Sense of Water is a transdisciplinary project conducted by researchers from the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Natural Resources Institute (LUKE), and Aalto University’s Emprica research group. The project is funded by the Academy of Finland.
Soil Laboratory is a concept and practice that brings together artists, designers, craftspeople, researchers, and local human and nonhuman actors to explore the relationship between humans and soil.
MakerStudioPeda focuses on analyzing pedagogical practices for fostering creativity at university-level design education and craft teacher education in the digital age.
In Empirica, different creative practices from the realm of art, craft and design are used as a catalyst for thinking and making research. Artist and doctoral researcher Montana Torrey led the research group on a tour of her studio during her winter project residency at HIAP Studios on Suomenlinna Island, where she shared her process and experiments for her ongoing research.
Luis Vega will defend the thesis "Thinking with people and pots: A practice-led design study of sociomaterially distributed thought processes" on November 15 at noon.
In the Utsjoki iteration of Soil Laboratory, four artists embarked on an exploration of the dialog between humans and the land in the northernmost part of Finland during 2023–24.
