Environmental Art

Environmental art examines human scale in the environment. It helps the student to define the aims of their work within a broader environmental art field and visual culture.

Head of program: professor Markku Hakuri

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Workshops

Lectures:

Human Spaces - Epic Places(6 ECTS)

Since the dawn of history, mankind has associated its epic tales with epic spaces. The primaeval Sumerian king Gilgamesh found his fame in great temples and demon-haunted woods. The Greek heroes of the Iliad waged their wars between the mighty citadels of Mycenae and Troy, separated by the wine-dark sea, home of monsters and witches. Later, the Kalevela helped forge links between a new Finnish nation and the stone and sea and mythical woods of its ancient lands. In our own time, The Lord of The Rings has made fictional spaces such as the humble village of Hobbiton, the majestic fortress of Minas Tirith, and mysterious wood of Lorien into a real part of our popular consciousness.

Epic Spaces will use archaeology, mythology, and material culture theory (along with some movie screenings) to explore the ancient balance between powerful cities and mysterious natural places that occurs in our most influential literature. Following the lecture series, students will participate in a workshop exploring the topic of “Epic Spaces / Future Places” - in which we will consider whether the role of city and nature has changed in our own times, and explore how it might affect the imagining of epic places in the future.

The goal of the workshop will be to incorporate this semester's projects into the planned exhibition of the Human Spaces I projects in late April and May, at TaiK and hopefully in at least one other venue in the city.

Instructor/Contact: Dr. Christopher TenWolde ( Den här e-postadressen är skyddad från spam bots, du måste ha Javascript aktiverat för att visa det ).

Prerequisites: An open mind and an interest in studying human culture!  Human Spaces courses are intended to be open to all Aalto students from all fields of study.  Human Spaces II (Epic Spaces) is a continuation of the theme of Human Spaces, but is an independent course. Students need not have taken Human Spaces to take Human Spaces II.

Dates and Times: Thursdays from 1:00 to 4:00, at TaiK room 820.  Lectures begin January 28th (week 4).  Workshop sessions begin March 4th (week 9).  Final presentations will occur over the first week or two of April (weeks 14-15).

Coursework: Mandatory Attendance. Grading will be on the 1-5 scale and will be based upon class participation as well as the final review of the class project.

Credits: 6 ECT's.

Other Credits: Students from Human Spaces I can register for 2 credits of continued workshop time to develop your projects for exhibition.  Students that are participating in the Spirit of Place project in Washington DC can also register for an additional 4 credits for that workshop.

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Environmental Art Essentials (6 ECTS)
starts: week 2 • Monday, January 11th 2010 at 1 P.M.

Environmental Art Essentials is docking where Environmental Art 
Backgrounds left off. The seminar series takes up the themes and 
challenges introduced by artists and artworks of Environmental Art 
history in the autumn lecture series.

Focusing on works from the last decade [with an once-and-in-a-while 
reference to earlier practices] as introduction to each theme block, 
the series delves deeper into theoretical as well as practical 
exploration of the terms of time, space and engagement with the all-
present environment [in/outdoors, corporal/mental, meta layer, etc.].

Where can/may/must/will/won‘t an artist and/or art piece position one/
it-self? How far reaches responsibility, when one takes a role within 
the world? How can an artist interact with others or immerse deeply 
into a multi-disciplinary approach? Where lies power and freedom of 
artistic expression? Where does it encounter constrictions and 
obscurity? What set of tools can communicate the questions and 
challenges at hand?

Six connected theme-blocks broach the issue of investigating and 
articulating above mentioned questions amongst others.
Each block consists of one lecture [on theory and examples], one 
practical approach [screenings and/or field trips, etc.] and one 
discussion meeting.

Having attended the autumn lectures is of advantage but not necessary 
to follow the spring lectures.

Coursework: mandatory attendance, final project [written &/or practical]

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Environmental Art Backgrounds 4 ECTS

A lecture series to explore and understand the historical background 
of Environmental Art(s) and to establish a critical vocabulary for 
approaching it (them) both in theory and practice.

