Open Lectures

On March 2nd at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present Belgian architect and designer Isaïe Bloch at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Bloch is the founder of Eragatory which is a creative company with a focus on design for 3D printing and Creative fabrication. Bloch explores the impact of digital craftsmanship on a large range of disciplines including architecture, plastic arts, fashion and design. Open Lectures are open to all architecture and design students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial and design matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Eragatory aims to produce work that embodies crafted digital eclecticism through an engagement with both new digital design processes and the the oldest of manufacturing techniques and vice versa. The work of the practice has been published internationally in Karl Lagerfeld’s and Carine Roitfeld’s “The Little Black Jacket” and Lucy Johnston’s “Digital handmade : craftsmanship in the new Industrial Revolution” (Thames and Hudson, 2015). Bloch has also been exhibited widely, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the FRAC Centre Orleans, SHOWcabinet London and at the Experimental Architecture Biennial Prague, and is simultaneously lecturing Architectural design at the Bartlett UCL and UEL in London.

More on Isaïe Bloch: http://www.eragatory.com/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
Series is curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

Marko Kiisa / CEO, Aus Design
Journey from corporate banking to ethical entrepreneurship: „My story about what took me from conventional banking to sustainable entrepreneurship. What formed my views, what were the takeaways and why at one point I felt – this can not continue like that. Also a little about what do I consider to be ethical entrepreneurship and why I warmly suggest everybody to consider these principles.“
www.reetaus.com

Cultural differences with Asian business partners.

See the programme of open lecture series in Faculty of Design: https://www.artun.ee/kalender/disainiteaduskonna-avatud-loengudopen-lectures-in-faculty-of-design/

25.01 Dan Mikkin

1.02 Jaanus Vahtra / Taevas Ogilvy loovjuht / Taeva Ogilvy creative director
Loovus ja emotsioon / Creativity and emotion 

Lõik raamatust “Daamide õnn”
“Niisiis on otsustatud, hinnaks paneme viis franki kuuskümmend… Te teate, et see teeb vaevalt välja omahinna.”
Jajah, viis franki kuuskümmend,” vastas Mouret rutakalt, ”ja oleksin mina üksi otsustajaks, müüksin alla omahinna.”
“Kui me seda müüme viie frangi kuuekümnega, siis võrdub see kahjuga müümisele, sest tehtud suuri kulusid tuleb ju millegagi katta… Igal pool mujal saadakse tema eest vähemalt seitse franki.”
“Ma ju tean seda ja tahan teha meie klientidele väikese kingituse…
Tõepoolest, mu sõber, te ei õpi iialgi naisi tundma. Saage ometi aru, et selle siidi pärast võivad nad lausa käsitsi kokku minna!”

8.02 Marko Kiisa / CEO, ethical fashion company Aus Design
Journey from corporate banking to ethical entrepreneurship: 

„My story about what took me from conventional banking to sustainable entrepreneurship. What formed my views, what were the takeaways and why at one point I felt – this can not continue like that. Also a little about what do I consider to be ethical entrepreneurship and why I warmly suggest everybody to consider these principles.“

www.reetaus.com

15.02 Ülle Pihlak / EBSi dotsent / lecturer of Estonian Business School
Kultuuriliste eripäradega arvestamine suhtlemisel Aasia äripartneritega / Cultural differencis with Asian business partners 

Omapärased olukorrad, mis võivad ärile saatuslikuks saada.

22.02. Raul Kalvo & Helen Oja / architect & interior architect
Working with the space. How to expand your story with exhibition design? 

Their exhibition designs Conflicts and Adaptations – Estonian Art of the Soviet Era as well as Out of Sync – Looking Back at the History of Sound Art have been nominated for the best exhibition design of the year by Estonian Association of Interior Architects.

http://www.inphysica.com/raulkalvo

1.03. Jenni Moberg / CEO, design agent at 0.7 design Ltd
Role of an design agent to expand your brand and find clients. 

0.7 design Ltd is a design agency that connects Finnish craftsmen and designers with customers abroad. They also consult companies wishing to be more successful in their field with the help of design.

Loengu toimumist toetab Soome Instituut.

8.03. Aljona Eesmaa / Polhem PR Estonia pressijuht, ajakirja Säde moetoimetaja ja stilist, veebiportaali Portail.ee (http://portail.ee/) asutaja ja peatoimetaja ning moeblogija (http://behindthescenesprgirl.net/) / fashion editor, stylist, blogger

Toode meedia kõverpeeglis / Product in medias distorting mirror. 

