Latest Student Projects
Exploring the inner landscape: A creative's journey to a deeper connection with self by Nina Naver拧nik
Authenticity is the foundation of a sustainable and fulfilling creative career - by deepening our connection with our true selves, we unlock new ways of making, expressing, and thriving as creatives. This thesis explores how embracing both our light and shadow shapes a more authentic and meaningful creative practice.
ESSENCE by Iines Lahtinen
Through stillness, repetition, and the almost unnoticed details, fundamental emerges: something quiet but deeply felt.
Animal Concoctions by Daniel Kohvakka
Ceramic bottles inspired by fantasy role-playing games and how humans perceive different animals and give them attributes and significance that don't always have any scientific background.
TAMED DISSONANCE: Grasping our tumultuous nature by Marcelo Guajardo D谩vila
Humanity is inherently chaotic, where order and disorder constantly intertwine, one cannot exist without the other. Through photographic experimentation and overlapping images, I capture everyday chaos from our 鈥渘ew nature鈥, the human-made ecosystem of the city.
Gender specimen by Vladimir Elia von Arx
Species, gender, categorisations to make our world easier to deal with. During my work with understanding my own gender identity, I completely lost my grasp on what femininity and masculinity mean. What is it to feel feminine or masculine? What makes an object seem masculine or feminine?
What Remains by Alarik Rantala
When trying to look for commonalities between species, only one factor unites them all: the inevitability of death.
Layers of being by Minchen H Stenersen
If we recognize our similarities with the living world around us, would we treat it with more empathy?
Carefull by Maike Panz
In times of war and climate change 鈥 at a time when trauma is on the rise, it is more important than ever that we honestly care. That we take care of ourselves, of each other and of nature.
Forest Printer by M谩rk Nagy-Mih谩ly
Spending time in the winter forest surrounded by both visual and auditory silence transforms the space into a canvas for thoughts and emotions. But what happens when we leave? Can we bring this connection home?
Lingonberry-Glazed Reindeer Dish by Suthasinee Naktnasukanjn
The project represents my journey of following curiosity towards unconventional materials I encountered in Kaamanen.
Reflective Practices
This 6 week long reflective practices course introduces critical and reflective approaches to design, which we consider to be an evolving, political and activist field. We look at different practices of critical design including speculative design, transition design, design activism and their theoretical and historical foundations. We also discuss how to use our agency as designers in line with our values and learn to incorporate new reflective practices into our work.
Mummu and me by Lotta Paananen
A portrait of me and my grandmother 鈥楳ummu鈥,聽who suddenly passed away during the Personal Exploration course.
A negotiation with snow and earth by Jimin Hong
How are our ecosystems affected by the inconsistent snow blanket?
