Floating Peripheries Research Project: Opening Seminar

We warmly invite you to Magito, Suvilahti to hear presentations of research topics and to visit a collective artwork specifically composed for this occasion.

"Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place" is a four-year Academy of Finland funded research consortium by Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Departments of Film Television and Scenography and Art (Vicca) + University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design.

In the project we aim at enlarging the understanding of ‘peripheries’ into areas that are difficult to verbalize. Peripheries are conventionally conceived as marginal geographical locations, whereas we aim at conceiving peripheries as a multifaceted phenomenon – as conceptual, spatial and site-responsive domains, aesthetically and spatially experienced sensory spheres, states of mind shaped by complex associations and mental images, and activities through different mediums in arts and epistemologies.

Liisa Ikonen (PI), Elina Lifländer, Maiju Loukola, Harri Laakso, Pia Euro from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto ARTS.

Mari Mäkiranta (sub project PI), Eija Timonen, Jonna Tolonen from University of Lapland, ULAP.
 
For more information about the project: https://www.facebook.com/peripherix/

The opening event is organised in cooperation with ELO Research.

Venue: MAGITO, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, 00540 Helsinki (in Suvilahti area)

Coffee and after-seminar drinks served. Lunch recommendation at Lämpö restaurant nextdoor.