Sul on valmis toode, millega sa oled rahul, kuid sa ei tea, kuidas seda laiema publikuni viia? Trükipressiga suhtlemine tundub ulmeline ning sa ei tea isegi, kust pihta hakata? Võtad siis äkki hoopis ette sotsiaalmeedia? Või tahad minna otse telesse? On sul üldse väärt infot, mida jagada – tootefotodest grammatiliselt korrektse pressiteateni välja? Kõikidest nendest aspektidest antud loengus ka räägin ning proovin anda parima sisendi, et väärt info värske Eesti disaini kohta õiges suunas liikuma saada.

portail.ee/, behindthescenesprgirl.net/

15.03. Patricia Toti / Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, coach motivator, consultant 

How to turn negative experience into the positive outcome? Looking at limiting beliefs such as self-sabotage, fear, addictions etc and how to replace them with artistic confidence and productivity. More positive than negative. Conflict resolution and networking skills.

22.03. Martin ja Marje Eelmaa / graafilised disainerid / graphic designers

Mis on graafiline identiteet? / What is graphic identity?
Ettevõtte/toote graafilisest identiteedist, kuidas valmib kataloog/raamat/trükis ja fotode trükiettevalmistuse tähtsusest.

www.tuumik.ee

5.04. Helene Vetik / graphic designer / blogger / enterpreneur

Self presentation in internet. 10 years on the field – evolution of the field and myself.

www.uustuus.ee

12.04. Stefan Hiienurm / tootedisainer / product designer, UX expert

Kasutajamugavus + äri + disain + esteetika / User experience + business + design + esthetics

www.thorgateventures.com

19.04. Aap Piho / Warm North asutaja ja tootedisainer / product designer

Disaineri isetegevuse paradoksid / Paradoxes of being a designer

Õpime vigadest.

www.warmnorth.com

26.04. Stella Soomlais / nahadisainer / leather accessory designer

Kaubamärgi asutamine, ehitamine ja hingeelu / Creating and building up your own brand

Aastaid verd, higi ja pisaraid. Vead kui õppetunnid.

www.stellasoomlais.com

Tuesday, 2.05 at 16.00 (r 426, Estonia str 7)

Roberta Einer / fashion designer

How to build up a fashion brand in the heart of fashion world?

Luxury Womenswear designer Roberta Einer moved from her hometown of Tallinn to London to study on the prestigious fashion courses at Central Saint Martins and the University of Westminster. During her studies she completed internships with Mary Katrantzou and Alexander McQueen, before moving to Paris upon graduation to assist at Balmain for a year where she continued to develop her craft. Establishing her label upon her return to London, the Roberta Einer brand is now in its third season creating experimental, luxury womenswear which focuses on textiles and working with traditional couture techniques. Her innovative designs have been featured in the likes of American Vogue, Teen Vogue, Dazed & Confused, HUNGER and i-D Magazine.

www.robertaeiner.com

—

Some lectures are given in English or translation is provided.

What strings architecture, economy, robotics & modernity together? Open Lecture by Jelle Feringa

On February 16th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the Faculty of Architecture will be happy to present Dutch architect Jelle Feringa at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). For the last few years, Feringa has been working on projects that try to harness the full potential of robots in architecture, building up Danish architectural robotics company Odico. In Tallinn, Feringa will talk about the changes that robotics are bringing to architecture and to the cities around us. In the future, what will the role of the architect be? Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

In addition to the open lecture, Feringa will give a small workshop in Tallinn on the following day, focussing on introducing students to the new robot of the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department and testing its capabilities. “This is one of the most important issues of contemporary architecture: how to transfer digital information into physical material without compromising the geometry and spatial structure and yet with obtainable financial and time resources. Using robots is one of the ways to make sure geometrically intricate spaces and shapes can be transferred from digital world into our daily material experiences,” explains Dean of Faculty of Architecture Toomas Tammis.

Jelle is co-founder and CTO at Odico formwork robotics the first factory to specialize in architectural robotics. He is co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research The work of the office is widely exhibited, exhibitions include the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Archilab, Orléans, Barbican Gallery, London Design, Miami/Basel and is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Jelle is a PhD candidate at the Hyperbody research group, TU Delft. His efforts in architectural robotics, both industrial and experimental are currently on display at the Zaha Hadid gallery in London, as part of the Meta Utopia exposition.

More about Odico: http://www.odico.dk/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. All lectures are in English and free of charge.

Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

Let us know if You are coming: https://www.facebook.com/events/194591041017897/

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

This Thursday, February 2nd at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Martin Tamke at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Tamke is Associate Professor at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. He is pursuing a design-led research in the interface and implications of computational design and its materialization. 

