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Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

"After a long semester attempting to grasp hold of the elusive Maardu, I ended my final project not with answers but with more questions about the process of urbanisation. The whole study experience was a roller ...

19 December 2019

Urban Studies

Specialty project “Stairs”, 2019 / student work: Germo Ausin

The stair studio invites 2nd year interior architecture students to create conceptually and spatially clear architecture, where the idea and detailed implementation are constantly related to the context of the work. Through analysis and spatial ...

19 December 2019

Making Space

New international business opportunities for the design students of EKA

For the first time ever, a course that would help the students get a grasp of the business world and reach international markets was held for the MA-students ...

16 December 2019

Fashion Design Jewellery and Blacksmithing Textile Design

RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION FROM THE FRONTIER: BERLIN-SCHÖNEWEIDE

A501 16:00 Põhja pst 7 While few outside Berlin know where Schöneweide is, new developments led by the likes of Bryan Adams and Olafur Eliasson position the neighbourhood as a silent frontier of gentrification dynamics in the ...

12 December 2019

Urban Studies

Design students of the Estonian Academy of Arts reach out to the international markets

On 13th December, the MA-students from fashion, textile, accessories’ and jewellery design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) will get a rare chance to pitch their newly refined brands and concepts to influential Scandinavian ...

9 December 2019

Accessory Design Fashion Design Jewellery and Blacksmithing

Specialty studio “Living room + wool” 2019 / student work: Linda Zupping

What is a home and what makes be a good living space if the starting point and unit for the space is an ascetic, ubiquitous sea container? And so that the task given to 2nd year undergraduate students would not be too simple: ...

6 December 2019

Making Space

Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

A lake and a port. Summer housing and mass housing. Metal, steel, automobiles, and the not-so distant memories of phosphorus mining. Beyond the towers of Vanalinn and the limestone of Lasnamäe exists this municipal assemblage that over 15,000 ...

5 December 2019

Urban Studies

Bernt Notke: The Research and Conservation of the Retable of the Church of the Holy Spirit

The late medieval retable of the High Altar of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallinn, is an outstanding masterpiece of woodcarving and painting of international renown, completed in 1483 in the workshop of Bernt Notke, a prominent master of ...

2 December 2019

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Ongoing Research Projects

Estonia Diagonal

Urban studies 1st year students are taking a critical look at both the term and the process of urbanisation. The so called urban is investigated in their semester-long studio by searching for the traces of the gradual spread of Tallinn over time ...

19 November 2019

Urban Studies

Master’s studio “Healthy space”, 2019 / student work: Lilian Männikust

The effects of space on human health have been known since the 1980s, when the first scientific study proved that patients in a ward with a window recover better from surgery than in a ward without a window (E.M. Sternberg, ...

18 November 2019

Making Space