Theme: Art and Design

The new international Master’s degree in service design, the Service Design Strategies and Innovation (SDSI) announces a call for student applications

2.6.2021 13:30

Sámi cultural heritage search service name selected by international competition

31.5.2021 11:45

The Sámi archive materials can soon be searched through a new digital search service. The name for the new search service, Nuohtti, was chosen through an international competition, where the public were invited to present suggestions.

Feelings of Nature exhibition highlights Northern nature relationship

26.4.2021 16:50

Feelings of Nature is a group exhibition that highlights the Northern nature relationship. The exhibition reflects the growing concern for the environment, current environmental activism and the everyday but deep connection of nature that Northerners have. The artists of the exhibition are based in Lapland and work at the Faculty of Art and Design in the University of Lapland in the fields of arts education and applied visual arts.

New book: Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research

22.4.2021 8:30

Featuring an international, multidisciplinary team of authors, a new book explores how arts-based methods can be utilised in developing more horizontal, democratic and reciprocal research practices. The purpose is to create new approaches, methods and processes for participatory research that supports the perspectives, needs and interests of research participants in their place-based and cultural contexts.

The new international Master’s degree in service design

24.3.2021 11:00

The new international Master’s degree in service design, "the Service Design Strategies and Innovation" (SDSI) envisages to kick off in the Fall 2021. The new programme focuses on interdisciplinary studies and cross-specialisation in design, business, technologies and social sciences. Graduates will be awarded with a Master’s double degree, one from the University of Lapland and one from the Art Academy of Latvia.

A bioart laboratory launched in the Faculty of Art and Design

22.3.2021 9:00

The new BioARTech laboratory in the Faculty of Art and Design focuses on bioart and its connections to art and research.

Doctoral Dissertation: Factors Affecting the Career Development of Female Graphic Designers

4.3.2021 9:00

Around the world, there are not as many women in the workforce as there are men. This reality also holds true in the field of graphic design (GD). The fact that women usually excel in their studies but are not equally well represented in the job market has drawn particular attention. MA Yue Zhao explores the lower status of female graphic designers in the workforce as compared with males and the possible reasons for this situation.

Doctoral Dissertation: Emotional skills for service designers in co-creation practices

28.12.2020 11:00

Service designers often act as facilitators in co-creation workshops, and they need specific skills to ensure a positive participant experience. The facilitator needs to be capable of creating a sense of togetherness and optimizing interaction in order to allow the flow of collective creation. The study by Mariluz Soto, MA, aims to broaden our understanding of emotions in service design processes and presents three essential skills that help facilitators in their work.

Doctoral Dissertation: Connecting Couples in Long-Distance Relationships – Towards Unconventional Computer-Mediated Emotional Communication Systems

1.12.2020 11:00

The number of couples who find themselves in a long-distance relationship is increasing for a wide range of reasons. For example, the current outbreak of COVID-19 has kept numerous loved ones apart. M.Des. Hong Li argues that there is a gap between research-based knowledge of the needs of long-distance relationship couples and the practical solutions actually available for them. Her study contributes to bridging this gap by mediating emotional communication through unconventional user interfaces that use interaction solutions outside of the scope of their conventional use.

Five Doctoral Defenses from the Culture-based Service Design Doctoral Programme!

9.9.2020 10:00

Culture-based Service Design Doctoral Programme celebrates the publication of five doctoral dissertations this autumn. The candidates’ research topics are related to Wicked Problems, Artificial Intelligence, Northern Design, Service Design Workshops and Unconventional Computer-Mediated Emotional Communication Systems. Together these dissertations create considerable new contributions of knowledge and theory on service design in both European and Global perspectives.

Summer exhibition reveals the changing winter

1.6.2020 12:09

The Changing Winter exhibition shows winter as we know it, reminding us of what we stand to lose, and it illustrates some of the changes that are already noticeable. The photos in the freezing summer exhibition are captured by three leading nature photographers in Finland.

Students of Primary Teacher Education Produced “State of Emergency” -Videos about COVID-19

25.5.2020 14:59

In order to celebrate International Arts Education Week (25.-31.5.2020) students of primary teacher education publish State of Emergency” -videos.

Finnish Nature Photographs of the Year in Arktikum

4.3.2020 10:11

Finnish Nature Photographs of the Year 2019 are on display in spring exhibition in Arktikum Science Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland. The new exhibition presents the winners of The Nature Photographs of the Year Competition. The winner photograph is “Bear and Raven” by Ville Heikkinen.

Winners of the Christmas stamp design competition announced

14.2.2020 15:35

The winners of the Christmas stamp design competition, organized by Posti and University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art and Design, have been selected. The three winners were picked out of a total of 174 entries, and two of them will be featured in the Christmas stamps released next November.

Artistic Research Results: A Series of Exhibitions that are informed by Climate Change, Unsafe Spaces and Changing Identities

4.12.2019 12:45

A number of artistic publications will be presented during December 2019 and January 2020 by the researchers of the ‘Co-Stars’ service design research group, and the Academy of Finland-funded projects Arctic Design and Art and Floating Peripheries.

Service Design Research Group Receives Trans-Atlantic Platform Funding for Social Innovation Research

1.11.2019 8:59

SEEYouth research project is focusing on developing new ways to prevent youth marginalization, improving youth employment and increasing opportunities for the youth through design and Art Based Research (ABR). Multi-disciplinary project utilizes social sciences and arts in the development of Trans-Atlantic Mirroring (T-AM) method. This enables to create holistic and analytical view on complex societal challenges through design and art-based methods.

Stop the whining buzz of mosquitoes – join to design the natural mosquito repellent at the F.BAD checkpoint in Helsinki Design Week

27.8.2019 15:16

Future Bio-Arctic Design (F.BAD) project develops organic, non-toxic and durable mosquito repellent textile. Through interdisciplinary scientific research and textile design, we take a stand on climate change, chemical overloading and toxic finishing of textiles.

Master's Program in Service Design received 430 000 euro funding

23.8.2019 8:02

Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in North Ostrobothnia granted EUR 450,000 to the regional Master's Degree Program in Service Design.

Service Design Research Group achieved success in the Spring calls of the H2020 Programme “Transformations”

5.8.2019 11:05

The research grant applications of the Service Design Research Group (CO-STARS) achieved significant success during Spring 2019. Two of the European Commission Horizon calls under the programme H2020 Transformations were successful and are currently in the grant preparation process. The research group received funding to the amount of 3 million Euro for the project titled “Acting on the Margin - Arts as a Social Sculpture” (AMASS).

Staging Sámi in the City exhibition in Arktikum

14.6.2019 10:14

”Staging Sámi in the City” photography exhibition presents artistic interpretations of Sámihood in urban space. The exhibition of University Researcher Tanja Joona and Junior Researcher Joonas Vola of the University of Lapland is open in Arktikum Science Centre in Rovaniemi from 14 June to 1 September 2019.