Open Lecture Series – Design

25.01 Dan Mikkin

1.02 Jaanus Vahtra / Taevas Ogilvy loovjuht / Taeva Ogilvy creative director
Loovus ja emotsioon / Creativity and emotion 

Lõik raamatust “Daamide õnn”
“Niisiis on otsustatud, hinnaks paneme viis franki kuuskümmend… Te teate, et see teeb vaevalt välja omahinna.”
Jajah, viis franki kuuskümmend,” vastas Mouret rutakalt, ”ja oleksin mina üksi otsustajaks, müüksin alla omahinna.”
“Kui me seda müüme viie frangi kuuekümnega, siis võrdub see kahjuga müümisele, sest tehtud suuri kulusid tuleb ju millegagi katta… Igal pool mujal saadakse tema eest vähemalt seitse franki.”
“Ma ju tean seda ja tahan teha meie klientidele väikese kingituse…
Tõepoolest, mu sõber, te ei õpi iialgi naisi tundma. Saage ometi aru, et selle siidi pärast võivad nad lausa käsitsi kokku minna!”

8.02 Marko Kiisa / CEO, ethical fashion company Aus Design
Journey from corporate banking to ethical entrepreneurship: 

„My story about what took me from conventional banking to sustainable entrepreneurship. What formed my views, what were the takeaways and why at one point I felt – this can not continue like that. Also a little about what do I consider to be ethical entrepreneurship and why I warmly suggest everybody to consider these principles.“

www.reetaus.com

15.02 Ülle Pihlak / EBSi dotsent / lecturer of Estonian Business School
Kultuuriliste eripäradega arvestamine suhtlemisel Aasia äripartneritega / Cultural differencis with Asian business partners 

Omapärased olukorrad, mis võivad ärile saatuslikuks saada.

22.02. Raul Kalvo & Helen Oja / architect & interior architect
Working with the space. How to expand your story with exhibition design? 

Their exhibition designs Conflicts and Adaptations – Estonian Art of the Soviet Era as well as Out of Sync – Looking Back at the History of Sound Art have been nominated for the best exhibition design of the year by Estonian Association of Interior Architects.

http://www.inphysica.com/raulkalvo

1.03. Jenni Moberg / CEO, design agent at 0.7 design Ltd
Role of an design agent to expand your brand and find clients. 

0.7 design Ltd is a design agency that connects Finnish craftsmen and designers with customers abroad. They also consult companies wishing to be more successful in their field with the help of design.

Loengu toimumist toetab Soome Instituut.

8.03. Aljona Eesmaa / Polhem PR Estonia pressijuht, ajakirja Säde moetoimetaja ja stilist, veebiportaali Portail.ee (http://portail.ee/) asutaja ja peatoimetaja ning moeblogija (http://behindthescenesprgirl.net/) / fashion editor, stylist, blogger

Toode meedia kõverpeeglis / Product in medias distorting mirror. 

Sul on valmis toode, millega sa oled rahul, kuid sa ei tea, kuidas seda laiema publikuni viia? Trükipressiga suhtlemine tundub ulmeline ning sa ei tea isegi, kust pihta hakata? Võtad siis äkki hoopis ette sotsiaalmeedia? Või tahad minna otse telesse? On sul üldse väärt infot, mida jagada – tootefotodest grammatiliselt korrektse pressiteateni välja? Kõikidest nendest aspektidest antud loengus ka räägin ning proovin anda parima sisendi, et väärt info värske Eesti disaini kohta õiges suunas liikuma saada.

portail.ee/, behindthescenesprgirl.net/

15.03. Patricia Toti / Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, coach motivator, consultant 

How to turn negative experience into the positive outcome? Looking at limiting beliefs such as self-sabotage, fear, addictions etc and how to replace them with artistic confidence and productivity. More positive than negative. Conflict resolution and networking skills.

22.03. Martin ja Marje Eelmaa / graafilised disainerid / graphic designers

Mis on graafiline identiteet? / What is graphic identity?
Ettevõtte/toote graafilisest identiteedist, kuidas valmib kataloog/raamat/trükis ja fotode trükiettevalmistuse tähtsusest.

www.tuumik.ee

5.04. Helene Vetik / graphic designer / blogger / enterpreneur

Self presentation in internet. 10 years on the field – evolution of the field and myself.

www.uustuus.ee

12.04. Stefan Hiienurm / tootedisainer / product designer, UX expert

Kasutajamugavus + äri + disain + esteetika / User experience + business + design + esthetics

www.thorgateventures.com

19.04. Aap Piho / Warm North asutaja ja tootedisainer / product designer

Disaineri isetegevuse paradoksid / Paradoxes of being a designer

Õpime vigadest.

www.warmnorth.com

26.04. Stella Soomlais / nahadisainer / leather accessory designer

Kaubamärgi asutamine, ehitamine ja hingeelu / Creating and building up your own brand

Aastaid verd, higi ja pisaraid. Vead kui õppetunnid.

www.stellasoomlais.com

Tuesday, 2.05 at 16.00 (r 426, Estonia str 7)

Roberta Einer / fashion designer

How to build up a fashion brand in the heart of fashion world?

