Theme: Art and Design

Arctic Arts Summit 2019 – Arctic Laboratory

4.6.2019 9:50

Sustainable development is an underlying theme of the whole Arctic Arts Summit 2019, and issues of sustainable development are key to many presentations and panel discussions, which have different themes. For example, ecological issues are discussed as part of the challenges and opportunities for the arts in the Arctic theme. A theme of creative capability building is based on expectations of growth in the creative industries, as opposed to growth in use of raw and natural resources. The Arctic need arts education to build creative capability, and quality arts education is essential for sustainable development in the Arctic.

UMG magazine is here again!

3.6.2019 9:38

UMG is a digital and print media publication produced by the master’s level students of the University of Lapland. The magazine addresses the study and field of graphic design.

A thousand international experts on art and design to visit Rovaniemi

28.5.2019 12:18

The City of Rovaniemi will welcome almost 1 000 art and design experts within one week, when first 500 design professionals arrive to the city to discuss design and design research, and a few days later 450 professionals in art from all over the Arctic region visit the city.

Special issue of Synnyt Journal focusing on Arctic arts

24.5.2019 8:49

A special issue of the 2019 Synnyt Journal, edited by Maria Huhmarniemi, Timo Jokela and Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja, has been published. The volume includes articles from around the Circumpolar North and encourages discourse about the role of art in the development of the Arctic.

International CUMULUS Conference Invites Top Designers and Researches to University of Lapland at the End of May

23.5.2019 9:57

Cumulus is the only global association that serves art and design education and research. Cumulus organizes its annual European conference in Rovaniemi. The Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland will host the conference from 27th of May until 1st of June 2019. The conference committee invites all the Cumulusians to gather for discussions about art and design education and research. Approximately 500 delegates around the world are arriving to the conference.

Edwin Ziegfeld award to Timo Jokela

21.5.2019 8:33

Professor Timo Jokela has received the Edwin Ziegfeld award in honour of his work for new directions in arts education.

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Dialogue of Tradition and Contemporary Art and Design highlighted in the Arctic Arts Summit 2019

14.5.2019 11:15

The Arctic Arts Summit 2019 includes a variety of themes, such as `Challenges and opportunities for the arts in the Arctic´, `Culturally Sustainable Development´, and `Creative Capability Building.´ Heritage influencing contemporary art and design is one the subthemes that is discussed in several panel discussion and presented in the exhibitions. The University of Lapland, the Nordic Culture Fund, and the Norwegian Crafts have produced content for panel discussions by inviting knowledge holders, crafters and researchers of this field. Especially Sámi duodji is discussed in several sessions.

New publication: Visually provoking

9.5.2019 14:52

Visually Provoking: Dissertations in Art Education is a dynamic collection of visually oriented research about current doctoral studies from international art educators in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Portugal, Spain, and the United States of America.

Into the forest! Nature photographs through environmental art and installation

28.1.2019 10:00

Timo Jokela's and Antti Stöckell's "Into the forest!" exhibition at Hannu Hautala Nature Photography Centre 16.1.-16.5.2019. Nature photographs through environmental art and installation.

Doctoral defence: Qualities of Simplicity in Designing Interactive Art

30.11.2018 14:00

Tomi Knuutila’s (M.A. Arts and Design) doctoral dissertation entitled Qualities of Simplicity in Designing Interactive Art belongs to the field of interactive design. It contributes new knowledge about user and design experience of interactive art through practice-led design research.

Doctoral dissertation. Narrative Spaces: On identity work and placeness through arts-based narrative practices

6.11.2018 11:06

The challenge brought to the forefront of arts-based research in human contexts is to value and constantly re-examine the relationship between the storyteller and the listener, and between the knower and the knowledge. Daria Akimenko’s study attempts at mapping a research field where the complexity of identities, narratives, contexts, places, and practices is embraced rather than simplified. It employs arts-based and reflexive approaches to research, working in a landscape of six global communities of place and practice and aiming at academic, artistic and general public audiences.

Doctoral defense: Making the voice of visual journalists in news websites

2.11.2018 14:00

Yiyun Zha’s doctoral thesis suggests how the practices of visual journalism are varied due to significant media alterations in recent years. Therefore, it focuses on how design professionalism can be understood in news websites and how in-house visual journalists’ work and organizational cultures change in the process of visual transmediation. The common ground of the different findings of this research is that media facilitation and media convergence has an enormous influence on the visual information structure as well as visual practitioners’ daily routines and practices.

Peeping into the past: photo exhibition

25.9.2018 9:29

The exhibition “Peeping into the past” deals with qualities of photography: When you look at a photograph, you always look at something that is gone. Something that existed or happened in the past. Something the photographer saw and wanted to show to others by freezing the moment. The photo exhibition are on the Faculty of Education of the University of Iceland on 24-28 September.

UMG magazine is here again!

21.5.2018 15:33

UMG is a digital and print media publication produced by the master’s level students of the University of Lapland. It is now being released for the ninth time. The magazine addresses the study and field of graphic 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.