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The goal of this research project is to develop new ways of teaching and learning that prepare students for diverse, flexible careers. The project contributes to a more collaborative and innovative arts education system in Finland and beyond.
Simo Kellokumpu’s research project explores how AI alters embodied artistic practices and performance.
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InChoir investigates how inclusive choral practices are developed, sustained, and understood across different European contexts, and how they can contribute to more equitable and socially sustainable cultural and educational environments.
An inclusive arts education project gives children and young people the opportunity to compose for symphony orchestra instruments with the support of professional artists.
The research project deepens the understanding of the connections and histories between the material world and art, develops ecological material practices for artistic work, and outlines new ways of thinking about the lifecycle and recycling of art materials.
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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’.
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The project examines the consequences of totalitarianism for people and music communities through research and art (music), with a special focus on the Holocaust and Russian/Soviet totalitarianism, which has taken on new forms in the 2020s.
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.
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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.
We coordinate a network of universities promoting multidisciplinary research.
The research project aims to understand how artistic professionalism is understood and embodied by staff and students on the MFA and the factors that shape whether students feel confident that they can pursue careers as professional artists.
The research project explores how university collections – such as pressed plants, geological samples, medical tools, zoological specimens – are not only scientific evidence but also cultural artefacts bearing social histories, colonial legacies, and ecological change. These materials are reframed through curatorial practice.
Towards Systems Thinking in European Music Institutions
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.
About the Prize The International Prize for Artistic Research in Music promotes: The Prize is given every two years in response to a call for recently completed doctoral projects in Artistic Research in Music from the participating institutions. The Prize runs in association with biennial Doctors in Performance conference. It is anticipated that the Prize develops … Continued
Jazz @ Sibelius Summer Academy was a summer course built around playing, instrument clinics, lectures, jam sessions and performances for music students, music teachers and freelance musicians. The course participants were grouped into bands and playing together in these ensembles is the most important part of the course. The course participants worked on playing together, … Continued
The artistic research project explores the process of generating historically informed, contemporary folk music
The development project’s goal is to examine how the infrastructures in the field of visual arts influence the success of professional artists in Finland.
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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.
This international project explores how music-making and research support intercultural dialogue and social equality.
A project on migration in South Ostrobothnia, Ostrobothnia and Central Ostrobothnia, combining music and artistic activities.
The research group focuses on the well-being of professionals and development of working environments in the music industry. It consists of Professor Tuire Kuusi, an expert in music research, and eight doctoral researchers.
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The aim of the research project is to develop artist pedagogy and to subversively and horizontally alter the silo structures of the art university curricula.
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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.
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An association of artists and researchers who foster cooperation between arts and academia in the Nordic-Baltic region by implementing a transdisciplinary research-creation cluster, and disseminating its practices through a series of events, workshops, and publications.
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The project aims to shed more light on the points of convergence between the French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman and French phenomenology.
An activist music research project that uses a zero-carbon performance stage for music and other performances.
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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.
By Leena Kummu
In his research Jaakko Ruuska is studying the possibilities for art to participate the production of the public space in self-motivated ways. In his postdoc project Stitching Tracks, Jaakko Ruuska continues his research on the spatial experience, which he calls off-connection. The subject of this site-specific project is the border region between Russia and Finland. … Continued
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The research project investigates and develops artistic, technological and social prospects for participatory electronic sound arts that take place outdoors.
