Research in Arts and Education
An international peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal co-published by the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University.
Publications
Artistic Research Publications (initial selection of a constantly evolving collection)
Journals connected to Aalto
Research in Arts and Education is hosted at Aalto University’s Department of Art and Media and co-published with the Finnish Society for Research in Art Education. RUUKKU is co-published by Aalto University, Uniarts Helsinki and the University of Lapland.
RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research (external link)
A journal for artistic research that publishes on the Research Catalogue.
Publication highlights
Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice
A practice-led research exposition exploring architectural practice through feminist spatial practice providing possibilities for un-learning and speculation.
Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in collaborative research across the sciences and creative practice
Camilla Groth, Margherita Pevere, Kirsi Niinimäki and Pirjo Kääriäinen
Making Things that Change: EMPIRICA Research Group—Research in Arts and Education
Vega, L., et al. (2024). Research in Arts and Education
Metaphoric Methodology: Moving with Research and Writing
Anna Lioliou and Juuso Tervo
Journal articles and expositions
The Chimeric Entity: Narratives and Algorithms in Hybrid Ecology
Beloff, L.
2026
Leonardo, 59(5), 482–486
Synthetic sentience: Relational intelligence and the politics of perception
Choubassi, H., Beloff, L. & Blanchette, C.
2026
Technoetic Arts, 24(1), 3–12
Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice
Koivisto, E. V.
2025
Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, 14
Investigating Stray-Concept and Ticks as a Co-Species
Beloff, L.
2022
Research in Arts and Education, 2022(1), 34–43
Conditions for Experiential Knowledge Exchange in Collaborative Research Across the Sciences and Creative Practice
Groth, C., Pevere, M., Niinimäki, K. & Kääriäinen, P.
2020
CoDesign, 16(4), 328–344
NEW SILK: Studying Experimental Touchpoints between Material Science, Synthetic Biology, Design and Art
Niinimäki, K., Groth, C. & Kääriäinen, P.
2018
Temes de Disseny, 34, 34–43
Books and edited volumes
Huomisen vaatekaappi & Aalto-yliopisto / Tomorrow's wardrobe & Aalto University
Niinimäki, K. & Kääriäinen, P.
2026
Espoo: Aalto University. ISBN 978-952-64-9685-6, eISBN 978-952-64-9686-3
The Presence of Exchange: GIFT in Artistic Research and Beyond
Ziegler, D., Beloff, L., Blanchette, C. & Vahvaselkä, H. (Eds.)
2025
Helsinki: Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. Art Theoretical Writings from the Academy of Fine Arts, no. 22. ISBN 978-952-353-490-2, eISBN 978-952-353-491-9
Biocolours: Sustainable stories from nature, lab and industry
Niinimäki, K. & Lohmann, J. (Eds.)
2023
Espoo: Aalto University (Aalto ARTS Books). ISBN 978-952-64-1204-7
Book chapters
Community and Socially-Based New Media Art
Beloff, L.
2025
In P. Thomas (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of New Media Art, Volume II: Artists and Practices. Bloomsbury.
Souvenir of the 'Me'
Blanchette, C.
2025
In D. Ziegler, L. Beloff, C. Blanchette & H. Vahvaselkä (Eds.), The Presence of Exchange: GIFT in Artistic Research and Beyond (pp. 49–65). Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki.
Resisting Research
Tervo, J.
2024
In S. Travis, A. Guttenberg Smith, C. Hernández-Cabal & J. Lucero (Eds.), Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art? (pp. 69–70). Routledge.
Biokitsch in Art: And the Survival of the Prettiest
Beloff, L.
2023
In M. Ryynänen & P. Barragán (Eds.), The Changing Meaning of Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance (pp. 249–262). Palgrave Macmillan.
Conference papers and presentations
Navigating the taboo: Porno-art, pedagogy, and academic freedom in higher education
Meriläinen, A., Heinonen, H. & Pusa, T.
2026
Artist Pedagogy and Artistic Thinking: Perspectives and Practices, Uniarts Helsinki, 27–29.8.2026.
Earth, sea, sky divide: Practice-based research with Cambrian blue clay
Torrey, M.
2026
College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Paper as a responsive threshold: Material correspondence and assemblage in collagraphs
Torrey, M.
2026
Symposium on Paper, Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
The spatiotemporal collagraph: A material exploration of granite and glacier palimpsests
Torrey, M.
2026
International Printmaking Conference Wrocław 2026: Print Media in Contemporary Art – Between Materiality and Immateriality, Wrocław, Poland.
What color is the Cambrian sky? Material thinking with Cambrian blue clay
Torrey, M.
2026
Thinking with the Sea – Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities, Forum Marinum, Turku, Finland, 30 September–1 October 2026 (forthcoming).
What color is the Cambrian sky? Material thinking with Cambrian blue clay
Torrey, M.
2026
4th International Environmental Humanities Conference: The Blue Humanities, Cappadocia, Turkey. (Accepted; not presented.)
