Department of Design

Pia Backström

Master of Arts, Doctoral Researcher.
Pia Backström in an orange beret and scarf, smiling up at a clear blue sky above spruce trees.

Pia Backström is a contemporary artist based in Finland. Her current position is Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Design, Aalto University, Finland. Her research questions are related to spiritual environmental awareness, i.e. spiritual ecology, within contemporary ceramic art.

Backström has a background in contemporary art; exhibiting, educating, coordinating. She holds a BA and MA in ceramic art from the University of Art and Design Helsinki. In her artistic research she examines via a feminist theoretical framework the entanglement of environmental awareness, personal spirituality, and mythological narrative embedded in contemporary ceramic art. The research enhances questions of spiritual quality within the debate on environmental issues in art and design.

https://www.piabackstrom.com
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/researchers/2570928
https://piabackstrom.blogspot.com

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