City as Space of Rules and Dreaming [2021

CITY AS SPACE OF RULES AND DREAMING promotes emancipation and democratisation in urban space by cross-examination through artistic research, empirical urban research, political theory and legal theory. The study strengthens polyphony of urban space and thereby develops a more just city It asks: How is urban space formed and shared, and who has access to it? What normative and de facto instruments regulate, control and inhabit this space? What kinds of processes, structures and spaces of inclusion and marginalisation, as well as disagreement and controversy are there in the city? What kind of fractures, escape lines and dreams are hidden in the normativity of urban space? What kinds of spaces of shadow, noise, potentialities and dreams are there and how do they actualise? The study reaches beyond established art-science boundaries by bringing new and more inclusive means of “soft law” to urban decision-making and inviting different neighborhoods to dream of their own dwelling-regions through imaginary urban archaeology and fictionalising democracy combining different artistic mediums. The project is coordinated by the Academy of Fine Arts (Doctoral programme) at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Other partners are Helsinki University Faculty of Law, Helsinki University Faculty of Arts/ Aesthetics and Aalto University Department of Built Environment. In Memoriam Ari Hirvonen (1960–2021) The responsible leader (PI) of the project is Maiju Loukola at the Academy of Fine Arts / KuvA, Uniarts Helsinki. The other research group members and co-initiators are Aino Hirvola (Dept. of built environment, Aalto University), Tanja Tiekso (Faculty of Arts/Aesthetics, Helsinki University Faculty of Arts/ Aesthetics) and Paul Tiensuu (Helsinki University Faculty of Law). Since 2023 Jaakko Ruuska (KuvA, Uniarts Helsinki), Henna-Riikka Halonen (KuvA, Uniarts Helsinki) and Niran Baibulat (KuvA/Uniarts Helsinki) have contributed as postdoc artist-researchers for shorter periods. Other collaborators include Stefan Winter, Zen Marie, Brigitta Stone-Johnson, Anita Zsentesi, Chris Butler, Jan Schacher, Josue Moreno, Denise Ziegler, Simon Critchley, Antti Nyyssölä, Gabi Schillig and Kristina Sedlerova. Villanen We dedicate this project to Ari, and to Stargazing

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PUBLICATIONS

Mäntysalo, R., Mattila, H. & Hirvola, Aino 2023. ”Institutional Gaps in Agonistic and Communicative Planning Theories. Critical Implications of the ‘Systemic Turn’in Deliberative Democracy Theory.” In Raumforschung und Raumordnung| Spatial Research and Planning. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.1676

Loukola, Maiju 2023. "Urban spaces between norms and dreams." In Figurations of Peripheries through Arts and Visual Studies – Peripheries in Parallax, edited by Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta and Jonna Tolonen. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003348269

Tiensuu, Paul, Maija Aalto-Heinilä & Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen (toim.) 2023. Itsemääräämisoikeus teoriasta käytäntöön. Vastapaino.

Tiensuu, Paul, Maija Aalto-Heinilä & Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen 2023a. “Johdanto: itseys, autonomia ja itsemääräämisoikeus”, teoksessa Tiensuu & al. (toim.) (2023) Itsemääräämisoikeus teoriasta käytäntöön. Vastapaino.

Tiensuu, Paul 2023. 'Itsemääräämisoikeuden perusteleminen ihmisoikeutena', teoksessa Tiensuu & al. (toim.) Itsemääräämisoikeus teoriasta käytäntöön. Vastapaino.

Loukola, Maiju 2023. "Reclaiming Subjectivity through Urban Space Intervention: The People’s Architecture Helsinki." In Performing Institutions – Contested Sites and Structures of Care, edited by Anja Mølle Lindelof and Shauna Janssen. Bristol: Intellect.

Paul Tiensuu and Aino Hirvola (draft-in-progress). “How planning may undermine the neighbourhoods' capability to participate in future planning-decisions.”

Hirvola, Aino 2022. "Professional Lobbying in Urban Planning: Publicity Management and Transparency Discourse on a Collision Course?" In Planning Theory & Practice.

Hirvola, Aino & Tiensuu, Paul (draft-in-progress). “How planning may undermine the neighbourhoods' capability to participate in future planning-decisions.”

Tiekso, Tanja 2022. Fantasma. Helsinki: Kustantamo S&S.

Tiekso, Tanja 2022. "Deep listening the animal other: trash-foraging gulls at Ämmässuo waste treatment centre." Journal of Sound Studies 8: 2 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20551940.2022.2062564

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