Open Lectures

Combining Design and Science for a positive impact on built environment: Open Lecture by Areti Markopoulou

The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this spring will be Greek architect, educator and urban technologist, Areti Markopoulou. Markopoulou will be stepping on the stage of the main auditorium of the new EKA building on the 14th of February at 6 pm to talk about advanced architecture research and how to combine design and science for a positive impact on our built environment.

Areti Markopoulou is a Greek architect, researcher and urban technologist working at the intersection between architecture and digital technologies. She is the Academic Director at IAAC in Barcelona, where she also leads the Advanced Architecture Group, a multidisciplinary research group exploring how design and science can positively impact and transform the present and future of our built spaces, the way we live and interact. Her research and practice seeks to redefine architecture as a performative “body” beyond traditional notions of static materiality, approximate data, or standardized manufacturing.

Areti is the founder and principal of the multidisciplinary practice Design Dynamics Studio, and co-editor of Urban Next, a global network focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporary urban milieu. She is the project coordinator of a number of European Research funded Projects on topics including: urban regeneration through technologies, dynamic design through novel materials and multidisciplinary educational models in the digital age. 
Areti has also served as a curator of international exhibitions such as On Site Robotics (Building Barcelona Construmat 2017), Print Matter (In3dustry 2016), HyperCity (Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale, 2015) and MyVeryOwnCity (World Bank, BR Barcelona, 2011).
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture & Engineering from DUTH – the Democritus University of Thrace, a MArch from IAAC, and a Fab Academy diploma on Digital Fabrication offered by the Fab Lab Network. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions worldwide, such as the Venice Biennale, Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale, Centre Pompidou, MAXXI and Beijing Design Week among others.

The architecture and urban design department 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, Johan Tali, for this lecture

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More info:
Pille Epner
E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee
Tel. +372 642 0071

Public lecture by Raine Vasquez will be held today(17.01) at 5pm in room nr A301

In an informal conversation Raine Vasquez will discuss his complicated and frustrated relationship with art, his exodus into philosophy, and his continued work at the Museum of Impossible Forms and other art-centric organizations. He will discuss some points of his forthcoming “anti-art” manifesto, contemplate arts’ role as a technology of late-capitalism, and whether it really has the power to disrupt that it is so often claimed to possess. He will wonder about the ethics of continuing to make art, and speak about disappointment, hopelessness, and self-exile.

http://www.raine–vasquez.com

The EKA Design Showcase presents the results of collaborations between the Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Design and various enterprises and will take place on 15 January at 13.00 in the EKA main auditorium (A101). Concepts, prototypes and final results for innovative products and services will be presented, featuring new developments in the space, transport and package delivery industry and other fields. All enterprises, EKA’s present and future cooperation partners, and enthusiasts of innovative design are kindly invited to attend the event! The presentations will be given in English. At the end of the design day, the winner of the Abakhan Creative Award will be announced.

Timetable and registration.

The event will be opened with a presentation by Ott Vatter, Deputy Director of the e-Residency programme, who will introduce the project that is being carried out in cooperation with EKA interaction designers and focuses on improving the user experience of the e-residency service.

The core of the day is made up of twelve presentations on cooperation projects that the EKA Faculty of Design and the EKA and TalTech Design & Technology Futures joint programme have been working on over the last two years. One of the showcased projects is in collaboration with the Swiss Space Center and it offers solutions for making living conditions during long space missions more human-friendly. How can astronauts avoid mental health problems on long missions during which their 24h rhythm has been turned upside down? What are new ways of engaging in sports in space for training in weightlessness? According to Janno Nõu, one of the project leaders and a teaching staff member at TalTech, the space centre is very satisfied with the innovative solutions the project has provided, as they give a completely different approach to the space industry. The technology for the lunar outpost will be developed based on the astronauts’ needs, which is one of the key elements during longer space missions. The high point of the project will come in Switzerland this summer when the project will present engineered technical solutions.