In addition to giving a lecture, Tamke visits Tallinn to participate in the jury of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB installation programme, which is about to select the winner of the 2017 competition. Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Tamke joined the newly founded research centre CITA in 2006 and shaped its design based research practice. Projects on new design and fabrication for wood and fibre based materials led to a series of research projects and digitally fabricated demonstrators that explore an architectural practice engaged with bespoke materials and behaviour. He initiates and conducts research projects in the emerging field of digital production in building industry and architectural computation. The research connects academic and industrial partners from architecture and engineering, computer and material science and the crafts. Currently he is involved in the Danish funded 4 year Complex Modelling research project and the adapt-r and InnoChain PhD research networks.

CITA is an innovative research environment exploring the intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA investigates how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice.

CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design- and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically. Using design and practice based research methods, CITA works through the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes. CITA is highly collaborative with both industry and practice creating new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer graphics, human computer interaction, robotics, artificial intelligence as well as the practice based fields of furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.

More about CITA: https://kadk.dk/en/CITA

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department.
Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

Let us know You are coming: https://www.facebook.com/events/1312520165473996/

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

Future of Sustainable Transport and and Urban Development in Tallinn – Lectures by Andres Sevtsuk & Lily Song
ANDRES SEVTSUK (Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design) and LILY K. SONG (Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design and Senior Research Associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design) will give lectures on Thursday, 22 December at 1 pm at the Kultuurikatel in Tallinn (Põhja pst 27a), looking into the possible sustainable development strategies for urban planning and transport in Tallinn. Both lectures take place in connection with the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture faculty MA programme and are 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.
1 pm

****Andres Sevtsuk. Integrating transit and land use planning for a sustainable urban core in Tallinn****
After two decades of auto-centric growth and uncoordinated urban development, Tallinn has come to a critical juncture. Not only has new residential development predominantly occurred outside of the city center, enabling a growing spatial inequality gap, but now jobs have also started to grow faster outside of the center. Tallinn’s city center is losing its historic primacy as the nation’s economic activity hub to new sub-centers. This shift foreshadows far-reaching consequences, challenging the civic and social importance of the city’s center for its residents as well as reducing the international competitiveness of the capital city in attracting investment, talent and tourism. This presentation explores the potential of strengthening the urban core and reversing its idling image for both locals and visitors alike through bold and coordinated changes in the city’s public transit system, land use planning and urban design. Comparative cases from other cities are discussed in light of Tallinn’s challenges, outlining the strategic planning and policy choices that have led to similar course changes elsewhere.

2 pm

****Lily Song. The Politics and Governance of Transforming Urban Transport****
What makes it possible for democratically governed cities to move forward with innovative transportation policies that advance mobility and sustainability goals? In this presentation, Dr. Lily Song will examine how, when, and where political strategies and tactics have proven critical to the successful implementation of a wide range of inventive, significant, or sought-after transportation policies based on findings from the research project, Transforming UrbanTransport -The Role of Political Leadership (TUT-POL), sponsored by the Volvo Education and Research Foundations (VREF) and hosted at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Presenting case studies of (1) Seoul’s combined highway demolition, bus system overhaul, and urban regeneration; (2) New York’s urban streets initiatives; and (3) Paris Ile-de-France’s sustainable urban transport innovations, emanating from the city throughout the region—she will discuss political conditions and processes explaining implementation successes in addition to highlighting implications for Tallinn.
The lectures are followed by a round table discussion.

Lecturers:

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.

Lily K. 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.”

Designer Julia Körner to explore connections between fashion design and architecture
On December 15th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present designer Julia Körner (Austria/USA). In Tallinn, Körner will share insight into digital design processes and emergent technologies within a series of projects across various scales, including her recent collaborations with Haute Couture Fashion Houses for Paris Fashion weeks.

Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge: this particular lecture will be especially interesting also for design and fashion design students and professionals.

Julia Körner (b.1984) is founder and principal of JK Design GmbH based in Salzburg, Austria, and holds a lecturer position at the University of California, Los Angeles. She works at the convergence of fashion design, architecture, and industrial design specialising in additive manufacturing and robotic technology. Her work stands out, recognised today at the top level of these disciplines, and has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, at Venice Biennale, Paris Haute Couture and institutions such as MAK Vienna, Belvedere Vienna, FRAC Centre Orleans, BOZAR Brussels and Art Institute of Chicago to name a few. In 2014 she won the Global 3d PrintShow Award in the category “Rising Star”. The constantly intriguing aspect of Julia’s work is the embodiment of a beautiful organic aesthetic.

Born in Salzburg, Austria, she holds a Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Further, she was awarded a Master of Science in emergent technologies and design from the Architectural Association, London. Julia worked with international offices in both New York and London, including Ross Lovegrove Studio. She has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Lund University in Sweden and the Architectural Association Visiting School in Paris and Jordan. Recent collaborations for additively manufactured fashion pieces involved Haute Couture fashion designer Iris Van Herpen, and 3D printing company Materialise. In March 2015 she launched her first 3D printed ready-to-wear fashion collection SPOROPHYTE, manufactured by Stratasys Ltd.

