastructures inherited from the past intensively meet, showing multiple endings but also some possible new beginnings. The landscapes of Ida-Viru, where distinguishing between the man-made and the natural has become increasingly difficult, conceal something we might describe with the word ‘hope’. They speak of a future different from the one that was planned in the past. That difference, despite the bleak outlook is still liveable—these are environments of adaptation where a new tale is being made.Students of urban studies and interior architecture were asked to question how various experiences of habitation could be connected to the governance of decline and strategic shrinkage of the built environment. A Tale of Persistence focuses on areas of Kohtla-Järve and Kiviõli, a duo of out of many municipalities in decline in East Estonia, where the changing policies and socio-economic drivers of recent decades have led to excess supply of housing. Contrary to specific housing programmes and demolition initiatives, this course has approached housing as an experience. Tandems of both study programmes worked with different conditions of decline by rethinking growth or adaptation. Their projects use varied mediums and techniques to examine formal and informal practices, debates in literature and applied studies.

A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa is a final grading of Estonian Academy of Arts Urban Studies and Interior Architecture Urban models studio, tutored by Kristi Grišakov, Keiti Kljavin and Laura Linsi.

Students: Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir, Ardo Hiiuväin, Janosh Heydorn, Daria Khrystych, Veera Gontšugova, Juss Heinsalu, Eeros Lees, Oleksandr Nenenko, Mira Samonig, Fernanda Torres, Semele Kari, Mirell Ülle, Triin Juhanson.

Guest critics: Anna Anna Bitkina (The Creative Association of Curators TOK), Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla and Maroš Krivy (Estonian Academy of Arts)

Join us online: https://zoom.us/j/94968674543

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Hope Against Hope

The In-Betweenness of Emptiness

by Mirell Ülle and Mira Samonig

Emptiness does not necessarily equal a state of something being empty; in fact, it can be very full, but full with the wrong things. This renders emptiness to a condition of disorder, of unclearness. It constitutes a state in-between the tension of something that has ended, and another thing that is not yet graspable.

This project investigates the concept of emptiness within the shrinking context of the east Estonian town Kiviõli. It highlights the varying aspects of emptying traced throughout Kiviõli’s history and intends to make emptiness informed by a feeling of hopelessness comprehensible. Eventually, a glimpse into a possible future is offered that re-approaches emptiness neither through the lens of hopelessness nor hope, but as a potentiality for both.

Plural Preservations

by Janosh Heydorn and Juss Heinsalu

Plural Preservations reflects on the complexity of maintaining areas of milieu value. A compiled album of the possible futures of Lehola Street ansambel takes a close look at the Stalinist architecture and its prospect. Engaging with theories and formal guidelines of preservation, speculative scenarios unfold seemingly disappearing options to navigate protective regulations, ownership division, financial segregation, architectural value and will. This project is a flow of thought, an experiment to explore the concepts of preservation in the context of shrinkage.

DachaIn

By Oleksandr Nenenko and Triin Juhason

The focus t of the project is to find a conceptual vision for a ‘green’ strategy which could help to deal with the decline of the Järve district in Kohtla-Järve. Inspired by the experience of countries like Germany and the US, we looked into the possibility of bridging urban farming and post-soviet dacha culture (its structure, functions and practices). Our work investigates possible ways of bringing those two phenomena into the urban context of Kohtla-Järve in order to create sustainable and ecological urban blocks that through supporting various forms of gardening lifestyles help to reactivate the town.

Sompa Sanctum

By Semele Kari

The condition of living in godforsaken Ida-Virumaa declining settlements made me wonder, “Why do people stay in these ghost-towns and how?” Since then, I have rephrased the question to: Why should someone new go and live there? If this environment symbolises an abandoned territory, could it speak out to those whose environment has neglected them?

In this interaction between human and built environment I see a way for redemption. This shrinking physical world is giving back something by going backwards, dying a slow death. And in the process of leaving this world it represents an ongoing prospect of decay.

The user of this world harvests the last it has to offer: silence, solitude and sanctuary, the spirits of this long gone functional world. These last men standing are giving back to architecture in means of mercy, worship and care which manifest in the coexistence of decline.