The EKA Design Showcase will also feature a new type of rental vehicle that leaves more space for people and makes the growth of major urban areas more sustainable. Together with Cleveron, which was named Company of the Year at the 2018 Estonian Entrepreneurship Awards, a drone-attached package delivery module was developed that allows for aerial delivery system, as well as other creative solutions for various enterprises. According to EKA Collaboration Coordinator Ingela Heinaste, approximately 200 collaboration projects with various enterprises and institutions have been carried out in the 10 years of the EKA Research and Development Office. “Using a specific problem statement as the starting point, we play out innovative solutions, many of which are later realised. We create products and services under the supervision of teaching staff members who are internationally renowned specialists in their field. We design future visions, develop never-before-seen solutions and test new technologies,” said Heinaste who highly recommends that companies contact her to discuss collaboration opportunities.

At 16.30 after the presentations, the winner of the Abakhan Creative Award will be announced followed by the exhibition of nominees.

We would like to thank EKA’s collaboration partners: Swiss Space Center, Santa Monica Networks AS, Cleveron AS, Emergency Response Centre, Good Deed Foundation, Atlas Partners OÜ, Welement AS, Taltech.

Event takes place as EU Industry Days 2019 event and under the umbrella of Cumulus.

Additional information:

Ingela Heinaste
Collaboration Coordinator
ingela.heinaste@artun.ee
Tel 521 9187

Mart Vainre
Communications Specialist
mart.vainre@artun.ee
Tel 626 7111

January 22 at 18.00-20.00
EKA room 501

We are excited to welcome Kenza Drancourt (industrial designer) and Theo Mahut (PhD, in product design, innovation and development) from GOODMOOD Laboratory for a talk and discussion on the role culture plays in perception and design of textures. Julia Valle-Norohna, design researcher and Assistant Professor in Fashion (EKA), will lead the discussion.

The event is free and open to everyone!

Please register until January 20, so we can better plan the event.

Same texture can be differently perceived depending on cultural experiences. Similarly, a texture can be differently designed depending on cultural references. What is a ‘traditional’ texture, for you? What is a ‘contemporary’ one? Is this texture differently perceived and designed depending on your Spanish, French, or Estonian approach?

GOODMOOD Laboratory will present this research study through the analysis of several workshops conducted in different Design Schools around Europe, including EKA. Both the general process and preliminary results will be shared and discussed. Additionally, this will be an opportunity to discuss how can research be useful for design; what is the future of tactile interactions; or even how to design for affective and cognitive reactions.

Théo Mahut is a Doctor in product design, innovation and development. He is specialized in human/product Interactions. Before getting his PhD from Les Arts et Métiers of Paris, he studied Industrial Design at La Martinière Diderot (Lyon, France).

Kenza Drancourt is an Industrial Designer, specialized in Meanings, Perception and Prospective of Colors & Surfaces. She graduated from Ensci – Les Ateliers (Paris, France), before approaching a Research & design way of working.

Julia Valle-Norohna is the Associate Professor in Fashion at EKA and doctoral candidate in Design at Aalto University. She holds an MA in visual arts and a professional background in fashion design. As a designer–researcher, her work explores wearer–worn relationships and alternative approaches to commercial fashion via practice-based inquiries.

The event is funded by European Union Regional Fund.

Further information:

Maria Jäärats
Research and Development Department
+37258025300
maria.jaarats@artun.ee

On Tuesday, December 11th at 5PM French artist and inventor Chienpo will do a presentation in an open space A300 at The Estonian Academy of Arts (Põhja pst 7, Tallinn).

Jérémie Cortial, with an artist name Chienpo, is a celebrated digital artist, who uses drawing as a technique to connect virtual with the future. He is a founding member of artistic group Elshopo, which has a fun and experimental approach to screen printing, expanding the technique to different unconventional materials and mediums. They print on pancakes with food coloring and a performative approach to their work is often important. Playing with the boundaries of art, entertainment, DIY and exploration, his works are often playful and carried out with a pop aesthetic.

Chienpo is in Tallinn for the LVLup! museum event Chienpo Drawing Laboratory.

Gudy Herter will give a lecture about “Current lifestyle trends for 2019/2020” on Monday, 10^th of December at 12 am at the EKA auditorium A101 and an additional masterclass for fashion department MA and 3rd course BA students.

