Theme: Art and Design

Arctic Arts Summit 2019: The Arctic as a Laboratory for sustainable art and cultural policy

20.3.2018 8:03

The Arctic region is changing rapidly. On the one hand, ecological, cultural, social and economical changes pose challenges for well-being and sustainable development and on the other hand, some of the changes also create new possibilities. In the Arctic Arts Summit 2019 the challenges and circumstances in the Arctic are seen as 'laboratory' in which sustainable art and cultural policy is developed in collaboration with all of the Arctic counties. Artists and representatives of art and cultural policy will discuss the theme and promote circumpolar collaboration. The event will be the second Arctic Art Summit: the first one was arranged in Harstad, Norway, in 2017.

Nature Photographs of the Year in Arktikum

15.3.2018 13:53

Nature Photographs of the Year 2017 are on display in spring exhibition in Arktikum Science Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland.

New book on Finnish Art-Education

8.11.2017 11:22

Experimenting FADS, Finnish Art-Education Doctoral Studies An Innovative Network for PhDs brings together individual and collective voices of researchers, students, and academics to advance experimental and entangled doctoral studies in art education. The story of FADS is situated in the past, present, and future of graduate research in Finland, and arts-based and artistic research across the globe.

Doctoral thesis: Artistic Actions for Sustainability: Potential of art in education for sustainability

28.6.2017 14:00

In her doctoral research Ásthildur B. Jónsdóttir focussed on the potential of art in education for sustainability in the context of teacher education and art creation.

Doctoral defense: Transaction as interaction: Art as an Extended Sense of Space

2.6.2017 9:00

Bettina Schülke’s doctoral thesis suggests that we are in the need to develop new spatial concepts. Therefore, it focuses on how space can be understood in visual artistic expression and how previous spatial understandings are in the process of change. The common ground of the different findings of this research is that the development of technology and new technical media has an enormous influence on the question of spatiality. This implements how space is understood, constructed, inhabited, and perceived.

Aspects of culture and community through the lens of contemporary arts and design - New Book from Relate North series!

1.6.2017 13:17

Lapland University Press released Relate North: Culture, Community and Communication, edited by Timo Jokela and Glen Coutts. This is the third book produced as part of the work of the University of the Arctic Thematic Network, Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design.

Doctoral dissertation: Extending mobile touchscreen interaction

1.6.2017 11:30

Touchscreens are everywhere. They have become a key way people interact with the world. In his recently completed doctoral dissertation, Extending Mobile Touchscreen Interaction, MSc Ashley Colley presents a set of solutions to better address the requirements of the wide range of uses to which touchscreens are now being applied.

Vaana design exhibition from the Faculty of Art and Design at Milan Design Week

4.4.2017 13:00

The University of Lapland is this week present at Milan Design Week, Italy, with an interactive design exhibition entitled ‘Vaana’. Vaana is an interactive space created by design students from the Faculty of Art and Design in collaboration with The Naked Approach research project.

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Exhibition: Arctic Infection – a personal glimpse into life on Kola-Peninsula

18.1.2017 11:20

A cup of tea, a frozen cemetery, concentrated preparations before a reindeer racing, a lonely wooden toilet in a frosty landscape, hard physical labour in the reindeer coral, colourful northern lights, cute reindeer faces and brought smiles – every image is like a unique window enabling to catch a glimpse of Kola-Penisulan life. Opening ceremony of Christian Schmetz's exhibition "Arctic Infection" took place at the Faculty of Art and Design on Monday, January 30th.

MUM 2016 conference was held in Rovaniemi

15.12.2016 14:10

The 15th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 2016 gathered 70 researchers to the University of Lapland on December 12.-15.2016.

Digitalizing Arctic Weather and Natural Phenomena (DiArWe)

12.10.2016 15:26

The project Digitalizing Arctic Weather and Natural Phenomena (DiArWe) led by Dr. Ismo Alakärppä has received 440,000 euros in Tekes funding. The project investigates the possibilities of exploiting weather phenomena and digitalization in the experience industry, among others.

What if? Photo exhibition visualizes the imagined impacts of climate change

16.9.2016 13:00

In the Arctic, average temperatures are rising due to climate change almost twice as fast as in the rest of the world, but what does it mean for Arctic communities and nature? The photo exhibition Nanoq – Imag(in)ing Climate Change by Ilona Mettiäinen in Rovaniemi, Arktikum Science Centre visualizes some imaginary, possible and even impossible worlds that may result from climate change. Through displaying a polar bear figure in different natural environments, the exhibition challenges to think about the consequences of climate change and asks: what if?

Northern Impressions photo show opens the new exhibition in Arktikum

9.5.2016 9:15

Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland organizes Barents Café on Thursday 12th May at 5 PM about impressionistic nature photography. Northern Impressions is the nature photo cooperation project by Irma Varrio and Ari-Matti Nikula, presenting the Nordic nature with an impressionistic twist.