Originating from the question 'What is Environmental Art?' the 
history of environmental art (practice) will be studied. While the 
main focus is laid on an introduction to the 'mile-stones' of 
environmental art and the development since mid-20th century, also 
references to preceding complementary art practices (related by 
technique and/or theme) are made.
Special consideration is given to recent European and especially 
Finnish environmental art pieces.

The investigation of contemporary practice will discuss possible 
changed 'active definitions' such as strategies and tools applying to 
all senses of the artist, artwork and recipient. What aspects and 
conditions are involved in an 'environmental intervention' and what 
role (if at all) can a work take within society (life)?

Art historical development is the focal point of these lectures, but 
coherent themes in other media – art theory, philosophy, science, 
politics, ecology, etc. – will be highlighted as well (reading 
material).

TIMETABLE: lecture every Monday, 1-3 p.m., starting in week 38
(September 14th 2009 – December 7th 2009)
PLACE: Environmental Art department lecture room, 1st floor

EVALUATION: 1-5
COURSE WORK: 80% attendance, extra readings given as hand-outs, exam

TEACHING LANGUAGE: English
TEACHER: Mag.art TAM Cathérine Kuebel

Critical Writing and Research Method 13 ECTS For MA -students

The organizational advice will include such topics as the role of the scientific method in humanities research, how to form a thesis statement appropriate to your goals, and the values of different types of data.

The theoretical approach will concentrate on recognizing and analyzing different personal, professional, and cultural perspectives. The emphasis will be on exposing you to new concepts rather than expecting a mastery of specific theoretical language, so that you will have a basis to move forward in your own direction.

On a more personal level, the CWRM courses are possibly the only place in which the graduate students from every program in Visual Culture get together on a regular basis. As such, they provide a unique opportunity to interact with students from other fields, who often share very similar artistic and academic goals.

Finally, guidelines for actual writing style can be given, encompassing both specifics such as footnote and bibliography style and generalities such as the effective use of different types of written arguments, however it is understood that these guidelines must be flexible enough to take into account your individual design choices.

The format of the course balances lectures, round-table discussion groups, and individual meetings. During the first year the emphasis is on lectures and discussion groups, but this gradually changes so that during the second year the emphasis will be on less formal group reviews and individual meetings.

Time: autumn-spring tuesdays 10-12, lecture 1st floor, starting 15th September
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Evaluation: Pass–fail.
Teaching language: English

Connections 4 ECTS

This is a seminar course, and the objective is to introduce students with the central 20th-century phenomena in the fine arts as well as the ideologies behind the phenomena. 
 
Content: Fine arts phenomena are not studied as individual and separate areas-they are connected with, for example, philosophical backgrounds and parallel phenomena within the sphere of art. The emphasis is not on ‘isms’ predefined by art history, but rather on the phenomena which define art and which can be identified throughout various ‘isms’, connecting them and appearing in different forms. The purpose is to elucidate varying dimensions of modern art in particular, including postmodern trends.

Time: autumn 2009 Wednesdays  13- 15 pm, lecture room 822, starts Wed 16.9
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Course mode: Weekly seminar sessions, for which students receive a text to read before class.
Completion mode: Active participation in discussions, reading the texts received and completing the assignments given.
Teachers: Ossi Naukkarinen and Yrjänä Levanto
Evaluation:  Pass/fail. Requires 80% attendance and reading of all literature specified.
Compulsory/Elective: Compulsory for the non-finnish speaking MA -students of the School of Visual Culture; elective for others.
Course language: English
Previous studies required: None
Evaluation: Pass–fail.

Workshops

Information about the workshops Professor Markku Hakuri 15th September 1-3pm 1st floor.

Enrolment Weboodi

Objectives: Workshops involve intensive practical study. They take place all around Finland and demand high levels of activity and commitment. The idea is to develop students’ process-oriented working methods and communication skills.
Content: Students produce plans and visualisations for their environmental ideas. Workshops always conclude with an exhibition, either in the local community or at the University of Art and Design (and often in both places).

Workshops autumn 2009

Kaupunkitila taiteellisen työskentelyn kenttänä -interventiotyöpaja (4 op) City space as a concept for artistic practice - an intervention workshop

Aika/Time:
21.10. wed klo 9.15
22.10. thu
23.10. fri

29.10. thu
30.10. fri

City space as a concept for artistic practice - an intervention workshop

The course is carried out as an intensive workshop. During the course the students will explore the city space as a possibility for interventions.  Pieces of work (site specific installations, interventions, performances, city art, environmental art) will be produced according to the chosen space.

