STRUCTURES – a (vibrating) intervention weekend

Location: Muualla

Punaruskealla pinnalla on keltaisia juovia sekä vihreitä, violetteja ja pinkkejä ympyränmuotoisia kuvioita.

An open intervention weekend for the public at the Museum of Finnish Architecture organized by Aalto University art education students.

Aalto University’s art education students invite you to consider how whole, finished and a quiet environment affects feelings of calmness, belonging and home. Together with the students, the role of architecture and, on the one hand, the Museum of Finnish Architecture is rethought.

STRUCTURES – a (vibrating) intervention weekend at the Museum of Finnish Architecture is organized by a group of art education students from Aalto University’s Department of Art and Media. The project is related to the course “Institutions, communities and public work”, within the framework of which students get to know Finnish museum field and exhibition pedagogy, as well as current discussions about the contents, meanings and inclusive practices of museums and cultural institutions. In addition, the course introduces the working methods of community art education and the means by which the meanings of community norms can be examined. Through critical examination, we look for perspectives that are not limited to the human perspective.

Welcome!

Tissues – Experimenting with soft materials in the museum

Museum of Finnish Architecture (1st–3rd floor)
1–2 April 2023 at 11 am – 6 pm (non-stop)
Language: Finnish & English
Participation: 10/5/0 € / Museum card (the first floor of the museum of free for everyone)

Whether it’s grandma’s knitted woollen socks, dad’s old T-shirt, soft toy, pillowcase or the carpet from your childhood home, the feel of them has a deeper meaning for us. Soft materials in art are universal and they evoke a feeling of warmth and security. They are woven into our stories. Museum visitors become a part of the tissue. You can build your own nest or shelter in the museum’s library and the hall on the second floor. You can also use soft materials for warmth, a super cloak or security for the exhibition and other spaces of the museum. Equipment is available in the library and the second floors hall. The experiment is facilitated by Netta Alarto.

Netta Alarto is an early childhood education teacher who studies visual arts education. She is fascinated with the coexistence of analogical and digital art with a socioemotional point of view. Netta studies empathy and touch in her art.

Our city workshop

Museum of Finnish Architecture (large negotiation room, 3rd floor)
Saturday 1 April 2023 at 12–2.30 pm and 3.30–5.30 pm
Sunday 2 April 2023 at 12–2.30 pm and 3.30–5.30 pm
Language: Finnish & English
Participation: free

Make your own miniature model of a building, house, home or cabin. The built miniatures are used to make a common city, which everyone’s own building can join. The miniature models will be displayed in the museum after the workshop. You do not need previous experience in making miniature models, because the workshop is assisted by an instructor. All materials and tools are available in the workshop. The workshop id facilitated by Charlotta Syren.

Charlotta Syren is a student of visual arts and crafts education. Her artistic production has mostly focused on illustrating books and designing logos. In her free time, she works on her own graphic novel.

What architecture? Our Concepts of Architecture – Recording Event

Museum of Finnish Architecture (1st–3rd floor)
1–2 April 2023 at 11 am – 6 pm (non-stop)
Language: Finnish & English
Participation: 10/5/0 € / Museum card (the first floor of the museum of free for everyone)

In the ‘recording event’ two experiments are carried out in the museum. We direct our attention to our personal and human culture’s understanding of architecture, by exploring and testing the concept of architecture freely alone and in relation to others. In the independently participated experiment the museum visitor is invited to listen to his own relation to architecture by making notes. In the second experiment, the visitor can take part in the telling of their own memories, stories and thoughts about architecture to “recorder of architectural stories” who strolls around the museum. The event is facilitated by Lotta Aulamo.

Lotta Aulamo is an architect, architecture education activist and a master’s student in Visual Art Education. Her work is characterized by multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinary, as well as a gravitation towards the emancipating, pleasure- and change-promoting possibilities of the built environment. Lotta’s thinking has been influenced by e.g. working in municipal urban planning and participating in Tampereen arkkitehtuurikasvatusyhdistys ry (Tampere Association of Architecture Education, Arkkitehtuurikoulu Tiili).

RROPT JUURRAKKO live performance

Museum of Finnish Architecture (staircase)
Saturday 1 April 2023 at 4–5.30 pm
Sunday 2 April 2023 at 4–5.30 pm
Language: Finnish & English
Participation: free

What is the building built on, and what is left under it? Tiia Roivanen and Saban Ramadani explore levels, space and layers, their mixing in a joint performance at the Museum of Finnish Architecture. The work explores the possible transport of the staircase and the synchronization of sounds with each other. In the piece, the sounds of rhizomes and fungi are heard and what they might sound like if they grew through the building and into the staircase. The sound piece can be experienced in the stairwell before the performance.

Saban Ramadani is a multidisciplinary artist and performer from Helsinki. He uses drawings, animations, objects and sound in his work, creating a space with as many stimuli as possible due to the fascination of creating overload experiences. The works they see are the result of obsession and hyper concentration.

Tiia Roivanen works multidisciplinary in the arts, e.g. text, melodies and the formation of emotions. Tiia is interested in the layerings of narration, material sensitivities, symbolism and blending/tones. Asks questions on the themes of vulnerability and honesty.

Accessibility

The Museum of Finnish Architecture is committed to the principles for a safer space in all museum activities. For more information: https://www.mfa.fi/en/visit-us/the-museum-of-finnish-architecture-principles-for-a-safer-space/ (link opens in a new window). For more information about the accessibility of the Museum of Finnish Architecture: https://www.mfa.fi/en/visit-us/accessibility-2/ (link opens in a new window). For more information about the health safety of the Museum of Finnish Architecture: https://www.mfa.fi/en/welcome-to-the-museum-of-finnish-architecture/ (link opens in a new window).

For more information

Jemina Lindholm
Manager of Learning and Public Programmes
Museum of Finnish Architecture
+358 45 7731 0476
jemina.lindholm@mfa.fi