Sofia Pantouvaki
Professor
Professor
A801 Department of Film
Sofia Pantouvaki founded Costume in Focus (2013), the first research group on performance costume and led the research project Costume Methodologies(2014-2018) funded by the Academy of Finland. Her research currently focuses on the theory and practice of performance costume with a special interest in design for opera and dance, costume and technology, and costume and sustainability; curation and exhibition design; scenography as theatre education; and clothing in the concentration camps of World War Two.
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Phone number
+358505992288
Areas of expertise
Scenography, Costume in Focus, Costume design, Costume in action, Concentration Camp Clothing
Honors and awards
Student prize: ASTRO TV, 2025, fiction, dir. Magdaleena Jakkila, MA film
Invitation: Official selection: R&A Shorts – National Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Sep 2025
Student prize: ASTRO TV, 2025, fiction, dir. Magdaleena Jakkila, MA film
Invitation: Official selection: ELOa Espoossa – Fresh out of ELO, Special screening
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Aug 2025
Student prize: ASTRO TV, 2025, fiction, dir, Magdaleena Jakkila, MA film
Invitation: Official selection: New Nordic Films – Next Nordic Generation -competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Aug 2025
Student prize: ODOTTAJAT (The Wait), fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki
Invitation: Official selection: Nordic Flames -competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Aug 2025
Student prize: ODOTTAJAT (The Wait), fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki
Invitation: Official selection of Short Student Films
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Jul 2025
Student prize: ODOTTAJAT (The Wait), 2025, fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki
Invitation: Official selection: NEXXT Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Jun 2025
student prize: ODOTTAJAT, 2024, fiction, dir. Vilja Keskimäki
invitation: Official selection: R&A Shorts National Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Sep 2024
Student prize: SUONSILMÄ (Eye of the Fen), 2024, fiction, dir. Topi Raulo, MA film
Invitation: Official selection: Student Etudes Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Nov 2024
Student prize: SUONSILMÄ (Eye of the Fen), 2024, fiction, dir. Topi Raulo, MA film
Invitation: Official selection: Baltic Herring Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Aug 2024
Student prize: SUONSILMÄ (Eye of the Fen), 2024, fiction, dir. Topi Raulo, MA film
Invitation: Official selection: International Competition
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Film
Apr 2024
Publications
A decade of Studies in Costume and Performance
Suzanne Osmond, Sofia Pantouvaki, Madeline Taylor
2025
Studies in Costume and Performance
"Nara" (costume design for contemporary opera)
Sofia Pantouvaki
2025
Species
Sofia Pantouvaki
2025
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" ("Η Παράξενη Υπόθεση του δρ Τζέκιλ και του κύριου Χάιντ") (costume design)
Sofia Pantouvaki
2025
Emergent voices and recovered practices
Suzanne Osmond, Sofia Pantouvaki
2024
Studies in Costume and Performance
Costuming the Extreme: A Critical Analysis of Concentration Camp Prisoner Costumes in 'Schindler's List' (1993)
Sofia Pantouvaki
2024
"Moonshine Prince (Månskensprinsen)" (Costume design) exhibited in 'World Costume in Action' exhibition at Bucharest Scenography Biennale 2024
Sofia Pantouvaki
2024
Researching with and through Costume: Proposition for a Research Framework
Sofia Pantouvaki
2024
Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance
Studies in Costume and Performance, Issue 9.1 (open themed)
Sofia Pantouvaki, Suzanne Osmond
2024
Studies in Costume and Performance
Transmedia Costume as 'Sustainable' Costume? Blending Physical and Virtual Bodily Materialities
Sofia Pantouvaki
2024
International Journal of Film and Media Arts