Croquis.

18.11.2016

Croquis.

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This time the models in EAA Design Faculty`s drawing studio`s croquis are Ira (15.00-15.45) and Alex (15.45-17.30).

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Croquis.

Friday 18 November, 2016

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This time the models in EAA Design Faculty`s drawing studio`s croquis are Ira (15.00-15.45) and Alex (15.45-17.30).

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16.11.2016

Berlin Installation, 2016

Berlin, the capital of Germany, has been a cultural melting pot in the middle of Europe. Once a metropol of Europe, later torn up by war and now reconnected, Berlin is a city with different faces. It is a place of diverse culture and divided past, which can be seen in the urban landscape of Berlin.

This year observation practice was focused on the definition of “Border” and the cityscape, that has been created due to the borders. We can observe borders as dividers of space. At the same time borders address a wider territory, which is able to generate social-cultural, economical and spacial relations in the widest aspect. The topic is relatively actual and it affects us all. The meaning of “Border” and its spacial presence has yet again shown its relevance through the massive migration of people in Europe.

The focus of the Practice was the Berlin Wall and the territory that surrounds it. One of the goals was to observe the changes that have been a constant process for the last 28 years. This opens up new spaces and situations – some older spaces have been forgotten, yet new ones have emerged. One could see it as a potential of the city.

3rd year students of Architecture and Urban Studies invite You to join us in our Berlin installation. The Berlin Installation is based on our experience we had during our stay in Berlin.

An ever-changing city, which is fully on tracks, busy and with a lot of layers, is still carrying the not so distant past within itself.

Observation Practice in the Architecture department is an every year tradition for 3rd Year Architecture students. This year it was Berlin and last year our colleagues visited Paris.
Tutors Andres Ojari and Maros Krivy.

STUDENTS AND INSTALLATIONS:

Ann Kristiin Entson, Keiti Lige, Seth Amofah “Forecity”

Triin Vallner, Jaana Kraus “shelf “IBA””

Laura Pint, Kristjan Värav, Karmen Silde “Around Spree”

Carolyn Rennu, Immaanuel Bush, Andreas Krigoltoi “City Flow”

Liisa Peri “Home”

Jarmo Vaik, Reelika Reinsalu, Jekaterina Klishova, Kristi Merilo “Wall”

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Berlin Installation, 2016

Wednesday 16 November, 2016

Berlin, the capital of Germany, has been a cultural melting pot in the middle of Europe. Once a metropol of Europe, later torn up by war and now reconnected, Berlin is a city with different faces. It is a place of diverse culture and divided past, which can be seen in the urban landscape of Berlin.

This year observation practice was focused on the definition of “Border” and the cityscape, that has been created due to the borders. We can observe borders as dividers of space. At the same time borders address a wider territory, which is able to generate social-cultural, economical and spacial relations in the widest aspect. The topic is relatively actual and it affects us all. The meaning of “Border” and its spacial presence has yet again shown its relevance through the massive migration of people in Europe.

The focus of the Practice was the Berlin Wall and the territory that surrounds it. One of the goals was to observe the changes that have been a constant process for the last 28 years. This opens up new spaces and situations – some older spaces have been forgotten, yet new ones have emerged. One could see it as a potential of the city.

3rd year students of Architecture and Urban Studies invite You to join us in our Berlin installation. The Berlin Installation is based on our experience we had during our stay in Berlin.

An ever-changing city, which is fully on tracks, busy and with a lot of layers, is still carrying the not so distant past within itself.

Observation Practice in the Architecture department is an every year tradition for 3rd Year Architecture students. This year it was Berlin and last year our colleagues visited Paris.
Tutors Andres Ojari and Maros Krivy.

STUDENTS AND INSTALLATIONS:

Ann Kristiin Entson, Keiti Lige, Seth Amofah “Forecity”

Triin Vallner, Jaana Kraus “shelf “IBA””

Laura Pint, Kristjan Värav, Karmen Silde “Around Spree”

Carolyn Rennu, Immaanuel Bush, Andreas Krigoltoi “City Flow”

Liisa Peri “Home”

Jarmo Vaik, Reelika Reinsalu, Jekaterina Klishova, Kristi Merilo “Wall”

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18.11.2016

The EAA Animation Department celebrates its 10th anniversary and invites You to join the party!

