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Seminar at the beginning of the semester dedicated to discussing academy’s possible futures. Seminar is led by academics Anu Raud and rector Mart Kalm and Tartu University’s rector of academic affairs Mart Noorma.

Learning-centered teaching approaches that can only be achieved through cooperation are a cornerstone of today’s higher education. This conference is dedicated to the development of teaching and learning and deals with issues such as the essence of learning-centered teaching, new teaching tools that support and facilitate quality learning, differences in field-specific teaching, and the role of leadership in ensuring quality teaching and learning. The conference provides opportunities to present results of higher education research and the scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as to share best practice experiences with colleagues. Everyone interested in supporting the development of their students and enhancing their teaching in higher education is invited to participate.

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At an international conference – “Architectures, Natures & Data: The Politics of Environments” – taking place in Tallinn on April 21-22, architecture’s turn to nature and data will be explored from political and historical perspectives.

Altogether 24 papers will be presented by architects, urban geographers, historians, ecologists, and artists from 15 countries. Keynote speakers are Matthew Gandy and Douglas Spencer from the UK. The conference is organised by the Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia in cooperation with the Department of Geography, Cambridge University, UK.

The conference is open to the public and free of charge, but prior registration is needed, deadline April 15. Here’s the registration form: http://architecturesnaturesdata.com/Registration

The conference is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia, European Research Council Advanced Grant “Rethinking Urban Nature”, Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (Hasartmängumaksu Nõukogu).

Read more: http://architecturesnaturesdata.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/877292232410440/
Contact: Karin Kahre, conference coordinator
architecturesnaturesdata@gmail.com, +372 5099886

Estonian Academy of Arts TASE ’17 Graduation Show sites and dates announced!
The Estonian Academy of Arts Graduation Show TASE ’17 and its satellite festivities will take place from 27 May – 12 June, 2017 at the historic Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11 and other venues in Tallinn.

Sat 27 May ERKI Fashion Show 30
The most scandalous fashion show of Estonia will present its 30th show in a last-chance-top-secret-site! Not to be missed!
Follow the lead

Tue 30 May 4pm TASE ’17 Opening Ceremony
Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11, Tallinn

TASE ’17 Graduation Show
Wed 31 May – Sat 12 June
Noblessner valukoda

TASE ’17 Portfolio Café
Fri 2 June and Sat 3 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

TASE ‘ 17 Graduation Works Lift Talks
Wed 2 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

SISU Symposium of Interior Architecture and Spatial Use 2017 “Naked Space”
7. – 8. 06. Luzern, Neubad, Switzerland and Mobile Classroom of the EAA Dept of Interior Architecture, in Tallinn

The SISU 2017 symposium will focus on re-use of interior space and community-driven redesign processes. The symposium will shed light on the question, how interior architecture is able to create an identity for naked space while ‘re-dressing’ it, and how this can contribute new value to the whole neighbourhood. What are our needs today and how does it influence the re-purposing process? How can we investigate the space inside the buildings of the past?

SISU will approach these questions across different disciplines including interior architects/designers, architects, filmmakers, academics and students from different cultures for the first time in parallel in Switzerland and in Estonia.

The Estonian Association of Interior Architects, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art / School of Engineering and Architecture, the Estonian Academy of Arts / Department of Interior Architecture and the Association of Swiss Interior Architects have the honour of inviting You to the 4th International Interior Architecture Symposium SISU
Read on and sign up at sisu.esl.ee

TASE FILM ’17
9. 06.
Sõpruse Cinema
Vana-Posti 8, Tallinn

The programme is developing, more info soon! Please save the dates and visit us!

Keiu Krikmann
TASE Head Coordinator
keiu.krikmann@artun.ee
Solveig Jahnke
Head of Communications
solveig.jahnke@artun.ee
Tel +372 6267 111
Mob +372 5626 4949
www.artun.ee

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).

You are cordially invited to a series of Urban Studies final semester presentations and events.

