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.
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Expansive Frontiers: Tracing Wilderness is a research project developed over a period of three months by doctoral researcher Ana Ribeiro, during her time as a Visiting Researcher in the Empirica Research Group at Aalto University, under the supervision of Professor Julia Valle Noronha. The project aims to inspire artists, designers, researchers, activists and local human actors to explore the relationship between artificiality and nature as expansive forces. The frontier between the two serves as a symbol of friction and violence, conceived as a conceptual mediator that gives form to the complex and entangled relationship between humans and the environment.
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.