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The EAA Department of Animation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and we are happy to invite you to join our birthday party on November 18th at 6 pm at the BFM Nova building, Narva mnt 27, 4th floor at the animation department.
6 pm
– Croquis by Kristjan Holm, the legendary animation student and current lecturer at the Department of Interior Architecture
– GIF workshop by Sander Joon, a recent graduate and awarded animation director.
6 pm
– Presentation of the new DVD and screening of the best student films from the 10 legendary years of the animation department. Free entry.
7 pm
– Cake and Turkish coffee, brewed by the animation fan and Artistic Director of ЭТО experimental lab, Aleksey Savinsky aka Mr Vuu from St. Petersburg.
Magusaid unenägusid ja tere tulemast animatsiooni osakonda!!!
PS. There will be several open lectures and presentations in celebration of the same event at BFM, check out at www.anima.ee

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The EAA Animation Department celebrates its 10th anniversary and invites You to join the party!

Friday 18 November, 2016

anima10dvd

The EAA Department of Animation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and we are happy to invite you to join our birthday party on November 18th at 6 pm at the BFM Nova building, Narva mnt 27, 4th floor at the animation department.
6 pm
– Croquis by Kristjan Holm, the legendary animation student and current lecturer at the Department of Interior Architecture
– GIF workshop by Sander Joon, a recent graduate and awarded animation director.
6 pm
– Presentation of the new DVD and screening of the best student films from the 10 legendary years of the animation department. Free entry.
7 pm
– Cake and Turkish coffee, brewed by the animation fan and Artistic Director of ЭТО experimental lab, Aleksey Savinsky aka Mr Vuu from St. Petersburg.
Magusaid unenägusid ja tere tulemast animatsiooni osakonda!!!
PS. There will be several open lectures and presentations in celebration of the same event at BFM, check out at www.anima.ee

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14.11.2016

Open Lecture: Basia Szkutnicka, Love & the Secret of Good Design

basia

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

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

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

About Basia Szkutnicka

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Open Lecture: Basia Szkutnicka, Love & the Secret of Good Design

Monday 14 November, 2016

basia

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

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

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

About Basia Szkutnicka

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

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

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

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

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

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

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17.11.2016

Open Lecture: Leon van Schaik 17.11 at 6 PM

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

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

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

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

More info:
Pille Epner
arhitektuur@artun.ee

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Open Lecture: Leon van Schaik 17.11 at 6 PM

Thursday 17 November, 2016

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

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

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

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

More info:
Pille Epner
arhitektuur@artun.ee

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11.11.2016

Croquis.

krokii-11-nov-2016-eliise

This time the model in EAA Design Faculty`s drawing studio`s croquis is Eliise.
Look our fb album https://www.facebook.com/yllemarks/media_set?set=a.658254700865823.1073741826.100000438963959&type=3

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Croquis.

Friday 11 November, 2016

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This time the model in EAA Design Faculty`s drawing studio`s croquis is Eliise.
Look our fb album https://www.facebook.com/yllemarks/media_set?set=a.658254700865823.1073741826.100000438963959&type=3

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11.11.2016 — 27.11.2016

CONFUSION at EKKM Nov 12-27, 2016

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confusion

Umbrella Group will open its first exhibition Confusion in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) at 6pm on November 11, 2016.

Curatorial exhibition “Confusion” produced by the department of photography of the Estonian Academy of Arts takes places as an off season exposition on the first and second floor of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) and will be open from November 12 to November 27.

Umbrella Group involves the following artists: Maris Karjatse, Madis Kurss, Kaisa Maasik, Hanna Samoson, Silvia Sosaar, and Ave Vellesalu.

The newly formed artist group captures attention with their spatial and video installations, a VR environment, as well as with the diverse and exhaustive subject treatment.

“Confusion” curated by Marco Laimre studies the concept of confusion in the context of contemporary art. The exhibition is based on Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s idea that humanness is defined by man’s reaction to the unknown.

Exhibition publication designed by Anna Kaarma includes short descriptions of presented artwork.

Curator Marco Laimre will lead the artist talk with the members of Umbrella Group in EKKM’s cafe at 6pm on November 16.

Guided tour in Estonian will be led by art historian Madli Ehasalu at 1pm on November 20, guided tour in English will be led by art historian Eva-Erle Lilleaed at 1pm on November 27.

EKKM is located on Põhja pst. 35, Tallinn. Open hours Tue – Sun 12.00 – 19.00, closed on Monday.

Free entrance.

