Previous Research Projects
Creative Science. Artistic Research Science Café Series (ETAg, 2025–2026)
The project aims to increase public awareness of creative research and demonstrate its role in generating new knowledge and addressing societal challenges. Led by the Estonian Academy of Arts in collaboration with the ...
Gardeners’ Dialogue
As artists and designers we are affected by the ecological crisis like everyone. We found that art and design practices relating to nature can support interconnectedness with nature if people are involved in the ...
Fashion for Change
The Fashion For Change (F4C) project targets small businesses, fashion designers and start-ups interested in finding a specialised market niche through responsible and environmentally sustainable products. These are the ...
Algae for design-led transition towards blue bioeconomy
The variety of blue bio-economies in the Nordic-Baltic region call for increased cross-sectoral cooperation if we are to truly envision practices capable of bringing about the transition towards more sustainable ...
Innovation in Healthcare
The healthcare sector, consuming a significant amount of resources and generating various types of waste, has become a public health concern in itself, especially with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the ...
3D printing wearable shoes
During the project, a 10-day intensive 3D shoe printing course will be organized in Tallinn, where BA and MA students and lecturers from the Baltic and Nordic countries will participate.
Art Historical Contact Zones (EKA Research Grant, 2023–2024)
The project “Art Historical Contact Zones: Popular and Fictional Mediations of Art History in Estonia” explores the relationship between art history and the public sphere – the non-academic forms that art writing can take: various fiction and ...
Exploring Conditions for Community Care in one Neighborhood
How might peer support and community engagement enable a new approach to increasing low-cost and accessible mental health services in Estonia? This was the central question of a 10-month research project ...
INDEX- Connecting the Digital Audience with Creators at an Online Event
A creative research project seeks solutions to a haunting problem in digital art: How to create synergy between viewers and performers of digitally mediated art pieces. During this creative research, an interactive ...
Reconstruction and Creative Development of Historical Relief Printing
The starting point of the study was the relief printing technique used in Eduard Taska´s workshop in 1924, which was currently unknown but distinguished from the well-known cliché and linoprint by its two-dimensional ...
FAST45 – Futures Art School Trends 2045
In 2045 the world as we know it will look very different. Although we cannot predict the future, we can shape it. FAST45 (Futures Art School Trends 2045) recognises the potential of the creativity and imaginative ...
SENSORY DESIGN (EKA Creative Research Grant 2021-2023)
The project provides a great opportunity to address social, cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability through the integration of creativity and science in Abram's more-than-human world. The project explores ...
Style and Meaning: Disciplinary Conversions in Estonian Art History (EKA Research Grant, 2021–2022)
The purpose of the project is to concentrate on the critical concepts in Estonian art history, their role in the vocabulary and meaning making within the field over the course of the two last centuries. Our focus is on the concept of style that ...
Urban Study of the Baltic and Cargo Station Areas of Estonian Railways
Today, as the whole world becomes more and more mobile and a pandemic can shut it down, railway stations are not only places to change modes of transport, but also to do work and business, get together, shop and ...
Study of the collective farm areas of Järva municipality
Study of the collective farm areas of the general plan of Järva municipality. Living models of rural settlements The aim of the project is to address the topics and issues related to collective farm buildings in Järva municipality in the ...
Image or Sign: A Phenomenological Study of Pictorial Representation (MOBJD, 2017–2020)
The aim of Regina-Nino Mion’s project is to defend the originality of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological account of pictorial ...
Readdressing Practices and Theories of Experimentation in the 20th- and 21st-Century Estonian Visual and Spatial Culture
The main aim of this project is to analyze experiment in Estonian visual and spatial culture, and to investigate its role in official economic and ...
Remembering Difficult Knowledge in the Baltic Visual Culture (MOBJD, 2019–2021)
This research program focuses on how difficult knowledge has been transmitted in the visual culture of the Baltic States, in works of visual art, documentary films and exhibitions about the Second World War and its aftermath. The analysis ...
FASHION SEEDS – FASHION SOCIETAL, ECONOMIC & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN-LED SUSTAINABILITY
Fashion SEEDS is a project led by world leading institutions in Fashion Education spanning over the course of three years. It seeks to develop a Design-led Framework for Fashion Design Education in Sustainability able to ...
Baltic German Identity and Heritage in Estonian Art Historiography (EKA Personal Grant, 2019–2020)
This personal research grant allows Kristina Jõekalda to go deeper into the interdisciplinary topics with which she has been dealing with in her previous articles, MA (2010) and PhD thesis (2020) and during the Estonian Research Council-funded ...
Tallinn Old Town: Sustainable Management and Presentation
The aim of the research is to analyse the impact of increasing tourism on cultural heritage and to find solutions to promote Tallinn Old Town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, while preserving its dignity and values. The main goal of the project ...
Algorithmic Processes in Wood in Architecture and Design
Research staff: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam Duration: 2016–2020 Financed by Estonian Academy of Arts
Unfinished City
Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture alongside Kapitel (former E.L.L Real Estate) are initiating a research program entitled the Unfinished City. Invited researchers and specialists alongside faculty members, researcher fellows and ...
ADAPT-r
The ADAPT-r project is funded as part of the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme. The project is used to support practice-based research, organize international Practice Research Symposiums, exhibitions, seminars and much more. ADAPT-r puts ...