In the morning seminars we'll study the history of environmental art, 
happenings and interventions. Afternoon is time for artistic practice.

Tavoite ja sisältö: Kurssi toteutetaan intensiivityöpajana kahden viikon aikana. Kurssilla tutkitaan kaupunkitilaa mahdollisena taiteellisen työn esitys-  ja tapahtumapaikkana. Löydetään uusia näköaloja ja  näkymiä valmiiksi rakennettuun/määriteltyyn ympäristöön. Kurssin aikana opiskelijat toteuttavat yksin/ryhmänä teoksen/teoksia kaupunkiympäristöön (esim.Kallio) tai kaupungin reuna- alueille (esim. Suvilahti).

Opetus- ja työmuodot: Teokset (installaatiot, interventio, performanssi, kaupunkitaide, ympäristötaide) rakentuvat suhteessa valittuun paikkaan. Aamupäivisin pidettävissä seminaareissa tutustumme ympäristö-  ja interventiotaiteen historiaan ja nykypäivään lukuisin esimerkein.
Opettaja/Teacher: Tanja Koponen
Arviointi: Hyväksytty - hylätty

SHAFT (8-XX ECTS)
Purpose of the workshop is to produce ideas for environmental art pieces for
the railroad shaft in the Center of Helsinki. Railroad shaft will be changed for
pedestrian and cycle traffic during year 2009. Trains are using the shaft to the
end of 2008.

Goal of the workshop is to liven up the dark shaft and create interesting and
inviting path and space for the people’s everyday use.
Kick of for the workshop in Laituri Galleria 18.09.2009 at 9.00-12.00 Vanha linja-autoasema
Narinkkatori (Old Buss Stadion) http://laituri.hel.fi/

Program 18th Sept. 9-12

09.00-09.15      Welcome Shaft project/ Sirpa Kallio, Project Manager
        (City of Helsinki Economic and Planning Centre)

09.15.09.30     Presentation of the program/ Markku Hakuri, Professor/TaiK

09.30-10.00  History of the Railroad shaft/ Juha Komsi, Environmental Manager, retired (Port of Helsinki)

10.00-10.15    Current plans for the old Railroad shaft/ Kirsi Rantama,  Architect
(Helsinki City Planning Department)

10.15 -10.30    Limitations for environmental art in the old railway shaft/  Pia Rantanen, Project Manager, Landscape Architect (Helsinki city Public Works Department)

11.30-    Guided tour to the Railroad shaft /Juha Komsi, Environmental Manager, retired (Port of Helsinki)


Friday 30 of October at 10- . First presentation

Friday 20th of November at 10- Presentation of the results

Exhibition , 8th - to 31st December,  Gallery Laituri Narinkkatori Workshop is divided in to two periods:
Spring period ending May 2009
Autumn period ending December 2009.
After each period there will be an exhibition of the ideas and plans for the
shaft.
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Humour in the City (4 ECTS)

The course explores ways in which humour can add to the urban experience in context to the architecture and the built surroundings. 
In contemporary city planning the element of humour is “degraded” to playgrounds for children, amusement parks and beach life. In the course the sharp line between the playful children’s world and the rational, “serious” adult world will be questioned both through lectures, an idea/ model workshop and performative actions in the city.

Teacher: Jan-Erik Andesson

Time: 10th-13th November 2009

”A House with a Changing Face” – workshop

The workshop is part of the project - “The Second Wave” – organized by the Finnish Institute in London.

The goal of the workshop is
• to produce a piece/pieces of environmental art. The piece will be located on the western façade of the Institute building. The purpose of the temporary piece is to create a new image for the façade and at the same time for the whole building.
• to arouse with unconventional proposals discussion concerning built surrounding’s visual values and their permanence.

The workshop info on Tue the 29th of Sep 2009
Enrolment: 15 students
Duration: Academic year 2009-2010

The final work follows Ecological, Aesthetical and Ethical principles.
All proposals for the art piece will be presented in London. The students have the possibility to network with local students and teachers.