Supported by: EKKM; Cultural Endowment of Estonia; Estonian Academy of Arts; Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School; Sadolin AS; Õllenaut

Thanks to: Rando Arand, Jevgeni Berezovski, Taavi Eelmaa, Marten Esko, Foku, Erik Heinsalu, Deniss Jeršov, Indrek Jõgi, Marie Karjatse, Indrek Klaus, Gennadi S. Klein, Karel Koplimets, Rein Kutsar, Ivo Kõvamees, Lauri Laasik, Arne Maasik, Keiu Maasik, Andrei Nakonetšnõi, Krista Palm, Elena Shkut, Hanno Soans, family Sosaar, Johannes Säre, Villem Säre, Raul Viitung, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo

More info:

Marco Laimre

laimre@gmail.com

Kaisa Maasik

kaisa.maasik@artun.ee

http://www.ekkm.ee

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CONFUSION at EKKM Nov 12-27, 2016

Friday 11 November, 2016 — Sunday 27 November, 2016

confusion-pais
confusion

Umbrella Group will open its first exhibition Confusion in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) at 6pm on November 11, 2016.

Curatorial exhibition “Confusion” produced by the department of photography of the Estonian Academy of Arts takes places as an off season exposition on the first and second floor of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) and will be open from November 12 to November 27.

Umbrella Group involves the following artists: Maris Karjatse, Madis Kurss, Kaisa Maasik, Hanna Samoson, Silvia Sosaar, and Ave Vellesalu.

The newly formed artist group captures attention with their spatial and video installations, a VR environment, as well as with the diverse and exhaustive subject treatment.

“Confusion” curated by Marco Laimre studies the concept of confusion in the context of contemporary art. The exhibition is based on Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s idea that humanness is defined by man’s reaction to the unknown.

Exhibition publication designed by Anna Kaarma includes short descriptions of presented artwork.

Curator Marco Laimre will lead the artist talk with the members of Umbrella Group in EKKM’s cafe at 6pm on November 16.

Guided tour in Estonian will be led by art historian Madli Ehasalu at 1pm on November 20, guided tour in English will be led by art historian Eva-Erle Lilleaed at 1pm on November 27.

EKKM is located on Põhja pst. 35, Tallinn. Open hours Tue – Sun 12.00 – 19.00, closed on Monday.

Free entrance.

Supported by: EKKM; Cultural Endowment of Estonia; Estonian Academy of Arts; Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School; Sadolin AS; Õllenaut

Thanks to: Rando Arand, Jevgeni Berezovski, Taavi Eelmaa, Marten Esko, Foku, Erik Heinsalu, Deniss Jeršov, Indrek Jõgi, Marie Karjatse, Indrek Klaus, Gennadi S. Klein, Karel Koplimets, Rein Kutsar, Ivo Kõvamees, Lauri Laasik, Arne Maasik, Keiu Maasik, Andrei Nakonetšnõi, Krista Palm, Elena Shkut, Hanno Soans, family Sosaar, Johannes Säre, Villem Säre, Raul Viitung, Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo

More info:

Marco Laimre

laimre@gmail.com

Kaisa Maasik

kaisa.maasik@artun.ee

http://www.ekkm.ee

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15.11.2016 — 17.11.2016

Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age Book Launch and Lecture Series

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

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

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

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

Speakers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age Book Launch and Lecture Series

Tuesday 15 November, 2016 — Thursday 17 November, 2016

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

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

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

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

Speakers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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26.11.2016 — 18.12.2016

ADAPT-r, a major exhibition that explores the research processes of working artists, architects and designers

ADAPT-r

26 November – 18 December 2016

Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London Daily 10.00-18.00 Admission Free P3exhibitions.com

Curated by Katharine Heron, Director, Ambika P3

Press View 10am–1pm Wednesday 23 November 2016 Private View: 6.30–8.30pm Wednesday 23 November 2016 Thursday 24 November: Book Launch and talk by Tom Holbrook Friday 25 November: Opening Lecture by Deborah Saunt

What do architects, artists, and designers actually do? What inspires them? How do they make the leaps of imagination they need to break new ground? Where do they find their ideas? How do they develop, test and share them with each other? How do they know when something’s going right?

Ambika P3 is proud to present ADAPT-r, a major exhibition that explores the research processes of working artists, architects and designers – revealing the diverse approaches to how they do what they do. From digital designers to landscape architects, brand designers to design activists, painters to performance artists, and many different types of architects, ADAPT-r presents the myriad approaches to the creative process.

