Lecture: JOHAN PAJU, Urban Biotopes – a case study of Social Nature in Stockholm

At 5.30 pm this Thursday, on the 23rd Nov, everyone’s welcome to the architecture department (Pikk 20, 3rd floor) for lecture “Urban Biotopes – A case study of Social Nature in Stockholm, Sweden” by Stockholm-based architect and landscape architect Johan Paju.

During the last century, we lost track of natural systems in the cityscape. Johan Paju will discuss how to re-introduce a “biotope thinking” into urban landscapes through an understanding of deep structure and landscape ecology. The lecture will focus on Nordic climates, a case study of the “Taklandskapet” (The Roof Top Landscape) of Sveavägen 44 in Stockholm and basic principles of biotope design and practice by URBANGREEN. The lecture will be held in English and open for all.

Johan Paju is one of Sweden’s foremost landscape architects and has previously taught at KTH-A in Stockholm over 15 years in landscape architecture and urban design. 1998, he was one of the founders of NOD -nature oriented design and is now co-owner and Creative Director of Fojab architects, one of Sweden’s largest architectural firms. He has been active all over the world, but with a strong focus on Nordic architecture and process-oriented solutions. He got the Siena Prize in 2015 for the best landscape project in Sweden. Johan Paju has been Chairman of Stockholm’s Architectural Association as well as for the Swedish Association of Architects Academy for Landscape Architecture.

November 27, 11.00 – 17.00 (Estonia pst 7 room 426)
November 28, 11 – 15 (Estonia pst 7 room 440a)

By Aslaug Nyrnes and Nina Schjønsby

The seminar will focus on various forms of writing in the context of artistic research. Through text examples we aim to reflect on different options and challenges typical of texts in the genre.

We will give two short lectures (30 minutes each):

Professor Aslaug Nyrnes:

A topological perspective on writing in artistic research: Between personal notes and academic thesis

Assistant Professor Nina Schjønsby:

Developing a text as a social and critical act

With these lectures as a starting point and throughout the seminar we will discuss principal questions on writing. The focus will be on different genres, the structure of the text, criticality, references and the writer’s voice.

All participants are welcome to submit a text in progress. Notes, abstracts, articles, essays, catalogue texts, reflections, etc. are equally welcome, but the text should not exceed 5 pages. All submitted texts will be read by all participants, and everyone will receive feedback on their writings during the seminar. 

Send the text to elika.kiilo@artun.ee

Deadline: November 22, 2017 

Registration form.

Aslaug Nyrnes is professor at the University of Bergen. She defended her doctoral degree on the didactics of the author Ludvig Holberg in 2002, Det didaktiske rommet. Didaktisk topologi i Ludvig Holbergs Moralske Tanker (Universitetet i Bergen, 2002). Her current research focuses on didactics in arts. Her works include “Lighting from the side: rhetoric and artistic research” in Sensuous knowledge: focus on artistic research and development (KHiB, 2006) and a large number of articles.

Nina Schjønsby is an art historian working with text and publishing in the art field. She runs the independent publishing house Tekstbyrået, together with writer and translator Halvor Haugen, and she is also a freelance editor. She teaches at the Art Academy in Oslo, and at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design in Bergen. Schjønsby has contributed to art magazines such as Ekfrase, Rhizome: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Billedkunst and SITE.

This event is supported by the ASTRA project of the Estonian Academy of Arts – EKA LOOVKÄRG (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).

Külli Triin-Laanet’s drawing

13 November at 4 pm,
graphic art department,
Lembitu 10B, room 144

On Monday, 13 November at 4 pm there will be an artist talk #postprintshop by Patrick Wagner from Stockholm. He will make an overview over works and collaborations in recent years, the possibilities of social media presence and how to deal (or not deal) with the loss of all artwork and printmaking workshop. Uplifting and hopefully inspiring despite the gloomy connotations, and involving lots of chine-collé. 

The artist talk will be in English.

Patrick Wagner (b 1980, Germany) is an artist and printmaking educator from Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2014 he teaches stone lithography at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, having previously worked as a contract intaglio printer in the studio of Tuula Lehtinen in Tampere, Finland.

More info 
@blackheartpress on instagram / tumblr

Seminar series Non Aura in the autumn semester 2017/2018 consists of 10 lectures and talks from different fields, which take place mostly on Mondays from 4 pm. Seminar series is a free elective that gives 3 ECTS. Registration at the seminar place.

You are warmly welcome!

Droonijaama prototüüp. 2016. aasta Veneetsia arhitektuuribiennaal. Droonijaam on prototüüp Rwanda meditsiinipakke transportivate droonide parkimiseks.

