This year, the course teachers were:
Assistant Professor Juuso Tervo, Department of Art & Media
Professor Maarit Mäkelä, Department of Design
Postdoctoral Researcher Priska Falin, Department of Design
During the course, we heard lectures from the following speakers:
Artist, Researcher Annette Arlander, University of the Arts Helsinki
Professor Julia Lohmann, Department of Design, Aalto University
Professor of Artistic Research Mika Elo, University of the Arts Helsinki
Associate Professor Arja Karhumaa, Department of Art and Media, Aalto University
Associate Professor Susanna Helke, Department of Film, Aalto University
Professor Sofia Pantouvaki, Department of Film, Aalto University
Each invited lecturer was asked to select one text that has been meaningful for them during their research. Teachers Juuso Tervo and Maarit Mäkelä did the same task during their introductory lectures in the first session. Juuso Tervo discussed a chapter from Giorgio Agamben's book Nudity (Agamben 2011). Maarit Mäkelä wanted to highlight an article by Jasmine Ulmer; Posthumanism as research methodology: inquiry in the Anthropocene (Ulmer 2017).
The literature discussed during the lectures was:
Michael Marder (2015):The Place of Plants - Spatiality, Movement, Growth
Johanna Drucker (2013): Diagrammatic Writing
Astrida Neimanis (2012): Hydrofeminism Or, On Becoming a Body of Water
Michael Schwab (2023): Contemporary Research
Philip Auslander (2004): Performance Analysis and Popular Music: A Manifesto
Henk Borgdorff (2012): The Conflict of the Faculties - Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academy
The Research Through Art & Design (RAD) course introduces a variety of approaches, methodologies, issues, and concerns in research through practice. In this course, research through practice refers to a broad continuum of artistic research approaches, arts-based, practice-led, and practice-based research approaches, including constructive design research approaches relevant across practices in Aalto University ARTS School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
This exposition was created within a Research Catalogue Workshop offered as an additional part of the main course. During this part of the course, the students are familiarised with the Research Catalogue as a platform and learn how to use it for creating expositions. During the workshop, participants work on their page within this group exposition, based on their current doctoral research or a topic that inspired them during the lectures. You can access the individual pages through their names on the right.