Events

February 15 and 16, at 6–8PM in EKA Gallery

Kaspar Aus: “On two days I will pass on what I know about body, mind and movement. We listen, catch up and let life through ourselves. For example just like you could place one small seed cell into a human anus and from there grows the plant through and out of us. That the body becomes non-existent and the manifestation of everything that is.”

To get involved, you need comfortable clothes, shoes for running and dancing around, an effort to be opened and together. You do not need to have any specific skills in dance and body movement beforehand. There are a changing room and a shower. Everyone is welcome regardless of previous experience. Free of charge!

About the artist: kasparaus.wixsite.com/artist

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

Inclusive City and Street Commerce: the Hidden Structure of Retail Location Patterns and Vibrant Sidewalks – Lectures by Lily Song & Andres Sevtsuk

Lily Song (Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design and Senior Research Associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design) and Andres Sevtsuk (Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design) and will give lectures on Friday, 21st of December at 4 pm in the mail hall of Estonian Academy of Arts, looking into Tallinn’s challenges and opportunities in exploring urban planning and policy interventions that promote sociospatial equity and inclusion and how “good” street commerce is part and parcel of building inclusive, diverse, and vital local economies. Both lectures open for architecture students from across Estonia as well as field professionals, city officials, and general public interested in the future of Tallinn urban centre. The lectures will be in English.

***Lily Song. Inclusive City***

Amidst growing income and wealth inequality in many countries, the urban and spatial dimensions of this issue remain less investigated and understood. This talk will consider Tallinn’s challenges and opportunities in exploring urban planning and policy interventions that promote sociospatial equity and inclusion.

Lily Song is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design and Senior Research Associate with the Transforming Urban Transport-Role of Political Leadership (TUT-POL) project at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.Her research focuses on the relations between urban sustainability and livability initiatives, sociospatial inequality, and race and class politics in American cities and other postcolonial contexts. Her projects— which topically span building energy retrofits, sustainable urban transport, and informal street vending among others— are motivated by the common question of how historically marginalized and disenfranchised urban inhabitants and communities can drive transformative urban policy and governance in collaboration with differently situated and abled partners. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT, where her dissertation, entitled “Race and Place: Green Collar Jobs and the Movement for Economic Democracy in Los Angeles and Cleveland,” focused on the analysis of two community-based green economic and workforce development projects aiming to build shared wealth and stabilize poor, inner city neighborhoods. The research partly explored how progressive urban coalitions might use race as a diagnostic and dialogic tool in undertaking transformative economic programs towards realization of the “just city.”

***Andres Sevtsuk. Street Commerce: the Hidden Structure of Retail Location Patterns and Vibrant Sidewalks***

“Good” street commerce is part and parcel of building inclusive, diverse, and vital local economies, convivial neighborhoods, and sustainable built environments. However, cities and communities will only realize such gains and benefits if they proactively plan and regulate street commerce.

Andres Sevtsuk is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His research interests include urban design and spatial analysis, modeling and visualization, urban and real estate economics, transit and pedestrian oriented development, spatial adaptability and urban history. Andres has worked with a number of city governments, international organizations, planning practices and developers on urban designs, plans and policies in both developed and rapidly developing urban environments, most recently including those in Indonesia and Singapore. He is the author of the Urban Network Analysis toolbox, which is used by researchers and practitioners around the world to study spatial relationships in cities along networks. He has led various international research projects; exhibited his research at TEDx, the World Cities Summit and the Venice Biennale; and received the President’s Design Award in Singapore, International Buckminster Fuller Prize and Ron Brown/Fulbright Fellowship. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Planning at the Singapore University of technology and Design (SUTD), and a lecturer at MIT.

“Unfinished City” is a three-year large-scale research project conducted by the Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture in cooperation with the City of Tallinn. The research project asks what could be a good and livable city in the 21st century and how this could be reflected in the urban development of Tallinn. The project focuses on exploring Tallinn’s urban design visions and spatial future scenarios. The research will be carried out thanks to the support from Kapitel.

