Our projects

See all our research projects as well as development and international co-operation projects.

Search results: 147

Project name	Project time	Funder
Performance Pedagogy – Politics of Art Pedagogy The aim of the research is to consider how performance art is taught and what social dimensions performance art teachers see in their work.	01/2023-12/2026	The project is part of the profiling area ”Artistic thinking that is driven by artist pedagogy” funded by the Research Council of Finland.
A classroom of one’s own Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik explores women piano teachers, intersectionality, and the gendered power structures of musical life in Helsinki and Tallinn between 1861 and 1924.	09/2022-08/2025	Academy of Finland
Abandoned Melodies DMus Anne Elisabeth Piirainen, in cooperation with pianist DMus Kirill Kozlovski examine stylistic peculiarities in the compositions of the Krein family, analysing this neglected repertoire to the backdrop of the cultural development within the Soviet Union.	01/2021-12/2021	The Finnish Cultural Foundation
Active Acoustic Augmented Instruments The project aims to create a seamless integration of acoustic and electronic sound into a single instrumental entity.	01/2015	Academy of Finland
Active Acoustics – Smart Audio objects at the Interface of the Material and the Digital Academy of Finland Key Project by Otso Lähdeoja, targets the development of pioneering audio applications combining structure-borne sound and sensor technology into a set of Active Acoustic Objects at the interface of the material and the digital.	01/2016-12/2018	Academy of Finland
Aino and Heikki The research examines Aino Ackté’s and Heikki Renvall’s correspondence.		The Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Alexandria Nova Alexandria Nova network explored what the art of directing is and how it is taught. It was formed by seven study programmes of directing of different countries together with their partners.	09/2019-08/2022	Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
All the Truths We Cannot See: A Chernobyl Story Follow the exceptional opera collaboration between Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy and the USC Thornton School of Music.	01/2020-05/2022	Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
ArsADAPT – Artists for a sustainable future ArsADAPT creates new approaches to music studies and musician's work by integrating the sustainable future agenda and related research into artistic work.	09/2022-05/2023	The Strategic Research Council (SRC), ADAPT research programme (2018-2023) Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Artist Pedagogy The project sets out to develop a deeper understanding of how and why artists teach in the ways they do, to share these approaches through various means, and to foster communities of practice.		Saastamoinen Foundation
Artist-activist in post-fossil revolution Marjatta Oja's research project (2018-2023) explores the empowerment of the artist.	01/2018-12/2023
Artistic Collaboration Project (ACO) The collaborative and multidisciplinary course between Theatre Academy and Aalto University has been organised every other year since 1994.	01/1994	Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy & Aalto University
Artistic Dialogue in Urban Environment In her artistic research (2014-2021), Mari Martin makes art in urban environments in collaboration with others, while reflecting on and testing the concept of dialogue.	01/2014-12/2021	University of the Arts Helsinki, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland & the City of Helsinki
Artistic Doctorates in Europe Artistic Doctorates in Europe: Third cycle provision in Dance and Performance (ADiE) project is investigating Practice as Research (PaR) inquiries within research level degrees in Dance and Performance.		Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Artistic Processes of University Art Students Self-Identifying Along the Neurodiversity Spectrum The study seeks to learn about the neurodiversity experience of students’ engagement with artistic thinking within their artistic processes.	01/2023-12/2024
Artwork – a better future for all through creativity ARTWORK aims to expand the field of work for artists and raise increased awareness of the use of artistic methods for strengthening education and social initiatives.	01/2022-06/2023	Erasmus+ programme
Beautiful Past – Rethinking Stradivari Violins in the Aesthetics of European Neoclassicism (c. 1760-1814) Research project (2015-2018) by Christina Linsenmeyer focuses on the canonization of Stradivari violins.	01/2015-12/2018	Academy of Finland
Black Ecologies: Performing Art in the Extraction Zone The project aims to build artistic research methods to examine Extractivism and ecology.	09/2021-12/2024	The project is funded by Kone Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki.
Bodies in war, Bodies in Dance The project researches rhythm, performance and emotions in Finnish military training and capoeira for refugees.	01/2017-12/2020	Academy of Finland
Breathing With Research project (2020-2021) by Miriam Jakob and Jana Unmüßig explores breathing in choreography.	01/2020-12/2021	Senat Berlin
Cantatrices Achté The research concentrates on a correspondence that reveals points of view on the conventions of opera culture.		Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, the foundation of Emil Aaltonen & Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse
Caring for musically gifted children In this project, Dr. Guadalupe López-Íñiguez seeks to support children gifted for music internationally, so that they can live as agentic and healthy individuals while pursuing desirable educational outcomes in caring ecosystems.	09/2022-08/2027	The Academy of Finland (Ref. 348591)
