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

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

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

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https://www.notjustalabel.com/designer/6un#page-1

Bernhard Sommer and Galo Moncayo Open Lecture to focus on energy efficient future cities

On November 3rd at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Bernhard Sommer from Exikon and architect and installation artist Galo Moncayo at Estonian Architecture Centre (Kultuurikatel, Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn). Sommer teaches energy design at one of the most exciting architecture schools in the world, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, and leads Exikon arc & dev architecture office, dedicated to the application of cutting-edge planning and building technology. Moncayo is an established installation artist and architect who teaches at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. Open Lecture Series welcome all architecture students from across Estonia, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

From this academic year, and with generous help from Merko construction company, Sommer will also be teaching at the Estonian Academy of Art architecture department. In his Open Lecture, Sommer will explain how energy design can fundamentally change the way future cities are designed. In Estonia, the prevailing method of raising energy efficiency of a building has been dealt with by adding energy efficient components and materials to a project, whereas Sommer guides his students to employ smart spatial geometry to make cities and buildings more efficient. Sommer’s architecture office, Exikon arc & dev in Vienna, is dedicated to the application of cutting-edge planning and building technology. Its aim is the integration of scientific findings into the design process.

Bernhard Sommer teaches energy design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and has been a visiting professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. Sommer also teaches building physics and holds seminars on sustainable design at the Technical University of Graz, the University of Cagliari and in the context of the Master Program Urban Strategies. In 2000, he has been awarded the Arch + Prize 2000, in 2002, the Schindler Scholarship of the MAK Center in Los Angeles. There he developed the transforming „desert cloud“ project that later was exhibited in West Hollywood and Vienna.

Galo Moncayo is an installation artist and architect currently teaching in the Energy Design Department at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as a Assistant Professor in the Experimental Architecture Department at Innsbruck University. He has exhibited throughout the United States including in New York, and in Germany, Mexico, Austria, Spain and has been invited as a visiting artist/ lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, The George Washington University, among other universities in North America and in Germany, Mexico, Austria and Ecuador. Galo Moncayo received a Magister of Architecture from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the Zaha Hadid Master Class, a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in the United States.

More about Exikon: http://www.exikon.at/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. The architecture department would also like to thank Merko for their support for this event.

Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee

More info:
Pille Epner
arhitektuur@artun.ee

+372 642 0071

This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Julia.

This time the model in EAA Design Faculty`s drawing studio`s croquis is Julia.
Photo: Erik Peinar

MARTTA TUOMAALA: Artistic methods for making a difference
On Wednesday, 19 October at 5 pm there will be an open lecture Artistic methods for making a difference by Finnish artist and filmmaker Martta Tuomaala. She is the guest lecturer at the graphic art and installation/sculpture departments at the autumn semester. The lecture will take place at EKA Lembitu 10B building in room no 144
Martta Tuomaala (b. 1983) is a visual artist, currently living and working in Helsinki. She gained a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Aalto University, School of Arts and Architecture in 2014.

Tuomaala is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses mainly on various forms of film, video and socially engaged art. Her works deals with social, societal structures and power relations. Tuomaala has been working in several low-paid sectors, which has made a strong impact in her artistic practice. The main focus of her interest is work: research of working culture, working conditions, labor struggles, workers’ rights and different forms of organizing, especially in the low-paid and precarious women-dominated fields. One of her biggest projects Cleaner’s Voice, which combines different methods of artistic practice and militant research, consists of a 16-channel installation which is based on the interviews of cleaners.

Currently she is working on a project Finn-Spinning-Soumi-Perkele! dealing with generalized ideas of ‘Finnishness’, precarious work and the effects of austerity politics in Finland.

More information:

www.marttatuomaala.com
www.facebook.com/cleanersvoice

Olete oodatud!
You are warmly welcome!

We are glad to inform You about an upcoming open lecture in the Department of Art Education expanding upon the topic “Perspectives on art education in today’s global economy”.

Lecturers: Tomaž Zupančič, Professor at the Faculty of Education, University in Maribor, Slovenia
and
Jan van Boeckel, Professor in Art Pedagogy at the Faculty of Art and Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts

In our conversation we bring together the themes of art, art education and economy. Some people would hold that art is only worthwhile if it is completely interest-free (“l’art pour l’art”). But what happens when one engages with art for purposes that are external to its supposed own domain, for example when artmaking becomes an instrument to seek economic gains, to draw a spicy personal career plan or even to push society into a more sustainable direction? Is it still art then? And what are the implications of our views on this issue for the kind of art education we provide to young people?

Time: Wednesday 19 October, 12.30-14.30

Place: Estonian Academy of Arts,
Department of Art Education, Room 103, Suur-Kloostri 11, Tallinn

Info: Helen Arov (helen.arov@artun.ee)

Hope to see You soon!
Department of Art Education

Group of students of the department of glass – Maarja Mäemets, Sigrid Luitsalu, Külli Nidermann, Kateriin Rikken, Toomas Mäelt, Oleksandra Kotliar, Jay Siltavuo and Ida Leinonen – participated in the 10th International Blown Glass Symposium in Lviv, Ukraine. Tutor of the group, Professor Mare Saare, participated also as an invited artist, together with glass artist and drawing teacher of the EAA Peeter Rudaš in the program of the symposium, preparing exhibition works at the furnace of the Lviv Academy of Arts. The organizers of the event – in earlier years Prof Andriy Bokotei, now his son Mykhaylo Bokotei – also invited the students to participate in the exhibition at the National Museum in Lviv. Prof Saare was awarded with the Diploma of Honour of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts for her input into the development of international glass art. At the conference there were also presentations from Mare Saare and her students about Estonian Academy of Arts, and the creative work of Peeter Rudaš and Mare Saare. Piret Meos, one of the MA graduates of the dept of glass in 2016, was also presented at the exhibition with her glass object. The symposium is an important event in the international world of art glass, organized every second year and with participats from also as far as USA, Japan, and, of course Europe.

This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Nikolai.