Paekivi ja uued tehnoloogiad arhitektuuris: Tallinnas peab avatud loengu arhitekt Matthias Rippmann

Eesti Kunstiakadeemia arhitektuuri- ja linnaplaneerimise osakond toob ka sel semestril Avatud Loengute sarja raames Tallinnasse terve rea põnevaid arhitekte ja linnaplaneerijaid – nii teoreetikuid kui praktikuid – kõikjalt üle maailma. Kuulama on oodatud kõikide Eesti koolide tudengid, samuti tegutsevad professionaalid, õppejõud ja lihtsalt arhitektuuri- ja ruumihuvilised ja kõik, kes kaaluvad arhitektuuri õppima asumist. Avatud loengud on alati tasuta ja inglise keeles.

Sügishooaja neljandaks esinejaks on 16. novembril kell 18 Kanuti Gildi SAALi lavale astuv Matthias Rippmann, kes kuulus meeskonda, mis ehitas2016. aasta Veneetsia biennaali peanäitusele palju tähelepanu pälvinud 399 paekiviplaadist koos seisva armadill-võlvi (http://block.arch.ethz.ch/brg/project/armadillo-vault-venice-italy), mille osade ühendamiseks ei kasutatud sideainet. Paekivi uute kasutusmeetodite ja -võimaluste ümber keerleb ka Rippmanni Tallinna-loeng, mis peaks tegema loengu huvitavaks nii arhitektidele, sisearhitektidele, disaineritele kui materjaliteadlastele.

Matthias Rippmann on alates 2010. aastast Block Research Group (BRG) liige, kus ta 2016 kaitses oma doktorikraadi. Hetkel juhib ta BRG digitaalse tootmise uurimisgruppi NCCR, jätkates oma teadustööd post-doktorantuuris. Tema uuringud põhinevad konstruktsioonist lähtuval disainil ja automatiseeritud tootmisvõimalustel. Rippmann on modelleerimistarkvara RhinoVAULT arendaja, mis tegeleb TNA-põhiste koorikute genereerimisega. Ta omandas arhitekti hariduse Stuttgarti ja Melbourne’i ülikoolides. Matthias on töötanud Behnisch Architekten büroos Stuttgartis, LAVA arhitektuuribüroos, Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design intsituudis ning Werner Sobek inseneribüroos. Aastal 2010 kaas-asutas ta arhitektuuri ja konsultatsioonifirma Rippmann Oesterle Knauss GmbH.

EKA arhitektuuri ja linnaplaneerimise osakond on arhitektuuri avatud loenguid korraldanud 2012. aastast alates – igal õppeaastal astub Tallinnas erialase publiku ette kümmekond valdkonna omanäolist praktikut ja hinnatud teoreetikut. EKA arhitektuuriteaduskond on Eesti arhitektuurihariduse keskpunkt ja olulisim kompetentsikeskus kõigis tehiskeskkonda loovates distsipliinides, hõlmates sisearhitektuuri, arhitektuuri ja linnaplaneerimise valdkonda.

Loengusarja toetab Eesti Kultuurkapital
Kuraatorid: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam
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Lisainfo: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

On Thursday, 26th October at 6pm Evelin Saul and Madlen Hirtentreu will open their first joint exhibition ‘Transmission’ at HOP gallery.

The exhibition stays open till 14th November.

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In 1632, Galileo Galilei published his ‘Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems’. Some pages of the aforementioned book are dedicated to a discussion of a ship that leaves Venice for Aleppo. One speaker, Sagredo, imagines a pen that would leave a visible mark of the entire voyage from Italy towards Syria.
Noble Venetians ponder how it could be that everything on board remains immobile, while at the same time leaving a thousand-yard-long trace. They discover that a true and real motion can be seen from different perspectives, including those from which this very movement would be as if nonexistent.

Exhibition involves inner and outer space, movement between instinctive, controllable and uncontrollable.

One is left with resonance.

Attention: Access to mechanical inventory is physically restricted

From idea to realization: Evelin Saul, Madlen HIrtentreu

Technical team: Bruno and Rünno Mander, Harri Liis, Ahto Härm

Exhibition is supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Konesko Ltd.

Thanks: EKKM, Mihkel Masso, Revo Koplus, Lilian Vellerand, Aksel Tamm, Eneli Järs, Jarmo Reha

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Evelin Saul graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts in 2016 with Master’s degree in Installation and Sculpture, having previously completed the field of Ceramics in BA in the same university. She has studied in exchange in Spain (UGR, 2009) and France (ÉSAD, 2010) and has been taking part of exhibitions since 2010, including in Estonia, Denmark, Russia, France, Spain, the USA and Canada. Reoccurring themes in her works and research include relations between inner and outer spaces, perception, site specificity. Evelin is currently based in Denmark.