Adaptation of Facades in Times of Decadence

By Eeros Lees and Fernanda Ayala Torres

Our project investigates the aesthetic change of Kohtla-Järve central boulevard Keskallee. Here the adaptation and transformation of the facades of Stalinist architecture are reflected, as their ornamentation and symbolism are making a way for small businesses on the first floors bringing along new signs, window stickers, painting practices, new entrances and perhaps also new hope? Our vision marks the changing reality of a decadent city that reinvents itself through its facades but must still follow heritage requirements.

To Keep Or Not To Keep: Reconsideration of Khrushchevka

By Veera Gontšugova and Daria Khrystych

The project is an online archive aiming to recover the public image of the Soviet-time mass housing building typology, known as the Khrushchevka. Such a typology tends to be not favored in the post-Soviet environment, occasionally entailing the abandonment and demolition of these buildings. By gathering and structuring information, our goal is to present a future-oriented point of view to showcase the potential and hope for this particular residential building typology. We base our storytelling on the historical findings, empirical data as well as presenting the examples of dealing with the similar issue in different contexts. By looking at both material and social aspects, we are referring to the retrofitting and collective living strategies that can be implemented in order to rebound the reputation of Khrushchevka.

Rethinking Growth

Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir and Ardo Hiiuväin

Our project explores the idea of “giving land back to nature” within the context of spatial shrinkage and half-emptiness, with a focus on rewilding. Accepting the half-empty future of Sompa, we aim to question the concept of wilderness and emphasise the importance of the shared sense of responsibility required to create a sustainable living environment.

These ideas are implemented through proposing a vision competition for the rewilding of a selected housing complex in Sompa. With the hope of bringing in a wide array of ideas and perspectives, the competition entries would reflect the different ways of which rewilding can be a tool for engaging with spatial shrinkage. Furthermore, the goal of hosting the competition is to bring attention to this subject, inviting the public to ask what shrinkage actually entails, what it means for those affected and ultimately valuing the already existing qualities embedded in these shrinking communities.

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A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa

Friday 14 May, 2021

Faculty of Architecture

In Ida-Virumaa the politics of the climate neutral futures, the deprived status quo and the infrastructures inherited from the past intensively meet, showing multiple endings but also some possible new beginnings. The landscapes of Ida-Viru, where distinguishing between the man-made and the natural has become increasingly difficult, conceal something we might describe with the word ‘hope’. They speak of a future different from the one that was planned in the past. That difference, despite the bleak outlook is still liveable—these are environments of adaptation where a new tale is being made.Students of urban studies and interior architecture were asked to question how various experiences of habitation could be connected to the governance of decline and strategic shrinkage of the built environment. A Tale of Persistence focuses on areas of Kohtla-Järve and Kiviõli, a duo of out of many municipalities in decline in East Estonia, where the changing policies and socio-economic drivers of recent decades have led to excess supply of housing. Contrary to specific housing programmes and demolition initiatives, this course has approached housing as an experience. Tandems of both study programmes worked with different conditions of decline by rethinking growth or adaptation. Their projects use varied mediums and techniques to examine formal and informal practices, debates in literature and applied studies.

A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa is a final grading of Estonian Academy of Arts Urban Studies and Interior Architecture Urban models studio, tutored by Kristi Grišakov, Keiti Kljavin and Laura Linsi.

Students: Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir, Ardo Hiiuväin, Janosh Heydorn, Daria Khrystych, Veera Gontšugova, Juss Heinsalu, Eeros Lees, Oleksandr Nenenko, Mira Samonig, Fernanda Torres, Semele Kari, Mirell Ülle, Triin Juhanson.

Guest critics: Anna Anna Bitkina (The Creative Association of Curators TOK), Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla and Maroš Krivy (Estonian Academy of Arts)

Join us online: https://zoom.us/j/94968674543

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Hope Against Hope

The In-Betweenness of Emptiness

by Mirell Ülle and Mira Samonig

Emptiness does not necessarily equal a state of something being empty; in fact, it can be very full, but full with the wrong things. This renders emptiness to a condition of disorder, of unclearness. It constitutes a state in-between the tension of something that has ended, and another thing that is not yet graspable.

