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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 1 

    Thursday 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-making

    Organization: Platform MAKE.

    Task: Write a one page reflection on the symposium and relation to your work.
    Hand in deadline: 26th of September

    Tuesday 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 Vetteli

    Forest 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 Tegenlicht

    10:30 - 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 Ruins

    By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 

    13:00 - 16:00 Tutoring (Group)

    13.00 - 16.00 Video Making help and troubleshooting / or course session 2 


    Week 6


    Tuesday 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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