Nordic-Baltic Network of Art and Design Education
CIRRUS mapping results are published!
For nearly 3 years CIRRUS chair, Lone Dalsgaard André, with the help of each member of CIRRUS has been investigating and mapping design education in the Nordic and Baltic countries, in CIRRUS member institutions. Now the data is available as a tool to all of us in CIRRUS.
CIRRUS members, deans and coordinators can find a folder with the results here (sign-in required, invitation sent by e-mail on August 22, 2016).
We are proud to announce our Summer School initiative. KADK – The School of Design and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design are collaborating to offer an exciting two-week program this summer: Contemporary Digital Print For Fashion. Travel to 2 global design cities Copenhagen and London this summer and join an intensive academic programme at Central Saint Martins in London and KADK – The School of Design in Copenhagen.
London and Copenhagen, are two dynamic fashion and lifestyle capital cities that provide ideal summer study abroad locations to compare and contrast the exhilarating design culture of northern Europe.
The Dual City Summer Program offers nondegree, noncredit courses open to all adult students, regardless of their experience. The short, intensive format of these courses allows students to immerse themselves in the creative life of London and Copenhagen, explore the latest trends, and collaborate with design students while building a network of contacts from around the world.
Session 1 Course Dates
London: 4 July – 8 July 2016
Copenhagen: 11 July – 15 July 2016
CIRRUS board invites network members to apply for hosting a CIRRUS Teachers seminar in academic year 2016/17.
Application deadline: June 26, 2016
Please send your short brief/motivation to: sandra.sule@artun.ee
The Teachers seminar usually gathers teachers of design fields preferably under one umbrella with a certain topic/discussion point of interest.
The seminar should ideally last for two days and offer the teachers in CIRRUS a possibility to share ideas and knowledge about pedagogical and didactic approaches of teaching design and crafts today, gain knowledge regarding subject field in partner academy and have a good time together with other Nordic and Baltic colleagues. Ideally Teachers seminar bonds can also lead to intensive courses and curriculum development (but this is not a must).
The Teachers seminar may take place in line with one of the CIRRUS intensive courses or the network meeting.
The CIRRUS network will support related costs of the host in lump sum of 3000 EUR. This is meant for covering coffee breaks and lunches and any material costs related to the seminar.
Information about previous teachers seminars:
https://pesa11.artun.ee/cirrus-teachers-seminar-aho-khio-january/ (hosted by AHO and KHIO in 2014/2015)
https://pesa11.artun.ee/cirrus2016meeting/ (hosted by University of Lapland in 2015/2016)
After success of CIRRUS 1st summer school in Norway, Sykkylven, Estonian Academy of Arts’, Department of Interior Architecture in collaboration with Estonian State Forest Management Centre and CIRRUS/Nordplus network announces a call for applications to:
5th Season Wilderness Summer School
July 29th – August 7th, 2016
Soomaa, Estonia
Context
Beautiful Soomaa (in English: swampland), situated in Estonia, consists of large raised bogs, flood-plain grasslands, paludified forests and meandering rivers. The territory of the Soomaa National Park is mostly covered with large mires, separated from each other by the rivers of the Pärnu River basin – Navesti, Halliste, Raudna and Lemmjõgi rivers. Life in Soomaa depends more on climate than anywhere else in Estonia. When vast amounts of water run down the uplands in springs, the rivers of Soomaa cannot contain it all. The water flows over flood-plain grasslands and forests and covers roads, disrupting connection with the rest of the world. In some years, the spring floods have risen by a meter a day for 3–4 days, quickly claiming roads, fields, and on occasion, homes. At the maximum flood level the water-covered area can be 7–8 km in diameter. Steep-sloped, raised bogs stand as islands in the water. The flood has been named the Fifth Season of Soomaa, and Karuskose, Soomaa will be the location of this unique Summer School.