THE LAST CRASH
Urban Studies, 1st year studio final presentation (outdoors)
Tutors: Andra Aaloe, Keiti Kljavin
In-front of barbie-pink garage at Maakri 30a
7 December 2016, 10:00-17:30

More info and programme: www.facebook.com/events/592232500984744

Dear Tallinn. After this crash course, this intensive ABC of one strange little-big town in the edge of nowhere but in the centre of everything, something has changed in us. We have learned to admire every wrinkle and fold, every crook and cranny your in times turbulent past has drawn on you, the vacancies left behind by the changes of systems, and also these somewhat violent fillings of your urban fabric. We think… we may have a crush on you.
And thus we made this festival. We took one holey and haunted slice of you – Maakri and Keldrimäe subdistricts – and worked with it, dug deeper in, just to learn to read the fractures in you, learn to accept them, and… love. We hope everyone will come to see our display of affection, the festival called Last crash, where we’ll perform, install, present, exhibit, lecture and walk through physical and idea spaces of Maakri and Keldrimäe.
Because it is you, Tallinn, dark and bleak Northern capital we’ve lost our hearts to.

THE AWKWARD AGENCY
Art & City, final exhibition
Tutor: Mattias Malk
Rävala puiestee 8, follow the signs
7 December 2016, 19:00 (doors open at 18:30)

More info: www.facebook.com/events/747270955425827

The birth of intimacy is often awkward. In search for a more intimate awareness of and a better sensibility to what Tallinn has to offer as a city, urbanists and creatives of all walks of life embarked on a two-day journey. It led them out of the city, out of the county and for brief glimpses out of the respective comfort zones of the participants. In the search to act on their right to the city they now seek your attention. The exhibition will showcase the results of the walk as well as expand on the idea of awkwardness and sociability in and around urban environments.

THE NEW POWER GRID
Urban Studies, 2nd year studio final presentation (indoors)
Tutor: Kaie Kuldkepp / Co-tutor: Han Dijk
Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Architecture, Pikk tn 20, 3rd floor
8 December 2016, 10:00-14:00

An electric grid network occupies a linear strip of land, cross-secting a city. What will happen to this strip once the grid is put underground? This is a future challenge in Tallinn. What are the opportunities for developing public spaces and enhancing urban fringes?

STRATEGIES FOR A HEALTHY CITY
Lecture by Han Dijk (Posad, NL)
Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Architecture, Pikk tn 20, 3rd floor, main lecture hall
8 December 2016, 18:00

More info: www.facebook.com/events/582952211900027

Han Dijk is a teacher in urban design at the Academie of Bouwkunst in Rotterdam and is guest lecturer in different universities in the Netherlands and abroad. Han worked as spatial designer on large city planning assignments with an international context in Antwerp (Belgium) Sao Paulo (Brasil), Warsaw (Poland) and for UN Habitat in Yangon (Myanmar)

The EAA Christmas Market, organised by the Student Government, will take place on Dec 3rd, 2016 from 10am-6pm on at the Balti jaam/Baltic Station train station building. The market will offer unique and fresh design and art from students and alumni of the academy.
There will be an exhibition, cafe, activities for kids and everyone is welcome to come and join the EAA holiday spirit before Christmas break.

Berlin, the capital of Germany, has been a cultural melting pot in the middle of Europe. Once a metropol of Europe, later torn up by war and now reconnected, Berlin is a city with different faces. It is a place of diverse culture and divided past, which can be seen in the urban landscape of Berlin.

This year observation practice was focused on the definition of “Border” and the cityscape, that has been created due to the borders. We can observe borders as dividers of space. At the same time borders address a wider territory, which is able to generate social-cultural, economical and spacial relations in the widest aspect. The topic is relatively actual and it affects us all. The meaning of “Border” and its spacial presence has yet again shown its relevance through the massive migration of people in Europe.

The focus of the Practice was the Berlin Wall and the territory that surrounds it. One of the goals was to observe the changes that have been a constant process for the last 28 years. This opens up new spaces and situations – some older spaces have been forgotten, yet new ones have emerged. One could see it as a potential of the city.

3rd year students of Architecture and Urban Studies invite You to join us in our Berlin installation. The Berlin Installation is based on our experience we had during our stay in Berlin.

An ever-changing city, which is fully on tracks, busy and with a lot of layers, is still carrying the not so distant past within itself.

Observation Practice in the Architecture department is an every year tradition for 3rd Year Architecture students. This year it was Berlin and last year our colleagues visited Paris.
Tutors Andres Ojari and Maros Krivy.