Gudy Herder is an international trend consultant, keynote speaker, and certified trainer based in Barcelona, Spain. She helps brands and businesses anticipate trends and use them to develop products that inspire, tell a story, and ultimately, sell. First and foremost, Gudy considers herself a visual creative passionate about scouting trends in interior design & lifestyle. With a sharp eye honed by years of hands-on experience in international retail management, she observe trends as they emerge.

Look at: https://youtu.be/rpCO5-dA6nw

More info: Piret Puppart
Head of Fashion Department
Estonian Academy of Arts
+372 5074243

“An experience with jewelry making in Amazonian forest” open lecture by Miriam Mirna Korolkovas will be on Thursday, December 6 at 6pm in room A403 (Põhja pst 7).

“Origin, originality, feathers, colonial history, and who´s the Master”, a Brazilian conversation over necklaces, jewelry-making, rainforests, artistic quality and the colonial legacy.

On the Alto Anapu river, southwest of the Marajó island, in the Brazilian Amazon forest, Caxiuanã area, between the states of Pará and Amazonas, lives the Caiçara community, also known as Ribeirinhos. As part of the Shared Artistic Experimentation Expedition with the Peoples of the Forest, led by the NORTEAR project, artist and Brazilian AJF ambassador, Miriam Mirna Korolkovas, develops a practice where conviviality and jewelry-making come together.

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Miriam Mirna Korolkovas
Brazilian artist, architect, and curator.
Graduation and Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Master’s in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, USA.
Awarded a Visitor Professor Scholar by Fulbright Commission/CAPES at University of Michigan – School of Art & Design, USA.
Brazilian Ambassador at AJF – Art Jewelry Forum.

On 27th of November at 5pm artist Johann Arens will give a public talk about his art practice at EKA Sculpture department’s monumental studio.

Johann Arens (b.1981) is an artist based in London. He received his MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since then he was awarded the Fellowship in Contemporary Art by the British School at Rome and has been resident at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Space London and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Last year he received the Prize for Young Art by the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein. Recent exhibitions include ‘These Rotten Words’, Chapter Arts, Cardiff (2017); Anxiety Impress, Neuer Aacherer Kunstverein, Germany (2016); ‘Somatic Matter’, Le Foyer, Zürich; ’New Acquisitions’, Fondazione Fotografia Modena; ‘Pillar Huggers’, Or Gallery, Berlin (2015); ‘TTTT’, Jerwood Space, London; ‘Emotional Resources’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (2014) and ‘Internet Centre & Habesha Grocery’, Paradise Row, London (2013).

Johann Arens is invited to Tallinn to give a workshop “Sculpting the Moving Image” on November 26-28th at the EKA Installation and Sculpture department. Arens’s public artist talk will also be part of the event program of student-run International Sculpture and Installation Month called SkulpaKuu.

The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn will be Stockholm-based writer, editor, designer and broadcaster James Taylor-Foster. Taylor-Foster will be stepping on the stage of the main auditorium of the new EKA building on the 29th of November at 6 pm to talk about the role of display, exhibitionism, words, and speech as instruments of architectural practice.

James Taylor-Foster is working in the fields of architecture, design, e-culture and technology. He is curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design. Formerly European editor-at-large at ArchDaily, the world’s most visited architecture platform, he has practiced architecture in the UK and The Netherlands. In 2016 he co-curated the Nordic Pavilion at the 15th Biennale Architettura di Venezia.

With bylines at Metropolis, PIN-UP, Domus, Volume, Monocle, Mousse, Disegno, and Real Review, he is also a regular voice on Monocle 24 radio. James has been a visiting critic or lecturer in architecture at the University of Cambridge, The Bartlett (UCL), University College Dublin, the Architectural Association, the CASS, the Strelka Institute, TU Delft, the Berlage Institute, and MIT. He sits on the advisory board of the Future Architecture Platform.

According to Taylor-Foster architecture is a practice of referencing, referring to, mimicking, and communicating. Architects—and those who operate in and around the sphere of building environments for people and things—hunt and gather in order to absorb and represent. This talk will explore the role of display, exhibitionism, words, and speech as instruments of architectural practice.

