Latest Student Projects
Snow鈥檚 recognition by Yutaro Komaki
Snow recognises the shape of the place where it piles up carefully and gradually. Snow accepts any shape. How can I recognise the shape of my thoughts and imagination like snow?
Shelf Version 1 by Lauriina Markkula
By switching from an end result focused process, to a more playful iterative process, I give myself the freedom to make rough prototypes, play with the material while doing it and see where the exploration leads me.
Shifting Focus by Jo茫o Justino
This interactive artifact represents my journey of personal exploration through wheel throwing.
ClaySkin by Hana Rehor膷铆kov谩
ClaySkin is an experimental project that explores a biodegradable alternative to synthetic tattoo practice skin, commonly used by beginner tattoo artists.
CURA by Daniel Georg Schiechl
As unassuming as this tableware appears, it tells the stories of our disguised daily gestures.
A bucketload of Finnish stereotypes by Birta Brynj贸lfsd贸ttir
The work is a celebration of the whimsical and joyous sides of Finland as seen through the eyes of a foreigner.
NIX: Una lampada coi fiocchi by Mattia Anderle
Exploring the crystallization of snowflake geometrical formations, this research project delves into the captivating beauty of nature's patterns.
Ceramic Laboratory
The course is studio-based and includes the practical realization of an experimental art or design project in ceramics. The theme and standpoint changes yearly: from artifacts to surface design, from material research to exploring one麓s artistic expression, and others. The assessment starts with gathering research material in pairs. The final brief is processed individually. It starts by sketching and presenting the concept ideas, proceeding to studio work, and resulting in the making of prototypes or material experiments from ceramics. The concept development, designing, readings, and evaluation are processed theoretically in project seminars, where ideas, working methods as well as chosen solutions are discussed. The module ends up with a small exhibition presenting the results.
Materials in flux - A creative approach towards understanding contemporary material dilemmas by Miia L枚tj枚nen
This Master鈥檚 Thesis explores how a material-oriented designer could better affect the far-reaching consequences of her action by shaping the framework by expanding the scope of the design process from the object's life cycle to the materials' life cycle.
Wild 鈥 Searching for Finnish high-fire clay by Mira Niittym盲ki
Empirical research of Finnish minerals and a study of the meaning of material origins in the context of art, design and ceramic practice.
The Asymptotes by Ena Naito
Book-writing as Design: Exploration of a hydro-logic process towards a multimodal creative nonfiction
Amorphous Form 鈥 Tentative Verbalization in the Context of Art by Sini Henttu
How could art and its verbalization live side by side, supporting each other?
Approaching the Earthenware Heritage: Accidental Archaeology of Brick Buildings and Their Fragments by Amedeo Martines
The thesis illustrates a practice-led approach to acknowledge and emotionally connect with the Finnish earthenware heritage by encountering brick architecture and picking fragments in the municipalities of Helsinki and Espoo.
If I Don鈥檛 Remember This, Nobody Will by Zo毛 Robertson
The act of remembering takes its toll: each recall creates distance from the initial event, a memory of the memory. If I Don鈥檛 Remember This, Nobody Will manifests the intangible: what does forgetting look like?
Till Death Do Us Together by Sesilia Pirttimaa
Death does not part us, it unites us. We all die eventually. Ten hand-built raw clay vases have been left in nature to fall apart, disintegrate and dissolve into the environment, symbolizing the death of loved ones. The vases have been photographed daily to reveal their decomposition. The artist has not had to face the death of a close relative and the resulting grief that is inevitably coming. With this artwork, she wants to prepare for it and address the topic she fears.
Little Creatures by Nina Naver拧nik
鈥漁nce upon a time, when magic was still strong in all parts of the world, a curious event took place every spring. As the snow began to melt, revealing the first plants, sometimes, if you were lucky, the soil beneath your feet would come to life. They called them Little Creatures. Some say they carry messages, and should you listen closely, a little creature might have one for you.鈥
The moment before the music begins by Nahyun Kim
This is an instrument which is Jangdok-shaped, a traditional Korean jar that is buried in the soil to ripen Kimchi. The reason why the food made in Jangdok is delicious is that until just before it comes out to the world, they adapted to the environment in the soil and prepared to become delectable. When we play this instrument, the moment we have to focus is not the moment when the sound comes out, but the moment when we adapt to this space, focusing solely on the instrument and all thoughts disappear. Wait for silence and concentration in your mind like the soil does.