From matter to method: Situated and relational approaches through geothermal clays
Vera, A.
2026
In Proceedings of DRS 2026: Edinburgh. Design Research Society.
Sentient Mothers
Blanchette, C.
2025
Politics of the Machines: Synthetic Sentience, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 16–18.7.2025.
sacrificial holes of devolution
Blanchette, C.
2025
TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE in Art & Science (TTT2025), Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 9–13.9.2025.
Click here: The teacher showed porn! – On the responsible presentation of porno-art in higher education
Heinonen, H., Meriläinen, A. & Pusa, T.
2025
FERA Conference 2025, Rovaniemi.
Excluded
Meriläinen, A.
2025
AeRaTe Symposium. Aalto University, Espoo.
What color is the Cambrian sky?
Torrey, M.
2025
AeRaTe Symposium, Aalto University, Espoo, 5.5.2025.
Distant surfaces: The spatiotemporality of Cambrian blue clay as an exploration of the deep time of pigments
Torrey, M.
2025
SECAC Conference, Cincinnati, OH. (Accepted; not presented.)
The spatiotemporal collagraph: A material exploration of granite & glacier palimpsests
Torrey, M.
2025
6th PARSE Biennial Artistic Research Conference "Some Like It Hot", University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Faecal Pharmakon
Blanchette, C.
2024
In Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness and Beyond, Aachen 2024 (pp. 277–283). British Computer Society.
Parasitic Souvenirs
Blanchette, C.
2024
GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE: Meanings and Materialities conference, Cable Factory, Helsinki, 6.6.2024.
Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & Beyond
Blanchette, C.
2024
RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
The life of a brick: Using expanded printmaking as a material exploration of Wiang Kum Kam in Northern Thailand
Torrey, M.
2024
Session "The Time of the Object: Temporality, Trace, Decay," Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA) World Congress 2024, Lyon, France.
Exhibitions and creative outputs
Parts for People
Blanchette, C.
2026
Solo exhibition, V1 Gallery, Aalto University, Espoo, 20–25.4.2026.
Kotiteatteri esittää: Makuuhuoneessa
Laitinen, T., Meriläinen, A., Piispanen, E., Päivikkö, U. & Rämä, L.
2026
Tehdas Teatteri, Turku (premiere 17.6.2026) and Salo (8.8.2026).
Parasitic Souvenirs
Blanchette, C.
2025
In AeRaTe – Artistic Research Exhibition.
The Bite
Blanchette, C.
2025
In Välillä Väärässä. Imatra.
Kudos – Library for Material Relations
Koivisto, E. & Suomi, M.
2025
Forum Kortteli, Turku, 9.12.2025–7.2.2026.
Excluded
Meriläinen, A. & Lehto, T.
2025
AeRaTe Exhibition. Aalto University, Espoo.
Hypnos (media design)
Meriläinen, A.
2025
Agit-Cirk: Hypnos by Sakari Männistö. Cirko, Helsinki (premiere 6.2.2025).
Shit Load
Blanchette, C.
2024
In GIFTS/PRESENTS/PRESENCE: Meanings and Materialities exhibition, Cable Factory, Helsinki, 6–15.6.2024.
Doctoral theses
Design in Between Worlds
Tikka, E.
2026
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation. Aalto University publication series Doctoral Theses 145/2026.
Colours from living lands: a multi-sited ethnography of human–environment relationships in bio-based dyeing practices
Hidalgo Uribe, L.
2026
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Hyperimage: Photography Beyond the Human Scale
Yiu, S.
2026
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Walks and steams: Artistic approaches to develop more-than-human ritualisation in polycrisis
Keski-Korsu, M.
2025
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation. Aalto University publication series Doctoral Theses 206/2025.
Shimmering Wood – Experimenting with nanocellulose-based structural colour
Yau, N.
2025
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Mythological Migrations: Imagining Queer Muslim Utopias—Artistic and Curatorial Strategies of Collaboration, Collective Resistance, and Coalition Building
Qureshi, A.
2025
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
The intensity of matter: The inhuman affects of geological performance
Madsen, T. M. K.
2025
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Thinking with people and pots: A practice-led design study of sociomaterially distributed thought processes
Vega, L.
2024
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Layered Approaches: Woven eTextile Explorations Through Applied Textile Thinking
Pouta, E.
2023
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
The Making of Inspiration: From Monet to Warhol and beyond
Korolainen, H.-K.
2022
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Relating to Clay: Tuning in to the Workings of the Aesthetic Dimension in Ceramic Practice
Falin, P.
2022
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation. Aalto University publication series Doctoral Theses 116/2022.
Entangled Fibres: An examination of human-material interaction
Aktaş, B. M.
2020
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Becoming with Clothes: Activating wearer-worn engagements through design
Valle-Noronha, J.
2019
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.
Making Sense through Hands: Design and Craft Practice Analysed as Embodied Cognition
Groth, C.
2017
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Doctoral dissertation.