This project investigates the concept of emptiness within the shrinking context of the east Estonian town Kiviõli. It highlights the varying aspects of emptying traced throughout Kiviõli’s history and intends to make emptiness informed by a feeling of hopelessness comprehensible. Eventually, a glimpse into a possible future is offered that re-approaches emptiness neither through the lens of hopelessness nor hope, but as a potentiality for both.

Plural Preservations

by Janosh Heydorn and Juss Heinsalu

Plural Preservations reflects on the complexity of maintaining areas of milieu value. A compiled album of the possible futures of Lehola Street ansambel takes a close look at the Stalinist architecture and its prospect. Engaging with theories and formal guidelines of preservation, speculative scenarios unfold seemingly disappearing options to navigate protective regulations, ownership division, financial segregation, architectural value and will. This project is a flow of thought, an experiment to explore the concepts of preservation in the context of shrinkage.

DachaIn

By Oleksandr Nenenko and Triin Juhason

The focus t of the project is to find a conceptual vision for a ‘green’ strategy which could help to deal with the decline of the Järve district in Kohtla-Järve. Inspired by the experience of countries like Germany and the US, we looked into the possibility of bridging urban farming and post-soviet dacha culture (its structure, functions and practices). Our work investigates possible ways of bringing those two phenomena into the urban context of Kohtla-Järve in order to create sustainable and ecological urban blocks that through supporting various forms of gardening lifestyles help to reactivate the town.

Sompa Sanctum

By Semele Kari

The condition of living in godforsaken Ida-Virumaa declining settlements made me wonder, “Why do people stay in these ghost-towns and how?” Since then, I have rephrased the question to: Why should someone new go and live there? If this environment symbolises an abandoned territory, could it speak out to those whose environment has neglected them?

In this interaction between human and built environment I see a way for redemption. This shrinking physical world is giving back something by going backwards, dying a slow death. And in the process of leaving this world it represents an ongoing prospect of decay.

The user of this world harvests the last it has to offer: silence, solitude and sanctuary, the spirits of this long gone functional world. These last men standing are giving back to architecture in means of mercy, worship and care which manifest in the coexistence of decline.

Adaptation of Facades in Times of Decadence

By Eeros Lees and Fernanda Ayala Torres

Our project investigates the aesthetic change of Kohtla-Järve central boulevard Keskallee. Here the adaptation and transformation of the facades of Stalinist architecture are reflected, as their ornamentation and symbolism are making a way for small businesses on the first floors bringing along new signs, window stickers, painting practices, new entrances and perhaps also new hope? Our vision marks the changing reality of a decadent city that reinvents itself through its facades but must still follow heritage requirements.

To Keep Or Not To Keep: Reconsideration of Khrushchevka

By Veera Gontšugova and Daria Khrystych

The project is an online archive aiming to recover the public image of the Soviet-time mass housing building typology, known as the Khrushchevka. Such a typology tends to be not favored in the post-Soviet environment, occasionally entailing the abandonment and demolition of these buildings. By gathering and structuring information, our goal is to present a future-oriented point of view to showcase the potential and hope for this particular residential building typology. We base our storytelling on the historical findings, empirical data as well as presenting the examples of dealing with the similar issue in different contexts. By looking at both material and social aspects, we are referring to the retrofitting and collective living strategies that can be implemented in order to rebound the reputation of Khrushchevka.

Rethinking Growth

Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir and Ardo Hiiuväin

Our project explores the idea of “giving land back to nature” within the context of spatial shrinkage and half-emptiness, with a focus on rewilding. Accepting the half-empty future of Sompa, we aim to question the concept of wilderness and emphasise the importance of the shared sense of responsibility required to create a sustainable living environment.

These ideas are implemented through proposing a vision competition for the rewilding of a selected housing complex in Sompa. With the hope of bringing in a wide array of ideas and perspectives, the competition entries would reflect the different ways of which rewilding can be a tool for engaging with spatial shrinkage. Furthermore, the goal of hosting the competition is to bring attention to this subject, inviting the public to ask what shrinkage actually entails, what it means for those affected and ultimately valuing the already existing qualities embedded in these shrinking communities.