Teacher
Markku Hakuri
Professor of Environmental Art
University of Art and Design /Aalto University, Helsinki
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Project secretary
Inka Finell
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”A House with a Changing Face” – työpaja

Työpaja liittyy Suomen Lontoon Instituutin Toinen Aalto – hankekokonaisuuteen.

Työpajan päämääränä on
• tuottaa ympäristötaideteos / -teoksia Suomen Lontoon Instituutin länteen päin sijoittuvalle ulkoseinälle. Teos on väliaikainen ja sen tarkoituksena on luoda täysin uusi ilme Instituutin julkisivulle ja samalla koko rakennukselle.

• herättää keskustelua ennakkoluulottomilla ehdotuksilla rakennetun ympäristön visuaalisista arvoista ja niiden pysyvyydestä.

Työpajan info ti 29.9.
Työpajaan otetaan 15 opiskelijaa.
Työpajan kesto 1 vuosi / lv 2009-2010

Toteutuksessa noudatetaan 3 E:n periaatetta (ekologinen, esteettinen ja eettinen). Hankkeeseen kuuluu kaikkien työpajaan osallistuneiden ehdotusten/pienoismallien esittely. Lisäksi hankkeeseen liittyy verkostoituminen paikallisten opiskelijoiden / opettajien kanssa.

Kurssin opettaja
Markku Hakuri
Ympäristötaiteen professori
Taideteollinen korkeakoulu /Aalto-yliopisto, Helsinki
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Projektisihteeri
Inka Finell
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Sound and Environment Workshop

Lecturer: Petri Kuljuntausta

Time: March 2009, 1 week

The main purpose of this course is to give a broad overview on the
different styles of electronic music and sound art, especially dealing
with the subject of the workshop and how the environmental sounds and
soundscapes are used in the context of art.

On the first day Kuljuntausta will give a talk about the history,
aesthetic and latest styles of electronic music and sound art. During
the week each student will compose his/her own short sound work. It is
also possible to compose the work with other students as a small group
(2-3 members).

The composition process will be done in three phases:
1) planning - writing a synopsis (/ plan) for the work
2) collecting sounds for the work
3) deep listening and study of sounds, creation of the work from the
selected sounds

On Friday all the finished works will be listened together at the class-room.

Ääni ja ympäristö Workshop
Ohjaaja: Petri Kuljuntausta

Aika: Maaliskuu 2009, 1 viikko

Äänikurssilla tutkitaan äänitaiteen ja elektronimusiikin erilaisia
lähestymistapoja ympäristöääniin ja niiden käyttöön taiteellisessa
yhteydessä. Ensimmäisen päivän luento-osuudessa Kuljuntausta
perehdyttää soivin esimerkein alan historiaan, estetiikkaan ja
nykypäivän ilmiöihin. Viikon kestävän workshopin aikana valmistetaan
lyhyt ääniteos joko yksin tai pienissä ryhmissä (2-3 opiskelijaa).

Toteutus tapahtuu kolmessa vaiheessa:
1) ääniteokselle hahmotetaan suunnitelma sen lähtökohdista ja
tavoitteista: kukin valitsee itselle luontevalta tuntuvan esteettisen
lähestymistavan
2) suunnitelman pohjalta kerätään teokselle ääniä ja/tai äänimaisemia
3) tutkitaan kerättyä äänimateriaalia, valitaan
ympäristöääninauhoituksista soveliaat ääniainekset ja valmistetaan
niiden pohjalta ääniteos

Äänikurssin päätteeksi perjantaina keräännytään luokkaan kuuntelemaan
valmistuneet teokset.

Breaking Into Prison –Workshop 4 ects

Time: may 15th to may 24th 2009. The info day will be april 17th.
The prison is a location that is hidden from public view but which exists in the public sphere and in the minds of people.  It is seen and experienced by an unfortunate few, yet it asserts its power over all citizens by infiltrating minds and imaginations.  Those who have been within its walls are subject to its power of control.  For the majority of people, it remains a mysterious unknown world, its spaces only imagined and feared.  This location stands as a symbol of the control structure that dominates a society’s organization.

