MUO-E5035 - Materials and Living Systems, 08.09.2020-15.10.2020
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Materials and Living Systems:
FUNGI AND FOREST 08.09.2020 - 15.10.2020
In blue are the sections taught online. The zoom link which we will use for all online teaching sessions is in a word file in the 'materials' section.
Timetable:
Week 1
Tuesday 8.9.
10:00 Väre tour, we meet at the lobby at 10:00am
Thursday 10.9.
11:00-15:00 Karhusaari Forest Welcome
Villa Sinebrychoff, Karhusaarenpiha 5, 02100 Espoo
With guests Prof. Laura Arpiainen & Jan Luettjohann
Please bring: a packed lunch, A mat or cushion to sit on (something that can get wet), warm clothes to be outdoors, good shoes, hot drink or water, snacks, a wood carving knife if you have one, pencil and paper.
Week 2
Monday 14.9.
10.00-16.00 Video Making crash-course and exercises (online)
Tuesday 15.9. (OFF SITE) (time TBC)
09:15 - 11:00 We meet at Zoom: task 1
HELSIENI visit we meet at 13:00
Kutojantie 12, 02630 Espoo
Briefing task 1Thursday 17.9. (ONLINE)
09:15 - 12:00
Emilia Tikka - How to craft Speculative Design?
Reading discussion with Emilia Tikka on SPECULATIVE EVERYTHING DESIGN FICTION, AND SOCIAL DREAMING By Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby.
13:00 - 16:00 (ONLINE)
Aalto MA graduates on their experiences with matter
Presentations by:
Manuel Arias Barrantes - Lab-grown futures: Design exploration for the development of fungi as a leather-like material
Eveliina Juuri - Pigments of Microorganisms
Taliisa Dwiyani - Sustainable initiative within material development- Towards sustainable design in Indonesia from rice straw residue
Week 3
Monday 21.09. (ONLINE).
19:00 - 21:00 Growing as Making – Online Symposium on Fabricating with Biology
Web: www.burg-halle.de/make/2020/07/growing-as-makingOrganization: Platform MAKE.
Task: Write a one page reflection on the symposium and relation to your work.
Hand in deadline: 26th of SeptemberTuesday 22.9. (city-center)
9.15 - 12.00 Design Museum Soil Matters, guided tour by Maarit Mäkelä.
We meet in the lobby of the museum at 09:15
Please bring with you two empty jam-jars.Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki
13:00 - 16:00 Annantalo Bioart exhibition Criss-crossing Ecologies
We meet at the lobby of Annantalo at 13:00
Annankatu 30, Helsinki
Thursday 24.9 (ONLINE).
09:15 - 10:45 Tuija Pakkanen - Planetary Architecture Research Studio.
11:00 - 12:30 Group Tutorials with Anna & Julia
13:30-16:00 Kitchen Zoom Natural Dyeing online workshop
Online workshop with Ingvill Fossheim. Please have at least two of the following food stocks in your kitchen: Avocado stone, red onions, white onions, turmeric, fresh beetroot. Please also make sure you have a pot, stirrer, some old rags and a heating plate / oven available as well as running water. Wear old clothes and have your material bag you received on Tuesday at the ready.
Week 4
Tuesday 29.9. (IN THE FOREST)
Nuuksio field trip with mycologist (fungi specialist) Pyry VetteliForest picnic, please bring your own drinks and snacks, weather-proof clothing, good shoes.
Thursday 1.10. (VÄRE R028/Q201) and streamed online on zoom
09:15 - 12:00 Lecture and discussion Pyry Vetteli
13:00 - 16:00 Group tutoring and feedback from Pyry and Anna
Week 5
Tuesday 6.10. ONLINE
09:15 - 10:30 watching documentary together followed by a discussion
In de ban van het bos - VPRO Tegenlicht10:30 - 12:00 Saara Kantele, The Alder Project - How to understand forests.
13.00-16.00 Video Making crash-course and exercises
Thursday 8.10. ONLINE
09:15 - 12:00 Reading discussion
The Mushroom at the End of the World On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist RuinsBy Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
13:00 - 16:00 Tutoring (Group)
13.00 - 16.00 Video Making help and troubleshooting / or course session 2
Week 6Tuesday 13.10. (ONLINE)
09.15-16.00 Video Making help and troubleshooting / or course session 3 (pending)
Thursday 15.10. (VÄRE R028/F101), online only if it is impossible to come in person.
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