Additional information: https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/architecture-and-urban-design/unfinished-city/

The final speaker of EKA open architecture lecture series’ 2018 autumn semester is Patrik Schumacher, the director of Zaha Hadid Architects. His completed projects include the MAXXI Centre of Contemporary Art and Architecture, Rome, which won the Stirling prize in 2010 and one of the practice’s first completed constructions, the Vitra Fire Station (1992). He is currently involved in several master plan projects, including Kartal Pendik in Istanbul and Singapore One North. In 2017, Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal titled ‘Streamcity’ was selected as the winner of the international competition to masterplan the revitalization of Port of Tallinn’s Old City Harbour area. The lecture will take place at the EKA main hall on Thursday, 13 September at 6 pm.

 

Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects and has been leading the firm since Zaha Hadid’s passing in March 2016. He joined ZHA in 1988 and was seminal in developing

Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 people global architecture and design brand. Schumacher studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London and received his Diploma in architecture in 1990. He has been a partner since 2003

and a co-author on all projects. In 2010, Patrik Schumacher won the Royal Institute of British

Architects’ Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture together with Zaha Hadid, for MAXXI, the

National Italian Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21st century in Rome. He is also Member of the Academy of the Berlin Academy of Arts.

 

In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London

where he continues to teach. In 1999 he completed his PHD at the Institute for Cultural Science,

Klagenfurt University. Patrik Schumacher is lecturing worldwide and is currently a guest

professor at Harvard’s GSD. During the last 20 years he has contributed over 100 articles to

architectural journals and anthologies. In 2008 he coined the phrase Parametricism and has

since published a series of manifestos promoting Parametricism as the new epochal style for

the 21st century. In 2010/2012 he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum “The

Autopoiesis of Architecture”. Patrik Schumacher is widely recognized as one of the most

prominent thought leaders within the fields of architecture, urbanism and design.

 

Architect Sille Pihlak, one of the curators of the Architecture Open Lecture series, says that

both Zaha Hadid ja Patrik Schumacher were highly inspirational throughout her studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna: “When giving feedback to students’ projects they didn’t merely cover the full design scale from a city to a furniture, but also always pushed you to pay attention to the sociopolitical, technological, economical and culture innovation tendencies. Patrik – in his statements often antagonistic and objectionable in the eyes of the wider architecture community – is currently one of the most important practitioner, whose statements pull architects out of their comfort zone, pushing us to argue our actions in a constructive and context-sensitive manner. This kind of approach towards the art of building and acknowledgment of wider context is essential for our students to witness.”

 

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

www.avatudloengud.ee

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

 

More info:

Pille Epner

E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee

Tel. +372 642 0071

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.

Fibrous, the 1st exhibition held in the international Skulpakuu event. From November 6th until the 14th, seven international sculpture and installation artists will take over the Old EKA Gallery. The exhibition will explore the topics of power and authority. There will also be a curator tour on 08.11 and a panel-discussion about the current notion of sculpture in contemporary thought on 13.11.

You resonate with this. To take over this basement room, seven artists come together in a symbiotic relationship. Though being aware of the rules in the cooperation, they seek to grow laterally.
Fibrous, an exhibition about power, control, choice, force… themes that are suggested in the individual artworks, as well as where the works meet each other in space. The artists seek to expose the connecting fibres, the strategies of taking over and persisting within a defined room. This might show an internal struggle occuring as they give and take to find balance.

The form is fragile, it dissolves, when you touch it, it is not the same as before. It is mutable. I look around and it permeates all. It throbs in our veins, and with it, we are able to change anything.

The exhibition is curated by Laura De Jaeger with artistic director Stacey Koosel. Itwill open on November 6th at 18.00, featuring works by Barbara Kocsis, Ben Caro, Darja Krasnopevtseva, Johannes Luik, Laura De Jaeger, LAURi and Martina Buck.

Fibrousis a part of Skulpakuu, theinternational sculpture- and installation month, andis made possible by the Estonian Academy of Arts, EKA Student Union, Õllenaut, Kalamaja pruulikoda, Peninuki craftery, with Marko Mrkobrad and Arne Nuyts for the graphic design.