More about Julia Körner: http://www.juliakoerner.com/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department.
Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee

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

On Wednesday, 30 November at 5 pm there will be an open talk by artist Eléonore de Montesquiou. The talk will take place at the EKA Lembitu 10B building in room no 144.
Eléonore de Montesquiou: “Newspapers were everywhere, in households, in factories, they were part of the daily rhythm. This lasted until…? Recently? There were newspapers published regularly in Narva and there were factory newspapers written by and for Kreenholm workers. Today, Kreenholm has gone bankrupt and Narva’s newspaper has been replaced by “Viru prospect”.

In a film that I made with her in 2010, Dora Grafova told me that “… there was “Little Spark”, the children’s magazine. I could drown you with fifteen and more titles. “Little Spark”, then “Ural Tracker”, “Worker Woman”, “Peasant Woman”, “Soviet Woman”, “Young Naturalist”, and for my son we got “Young Technician”, “Technology for the Young”, “Radio” and “Model Constructor”. So that makes 17 magazines. We got those every month”.

Her words gave me the desire to publish a newspaper about newspapers in Narva. This newspaper is the natural continuation of my work in the region (ATOM CITIES in 2005 and NA GRANE in 2009, both projects consisting in films and books, FOR EXAMPLE FABRIKA in 2010: films and newspaper – Moscou and Narva- and RADIOTHENIKA in 2011 in Riga consisting also in a newspaper and a film).

This short presentation is actually to ask you whether you are interested in making a “new newspaper about newspaper and life” in Narva? Would you like to collaborate with me on this? We need to do a lot: gather more material, work on the archive, conceptualise our “new newspaper”, give it a graphic line, decide when and how often and for whom it is meant.”

Eléonore kutsub üles huvilisi tudengeid kaasa lööma projektis Gazette Narva (vt projekti kirjeldus manuses).
Eléonore is looking for interested students to participate at the Gazette Narva project (please find the project description attached).
Eléonore de Montesquiou on sündinud 1970. aastal Pariisis, elab ja töötab Berliinis ja Tallinnas. Tema töödele on iseloomulik dokumentaalne lähenemine, mis võtab filmi, joonistuste ja tekstide kuju. 2006. aastal toimus Tallinna Linnagaleriis tema näitus „Aatomilinnad”, mis keskendus Paldiskile ja Sillamäele. Viimastel aastatel on ta uurinud oma loomingu kaudu piirilinna Narvat.
Eléonore de Montesquiou was born in 1970 in Paris, she lives in Berlin and Tallinn. Her work is based on a documentary approach, translated in films, drawings and texts. In 2006 her exhibition Atom Cities took place in the Linnagalerii in Tallinn which concentrated on Paldiski and Sillamäe. In recent years the topic of her artistic research has been the border town Narva.
Vt rohkem: / See more:
http://eleonoredemontesquiou.blogspot.com.ee
VABRIK, KREENHOLM

GAZETTE

NAINEhttps://vimeo.com/50283261

Olete oodatud!
You are welcome!

Architect Kristy Balliet to give an Open Lecture in Tallinn, focussing on volume in architecture

On December 1st at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Kristy Balliet (BairBalliet) at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Open Lectures are open to all architecture students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Kristy Balliet is an architectural designer and assistant professor at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture. She is currently a design faculty member at SCI-Arc. She is the co-founder of BairBalliet and the co-chair of the Possible Mediums Project – a series of events showcasing design investigations based in speculative architectural mediums. From 2006-2011, Balliet was an assistant professor at The University of Applied Arts, Vienna in Studio Greg Lynn. While there she was the co-creator of the IoA Sliver lecture/gallery series and published the collected work of the studio in Visual Catalog: Greg Lynn’s Studio. She is a graduate of Philadelphia University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design and has practiced architecture in Philadelphia at Erdy McHenry Architecture. Kristy is currently editing the forthcoming publication Massive Attack, IoA Sliver Lecture Series-Selected Friends and Enemies.

From an interview Kristy Balliet gave to Modelo Blog: “Through several speculative projects, I became fascinated with the idea of looking at architecture primarily through the lens of volume: how architectural materials — walls, floors, grounds — collectively give us volume in architecture. The main design driver within my practice is looking and thinking about architecture through the lens of volumetric relationships. Whether that’s room to room, atrium to larger building context, outdoor room to indoor room — these questions of the relationships between inside/outside, one room to the next become primary questions within my design projects.”

More about Kristy Balliet: http://www.kristyballiet.com/
More about BairBalliet project for La Biennale di Venezia Architecture Exhibition USA pavillion: https://archpaper.com/2016/05/bairballiet-detroit-venice-biennale/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department.
Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

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