Empirica: Sense of Water (2022–26)
Research project exploring human relationships with water through artistic and design practices.
Projects
Artistic Research hub Projects
Artistic research at Aalto is carried out in research groups and projects across the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. These groups work through practice their respective disciplines. Each maintains its own pages, which this hub links to:
This listing is not exhaustive. It gathers what has surfaced so far and grows as groups and projects are added. If your group or project belongs here and is missing, contact the hub editors.
Research projects
CreaTures (2020-2023)
Creative practices for transformational futures (INUSE/ENCORE)
Empirica: Soil Laboratory (2020–26)
Research project investigating soil as material, collaborator, and site for artistic inquiry.
Embodied Experience of Costume (external link)
A four-year Costume in Focus research project on the sensorial and somatic dimensions of costume. The artistic research is practice-led, spanning live performance, animation films and virtual costume.
Empirica: Radical Ceramics (2022–23)
Research initiative exploring radical approaches to ceramic practices and materiality.
Darkness Library Suomenlinna (external link)
A wooden pavilion that gathers and shares residents' site-specific knowledge of darkness in Suomenlinna, developed within the Caring Commons research project.
Research groups
Empirica – Research on art, craft and design
We are an interdisciplinary research group using practices of art, design, and craft as vehicles of inquiry.
Critical Cinema Lab
The Lab hosts a project Images of Harmony and Rupture - Documentary Film Reflecting Fractures in the Scandinavian Welfare State Ethos. It is funded by the Kone Foundation and headed by
Professor Susanna Helke. DAs Jouko Aaltonen and Timo Korhonen work as postdoctoral researchers.
Film Production Studies
Research on the determinants of success within Finnish film production cultures and audience formations.
Costume in Focus (CiF)
Costume in Focus is a pioneering research group dedicated to advancing costume design scholarship globally.
Fashion/Textile Futures
The Fashion/Textile Futures research group explores new perspectives on human-centered design research. The group approaches research in the field of fashion, clothing and textiles in multi-faceted ways.
Education in Question – E?
Research group
The rAt group also publishes its ongoing work on the Research Catalogue, an international platform for artistic research.