Dear EKA member!

You are kindly invited to attend EKA Day on 30 October when we will be celebrating the 104th anniversary of the Estonian Academy of Arts in its new location.

Birthday song at 10:35 in the lobby
The EKA Chamber Choir will sing a birthday song to the school. Muffins will be served.

Open workshops and studios at 11:00–16:00
Our new academic building is like a maze with rapidly evolving content. After the big opening party, this anniversary event offers us a new opportunity to rediscover our building. To mark the occasion, we have opened our workshops and studios for EKA members. You will be welcomed by technicians and heads of workshop who will kindly show you all the technical equipment – both brand new and from previous locations. Let’s use this opportunity to make new acquaintances and rekindle old contacts. It might become the starting point for your next creative step!

The following workshops and studios are open:

B104 Woodworking and Modelling Shop
B106 Metalworking Shop
B106.4 Smithy
B204 Prototyping Lab
B304 Scenography Studio / Black Box
B311 Animation Studio
B404 Photo and Video Studio
B405 Analogue Darkroom
B409 Graphics Studio
B504 Jewellery Workshop
B506 Enamelling / Stone-Cutting
B510 Accessory Studio
B511 Bookbinding Workshop
B602 Ceramics Workshop
B604 Glass Workshop
C404 3D Lab
C408 VR Lab
D308 Painting and Sculpture Conservation Studios
D308.2 Sculpture Conservation Studio
D412 Architecture Conservation Studio
D502 Textile Printing Studio
D503 Knitting Studio
D505 Weaving Studio
D505.1 Textile Futures Studio
D507 Sewing Workshop

Thursday, 8 November will start bright & early at 9 am with our Morning Coffee where students and graduates from the interior architecture department will come and share their experiences from studying, working or doing an apprenticeship somewhere else in the wide and wild world – through the spectrum of space and spatial design, naturally. We’ll meet at C406, EKA new building.

On stage this time: Siim Karro talking about his time at the Danish Royal Art Academy, Hotel Pro Forma and life in Copenhagen in general. Everyone’s welcome to listen & ask questions — it’s in Estonian though, so best for those of you who have some Estonian skills already.

This event is perfect for students and those wanting to become a student, but also tutors; the door is always open to anyone from other EKA departments or other schools. The interior architecture department Morning Coffee events take place about once a month and 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!

EDITED ON 9 Oct: THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED;

The space of Home: intrapsychic, interpersonal and socio-political dimensions

The sense of home and belonging to a home is one of the most fundamental realities of human beings. What are the complexities that constitute the multifaceted phenomenon and image of home? How do these complexities affect people who have lost their intimate space involuntarily? How can we assist such people when they experience the painful effects of such involuntary dislocation? These are some of the questions that this seminar will address, in a maximum possible interactional exchange with the participants.

Based on Professor Papadopoulos’s own extensive work in the field of involuntary dislocation, which includes not only research and training but also clinical work and activism, this seminar aims to address the complexities, dilemmas and traps that are engendered whenever we deal with any themes related to the image of home in the context of phenomena of involuntary dislocation.

Renos K. Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is Professor of Analytical Psychology, Director of the ‘Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees’, and member of the ‘Human Rights Centre’ and ‘Transitional Justice Network’, all at the University of Essex and with an honorary appointment at the Tavistock Clinic. He is a clinical psychologist, systemic family therapist and Jungian psychoanalyst, also involved in the training and supervision of these three specialists. As consultant to the United Nations and other organizations, he has been working with refugees, tortured persons and other survivors of political violence and disasters in many countries. Recently he was given Awards by the European Family Therapy Association for his ‘Outstanding contribution to the field of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice’ and by the University of Essex for the ‘Best International Impact Research Project’. He lectures and offers specialist trainings internationally and his writings have been published in 15 languages.

NB! For attending to the seminar is necessary to read in advance following material:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k6kZfANZ5F261HUiORAm0yGQcuYdXRSz?usp=sharing

NB! Registration is required, spaces are limited! Follow this link to register: https://seminarium1.eventbrite.com
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