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Co-creating design(s) to support intimacy between remote families (EKA 2025-2027)

“Co-creating design(s) to support intimacy between remote families: A Collaborative approach to interaction, social, and sensorial design” aims to bridge the emotional distance between families, inspired by the phenomenology of intimacy. By ...

30 January 2025

Faculty of Design Ongoing Research Projects

Application of Participatory Methods for Exploring Meaning-Making Process in Bag Design

The artistic research research project investigates which meaning-making methods and principles can be intentionally applied within the design process to extend a product’s useful lifespan. The owner’s emotional attachment to a personal item has ...

30 January 2025

Faculty of Design Ongoing Research Projects

Mixed Reality and Audience Participation: Technological Practices of Performative Space (EKA 2025-2026)

The aim of the project would be to investigate in depth the application of new technologies in the performative environment of theater and exhibition spaces. Changes in the technical environment affect all areas of life, as well as theater ...

28 January 2025

Faculty of Fine Arts Ongoing Research Projects

Exhibition infrastructure. A study of the material and ideological conditions of exhibition production in the late Soviet period (2025-2026)

This project proposes to study the history of exhibitions in the late Soviet period. From the 1960s onwards, exhibitions have become an increasingly important medium for the mediation of ideologies, while their design has become ...

28 January 2025

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

Expedition: Estonians and Indigeneity

This project will examine Estonia’s relationships with Indigenous peoples and the influence of these relationships on Estonian self-identity, focusing on visual culture, artworks and museum collections. The transdisciplinary project is ...

30 October 2024

Faculty of Art and Culture Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

How to Reframe Monuments (Estonian Ministry of Culture grant, 2024–2026)

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered debates about the Russian and Soviet heritage both globally and in Estonia. This has been accompanied by the toppling of monuments, as well as social conflicts and polarisation. The aim of ...

19 March 2024

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

Transferring Upmade know-how to Kenya

Addressing the Challenge In Kenya, the textile industry faces a significant environmental challenge. The prevalent linear production model in textile manufacturing is a major contributor to climate change, marked by excessive ...

19 March 2024

Faculty of Design Fashion Design Ongoing Research Projects

Study and analysis of textile recycling technologies

The EU's Waste Framework Directive requires all Member States to introduce separate collection of textile waste from 1 January 2025. Separate collection will be the responsibility of local authorities, which will be able to choose the ...

19 March 2024

Faculty of Design Ongoing Research Projects

MUUSA: Material research modelling and synthesis

MUUSA: Material research modelling and synthesis The project aims to develop a new artistic research methodology using material-based co-creation methods. Various models will be synthesised ...

12 March 2024

Faculty of Design Ongoing Research Projects

New Found Type Project. New Type from Old. An Estonian Perspective

The Newfound Type project will explore relief type and print form making from an Estonian perspective, by identifying the techniques and characteristics specific to its historical context and applying these in an ...

23 February 2024

Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic Art Ongoing Research Projects