Luxury Womenswear designer Roberta Einer moved from her hometown of Tallinn to London to study on the prestigious fashion courses at Central Saint Martins and the University of Westminster. During her studies she completed internships with Mary Katrantzou and Alexander McQueen, before moving to Paris upon graduation to assist at Balmain for a year where she continued to develop her craft. Establishing her label upon her return to London, the Roberta Einer brand is now in its third season creating experimental, luxury womenswear which focuses on textiles and working with traditional couture techniques. Her innovative designs have been featured in the likes of American Vogue, Teen Vogue, Dazed & Confused, HUNGER and i-D Magazine.

www.robertaeiner.com

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Some lectures are given in English or translation is provided.

You are cordially invited to a public lecture by Nora Sternfeld, Professor for Curating and Mediating Art at the Aalto University on Tuesday, February 21 at 18.30 at The institute of Art History and Visual Culture (Suur-Kloostri 11, Tallinn)

“Some Thoughts About Learning Together. Strategies of Art Education as Critical Practices of Knowledge Production”

How can we learn something that doesn’t exist yet? On the one hand this sounds paradoxical. But isn’t it on the other hand exactly what radical education is all about? Learning as a political and emancipatory practice has always been understood as a process towards another possibility: as a way to understand the social relations in order to change them; to understand them as they might only be understandable in another world. And maybe by doing so this one might change… As this process of self-transformation is a collective practice we can only learn it together. Following this thoughts the lecture will look at some examples of trafo.K – an office for art, education and critical knowledge production based in Vienna. We will discuss strategies for in-between spaces and contact zones that lay the ground for learning together.

Nora Sternfeld is Professor for Curating and Mediating Art at the Aalto University in Helsinki and co-director of /ecm — Master Program in Exhibition Theory and Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is co-founder of trafo. K, office for art education and critical knowledge production and part of freethought, platform for research, education, and production based in London. In this context she is was one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly 2016.

In cooperation with CuMMA – Studies in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art at Aalto University (https://cummastudies.wordpress.com).

Exhibition of glass students and tutors from three Baltic Art Academies – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ”SAKAUSĒJOT ROBEŽAS / MELTING LIMITS“ and conference of Baltic Glass Artists and Art Historians GLASS ART IN BALTIC CONTEXT: PAST, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS is held in Riga, the main exhibition hall of the Art Academy of Latvia. Organized by the Department of Glass Art of the Art Academy of Latvia, the exhibition will be on view from February 2 to 25, 2017.
The conference, held on February 3, informed the audience about the most current topics in the glass art field in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

What strings architecture, economy, robotics & modernity together? Open Lecture by Jelle Feringa

On February 16th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the Faculty of Architecture will be happy to present Dutch architect Jelle Feringa at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). For the last few years, Feringa has been working on projects that try to harness the full potential of robots in architecture, building up Danish architectural robotics company Odico. In Tallinn, Feringa will talk about the changes that robotics are bringing to architecture and to the cities around us. In the future, what will the role of the architect be? Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

In addition to the open lecture, Feringa will give a small workshop in Tallinn on the following day, focussing on introducing students to the new robot of the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department and testing its capabilities. “This is one of the most important issues of contemporary architecture: how to transfer digital information into physical material without compromising the geometry and spatial structure and yet with obtainable financial and time resources. Using robots is one of the ways to make sure geometrically intricate spaces and shapes can be transferred from digital world into our daily material experiences,” explains Dean of Faculty of Architecture Toomas Tammis.

Jelle is co-founder and CTO at Odico formwork robotics the first factory to specialize in architectural robotics. He is co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research The work of the office is widely exhibited, exhibitions include the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Archilab, Orléans, Barbican Gallery, London Design, Miami/Basel and is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Jelle is a PhD candidate at the Hyperbody research group, TU Delft. His efforts in architectural robotics, both industrial and experimental are currently on display at the Zaha Hadid gallery in London, as part of the Meta Utopia exposition.

More about Odico: http://www.odico.dk/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
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More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Johanna.
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This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Celios.
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Sofia Hallik “Born-Digitals”
26.01.-14.02.2017

HOP gallery
Tallinn
Hobusepea 2

You are kindly invited to Sofia Hallik’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” in HOP gallery.

Sofia Hallik (1991) is a jewellery artist and PhD student at the Estonian Academy of Arts (since 2015). In her doctoral thesis “Theomorphic Jewellery Essence by Means of Virtuality and Autonomy” (supervisors prof. Kadri Mälk and Dr. Jaak Tomberg) Sofia focuses on a search of divine form through innovative materials and technologies. What interests her the most is the way суberspace and digital technology influence jewellery.