Brief
The 5th Season Wilderness Summer School will be a deep and intensive examination into the minimum (spatial) necessities for humans in extreme conditions and also a testground for co-creation and construction inspired by wet conditions and locality. As the result of the Summer School, the bottomless bogs and overflowing rivers of Soomaa will be offered an island, a steady pause, a solid ground for the wanderer. The artistic floating object needs to create new values in very delicate surroundings. The object should continue to function during the highest water levels of the 5th Season, but can be tested out during the workshop on a river. The workshop will deal with movement motion – vertical and horizontal. The piece itself will be constructed during the workshop out of timber. The wooden installation will be a part of larger network of forest infrastructure organised by the State Forest Management Centre of Estonia.
Why you shouldn’t miss it
The summerschool will be tutored by an international team of architects, representing both practice and academia. The tutors will work alongside the participants guiding them through a complete architectural project — concept development, design, prototyping and construction of life–size installation in wilderness. The hands-on workshop will be unique opportunity to practice off-grid woodwork. The installation will most probably receive wide publicity like we have experienced before and will stay open for the public.
Tutors:
B210 Architects
Sami Rintala
Pavle Stamenovic
Preliminary Schedule
28th July, Thursday. Arrival day.
29th July, Friday
Introduction and lectures about Estonia, its forests – creating context
30th July, Saturday
Hike / trip in the area
Sketching first ideas under tutors guidance
31th July, Sunday
Abstract tasks for developing space
Research about the object and mapping
Designing an object
1st August, Monday
Final production of the proposals
Choosing 1-2 proposals for construction
Forming groups
1st-6th of August
Construction of the object
7th of August, Sunday
Object Opening Ceremony
EXTENDED DEADLINE! Apply here due June 20, 2016!
(https://goo.gl/GnAfaW)
Seats: 15
Application is open for students of architecture, interior architecture and design.
All applicants will be contacted about acceptance/denial due June 22, 2016
Evaluation committee:
In case of high volume of applications the decision will be made by EAA’s organising committee with Prof Hannes Praks leading the process.
Scholarship:
CIRRUS/Nordplus will cover student scholarship according to the Nordplus rules (70 EUR week + travel grant 330 EUR, Iceland 660 EUR) for travel, local transport and food.
Fee for cost of living: 200 EUR (expected to be payed for from the scholarship) includes:
– modest accommodation,
– meals,
– materials and tools for workshops,
– field trips
ECTS: 3
Contact person about the programme and content: Aet Ader
Contact person during the summer school (content, management, daily issues): Natalie Mets
Compulsory texts, films, music
“Estonian space. Thoughts on magical architecture”, Mikita, Valdur. Estonian Architectural Review. 05.08.2014
the list will be extended in June
Deadline: 29.05.2016
Rovaniemi, Finland. December 2016
https://margintomargin.com/seminar/
9.12.2016: Asko ja Esko – sali, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi
Artists and makers negotiate and sustain their identities and existences through their practices in spite of the challenges they face. These narratives reveal how the qualities of life and work environments impact their art practices. Just as art-making offers ways to ‘work through’ particular life challenges, narratives offer ways to make sense of difficult circumstances. Narratives of empowerment and care come about through art practices, making and storytelling, offering women ways to cope with their realities and come to terms with the marginalities that they encounter.
Art is a medium that enables the shaping of identities of marginalised women, while it also serves as a tool to process relationships within the communities they live in. Female artists may move from one role to another, be it spouse, mother, researcher, professional, teacher, artist, maker or friend. As a result, they are continuously navigating identities and marginalities as a means to cope within their communities. This seminar will discuss how art and narratives function in social realms and what role stories play in socially sustaining artists and their making practices.