STUDENTS AND INSTALLATIONS:

Ann Kristiin Entson, Keiti Lige, Seth Amofah “Forecity”

Triin Vallner, Jaana Kraus “shelf “IBA””

Laura Pint, Kristjan Värav, Karmen Silde “Around Spree”

Carolyn Rennu, Immaanuel Bush, Andreas Krigoltoi “City Flow”

Liisa Peri “Home”

Jarmo Vaik, Reelika Reinsalu, Jekaterina Klishova, Kristi Merilo “Wall”

The EAA Department of Animation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and we are happy to invite you to join our birthday party on November 18th at 6 pm at the BFM Nova building, Narva mnt 27, 4th floor at the animation department.
6 pm
– Croquis by Kristjan Holm, the legendary animation student and current lecturer at the Department of Interior Architecture
– GIF workshop by Sander Joon, a recent graduate and awarded animation director.
6 pm
– Presentation of the new DVD and screening of the best student films from the 10 legendary years of the animation department. Free entry.
7 pm
– Cake and Turkish coffee, brewed by the animation fan and Artistic Director of ЭТО experimental lab, Aleksey Savinsky aka Mr Vuu from St. Petersburg.
Magusaid unenägusid ja tere tulemast animatsiooni osakonda!!!
PS. There will be several open lectures and presentations in celebration of the same event at BFM, check out at www.anima.ee

In connection with “Design Education 50: 9 Faces of Design Lecture Series” Wednesday 16th Nov, 2016 6.00pm
Venue: Apollo Bookstore, Solaris Centre, Estonia puiestee 9, 11314 Tallinn

The Estonian Academy of Arts cordially invites you to attend the launch event of Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age, recently published by Bloomsbury. The book presents an overview of the concept and role of craft in textile creation and digital technology and the current context and approach taken to the crafting of contemporary digital textiles.

Editors: Nithikul Nimkulrat (Estonian Academy of Arts, EE), Faith Kane (Massey University, NZ) and Kerry Walton (Loughborough University, UK).
Programme

6.00pm – 6.45pm
Welcome and presentations about textile design in the digital era by contributors to the book

Speakers

• Kerry Walton (Loughborough University, UK)
Title: New Creative Opportunities: Textiles, Education & Context

• Anne Louise Bang (Design School Kolding, DK),
Title: Hand Weaving, Digital Tools and Textile Design Education in Denmark

• Susan Carden (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Title: A Novel Process within Digitally Printed Textile Design

• Katherine Townsend (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Title:Closely Held Secrets: Embodied Knowledge in Fashion and Textile Practice

6.45pm – 7.00pm
An informal conversation chaired by Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat (Professor and Head of Department of Textile Design, Estonian Academy of Arts) exploring the themes addressed in the book and the future of textile design education

7.00pm – 7.10pm Q&A
7.10pm – 7.30pm Reception

About the Book
In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture between traditional craft processes and newer digital technologies. Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now elect to make use of digital processes in their work, but often choose not to abandon craft skills fundamental to their practice, and aim to balance the complex connection between craft and digital processes. The essays collected here consider this transition from the viewpoint of aesthetic opportunity arising in the textile designer’s hands-on experimentation with material and digital technologies available in the present.

For further information, see here
Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age Series of Public Lectures

During the week of the book launch, a series of the following public lectures will take place at the Estonian Academy of Arts’ main building (Estonia puiestee 7, 10143 Tallinn), 4th floor, room 440A

Tuesday 15.11, 3.40pm – 4.30pm Anne Louise Bang
Hand Weaving, Digital Tools and Textile Design Education in Denmark
How are the knowledge and practical experience of traditional processes, specifically hand skills, applied in the context of digital jacquard handloom weaving? This lecture discusses ways in which the introduction of a digital jacquard handloom at the Design School Kolding have influenced the textile design education and thereby the craft and practice of hand weaving in Denmark.

Weavers are generally trained in systematic thinking, as they need to operate traditional looms that require a highly organized way of working, threading warp ends on a number of shafts and inserting weft picks in an accurate order. Regarding the organization of weft yarns, countermarch looms have a number of treadles connected to the shafts, whereas manual or computerized dobby looms work with lift plans. This means that the weaver must understand the interaction between shafts and treadles or lift plans in order to achieve the desired woven pattern. All this changed when we got access to the digital jacquard handloom. With this it became possible to use the loom as a dynamic design tool in textile design education. The lecture will exemplify ways in which digital tools in combination with hand skills and expertise represent a great potential for professional development.