This course will be centered around the closed prison Patarei in Tallinn, Estonia.  This prison was originally a sea fortress, but was re-appropriated  into a prison in 1919.  It is now empty of prisoners and is open to the public as a Cultural Park. 

In class, students will learn of the history of prisons, and of the particular history of this site and its relationship to its surroundings.  Students will visit the site, and plan projects to make as installations in the prison.  The students will create their installations on site (probably one week) and the spaces will be open for a public exhibition.

The materials for the course would be recycled materials found in and around the prison, as well as any small materials students would bring from Helsinki.

Through this course, students will learn about how to make site-specific installations, negotiating the history of a location with their own creative ideas.  It will provide useful experience in how to make a project in the public sphere, as well as teach techniques for making installations inside architectural spaces.

This course will hopefully be a collaboration with an art school in Tallinn, who would assist with finding the Helsinki students accommodation in Tallinn during the workshop week.  Details to follow.

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WORKSHOPS AUTUMN 2008

Helsinki Acupuncture

Intensive Workshop  4 ects

The one week intensive workshop aims in determining the hidden energy flows of Helsinki and reacting on them by means of urban acupuncture. The students are asked to produce an individual 1:1 scale realization of a needle to manipulate the Helsinki subconscious.

1. Psyche Analysis
- Map of the hidden layers of Helsinki
- Text: Paracity

2. 1:1 scale work: Needle
       Produce an environmental art work to deal with the Helsinki Acupuncture –theme.
       What is the needle? Where is it? What does it do?
One week time. Working out in public urban space. The students are responsible of the building material, legal behavior and control of the individual design – build – process.

Maps, texts and 1:1 scale work documentation will be published on web.

Time: 24.-28.11. 2008 at 9-16,30
Teacher:  Architect Marco Casagrande
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Growing Season  –  Kasvukausi        

Workshop   –    Työpaja  (8ects/16 ects)

Helsinki University’s Botanic Garden and MA program of Environmental Art at the University of Art and Design Helsinki arranges a workshop for environmental art. The workshop takes actual place Helsinki University’s Kumpula Garden. The workshop is meant for students who are interested in environmental issues based on aesthetical, ecological and ethical questions.

The goal of the workshop is
• to develop and produce plans for temporary and permanent pieces of environmental art for Kumpula Garden area.
• to create environmental art with the help of recycled materials and sustainable means.
These produced pieces of art have their origin at the history of the district, unique environment and dialogue between art and science.

Workshop begins  18th Sept 2008  at. 10.00 Kumpula Garden and will end up June 2009 in the Public Opening of Kumpula Garden.
Course Language: English
Teacher: Professor: Markku Hakuri
Info  Wed the 17th of Sep 2008 at 11 am, at the University of Art and Design
Environmental Art classroom 1st floor

Enrollment: 01.09.-15.09.2008 Project Secretary: Inka Finell,  5th floor room 579
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Kasvukausi – Growing Season

Työpaja – Workshop (8 op/16op)

Helsingin Yliopiston Kasvitieteellinen puutarha ja Taideteollisen Korkeakoulun ympäristötaiteen koulutusohjelma järjestävät lukuvuonna 2008-2009 ympäristötaiteen työpajan, joka sijoittuu Helsingin Yliopiston Kumpulan puutarhan alueelle.

Työpaja on tarkoitettu niille Helsingin Yliopiston ja taideteollisen Korkeakoulun opiskelijoille, jotka ovat kiinnostuneita ympäristön esteettisistä, eettisistä ja ekologisista kysymyksistä.

Työpajan päämääränä on
• kehitellä ja toteuttaa suunnitelmia väliaikaisiksi tai pysyviksi ympäristötaideteoksiksi Kumpulan puutarhan alueelle.
• luoda kestävän kehityksen keinoin kierrätysmateriaaleista ympäristötaideteoksia, jotka liittyvät alueen historiaan, ympäristön ainutkertaisuuteen sekä tieteen ja taiteen vuoropuheluun kohdistuviin kysymyksiin.