The architecture and urban planning department of the EKA 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, Johan Tali

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“Art Direction and Fashion Communication: Post Truth – Addressing New Form of Authenticity”

The question that always remains the same is “What is the key to success in business of fashion?”. Fashion is inevitable – it’s everywhere and has a part in everything around us. But what are we able to see in the bigger picture and in the end: what do we want to see? We have ideas, creativity, knowledge of craftsmanship and even knowledge of branding. But usually they are all theoretical facts that don’t create the expected results. How to see the bigger picture and turn it into successful reality?

WE PRESENT: POLIMODA tour in the Baltic countries and for the first time ever open lecture of POLIMODA representatives in Tallinn in the Estonian Academy of Arts! Polimoda is a highly prestigious international institute of fashion, which according to international ratings ranks as nr1 fashion institution in Italy and 5th in the world. Don’t miss a chance to hear international fashion expert Marco Bartolucci together with Lithuanian fashion industry professional Marija Palaikyte.

The content of the lecture invites you to experience new way of understanding fashion and includes most recent knowledge of global fashion industry, art direction and fashion communication.
This event is the opportunity to learn from the experience of internationally successful experts, both in theory and most valuable practical knowledge.  

PROGRAM:
Marija Palaikyte: “Business of Fashion: Beyond Knowledge”
Introductional presentation based on the understanding of global fashion system and contemporary approach to culture, fashion and the success in creative industries.

Marco Bartolucci: “Art Direction and Fashion Communication: Post Truth – Addressing New Form of Authenticity”
Vide spectrum lecture, based on international experience in understanding fashion phenomena, fashion anthropology and how this knowledge should be translated into practice in fashion communication.

CONTENT:
– Contemporary consumer – anthropological approach
– Connecting with the audience to a deeper level: what if truth and transparency are not enough anymore
– Diversity as normality: when allegiances and differentiations become key role in aesthetics and communication
– Embracing new forms of iconographical and iconoclastic spirituality: the ability to broaden up all the discussions around beauty, ethic, aesthetics, disrupting the concept of right or wrong

Duration of the event: 1,5 hour + questions
Organizers of the event: Marija Palaikyte, POLIMODA
Partners: EKA

About the lecturers:
Marija Palaikyte: fashion trend forecaster, organizer of “Men’s Fashion Week” in Lithuania, author of radio talk show “mission of fashion with Marija Palaikyte”, lecturer, fashion writer. From the beginning of her career she is successfully growing new alternative understanding of fashion phenomena and fashion anthropology in the local society. For the past 5 years Marija is organizing various fashion businesses oriented events both in academic and commercial fields. Marija Palaikyte believes that there can’t be limits for dreams same as for goals. The key to success is sincere passion for life, wide global view on cultural climate and constant investment into personal experience. “Fashion is not only a charming, glamorous institution – it is and it must be valued as a unique sociocultural phenomena. But as to truly understand the unseen depth of this phenomena  we have to look through way wider spectrum” – says Marija and invites to experience a new way of understanding fashion.

Marco Bartolucci: fashion trend forecaster, lecturer in POLIMODA international fashion institute. Marcos unique approach to fashion was noticed in the early stage of his studies. He got not only noticed but eventually earned respect of the colleagues that brought him straight to the position in academic field as a lecturer in the prestigious institute – POLIMODA. “I have always been a person viscerally impassioned by every form of human expression. I believe that the film rouge that has traveled through my life, and continues to do so, has been the extreme interest and curiosity of understanding how man can shape, concretize, materialize and translate his own interiority – that is through the art, music, fashion, literature. I work and research with a phenomenological  approach combined to a deep psycho-sociological research structure in the field of cross-cultural and countercultural fashion and human manifestation. Working with the intersections among every human visual expression and representation (fashion, art, photography, cinema….) therefore among all the topics related to the research field the deepest focus is about the formation of the subjectivity and the role of the body, the post-human interactions within the real/unreal dichotomy, psychoanalysis and fashion, construction and de-construction of human expressions, contemporary ritualism and liminal events.” With this description Marco Bartolucci creates a unique intrigue about the upcoming lecture and leaves open space for creative thinking and interpretation.