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This Aalto Univeristy's Institutional RC portal is run by the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, a Nordic leader in higher education for design, fashion, games, media, architecture, film, art education and art. We produce world-class research in art education, design and design thinking, digital media and visual culture, urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture. We educate students to be global citizens, contributing to their communities with imaginative, collaborative, compassionate and unconventional approaches to some of the most pressing challenges facing the world today.
The portal is managed by the AREA doctoral school's academic board members (from 2023 to 2027).
The Artistic Research Doctoral School of Aalto (AREA) aims to advance and strengthen the role of artistic research in and across the fields of Arts, Design and Architecture with a special interest in the arts as transformational entities. The artistic research doctoral school continues Aalto’s decades-long contribution to the artistic research area in the Finnish and international contexts.
This institutional RC portal is for Aalto University researchers, students and staff to submit their research and related activities in order to publish and archive their work.
contact person(s): Priska Falin
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https://www.aalto.fi/
Recent Issues
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3. Published Expositions in VIS
Aalto University affiliated published expositions published in the Journal VIS.
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2. Published Expositions in RUUKKU
This Issue showcases expositions related to Doctoral research conducted at Aalto University published in RUUKKU.
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1. Published Expositions in JAR
This Issue lists all Aalto Unversity affiliated Journal expositions published in JAR.
Recent Activities
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Connection to materiality: Engaging with Ceramic practice
(2014)
author(s): Priska Falin
connected to: Aalto University
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This exposition introduces an exploration of ceramic material from the perspective of an artist-researcher. The ceramic material is explored through aesthetics and making. In this exposition the material connection is understood as a broad term introducing the idea of different levels of involvement with the material. The material connections are reflected from two different perspectives, giving a more holistic idea of what influences the act of making and perception. In this exposition, I explore the material connections mainly from the subjective perspective of a ceramic practitioner and partly from the perspective of the viewers who have no prior experience of the processes of making. Together with the written content, I show different works e.g. videos and a sound file that reveal parts of the processes in ceramic practice. The video and sound works are discussed here as process aesthetics, exposing the experiences, that have aesthetic quality, in the context of making. Through these examples I discuss different levels of engagement with the material and its processes. The aim is to open the material connections in a different light describing the idea of diverse levels of engagement in the ceramic practice.
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Female genealogy
(2013)
author(s): Maarit Mäkelä
connected to: Aalto University
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
The exposition uncovers my journey as an artist opening up to an ambiguous autobiographical space produced by narrative means. The space can be conceived both as mental and spatial. The mental space is an autobiographical state where identity is constructed through the stories we tell ourselves about our lives; the spatial space is a concrete exhibition, which is produced out of the mental one. During the journey I ask: How did the exhibition Mirrorplay come about, and especially, how did the creation process, resulting in the exhibition, progress? What were the means I used for creating this space, and what did it mean to me to work in this autobiographically flavoured space?
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Lectio presentation for doctoral thesis: Relating to Clay: Tuning in to the Workings of the Aesthetic Dimension in Ceramic Practice
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Priska Falin
connected to: Aalto University
This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
This exposition introduces the Lectio presented by Priska Falin at Aalto University on 21.10.2022 at the beginning of her public defence, where she defended her doctoral thesis; Relating to Clay: Tuning in to the Workings of the Aesthetic Dimension in Ceramic Practice.
Lectio is based on the doctoral dissertation and can be found here: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/117020