Työpaja alkaa 18.09.2008 klo 10.00 Kumpulan puutarhassa ja päättyy kesäkuussa 2009 Kumpulan puutarhan yleisöavajaisiin.
Opetuskieli on englanti, koska työpaja on avoin myös ulkomaalaisille opiskelijoille.
Työpajan vetäjä: professori Markku Hakuri
Työpajan info:  syyskuun 17. 2008 klo 11.00, Taideteollisen Korkeakoulun  Ympäristötaiteen luokka 1.krs.

Ilmoittautuminen 01.09.- 15.09.2008  Projektisihteeri: Inka Finell, 5.krs huone
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Former workshops:

Spring 2008:

Pneumatic sculptures 2 ECTS

States and conditions of process-oriented objects in the space- from body space to public space.

Time: 4th -8th Ferbruary 2008

Teacher : Juliane Stiegele

Content: Process-oriented art work.

Task will be
- the development of a sitespecific, inflatable "sculpture for a  time" (air-supply by breathing, hairdryer, vacuum cleaner, compressor, exhaust of a car or scooter, etc.)
-a performative presentation, action or intervention in the public.

The performative process may reach from a total compression of the object (without inner space) to its maximum extension or vice versa.The inside and outside of an object?Reactions of the public? The end?
Failure as well as even the object`s destruction can be taken into consideration.

Material suggestion: simple and cheap „every-day“  plastic materials. Sticky tapes.Large scale format welcome.

At the end it`s all about perception....

Required Equipments
sketch book, collection of light plastic materials (bags, covering foils, etc.), sticky tapes, hairdryer, reversable vacuum cleaner, compressor, etc.camera, videocamera

Philosophers Hut (2 ECTS)

During the history of humanity, there has always been people, who want to retreat from society to think, create and seek for inner harmony. We all know the Japanese teahouses, but perhaps not everyone knows, that the idea was imported to Europe during the 18th century and many wealthy people begun to have a Hermit’s Hut on their grounds. But because they didn’t have time to sit in them themselves, they hired a person to live in them, called an Ornamental Hermit!

Many writers and philosophers have temporarily retreated to small houses like Henry David Thoreau in America in the 19th century to the contemporary Philip Pullman, who wrote His Dark Materials in a small garden shed.

The aim of the course is to plan your own version of a Philosopher’s Hut for a chosen place in Helsinki, and make a small-scale model of it. Computer programs will be used to visualize how the hut would be placed, and look like, in the city. In the theoretical part of the course we will discuss what is a sacred place, which are the sites/buildings made for retreat and meditation in the cities? What do they look like?

Time: 14th -18th April, , starts 14th April

Teacher: Jan Erik Andersson

Autumn 2007:

Public talk for public art (1 ects)

Possibilities of public art in built surroundings. 
Content: Workshop and  seminar within Culture 2000 "Public art for New Cultural Practices an Trans- European Dialogue" -programme. The workshop includes documentation, intervention and a Publi Art seminar 21.9.pdf with talks about the possibilities of public art in built surroundings (21st September).

Time: 18 -21. September. Workshop 18 -20th and seminar 21st September.
Teachers: Professor Markku Hakuri and other teachers.
Language: English

Environmental art workshop for the center of Seinäjoki 12 ECTS

The purpose of the workshop is to examine ethical and aesthetical questions that are connected to public space and to consider the possibilities of environmental art to act as an active effector for visual surrounding. 
The goal of the workshop is to produce different kinds of environmental art plans for Seinäjoki City Centre and to realize some of the plans produced at the workshop.

Schedule for the workshop: Starting autumn 2007
Preliminary plans will be presented Dec 2007
Final plans and the exhibition Apr 2008
Teacher of the course: Professor Markku Hakuri
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From Scrap to Environmental Art –workshop 12 ECTS

MA Program for Environmental Art (University of Art and Design Helsinki) arranges autumn 2007 (starting Sep 20th 2007) from Scrap to Environmental Art –workshop with Academy of Fine Art Helsinki and Helsinki Energy Company.
 
Purpose of the workshop is to produce an environmental art piece in front of Hanasaari Power Plant. Art piece consists of different kinds of objects and materials taken down from the old power plant. The goal of the workshop is to use and test recycled materials for public art piece. The goal is also to produce a monumental environmental art piece that will be part of the local history because of the origin of the materials.

Teacher of the course: MA Janne Virkkunen
Languages used:Finnish and English
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