Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student forms an understanding of the history of Finnish performing and screen arts and costume design perceiving the common starting points of theatre and film design and the diverging development in Finnish performing arts. The student learns to recognise special characteristics of Finnish film, TV, theatre and costume design. The student is able to name key figures and their achievements in each area. The student learns to recognise different phenomena, tendencies and mindsets regarding scenography and costume design in the history of Finnish Performing and Screen Arts design.

Credits: 4

Schedule: 23.11.2021 - 10.12.2021

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Sofia Pantouvaki

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    The history of performing and screen arts design as well as costume design is discussed from the early stages concentrating on the essential phases and turning points. The designers and their work are discussed in relation to the field's production companies and the spirit of the times, and also through their own artistic endeavours and signature style.

    Exploring museums, archives and other institutions as a source of information.

  • applies in this implementation

    Course: ELO-E5021 History of Finnish Performing and Screen Arts Design

     


    Week 47

    Online. Course link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68334612874

     

    Tues 23.11.     online

    9.15 - 13.15     Introduction to the course & Lecture Heta Reitala

     

    Wed 24.11.     online + visit

    13.15 - 17.00   Lecture Heta Reitala + Visit Ateneum

     

    Thurs 25.11.    online

    9.15 - 12.15     Lecture Joanna Weckman

     

    Fri 26.11.         online

    9.15 - 12.15     Lecture Heta Reitala

     

     

    Week 48

    On campus and in archives.
    (Course link is valid in case needed:
    https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68334612874)

     

    Tues 30.11.     on campus: Väre room: P104 Projekti M

    9:00 - 11:00     Scenography / Heta Reitala 

    11.15 - 13:15   Costume / Joanna Weckman 

    13:15 - 14:15   Lunch break

    14:15 -17:00    Scenography / Heta Reitala

     

    Wed 1.12.       at Theatre Museum spaces

    Full day of parallel visits to the Theatre Museum (Tallberginkatu 1, 00180 Helsinki) and the Theatre Museum archive: Kumpulantie 11, Helsinki.

    9:00 - 12:30     Visit Theatre Museum

                            Costume & Scenography / Joanna Weckman & Heta Reitala

    12:30-13:45     Lunch Break and transfer time

    13:45 - 16:00   Visit Theatre Museum archive

                            Costume & Scenography / Joanna Weckman & Heta Reitala

                                        

    Thurs 2.12.       on campus: Väre room: P104 Projekti M and at KAVI

    9:15 - 12:00     Finnish film history and Production design / Kimmo Laine (Väre room)

    12:00-13:30     Lunch Break and transfer to KAVI (Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti): Sörnäisten rantatie 25 A, 00501 Helsinki

    13:30 - 16:15     Production design / Kimmo Laine – visit to KAVI

     

    Fri 3.12.

    9:00 - 17:00     Independent work at the Theatre Museum/KAVI (reservation for the researchers’ room in the archive of the Theatre Museum for students’ independent research)

     

     

    Week 49         

    Online and on campus. Course link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68334612874

     

    Tues 7.12.       online

    9:15 - 12:00     Scenography / Heta Reitala

    13:00 - 16:00   Costume / Tua Helve

     

    Wed 8.12.       online

    9:15 - 11:15     Costume / Joanna Weckman

    12:00 - 14:00     Scenography / Heta Reitala

    14:30 - 17:00   Independent work at the Theatre Museum/KAVI (reservation for the researchers’ room in the archive of the Theatre Museum for students’ independent research)

     

    Thurs 9.12.      online

    9:15 - 12:00     Scenography / Heta Reitala

    13:00 - 16:00   Production design / Kimmo Laine

     

    Fri 10.12.         on campus: Väre room: P104 Projekti M

    9:00 - 17:00     Student presentations / Heta Reitala, Joanna Weckman, Kimmo Laine

    (all tutors present for discussion and feedback) incl. break for lunch.

Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Lectures, discussions, exercises, visits and presentations. 80% attendance in lectures and contact sessions required.

Workload
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Contact teaching 60%, independent work 40%. In addition to attending lectures, students will also work on their own small research projects during the course.

    Exploring museums, archives and other institutions as a source of information.

DETAILS

Study Material
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Bibliography:

    Reitala, Heta (ed.) 2005. Harha on totta ed. by Heta Reitala. Atena-kustannus. Articles in Finnish, resumés in English:

    -  Better See Once Than Listen a Hundred Times. Old Chinese saying by Marja-Leena Wegelius

    - Down with Realism, Long Live Reality! Starting Points and Trends of Early Modernism in Finnish Stage Design by Heta Reitala

    -  The Tradition of Film Design and Finnish Studio Films by Sakari Toiviainen

    -  Trends of Applied Arts. Liisi Tandefelt and the Turning-Point in Theatre Costume Design in the 1960s and 1970s by Heta Reitala

    -  Majestically Simple. What Beauty Needs to Come True. Kari Liila (1943 1982) by Kristiina Lyytinen

    - Visual Design: Måns Hedström. On Touring Aesthetics in the 1970s by Merja-Liisa Karhu

    -  Empty and Full. The Experience of Space and the Working of Time in Tiina Makkonen

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

    5 Gender Equality

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Minimum/maximum group size 4/25

     

    Students are accepted to the course in following order:

    -Design for the Performing Arts and Costume design major students, to whom the course is mandatory

    - Production design MA-students

    - Minor students

    - Other design for the performing arts, costume design and production design students

    - Other students from the Department of Film and Scenography

    - Other students 

    Teaching Period:

    (2020, 2021) - No teaching

    2021-2022 Autumn II

    Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELO-E5021

    Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts

    The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)

    The order of priority is as follows:

    1. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
    2. exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
    3. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
    4. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
    5. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
    6. students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
    7. students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
    8. students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
    9. other students.

     

    Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.

    This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.