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12.05.2021

The Urban Studies studio presents

Faculty of Architecture

The Urban Studies studio “Preservation: Architecture, Nature and Politics” will conclude with a public presentation of student projects on the 12 of May at 14.00 (EEST).

Preservation has achieved cultural significance as a lens through which various experts have come to imagine how a socially and environmentally sound future might look like. As an approach, preservation has been applied to disparate phenomena ranging from historic neighborhoods and natural environments to democracy and identity.

Through case studies from different parts of the world around topics such as green extractivism, simulated heritage and cultural marginalizations, students have built on the insight that preservation cannot be neatly delineated from various forms of violence and destruction. Their projects experiment with a variety of mediums, from a traditional essay to video, drawings and collages, to examine conceptualizations, debates and practices of preserving architecture and nature, and to ask the following questions: Who decides what to preserve and what to neglect? Who has the capacity to take on this responsibility? Preservation is political because, as with a fruit preserve, the act of preserving transforms the preserved object into something altogether different.

Guest critics: Ewa Effiom (Manchester School of Architecture, UK) and Jonas Žukauskas (Neringa Forest Residency, Lithuania)

Students: Petra Ďurišková, Johannes Growe, Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir, Janosh Heydorn, Malin Hilding, Daria Khrystych, Oleksandr Nenenko, Mathilde Olivier, Dalma Pszota, Mira Samonig, Fernanda Torres

Tutors: Maroš Krivý, Kaija-Luisa Kurik, Sean Tyler

This virtual presentation takes the form of individual presentations alongside a collaborative website launch and is open to the public.

Join in on ZOOM HERE

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The Urban Studies studio presents

Wednesday 12 May, 2021

Faculty of Architecture

The Urban Studies studio “Preservation: Architecture, Nature and Politics” will conclude with a public presentation of student projects on the 12 of May at 14.00 (EEST).

Preservation has achieved cultural significance as a lens through which various experts have come to imagine how a socially and environmentally sound future might look like. As an approach, preservation has been applied to disparate phenomena ranging from historic neighborhoods and natural environments to democracy and identity.

Through case studies from different parts of the world around topics such as green extractivism, simulated heritage and cultural marginalizations, students have built on the insight that preservation cannot be neatly delineated from various forms of violence and destruction. Their projects experiment with a variety of mediums, from a traditional essay to video, drawings and collages, to examine conceptualizations, debates and practices of preserving architecture and nature, and to ask the following questions: Who decides what to preserve and what to neglect? Who has the capacity to take on this responsibility? Preservation is political because, as with a fruit preserve, the act of preserving transforms the preserved object into something altogether different.

Guest critics: Ewa Effiom (Manchester School of Architecture, UK) and Jonas Žukauskas (Neringa Forest Residency, Lithuania)

Students: Petra Ďurišková, Johannes Growe, Þórhildur B. Guðmundsdóttir, Janosh Heydorn, Malin Hilding, Daria Khrystych, Oleksandr Nenenko, Mathilde Olivier, Dalma Pszota, Mira Samonig, Fernanda Torres

Tutors: Maroš Krivý, Kaija-Luisa Kurik, Sean Tyler

This virtual presentation takes the form of individual presentations alongside a collaborative website launch and is open to the public.

Join in on ZOOM HERE

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15.04.2021

Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen. Presentation and conference

Architecture and Urban Design

On April 15, a special issue of Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen will be presented and a memorial conference will be held.

The access to the conference will be on the Zoom channel from 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia). Pre-registration is not required, presentations are in English.

All are welcome!

The special issue of Ehituskunst focuses on the legacy of the deceased architect and lecturer Jan Verwijnen (1949–2005) in interpreting urban space. The authors of the publication and former colleagues exchange views on the development of urban planning, architectural thought and education, and Jan Verwijnen’s contribution to it.