This ground-breaking and challenging exhibition is the conclusion of a four-year international research initiative, funded by a major EU grant, and aims to provide rare insights through an extraordinary range of 35 creative practitioners from around the globe.

ADAPT-r, curated by Ambika P3 Director Katharine Heron, features the work of Siobhán Ní Éanaigh (McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects, Ireland), Sam Kebbell (Kebbell Daish, NZ), Steve Larkin (Steve Larkin Architects, Ireland), C. J. Lim (Studio 8 Architects, UK), Marco Polleto and Claudia Pasquero (ecoLogicStudio, Italy/UK), Deborah Saunt (DSAHA, UK), Siv Helene Stangeland (Helen & Hard, Norway), Johannes Torpe (Johannes Torpe Studio, Denmark), and many more.

The exhibition offers a rich terrain of work to explore. It is divided into distinct areas charting the different stages of discovery within the creative process. Individual exhibits in the Studio show work in progress and completion by 35 practitioners, whereas Rooms reveals cross views of working together. The Library includes books and discoveries, while the Garden will be the site of a daily programme of events, including discussions, performances and screenings.

PRESS RELEASE

NOTES TO EDITORS ADAPT-r: The Background

Over a four year period, a remarkable EU grant allowed the employment of 35 individual artists, architects, designers, landscape architects, as Fellows for periods of 6 to 18 months to explore their own individual creative practices. Seven universities combined in partnership, to undertake the project named as ADAPT-r – Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training-research. Each moved from their own country to a different country within the partnership to undertake a PhD by practice. All present work in progress twice yearly at what is called a Practice Research Symposium – PRS – in a convivial, mutually supportive environment of critique. The PhD process concludes with a public examination or ‘defence’. This hard work is presented with craft and intelligence, and provides extraordinary insight in to the individual creative processes. Above all, the work itself is what drives the process. Creative practitioners need opportunities and encouragement to produce new work, and to bring it to the public eye. The EU grant allowed each practitioner the luxury of some paid time to think about their own work and creative processes and to share it with others.

The exhibition presents the work in the context of an international training network for practice based research in a PhD programme and will show the work of five practitioners who have completed their PhD, and four who will present at the time of the exhibition, as well as the work in progress of a further group of twenty six practitioners. See: http://adapt-r.eu

THE PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

ADAPT-r is a partnership of seven European Universities – Aarhus School of Architecture (Denmark), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture (Belgium), Estonia Academy of Arts (Estonia), Mackintosh School of Architecture – Glasgow School of Art (UK), RMIT Europe (Spain) & University of Westminster (UK).

http://arch.kuleuven.be/english, www.architecture.rmit.edu.au www.westminster.ac.uk/about- us/schools/architecture , www.fa.uni-lj.si, www.artun.ee, aarch.dk , www.gsa.ac.uk

ACCOMPANYING CATALOGUE/BOOK

Published to accompany the exhibition, an illustrated book, ADAPT-r, acts as both a guide to the exhibition and a memorandum of the ADAPT-r process. In addition to features on specific ADAPT-r projects, the book includes further details about the institutions involved, each fellows’ personal motivation and approach to the worlds of design and research, a guide to the layout and philosophy behind the exhibition and specially commissioned essays by Richard Blythe, Kester Rattenbury, Leon van Schaik and Fleur Watson, reflecting on the evolution and future of the ADAPT-r model.

The book is edited by Katharine Heron and Clare Hamman, with an introduction by Katharine Heron and Foreword by Johane Verbeke. Published by University of Westminster, November 2016, £10.00 (paperback). The book will also be available digitally.

EVENTS

Evening Events – weekdays only – include music, film, and practitioners in conversation. Practice Research Symposium 24 – 27 November

Booking is essential online at: www.p3exhibitions.com

PRESS RELEASE

ABOUT AMBIKA P3

Director: Professor Katharine Heron

Ambika P3 is the University of Westminster’s space for contemporary art and architecture, presenting a public programme of solo and group exhibitions, education projects, talks and

events. Dedicated to innovation, experimentation and learning, the programme has been conceived as a laboratory and meeting place for practitioners, industry and academia.

