Author: Taavi

Chaired by:
Sven Idarand, EKA 
Kadi Aare, Tuuli Rand, Keio Vutt

March 18, 09:00–09:30 CET

Being stuck behind different screens trying to find good connection between people can be challenging. We hope this short greeting will give you a reason to move a bit, enjoy yourself and to find a common breath with all the participants behind their screens. Feel free to put on your own video and just follow the lead – enjoy moving together with everybody in the meeting. Video features live music by Tuuli Rand (vocals) and Keio Vutt (saxophone) and movement by Sven Idarand and Kadi Aare (OMAklubi).

Sven Idarand is a project manager and teacher of entrepreneuriship at EKA. He is also a group fitness trainer since 2004, a founder of OMAklubi and personal trainer education at FAF Eesti koolitused. OMAklubi is a small cozy studio in the heart of Tallinn offering training programs with emotions.

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Kristjan Mändmaa is a graphic designer and educator. He studied printmaking and book design in the Estonian Academy of Arts and graphic design in Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. As a designer, Kristjan has been involved in editorial work designing books, newspapers and magazines.

Since 2003, Kristjan has been teaching design in different universities in Estonia. He has created and run BA and MA programs in visual communication, entrepreneurship and interaction design. Since 2016, he has been working as a Dean of Design in Estonian Academy of Arts. Kristjan is also a CIRRUS board member

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As an architectural historian, Mart Kalm has mainly studied the work of Estonian architects in the 20th century (before and after World War II). Kalm has been active as an architecture critic and is interested in landscape and interior architecture. Kalm has been a long-time member of the Expert Council for Architectural Monuments of the National Heritage Board as well as the Head of the National Heritage Council 2006–2010. From 2010 to 2013 he was the Co-Chair of the Estonian delegation to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

Since 1992 Mart Kalm has been working at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2000 he became a professor at the academy, and between 1994 and 2007 he built the Institute of Art History. From 2007 to 2012 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Art and Culture. In January 2015 he became Rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

In 2010 Mart Kalm became the first art historian to be elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Since 2014 he has held the position of Vice-President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

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