EHITUSKUNST #60 JAN VERWIJNEN. CREATIVE THOUGHT AND URBAN CHANGE

Link to the event April 15, 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia):

https://zoom.us/j/99727563770

PROGRAM

14:00 Opening

Andres Ojari, Dean Faculty of Architecture EKA Tallinn

14:10 Introduction to Ehituskunst journal

Eik Hermann, Editor-in-chief Ehituskunst, EKA Tallinn

14:20 Ehituskunst #60 Jan Verwijnen: Creative Thought and Urban Change

Introduction by the editors of the issue

Panu Lehtovuori, Professor of Urban Theory Tampere University

Klaske Havik, Professor Methods of Analysis and Imagination, TU Delft

14:45 Session 1 Creative thought

Talks by authors of the issue and discussion

Toni Kauppilla, Professor and Head of the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway.

Verena von Beckerath, Heide&Von Beckerath architects Berlin, professor Design and Housing, Bauhaus-University, Weimar.

15:45 break

16:00 Session 2 Urban Change

Talks by authors of the issue and discussion

Pia Ilonen, architect, ILO architects, Helsinki

Steve McAdam & Christina Norton, Fluid architecture, urbanism, participation, London / Soundings, London

17:00 About the Urban Studies program at EKA

Maros Krivy, Professor of Urban Studies, EKA

17:30 Discussion and celebration

JAN VERWIJNEN (1949–2005) graduated as an architect from ETH Zürich in 1976. After work in Switzerland and the Netherlands, including a period in Rem Koolhaas’ OMA in Rotterdam, he moved to Helsinki at the turn of the 1990s. In the quickly evolving Nordic and Baltic context, Jan Verwijnen took active academic and societal positions. He reshaped the education and research of interior architecture at the University of Art and Design (UIAH), today part of Aalto University, and initiated the Urban Studies programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2004

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Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen. Presentation and conference

Thursday 15 April, 2021

Architecture and Urban Design

On April 15, a special issue of Ehituskunst #60: Jan Verwijnen will be presented and a memorial conference will be held.

The access to the conference will be on the Zoom channel from 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia). Pre-registration is not required, presentations are in English.

All are welcome!

The special issue of Ehituskunst focuses on the legacy of the deceased architect and lecturer Jan Verwijnen (1949–2005) in interpreting urban space. The authors of the publication and former colleagues exchange views on the development of urban planning, architectural thought and education, and Jan Verwijnen’s contribution to it.

EHITUSKUNST #60 JAN VERWIJNEN. CREATIVE THOUGHT AND URBAN CHANGE

Link to the event April 15, 2 to 6 pm (Times CET+1, Estonia):

https://zoom.us/j/99727563770

PROGRAM

14:00 Opening

Andres Ojari, Dean Faculty of Architecture EKA Tallinn

14:10 Introduction to Ehituskunst journal

Eik Hermann, Editor-in-chief Ehituskunst, EKA Tallinn

14:20 Ehituskunst #60 Jan Verwijnen: Creative Thought and Urban Change

Introduction by the editors of the issue

Panu Lehtovuori, Professor of Urban Theory Tampere University

Klaske Havik, Professor Methods of Analysis and Imagination, TU Delft

14:45 Session 1 Creative thought

Talks by authors of the issue and discussion

Toni Kauppilla, Professor and Head of the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway.

Verena von Beckerath, Heide&Von Beckerath architects Berlin, professor Design and Housing, Bauhaus-University, Weimar.

15:45 break

16:00 Session 2 Urban Change

Talks by authors of the issue and discussion

Pia Ilonen, architect, ILO architects, Helsinki

Steve McAdam & Christina Norton, Fluid architecture, urbanism, participation, London / Soundings, London

17:00 About the Urban Studies program at EKA

Maros Krivy, Professor of Urban Studies, EKA

17:30 Discussion and celebration

JAN VERWIJNEN (1949–2005) graduated as an architect from ETH Zürich in 1976. After work in Switzerland and the Netherlands, including a period in Rem Koolhaas’ OMA in Rotterdam, he moved to Helsinki at the turn of the 1990s. In the quickly evolving Nordic and Baltic context, Jan Verwijnen took active academic and societal positions. He reshaped the education and research of interior architecture at the University of Art and Design (UIAH), today part of Aalto University, and initiated the Urban Studies programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2004

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