Past exhibitions at Ambika P3 include Anthony McCall’s Vertical Works (2011), David Hall’s End Piece… (2012), Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s The Happiest Man (2013), Victor Burgin’s A Sense of Place (2013), Elizabeth Ogilvie’s Out of Ice (2014) and Potential Architecture with Apolonija Šušterŝič, Alexander Brodsky, Joar Nango and Sean Griffiths (2015) and Chantal Akerman: NOW (2015).

Forthcoming exhibition: The Casebooks Project (17 March – 23 April. 2017) curated by Michael Mazière.

VISITOR INFORMATION

ADAPT-r

Saturday 26 November – Sunday 18 December 2016 Daily 10.00-18.00 Admission Free

Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London P3exhibitions.com

Curated by Katharine Heron, Director, Ambika P3

Private View: 6.30–8.30pm Wednesday 23 November 2016 Thursdays 24 November: Book Launch and talk by Tom Holbrook Friday 25 November: Opening Lecture by Deborah Saunt

Bookable events online at: www.p3exhibitions.com

ADMISSION FREE

Ambika P3

Address: 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Opening hours: Everyday 10am – 6pm Nearest Tube: Baker Street

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7911 5876

Email: p3.exhibitions@wmin.ac.uk Website: www.p3exhibitions.com

For more information, interviews, or images, please contact

Kate Burvill: T: +44 (0) 207 226 7824, M: +44 (0) 7947 754 717, kateburvill@gmail.com Heather Blair: T: +44 (0) 20 3506 6941; E: h.blair@westminster.ac.uk 

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ADAPT-r, a major exhibition that explores the research processes of working artists, architects and designers

Saturday 26 November, 2016 — Sunday 18 December, 2016

ADAPT-r

26 November – 18 December 2016

Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London Daily 10.00-18.00 Admission Free P3exhibitions.com

Curated by Katharine Heron, Director, Ambika P3

Press View 10am–1pm Wednesday 23 November 2016 Private View: 6.30–8.30pm Wednesday 23 November 2016 Thursday 24 November: Book Launch and talk by Tom Holbrook Friday 25 November: Opening Lecture by Deborah Saunt

What do architects, artists, and designers actually do? What inspires them? How do they make the leaps of imagination they need to break new ground? Where do they find their ideas? How do they develop, test and share them with each other? How do they know when something’s going right?

Ambika P3 is proud to present ADAPT-r, a major exhibition that explores the research processes of working artists, architects and designers – revealing the diverse approaches to how they do what they do. From digital designers to landscape architects, brand designers to design activists, painters to performance artists, and many different types of architects, ADAPT-r presents the myriad approaches to the creative process.

This ground-breaking and challenging exhibition is the conclusion of a four-year international research initiative, funded by a major EU grant, and aims to provide rare insights through an extraordinary range of 35 creative practitioners from around the globe.

ADAPT-r, curated by Ambika P3 Director Katharine Heron, features the work of Siobhán Ní Éanaigh (McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects, Ireland), Sam Kebbell (Kebbell Daish, NZ), Steve Larkin (Steve Larkin Architects, Ireland), C. J. Lim (Studio 8 Architects, UK), Marco Polleto and Claudia Pasquero (ecoLogicStudio, Italy/UK), Deborah Saunt (DSAHA, UK), Siv Helene Stangeland (Helen & Hard, Norway), Johannes Torpe (Johannes Torpe Studio, Denmark), and many more.

The exhibition offers a rich terrain of work to explore. It is divided into distinct areas charting the different stages of discovery within the creative process. Individual exhibits in the Studio show work in progress and completion by 35 practitioners, whereas Rooms reveals cross views of working together. The Library includes books and discoveries, while the Garden will be the site of a daily programme of events, including discussions, performances and screenings.

PRESS RELEASE

NOTES TO EDITORS ADAPT-r: The Background

Over a four year period, a remarkable EU grant allowed the employment of 35 individual artists, architects, designers, landscape architects, as Fellows for periods of 6 to 18 months to explore their own individual creative practices. Seven universities combined in partnership, to undertake the project named as ADAPT-r – Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training-research. Each moved from their own country to a different country within the partnership to undertake a PhD by practice. All present work in progress twice yearly at what is called a Practice Research Symposium – PRS – in a convivial, mutually supportive environment of critique. The PhD process concludes with a public examination or ‘defence’. This hard work is presented with craft and intelligence, and provides extraordinary insight in to the individual creative processes. Above all, the work itself is what drives the process. Creative practitioners need opportunities and encouragement to produce new work, and to bring it to the public eye. The EU grant allowed each practitioner the luxury of some paid time to think about their own work and creative processes and to share it with others.