Sofia’s solo exhibition “Born-Digitals” deals with the influence of cyberspace and the use of digital technology in the manipulation of work of art. There is a dematerialization and virtualization of an artwork in general happening in the aftermath of the Digital Revolution, which affects among other things, an art form that is highly physical form of art, namely jewellery. The aim of Sofia’s work is represented in the shameless and conscious adaptation of the conflicting concepts of handwork and machine work. Exactly at the junction of these two concepts there arises something truly attractive that is actually a taste of our reality.

In her new series of works, Sofia creates a dreamlike installation in both real and virtual rooms. Represented jewellery in particular serves as Sofia’s radical approach, allowing the artist to express the idea of Perfection of Virtual.

Sofia has graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts with a Master’s degree with cum laude in 2015. Sofia has had three solo exhibitions, the last one took place at HOP gallery in summer 2015; In 2015 Sofia was awarded the Foundation Noor Ehe / Young Estonian Jewellery grant. Her work has been exhibited at international exhibitions, the latter and the most important are “European Prize for Applied Arts 2015” in Belgium, Mons; “Marzee International Graduate Show 2015” in the Netherlands; “ESTONISHING!” exhibition at Thomas Cohn gallery as a part of Munich Jewellery Week 2016 and in Brazil, São Paulo.

We would like to thank: Kadri Mälk, Jaak Tomberg, Maria Valdma, Raiko Suits, Viktorija Domarkaite, Andres Hallik, Margarita Teeääre, EAA Jewellery and Blacksmithing department.

The exhibition was made possible with the support of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

HOP gallery exhibitions are supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

This Thursday, February 2nd at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Martin Tamke at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Tamke is Associate Professor at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. He is pursuing a design-led research in the interface and implications of computational design and its materialization. 

In addition to giving a lecture, Tamke visits Tallinn to participate in the jury of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB installation programme, which is about to select the winner of the 2017 competition. Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Tamke joined the newly founded research centre CITA in 2006 and shaped its design based research practice. Projects on new design and fabrication for wood and fibre based materials led to a series of research projects and digitally fabricated demonstrators that explore an architectural practice engaged with bespoke materials and behaviour. He initiates and conducts research projects in the emerging field of digital production in building industry and architectural computation. The research connects academic and industrial partners from architecture and engineering, computer and material science and the crafts. Currently he is involved in the Danish funded 4 year Complex Modelling research project and the adapt-r and InnoChain PhD research networks.

CITA is an innovative research environment exploring the intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA investigates how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice.

CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design- and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically. Using design and practice based research methods, CITA works through the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes. CITA is highly collaborative with both industry and practice creating new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer graphics, human computer interaction, robotics, artificial intelligence as well as the practice based fields of furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.

More about CITA: https://kadk.dk/en/CITA

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
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

Let us know You are coming: https://www.facebook.com/events/1312520165473996/

More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

This time the model in EAA Design Faculty’s drawing studio’s croquis is Alex.
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“In a world full of conflicts and jolts, in which humanism is being seriously jeopardized, art is the most precious part of the human being. It is the ideal place for reflection, individual expression, freedom and fundamental questions. It is a ‘yes’ to life, although sometimes a ‘but’ lies behind. More than ever, the role, the voice and the responsibility of the artist are crucial in the framework of contemporary debates.
Viva Arte Viva is also an exclamation, an expression of the passion for art and for the state of the artist. Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with the artists, by the artists and for the artists. It deals with the forms they propose, the questions they pose, the practices they develop and the forms of life they choose.
The Exhibition also aims to be an experience, representing an extroversion movement towards the other, towards a common place and towards the most indefinable dimensions, opening the pathways to a neo-humanism.”
Christine Macel,
Curator of 57th Venice Biennale
We welcome you to a group exhibition of masters degree first year painting students of Estonian Academy of Arts. Exhibition consists of two different workshops that took place during the semester.
The title Viva Arte Viva is a reference to Venice biennale of the following year. Every artist took the phrase out of context and found an individual meaning to it.

Participating artists: Leelo-Mai Aunbaum, Tilly Davies, Nieves Felipo, Kelli Gedvil, Martyna Kosiarz, Kristen Rästas, Heidy Tiits, Inga Tsernova, Alo Valge and Katrin Valgemäe.

Tutors: Jaan Toomik and Vladimir Dubossarsky.

Opening on the 21st of December at 6pm in ARS project room (Pärnu mnt 154). Entry through the court.
Performance schedule:
18:00 Tilly Davies (“Withdraw”)
19:00 Alo Valge and guest artist Fideelia-Signe Roots (“VANN. BATHTUB. 浴缸”)
21:30 Inga Tsernova and Tilly Davies (“Painting Project 1”)
Exhibition remains open until 30th of December at 12-18.
Exhibition is closed on 24th and 25th of December.

Supported by Estonian Artists’ Association.