Tuesday 15.11, 4.40pm – 5.30pm Susan Carden
A Novel Process within Digitally Printed Textile Design
In her lecture ‘A Novel Process within Digitally Printed Textile Design’ Dr Susan Carden will be describing a new technique discovered during her practice-led doctoral study at the Glasgow School of Art. While working in the studio she noticed a range of textile samples that she had previously been crafting were extremely cool after a number of days. Following a series of experiments conducted at the Electrical Engineering Department of Glasgow University, this effect was found to be an endothermic reaction, a process that absorbs heat from the surrounding area. This new technique was created during the printing process and numerous potential applications were identified including uses in health, fashion and sports products.

Susan’s presentation will describe the stages this discovery took and the implications for both her study and practice-led projects in general when alternative research methods are required. The scientific nature of the discovery was also a challenge in an art school setting, and this will be explored with references to the methodologies and research techniques she needed to adopt in order to successfully complete her doctoral project.

Wednesday 16.11, 4.40pm – 5.30pm Katherine Townsend
Closely Held Secrets: Embodied Knowledge in Fashion and Textile Practice
This lecture provides an overview of Closely Held Secrets, a research project and exhibition inspired by the hidden working relationship between the artist Grayson Perry and artisan Tony Taylor, which was adopted as a model by a group of individual artists/designers to explore digital embroidery as a new media. It will also discuss emerging methodologies and outcomes from current collaborative research projects that Katherine is involved in:Crafting Anatomies, The Electric Corset and Emotional Fit, which draw upon concealed material resources and embodied human interactions to inform design innovation.

Thursday 17.11, 4.40pm – 5.30pm – Kerry Walton
Technology, Tradition, Transition: Defining and Negotiating New Pathways in Contemporary Textile Design Education.
Change defines the modern world and Textile practitioners have always adapted to and ultimately thrived in response to the adaptation of new technologies. The fast pace of change in the last 2 decades, largely driven by the wide availability of digital media, and production capability within a broader global context, has necessitated a swift response by educational institutions, and significant reflection on where the priorities might lie for our students. With experience of design education spanning 5 decades I will be mapping a journey through this changing terrain, both as educator, researcher and practitioner, reflecting on the integration of traditional craft skills, digital opportunities and the ability of drawing to facilitate this relationship.
Speakers’ Biographies
Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat
Dr Nithikul Nimkulrat intertwines research with textile practice, focusing on experiential knowledge in craft processes in the design research context. Her PhD research completed in 2009 at Aalto University examines the expressivity of textile material that is beyond visible, touchable qualities. Nithikul has worked at Aalto University (2004–10) and Loughborough University (2011–2013), and is currently Professor and Head of Department of Textile Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Kerry Walton
Kerry Walton
Kerry Walton is the Programme Director for Textiles: Innovation & Design, at Loughborough University, rated 1st in the UK for Fashion and Textiles (The Guardian University Guide 2017). Her current research explores the relationship between drawing and textiles, both within her own practice and within the scope of a contemporary Textiles education.

Dr. Anne Louise Bang
Dr. Anne Louise Bang
Dr Anne Louise Bang is an Associate Professor at Design School Kolding in Denmark. She earned her PhD in 2011 with the thesis Emotional Value of Applied Textiles. Bang was educated as a textile designer in 1994, and before entering academia around 2007 she worked with textile art, freelance design and as a lecturer.

Dr Susan Carden
Dr Susan Carden
Dr Susan Carden is an Assistant Professor in Textile Design at Heriot-Watt University and a Visiting Lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art’s Graduate School.Her monograph Digital Textile Printing: Art, Design, Culture describes the historical and cultural context from which digital textile printing emerged and engages critically with the many issues it raises.

Dr Katherine Townsend
Dr Katherine Townsend
Dr Katherine Townsend is a Reader in Fashion and Textile Crafts at Nottingham Trent University. Her current research projects, Emotional Fit and The Electric Corset explore design issues in fashion and aging and the use of costume archives to inform interactive wearable technology. She is a supervisor and external examiner for PhD theses on digital crafting approaches, including 3D knitting and weaving, laser cutting and sustainable fashion and textile design. She has co-curated various exhibitions, including: Metallic Sound, Closely Held Secrets and Crafting Anatomies. Since 2010 she has acted as co-editor of the journal of Craft Research (Intellect).

* The book launch and series of public lectures are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.