The exhibition presents the work in the context of an international training network for practice based research in a PhD programme and will show the work of five practitioners who have completed their PhD, and four who will present at the time of the exhibition, as well as the work in progress of a further group of twenty six practitioners. See: http://adapt-r.eu

THE PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

ADAPT-r is a partnership of seven European Universities – Aarhus School of Architecture (Denmark), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture (Belgium), Estonia Academy of Arts (Estonia), Mackintosh School of Architecture – Glasgow School of Art (UK), RMIT Europe (Spain) & University of Westminster (UK).

http://arch.kuleuven.be/english, www.architecture.rmit.edu.au www.westminster.ac.uk/about- us/schools/architecture , www.fa.uni-lj.si, www.artun.ee, aarch.dk , www.gsa.ac.uk

ACCOMPANYING CATALOGUE/BOOK

Published to accompany the exhibition, an illustrated book, ADAPT-r, acts as both a guide to the exhibition and a memorandum of the ADAPT-r process. In addition to features on specific ADAPT-r projects, the book includes further details about the institutions involved, each fellows’ personal motivation and approach to the worlds of design and research, a guide to the layout and philosophy behind the exhibition and specially commissioned essays by Richard Blythe, Kester Rattenbury, Leon van Schaik and Fleur Watson, reflecting on the evolution and future of the ADAPT-r model.

The book is edited by Katharine Heron and Clare Hamman, with an introduction by Katharine Heron and Foreword by Johane Verbeke. Published by University of Westminster, November 2016, £10.00 (paperback). The book will also be available digitally.

EVENTS

Evening Events – weekdays only – include music, film, and practitioners in conversation. Practice Research Symposium 24 – 27 November

Booking is essential online at: www.p3exhibitions.com

PRESS RELEASE

ABOUT AMBIKA P3

Director: Professor Katharine Heron

Ambika P3 is the University of Westminster’s space for contemporary art and architecture, presenting a public programme of solo and group exhibitions, education projects, talks and

events. Dedicated to innovation, experimentation and learning, the programme has been conceived as a laboratory and meeting place for practitioners, industry and academia.

Past exhibitions at Ambika P3 include Anthony McCall’s Vertical Works (2011), David Hall’s End Piece… (2012), Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s The Happiest Man (2013), Victor Burgin’s A Sense of Place (2013), Elizabeth Ogilvie’s Out of Ice (2014) and Potential Architecture with Apolonija Šušterŝič, Alexander Brodsky, Joar Nango and Sean Griffiths (2015) and Chantal Akerman: NOW (2015).

Forthcoming exhibition: The Casebooks Project (17 March – 23 April. 2017) curated by Michael Mazière.

VISITOR INFORMATION

ADAPT-r

Saturday 26 November – Sunday 18 December 2016 Daily 10.00-18.00 Admission Free

Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London P3exhibitions.com

Curated by Katharine Heron, Director, Ambika P3

Private View: 6.30–8.30pm Wednesday 23 November 2016 Thursdays 24 November: Book Launch and talk by Tom Holbrook Friday 25 November: Opening Lecture by Deborah Saunt

Bookable events online at: www.p3exhibitions.com

ADMISSION FREE

Ambika P3

Address: 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Opening hours: Everyday 10am – 6pm Nearest Tube: Baker Street

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7911 5876

Email: p3.exhibitions@wmin.ac.uk Website: www.p3exhibitions.com

For more information, interviews, or images, please contact

Kate Burvill: T: +44 (0) 207 226 7824, M: +44 (0) 7947 754 717, kateburvill@gmail.com Heather Blair: T: +44 (0) 20 3506 6941; E: h.blair@westminster.ac.uk 

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18.11.2016

Call for PhD students: Creative Practice Research seminar “Tacit Knowledge”

"Time Specificity / Genis-temporum" Image credit: Martí Franch Batllori with François Poupeau. Contribution to ADAPT-r Scientific Autobiography Call for Postcards. 

The Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) Faculty of Architecture is inviting PhD students involved in creative practice research to participate in international seminar „Tacit Knowledge“. The seminar takes place on the 18th of November at 10am at EAA Faculty of Architecture (Pikk 20, 3rd floor).

Main objective of the seminar is to open the discussion with other PhD schools and programs in Estonia on the role of Tacit Knowledge in practice-led research.

