Maiju Loukola
- Vice dean, research University lecturer Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts
- +358504720344
- maiju.loukola@uniarts.fi
Introduction
MAIJU LOUKOLA (Doctor of Arts) is an artist-researcher and a university lecturer in artistic research at the Academy of Fine Arts (KuvA) doctoral program, and currently acts as the Head of KuvA doctoral programme and Vice dean of KuvA research. She is the academic person responsible of 'Spatial Practices focus area' of the four focus areas of research. Maiju works with spatial practices and site and situation sensitive installations in various contested environments, especially in urban space. Her research focuses on the politics of space and speculative spatial, temporal and narrative materialities in contested sites in urban environment.
Maiju was the PI/head of the °City as Space of Rules and Dreaming° research project (funded by Kone Foundation 2021–2024/2025) promoting emancipation and democratisation in urban space by cross-examination through arts and artistic research, empirical urban planning research, political theory, and law/ legal theory.
The °City as Space of Rules and Dreaming° project aimed to reach beyond established art-science boundaries by bringing new and more inclusive means of the practices of law and “soft law” to urban decision-making, and inviting different neighborhoods to dream of their own dwelling regions through imaginary urban archaeology and fictionalising democracy combining different artistic mediums.
The project was coordinated by the Academy of Fine Arts at the UNIARTS Helsinki Other members and project partners: Paul Tiensuu, Doctoral researcher/ Helsinki University Faculty of Law, Tanja Tiekso, Senior researcher/ Helsinki University Faculty of Arts/ Aesthetics, Aino Hirvola, Doctoral researcher/ Aalto University Department of Built Environment, and Jaakko Ruuska, Postdoc researcher/ Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts, and Henna-Riikka Halonen, Postdoc researcher/ Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts.
MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3501568/3501569
Maiju was one of the initiators of °The Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place° artistic research project (funded by Academy of Finland 2017–2021), a consortium between Aalto ARTS/Dept of Film & Scenography and University of Lapland/Faculty of Art and Design. She finalised her dissertation dealing with mediality and touch as doctoral researcher in the °Figures of Touch° research project (Academy of Finland 2008–2012; parties: Aalto ARTS, Uniarts, University of Helsinki, and University of Linköping)).
Maiju is a member of the editorial board of the RUUKKU Studies in Artistic Research journal and member of editorial committee of Tiede & edistys journal. She is the convener of the Extended Artistic Research Network (EARN) Space + Practice working group (https://artresearch.network/).
Maiju was the PI/head of the °City as Space of Rules and Dreaming° research project (funded by Kone Foundation 2021–2024/2025) promoting emancipation and democratisation in urban space by cross-examination through arts and artistic research, empirical urban planning research, political theory, and law/ legal theory.
The °City as Space of Rules and Dreaming° project aimed to reach beyond established art-science boundaries by bringing new and more inclusive means of the practices of law and “soft law” to urban decision-making, and inviting different neighborhoods to dream of their own dwelling regions through imaginary urban archaeology and fictionalising democracy combining different artistic mediums.
The project was coordinated by the Academy of Fine Arts at the UNIARTS Helsinki Other members and project partners: Paul Tiensuu, Doctoral researcher/ Helsinki University Faculty of Law, Tanja Tiekso, Senior researcher/ Helsinki University Faculty of Arts/ Aesthetics, Aino Hirvola, Doctoral researcher/ Aalto University Department of Built Environment, and Jaakko Ruuska, Postdoc researcher/ Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts, and Henna-Riikka Halonen, Postdoc researcher/ Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts.
MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3501568/3501569
Maiju was one of the initiators of °The Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place° artistic research project (funded by Academy of Finland 2017–2021), a consortium between Aalto ARTS/Dept of Film & Scenography and University of Lapland/Faculty of Art and Design. She finalised her dissertation dealing with mediality and touch as doctoral researcher in the °Figures of Touch° research project (Academy of Finland 2008–2012; parties: Aalto ARTS, Uniarts, University of Helsinki, and University of Linköping)).
Maiju is a member of the editorial board of the RUUKKU Studies in Artistic Research journal and member of editorial committee of Tiede & edistys journal. She is the convener of the Extended Artistic Research Network (EARN) Space + Practice working group (https://artresearch.network/).