This is the course blog for K-JI-11-22A - Ecological Thinking. In 2022-23, as a year-long collaborative research studio with Aarhus University, DK, Research Pavilion 2023 and Helsinki Biennial 2023 we engage with the themes of environmental data, sensing and contamination.
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Orla Mc Hardy wonders if contaminants and cyanobacteria are agents and provocateurs that challenge perceptions of everyday encounters.
Qiong Zhang thinks extraction is not only about humans extracting but also about humans being extracted by the pit.
Saara Hannula examines the contaminated diversity of the Baltic Sea.
Johanna Sulalampi attempts to understand the sonic world of lichens.
Heini Nieminen explores the links between mining and land art from the perspective of aesthetic and geological formations.
Ville Aslak Raasakka investigates the sonic and sensory world of the Baltic shellfish.
Leena Kela presents methods for coping with the present environmental destruction of the Baltic Sea and beyond.
Lauri Lähteenmäki examines geographic models of the Baltic Sea as a way to probe the environmental-political dynamics of the region.
This is the course blog for K-JI-11-22A – Ecological Thinking. In 2022-23, as a year-long collaborative research studio with Aarhus University, DK, Research Pavilion 2023 and Helsinki Biennial 2023 we engage with the themes of environmental data, sensing and contamination.
Header image credit: Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka / Seed, Image, Ground (2020)- With permission from the authors.