Tacit knowledge could be described as an intuitive thinking related to the operational and experiential aspects of the practice, as a foundational dimension of the mental space of perception and memory, built through spatial intelligence.

Some guiding questions to be discussed with the participants could be:

What is the meaning of Tacit Knowledge in Creative Practice Research?

Where does Tacit Knowledge reside in and work in practitioners’ modes of practice?

How does Tacit Knowledge emerge? How does the discovery of Tacit Knowledge affect and change the practice?

What is the role of supervisors in surfacing Tacit Knowledge?

For registration, please contact veronika.valk@artun.ee before Friday, November 11.

The seminar will be held in English.
In Facebook You will find the timetable of the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1687140311541388

Prior to the seminar, on Thursday November 17 prof Leon Van Schaik will give a lecture at the EAA Faculty of Architecture open guest speaker lecture series at Kanuti SAAL: http://www.avatudloengud.ee/2016/06/16/leon-van-schaik

After the first ADAPT-r Day in April 2014 which focused on Building a Community of Practice and a second ADAPT-r Day in April 2016 which explored practitioners’ diverse methodologies in conducting their PhDs, related challenges and discoveries, the third ADAPT-r Day at the EAA aims to open the discussion with other PhD schools and programmes in Estonia on the role of Tacit Knowledge in practice-based research.

ADAPT-r (acronym for Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training-Research) is an ITN Initial Training Network funded within the FP7 Marie Curie Program. ADAPT-r is a network of seven academic institutions, but it engages also with design studios. The project includes 40 fellowships, seven training conferences, a major research conference, a final exhibition, five key books, and a website providing public access to research and events. The PhD supported by the ADAPT-r project is structured through three years of research, and is organised in six Practice Research Symposia (two per year, held in Ghent and in Barcelona), namely the PRS, in which the practitioners are invited to present their research and submit it to public consideration.
www.adapt-r.eu

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Call for PhD students: Creative Practice Research seminar “Tacit Knowledge”

Friday 18 November, 2016

"Time Specificity / Genis-temporum" Image credit: Martí Franch Batllori with François Poupeau. Contribution to ADAPT-r Scientific Autobiography Call for Postcards. 

The Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) Faculty of Architecture is inviting PhD students involved in creative practice research to participate in international seminar „Tacit Knowledge“. The seminar takes place on the 18th of November at 10am at EAA Faculty of Architecture (Pikk 20, 3rd floor).

Main objective of the seminar is to open the discussion with other PhD schools and programs in Estonia on the role of Tacit Knowledge in practice-led research.

Tacit knowledge could be described as an intuitive thinking related to the operational and experiential aspects of the practice, as a foundational dimension of the mental space of perception and memory, built through spatial intelligence.

Some guiding questions to be discussed with the participants could be:

What is the meaning of Tacit Knowledge in Creative Practice Research?

Where does Tacit Knowledge reside in and work in practitioners’ modes of practice?

How does Tacit Knowledge emerge? How does the discovery of Tacit Knowledge affect and change the practice?

What is the role of supervisors in surfacing Tacit Knowledge?

For registration, please contact veronika.valk@artun.ee before Friday, November 11.

The seminar will be held in English.
In Facebook You will find the timetable of the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1687140311541388

Prior to the seminar, on Thursday November 17 prof Leon Van Schaik will give a lecture at the EAA Faculty of Architecture open guest speaker lecture series at Kanuti SAAL: http://www.avatudloengud.ee/2016/06/16/leon-van-schaik

After the first ADAPT-r Day in April 2014 which focused on Building a Community of Practice and a second ADAPT-r Day in April 2016 which explored practitioners’ diverse methodologies in conducting their PhDs, related challenges and discoveries, the third ADAPT-r Day at the EAA aims to open the discussion with other PhD schools and programmes in Estonia on the role of Tacit Knowledge in practice-based research.

ADAPT-r (acronym for Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training-Research) is an ITN Initial Training Network funded within the FP7 Marie Curie Program. ADAPT-r is a network of seven academic institutions, but it engages also with design studios. The project includes 40 fellowships, seven training conferences, a major research conference, a final exhibition, five key books, and a website providing public access to research and events. The PhD supported by the ADAPT-r project is structured through three years of research, and is organised in six Practice Research Symposia (two per year, held in Ghent and in Barcelona), namely the PRS, in which the practitioners are invited to present their research and submit it to public consideration.
www.adapt-r.eu

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