Chromatic Noise: Mnemopolitics and Autochrome Witnesses Chromatic Noise: Mnemopolitics and Autochrome Witnesses is a practice-led research on the historicity and materiality of digital image production in an analogue production environment. From early 20th century archival photographs of the Middle East / Minor Asia / Mesopotamian region, AI-generated memory images are created and set into motion, to critically investigate whether those can represent lost or hidden histories and related memories.	05/2024-04/2027	University Research Fellow Project, funded by Saastamoinen Foundation
City as Space of Rules and Dreaming The project funded by Kone Foundation (2021-2024) strengthens polyphony of urban space and thereby develops a more just city.	01/2021-12/2024	Kone Foundation
Classical Musicians’ Motivation to Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic The research is about the challenges that classically-trained musicians faced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and Latin America.	01/2021-12/2022
Conservatory cultures	01/2021-12/2025	The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen)
Control and Tax: The Licensing and Taxing Systems of Music and Musicians in late Habsburg Prague, 1894–1918 The research project addresses neglected aspects of the music culture of Prague.		Otto A. Malm Foundation & Kone Foundation
Correspondence with the Past Elina Saloranta's artistic research examines Finnish singer Elli Forssell.
Creative Dialogue Creative Dialogue is an international workshop for young instrumentalist and composers to learn new repertoire and experience the creative dialogue between music and its performers.	01/2008
Curriculum as a policy instrument for educational (e)quality of music education in Finland Research project (2018-) directed by Marja-Leena Juntunen examines issues related to the implementation of the music core curricula in Basic Education and Basic Education in the Arts.	01/2018	The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Svensk-Österbottniska samfundet & The Finnish Cultural Foundation
Dance Performance and Choreography – an artistic collaboration on digital platforms Watch online projects by master’s degree students of Dance Performance and Choreography.	03/2020-04/2020
Data Ocean Theatre The postdoctoral project continues Vincent Roumagnac's artistic research on re-ecologizing theatre.
Dialogue Generation for Radio Drama The project explores the computational generation of dialogue for radio drama.	01/2016-12/2019	YLE – the Finnish Broadcasting Company, the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki
Digital Literature The Digital Literature Project (di.ki) aims to increase knowledge about digital literature and to support creation of new works of art.	01/2021-12/2021	The Finnish Cultural Foundation and Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture AVEK
Diversity of Music Heritage in Finland Diversity of Music Heritage in Finland focuses on heritagisation of music in Finland with emphasis on ethnicity and intergenerational relations.	01/2023-12/2025	Kone Foundation
EDUCase The project aims to establish a platform for interdisciplinary collaborative arts projects that bring together artists and art professionals in Finland, Tanzania, and Mozambique.	01/2021-12/2024	Ministery of Education and Culture (Finland)
Embodied Language Learning through the Arts (ELLA) ELLA is a research project (2021-2024) funded by Kone foundation which investigates how embodied language learning through the arts may generate substantial change within communities.	01/2021-12/2024	Kone Foundation
Engraved in the Body: Ways of reading Finnish people’s memories from mental hospitals Research project (2017-2020) by Kirsi Heimonen investigates different aspects of memories.	01/2017-12/2020	Kone Foundation
Equity in Composing The Equity in Composing project (2019-) aims to reduce gender-based occupational segregation and to advance equal opportunities for participation in the field.	01/2019-11/2020	Wegeliuksen muistosäätiö, Musiikin edistämissäätiö (MES) & Suomen Säveltäjät ry
ExoSound The research project investigates and develops artistic, technological and social prospects for participatory electronic sound arts that take place outdoors.	09/2024-08/2028	Research Council of Finland
Expanding Reflexivity of Professional Education in Music in Times of Crises The multidisciplinary and multi-methods research addresses the dramatic effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire classical music industry and educational field.	01/2022-12/2022	Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Fair Sculpture Fair Sculpture encourages and helps empower children and young people, with a focus on young people who have fewer opportunities to engage with different kinds of art and culture.	01/2022	Talent Boost
Fast45 FAST45 investigates alternative futures for institutions of higher arts education in Europe.	01/2021-12/2023	Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Financialization of art education, practice and research The research investigates speculative and epistemological conjunctions between art and finance, and how financial logic has increased its relevance in the non-financial context of the arts.	01/2022-12/2027	Applications pending: ERC and Academy of Finland for years 2023-27
Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation FAPI Pilot A pedagogic research project exploring the socially innovative capacities of contextual / site-responsive art practice in the Nordic and Pan-African contexts.	09/2021-12/2024
Finnish National Ballet 100 Aino Kuokkanen researches the history of the Finnish National Ballet.		Niilo Helander Foundation Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Finnish Cultural Foundation
Folk_ME – Folk Music Education for Future Generations Folk_ME - Folk Music Education for Future Generations is an innovative education project, what targets public education.	10/2019-10/2021	Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Food Timo Heino's research project "Food" explores food from different perspectives.	01/2018-12/2020
Foreign Study Trips of Finnish Organists The research project lead by Peter Peitsalo explores Finnish organ art.
Forgotten bagpipes "Forgotten Bagpipes - The Redesign of the Säkkipilli in Finland" aims at rebuilding the musical instrument and reviving the Finnish Piping tradition