03.05.2024
Start Time:
16:00
End Date:
03.05.2024
Our group of students studying Urban Studies, Architecture, and Urban Planning warmly invites you to join us on this journey of collectively curated exhibition.
SAVE THE DATE! 3rd OF MAY at 16:00 at the Sea terrace of EKA. The final grading of Urban Studies Urban Models course is tutored by Kristi Grišakov & Keiti Kljavin.
If you dig a new hole in a degraded landscape, you can see the excavated trench. If you open the door of an apartment that has stood empty for years, the room is full of stories. The reference to excavation in the title sums up our task of relating to what has already left, to find in the traces of past activity the material for understanding larger regional changes.
Five different creative experiments aim to reflect the sense of displacement, longing and disempowerment of a region on the edge of Estonia to resist change. We will look at the districts of Ahtme and Järve and the city of Kiviõli, where the monofunctionality of extractive manufacturing has challenged the response to the housing surplus caused by emigration. Exploring different issues related to (non)material aspects of Ida-Viru County settlements, our projects are based on field analysis and research, market analysis of housing conditions, reinterpretation of individual challenges of adaptation to depopulation. There is always a mist of hope in the air, a bit toxic and perhaps greenwashed, but full of the power of re-launching structural funds and the limits of the social adaptability of the population.
Students: Marta Bodnar; Ayse Betul Gesen; Mariana Gomes Pedro; Lion Herrmann; Sofia Ignateva; Maria Kazlovskaya; Madita Laura Kümmeringer; Ella Nikulina; Henry Rikk; Piret Saar; Annika Ülejõe; Anneli Virts; Clara-Marlen Wilke.