The seminar themes explore the uses of practice-based research, art process and their outcomes. Nimkulrat discusses the importance of documentation and reflection in practice-based research (2007). Practice-based, or practice-led research, is a widely used research approach in art, based on the idea that practice uniquely contributes information to research in ways that are not possible through other investigative approaches. Multiple concerns are raised around practice-based research, such as the process being predominantly dependent on subjective frameworks, thus not contributing to the generation of new knowledge (Koskinen, 2009). Yet, practice-based research has established its own path in design and the arts. A number of methodological enquiries have been published, bolstering the validity of practice-based research (Mäkelä and Routarinne, 2006; Nimkulrat and O’Riley, 2009; Mäkelä and Nimkulrat, 2011).
This seminar enquires:
The seminar presents keynote lectures from Professor Nithikul Nimkulrat from the Estonian Academy of Arts, Professor Jaana Erkkilä and Professor Eija Timonen from the University of Lapland.
Submission: Short notes of a maximum of 2000 words excluding references will be double blind reviewed and published digitally as part of the seminar proceedings. Email your short note to junior researcher Daria Akimenko (daria.s.akimenko@gmail.com) by August, 15, 2016.
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5.-8.12.2016: University of Lapland | 21.12.2016 – 12.2.2017: ARKTIKUM, KATVE 1 and 2
The seminar will go along with an artistic workshop that will take place 5 – 8 December 2016 at the University of Lapland. (Although the 6th of December is Finnish Independence Day and a public holiday, participants are welcome to continue their contributions.) The workshop will engage local female artists and makers of different disciplines in interventions, collaborative work and installations. The working themes and questions of the workshop are similar to those of the seminar.
The artistic outcomes will be exhibited at Arktikum, galleries Katve 1 and 2, as well as in selected public locations.
Preliminary timeline:
5.12.2016 9.00-16.00 Welcome, short introductions of projects and people, constructing projects
6.12.2016 Public holiday, participants may continue working
7.12.2016 9.00-16.00 Work on the projects
8.12. 2016 9.00-16.00 Work on the projects, general sharing, planing the exhibition
Participation: If you are interested in joining the workshop you are invited to submit your CV and an abstract of not more than 500 words outlining your project proposal and artistic media. The organising committee is looking for creative and inventive projects with no restrictions on project formulations. Email your CV and abstract to junior researcher Daria Akimenko (daria.s.akimenko@gmail.com) by August,15, 2016.
SUMMER WORKSHOP IN ICELAND 2016 – UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND – ICELAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS – ÍSLENSKI BÆRINN – PRESENT:
A R C H A I S M , A M N E S I A A N D A N A R C H Y I N / O F A R C H I T E C T U R E
LEVEL: BA / MA (open to all)
CREDITS: 5 ECTS
The workshop intends to explore traditions and appropriation of ideas of sustainability, heritage and energy with leading thinkers and experts,in the exotic and extreme setting of Iceland.
Participants get hands-on experience with basic natural building materials – turf, stone, clay, wind and water – in the context of critical theory.We engage in dialogue with experts, examine the tactile qualities of various materials from the point of view of the participants´ own experiences, background and notions of sustainability, recycling and contemporary architectural and three-dimensional practice and possibilities. Participants will also experience the unique Icelandic setting in terms of geography, climate, natural energy, history and society through fieldwork and dialogue.AA&AioA 2016 WEBSITE AA&AioA 2016 on Facebook
CONTACT PERSON: Course Director prof. Sigurjon Hafsteinsson at University of Iceland – email: sbh@hi.is
More information here.
4 open posts in Bergen National Academy of Art and Design
Deadline for applying: April 30, 2016
Check out yourself:
Bergen International Wood Festival 2016
Bergen International Wood Festival (BIWF), a competition in constructing spatial structures in wood, hosted by the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, 9-13 May 2016.
EXTENDED REGISTRATION DEADLINE 14 April;
sketches deadline: 21 April.
More information here.
Students from CIRRUS schools are encouraged to apply in 3-persons teams. In the application the team should notify that they are competing in CIRRUS frame.
In case any of the CIRRUS students teams are selected, the best team will be applicable for CIRRUS travel grants (330 EUR/660 Iceland per person) for participation. The teams may consist of 3 students from either one or several schools.