Madlen Hirtentreu studied Visual arts and Economics in Italy, IED(BA) and graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts at the Sculpture and Installation department (MA, 2017).
She has been active in projects and exhibitions since 2014, including Estonia, Denmark, Italy, France, Russia and Canada.
In choice of medium tries to maintain freedom, using often collaboration between different means/materials.
Reoccurring themes in her work and research lies in psychological and physical aspects and codes in the matter and space, playing with subjects individual ability to perceive time and space.

2nd of November, Thursday, will start bright and early at 9AM with the next Morning Coffee event, where students and graduates from our department will come and share their experiences from studying, working or doing an apprenticeship somewhere else in the world – through the spectrum of space and spatial design. On the stage this time: experiences and views of the world, learning and spatial design: Andrea Lilian Zuniga Lozano from COLOMBIA and Seyedeh Sarina Masoumi from IRAN!

Also: this Morning Coffee event will be in English, spread the news so it reaches every EKA Erasmus student!

This event is perfect for students and those wanting to become a student, but also tutors; our Nunne St door is also open to anyone from other EKA departments or other schools. The interior architecture department Morning Coffee events take place every first Thursday of the month. The event is worthy of its name: there will most definitely also be coffee – and upon occasion, there has been also delicious cake (for the cake, you might want to bring a tiny bit of cash)

Set your alarm clocks, join us!

​Mexico City projekt “Foundation Alumnos47” Didier Faustino // Mesarchitecture

On the 2nd of November, Architecture Open Lecture Series will host architect and artist Didier Fiuza Faustino. Starting at 6 pm, this lecture will take place at the Von Krahl Theatre (Rataskaevu 10).

This autumn, the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts is inviting a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world to Tallinn for the Open Lecture Series. The lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

Arriving to Tallinn on the 2nd of November is Paris-based architect and artist Didier Fiuza Faustino, who is focused on how people relate to space and creates human-scale spaces. Faustino’s spatial installations are especially well known: he’s designed striking temporary stages that invite people to perform and speak up, as well as created spatial installation projects for exhibitions, asking questions about the sense of a space. Faustino’s lecture titled “Unbuilt memories” is one that also sculpture, installation, spatial design and interior architecture students, lecturers and audience should definitely not miss. All open talks are free and in English.

Didier Fiuza Faustino is an architect and artist working on the relationship between body and space. He started his own practice at the crossroad of art and architecture just after graduating in architecture in 1995. He has been developing since then a multi-faceted approach, ranging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture and buildings. After teaching six years at the AA School in London and being two years editor in chief of the French architecture and design magazine CREE in 2015 and 2016, Didier Faustino is currently fully dedicating his time on architecture projects (Mexico, Costa Rica, Belgium, Portugal and France) and art installation and exhibitions (Vienna, Geneva, Lisbon, Los Angeles).

More about Didier Fiuza Faustino: http://www.didierfaustino.com/

The Faculty of architecture and urban design of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested.

The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment
Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam

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

​Daniel Koehler – The Mereological City 2014
Model, scale 1:10000: computational model based on the Vertical City Schema by Ludwig Hilberseimer.

On 19th of November at 6 pm, the Open Lecture series will continue with architect, urbanist and researcher Daniel Köhler, arriving in Tallinn from London where he teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture. In his research and in his lecture in Tallinn, Köhler focuses on the mereology of cities – how particles form a whole in the example of cities, making this a lecture that in addition to architects should definitely capture the attention of urbanists.

At the Bartlett School of Architecture, Köhler leads a Research Cluster in Urban Design and is the Coordinator of the Theory and History Module of the Postgraduate B-Pro Architecture Design Program. Furthermore, he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Innsbruck and the co-founder of the Lab for Environmental Design Strategies. Köhler has taught at the Aalto University, Vilnius Art Academy, Sci-Arc, Städelschule and the University of East London. In 2016, Köhler published “The Mereological City”, a study on the modes of part-to-whole relations between architecture and its city during modernism. His recent research investigates on the physical implications of digital logistics: cities designed by pure quantities and their architecture.

Mereology is a branch of ontology that discusses part to whole relationships. When we say that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, we are performing a mereological equation. Köhler describes the architecture of the city as a compositional tension, realized with a multiplicity of buildings, with the city itself.

http://www.lab-eds.org/The-Mereological-City

More about Daniel Köhler: http://www.lab-eds.org/

The Open Lecture Series brings to Tallinn a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. All Open Lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

The Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn.

The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam

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

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