Our projects

This Fulbright-supported research aims to better understand the experiences of children and young people with Finland's Model for Leisure Activities (HSM) and to highlight possible gaps or missed opportunities that children and youth from marginalized groups may encounter.

The aim of Pilvi Porkola's research is to consider how performance art is taught and what social dimensions performance art teachers see in their work.

Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik explores women piano teachers, intersectionality, and the gendered power structures of musical life in Helsinki and Tallinn between 1861 and 1924.

DMus Anne Elisabeth Piirainen, in cooperation with pianist DMus Kirill Kozlovski examine stylistic peculiarities in the compositions of the Krein family, analysing this neglected repertoire to the backdrop of the cultural development within the Soviet Union.

The project aims to create a seamless integration of acoustic and electronic sound into a single instrumental entity.

Academy of Finland Key Project by Otso Lähdeoja, targets the development of pioneering audio applications combining structure-borne sound and sensor technology into a set of Active Acoustic Objects at the interface of the material and the digital.

The research examines Aino Ackté’s and Heikki Renvall’s correspondence.

Alexandria Nova network explored what the art of directing is and how it is taught. It was formed by seven study programmes of directing of different countries together with their partners.

Follow the exceptional opera collaboration between Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy and the USC Thornton School of Music.

Chris Evans' and Magnus Quaife's project seeks to discover trans-geographical entanglements between education, geo-economic circumstances, cultural conditions, and communities through which alterity has been articulated and dissent enacted.

ArsADAPT creates new approaches to music studies and musician's work by integrating the sustainable future agenda and related research into artistic work.

The development and research initiative aims to bring art and artistic thinking more strongly into the crucial conversation on technology, alongside scientific and technological perspectives.

Marjatta Oja's research project (2018-2023) explores the empowerment of the artist.

The collaborative and multidisciplinary course between Theatre Academy and Aalto University has been organised every other year since 1994.

In her artistic research (2014-2021), Mari Martin makes art in urban environments in collaboration with others, while reflecting on and testing the concept of dialogue.

Artistic Doctorates in Europe: Third cycle provision in Dance and Performance (ADiE) project is investigating Practice as Research (PaR) inquiries within research level degrees in Dance and Performance.

Timothy Smith's study seeks to learn about the neurodiversity experience of students’ engagement with artistic thinking within their artistic processes.

ARTWORK aims to expand the field of work for artists and raise increased awareness of the use of artistic methods for strengthening education and social initiatives.

Research project (2015-2018) by Christina Linsenmeyer focuses on the canonization of Stradivari violins.

The project aims to build artistic research methods to examine Extractivism and ecology.

The project researches rhythm, performance and emotions in Finnish military training and capoeira for refugees.

Research project (2020-2021) by Miriam Jakob and Jana Unmüßig explores breathing in choreography.

Colloquium on Artistic Research in the Performing Arts CARPA is a biennial colloquium aimed at addressing the problems and possibilities of artistic research, particularly those involving the performing arts.

The research concentrates on a correspondence that reveals points of view on the conventions of opera culture.

In this project, Dr. Guadalupe López-Íñiguez seeks to support children gifted for music internationally, so that they can live as agentic and healthy individuals while pursuing desirable educational outcomes in caring ecosystems.

Chromatic Noise: Mnemopolitics and Autochrome Witnesses is a practice-led research on the historicity and materiality of digital image production in an analogue production environment. From early 20th century archival photographs of the Middle East / Minor Asia / Mesopotamian region, AI-generated memory images are created and set into motion, to critically investigate whether those can represent lost or hidden histories and related memories.

The project funded by Kone Foundation (2021-2024) strengthens polyphony of urban space and thereby develops a more just city.

The research is about the challenges that classically-trained musicians faced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and Latin America.

Towards Systems Thinking in European Music Institutions

The research project addresses neglected aspects of the music culture of Prague.

The project aims to renew archival research by interacting with discussions on cultural heritage and memory studies, developing the use of folklore materials, creating new community-based methods and considering the ethical responsibilities of archive-based scientific research and artistic activity.

Elina Saloranta's artistic research examines Finnish singer Elli Forssell.

Creative Dialogue is an international workshop for young instrumentalist and composers to learn new repertoire and experience the creative dialogue between music and its performers.

Research project (2018-) directed by Marja-Leena Juntunen examines issues related to the implementation of the music core curricula in Basic Education and Basic Education in the Arts.

Watch online projects by master’s degree students of Dance Performance and Choreography.

The postdoctoral project continues Vincent Roumagnac's artistic research on re-ecologizing theatre.

Anu Koskinen's project investigates who, how, and why individuals are selected to study acting at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.

The project explores the computational generation of dialogue for radio drama.

The Digital Literature Project (di.ki) aims to increase knowledge about digital literature and to support creation of new works of art.

Diversity of Music Heritage in Finland focuses on heritagisation of music in Finland with emphasis on ethnicity and intergenerational relations.

EDUCase Higher Education Platform for Global Sustainability aimed to establish a platform for interdisciplinary collaborative arts projects that bring together artists and art professionals in Finland, Tanzania and Mozambique.

Music education, professionalism, and eco-politics (EcoPolitics) interrogates the knowledge gap between music educators’ professional self-awareness in music education and their civic responsibilities as professionals in an age of uncertainty, eco-crises, and systemic ‘wicked problems’.

ELLA is a research project (2021-2024) funded by Kone foundation which investigates how embodied language learning through the arts may generate substantial change within communities.

Simo Kellokumpu's research project explores how AI alters embodied artistic practices and performance.

Research project (2017-2020) by Kirsi Heimonen investigates different aspects of memories.

The Equity in Composing project (2019-) aims to reduce gender-based occupational segregation and to advance equal opportunities for participation in the field.

The research project investigates and develops artistic, technological and social prospects for participatory electronic sound arts that take place outdoors.

The multidisciplinary and multi-methods research addresses the dramatic effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire classical music industry and educational field.

The project's research objectives are to challenge the status quo of music teacher education in Norway, and to develop innovative and collaborative practices that could foster students’ collaborative, critical and democratic capacities.