Research and artistic activities at the Department of Art
The research and artistic activities of Department of Art takes place in the fields of contemporary art, art education, visual culture, and curating. The department has a long tradition with artistic and philosophical production and many researchers’ work emphasises contemporary, critical, political and societal entanglements of art, curating, and pedagogy. Artistic, art educational and curational research connects to, and informs larger societal, cultural, and philosophical discourses.
Many research projects are identified as artistic research (AR) or arts-based research (ABR). This research happens, for example, in artists’ spaces, classrooms, exhibitions, museums and other institutions, and in the public sphere. The emphasis on art praxis (the combination of theory and practice) and AR and ABR brings transdisciplinary artistic knowledge to other research contexts in a unique way, and it enriches a broad range of research areas at Aalto University. Work stems from contemporary art production, artistic research, activism, and/or pedagogical motives.
Research groups & externally funded projects
Fashion and Material Culture History
Research group
Finnish Arts Education Research
Focus area
Feminism and Queer in Art Education (FAQ)
Research group
Cluster for Critical Artistic Research (CCARe)
Research Group
Disability Studies, Art & Education (DSAE)
Research Network
Art and Biopolitics
Funded by EU Creative
Art, Science & Environment (ASE)
Research group
Re-fashioning the Renaissance
ERC-funded project
Research in Arts and Education
Research in Arts and Education is an international peer-reviewed journal. Thematic scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the questions of art & design practice and production, criticism, pedagogy, curriculum and instruction. The journal welcomes all arts disciplines: visual arts, music, dance and other performative arts, their theories, practices and education. Research in Art Education grants an open access to all publications and is ranked in the publication forum of Finnish academic research. The journal also welcomes submissions from different fields, including among others, anthropology, art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy.
Latest publications and artistic activities
Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650
5G Aesthetics
The New Aesthetics of Circular Architecture
Taideteoksen Eteneminen : 3D-animaatio
Relative Distance
סינתזה בין אמנות למדע כאמצעי להגברת אמפתיה בין קבוצתית
Stockfors Art Festival
Biofriction Exhibition, Lisbon
Conversation Series: Art’s New Making
Tick Acts
Our conferences
Art of Research Conference VII: Authorship and Responsibility
3.12.–4.12.2020: Over the past two decades, the Art of Research conferences have had a significant role in promoting continuous dialogue and fruitful convergence between art and design related research practices. The conferences have contributed to the development of rapidly growing and spreading contemporary discourse on artistic and practice-led research – acknowledging and engaging in multiple notions of research where diverse modes of creative practice are used as context for enquiry.
Radical Relevances 2018
25.–27.4.2018. We invite researchers and artists of all disciplines to join us in conference that goes beyond the rational and explores what is relevant to lived experience. Radical Relevances is a multidisciplinary conference addressing complex global phenomena of our time, such as climate change, biodiversity, income inequality, and mass migration and how these relate to the everyday lives of different people.
InSEA 2018
June 18.-21. 2018. The Congress will concentrate on European and global issues around art education and its connections to societal and scientific topics. The goal for this InSEA Congress is to offer possibilities for intercultural and interdisciplinary conversations on most current and burning issues in contemporary art education. Different submission formats will offer room for new ideas to appear among researchers, teachers, artists and project workers.
4th Conference on Arts-based Research and Artistic Research
June 28-30, 2016: Rethinking arts-based research, artistic research - and global/local communities.
The 1st International Conference on Disability Studies, Arts, and Education
September 28th and 29th, 2017: Exploring the intersections between disability, arts and pedagogy.
Dank Contemporaneities
Tuesday March 21st 2017: One-Day Symposium on the Post-Internet
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