Our projects
See all our research projects as well as development and international co-operation projects.
Search results: 104
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Exploring Finland’s Model for Leisure Activities (HSM): Children’s Experiences and Evaluation of the Model
This Fulbright-supported research aims to better understand the experiences of children and young people with Finland's Model for Leisure Activities (HSM) and to highlight possible gaps or missed opportunities that children and youth from marginalized groups may encounter.
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01/2025-05/2025 |
Fulbright Finland Foundation |
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Performance Pedagogy – Politics of Art Pedagogy
The aim of Pilvi Porkola's research is to consider how performance art is taught and what social dimensions performance art teachers see in their work.
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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. |
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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.
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09/2022-08/2025 |
Academy of Finland |
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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.
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01/2021-12/2021 |
The Finnish Cultural Foundation |
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Active Acoustic Augmented Instruments
The project aims to create a seamless integration of acoustic and electronic sound into a single instrumental entity.
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01/2015 |
Academy of Finland |
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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.
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01/2016-12/2018 |
Academy of Finland |
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Aino and Heikki
The research examines Aino Ackté’s and Heikki Renvall’s correspondence.
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The Alfred Kordelin Foundation |
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Archive of Art School Dissent
Chris Evans' and Magnus Quaife's project seeks to discover trans-geographical entanglements between education, geo-economic circumstances, cultural conditions, and communities through which alterity has been articulated and dissent enacted.
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03/2024 |
Saastamoinen Foundation |
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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.
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09/2022-05/2023 |
The Strategic Research Council (SRC), ADAPT research programme (2018-2023) |
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Artist Pedagogy
Magnus Quaife's 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.
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Saastamoinen Foundation |
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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.
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01/2014-12/2021 |
University of the Arts Helsinki, the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland & the City of Helsinki |
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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.
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Erasmus+ programme of the European Union |
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Artistic Processes of University Art Students Self-Identifying Along the Neurodiversity Spectrum
Timothy Smith's study seeks to learn about the neurodiversity experience of students’ engagement with artistic thinking within their artistic processes.
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01/2023-12/2024 | |
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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.
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01/2022-06/2023 |
Erasmus+ programme |
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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.
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01/2015-12/2018 |
Academy of Finland |
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Black Ecologies: Performing Art in the Extraction Zone
The project aims to build artistic research methods to examine Extractivism and ecology.
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09/2021-12/2024 |
The project is funded by Kone Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki. |
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Bodies in war, Bodies in Dance
The project researches rhythm, performance and emotions in Finnish military training and capoeira for refugees.
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01/2017-12/2020 |
Academy of Finland |
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Cantatrices Achté
The research concentrates on a correspondence that reveals points of view on the conventions of opera culture.
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Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, the foundation of Emil Aaltonen & Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse |
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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.
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09/2022-08/2027 |
The Scientific Council for Culture and Society, Research Council of Finland (Ref. 348591) |
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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.
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05/2024-04/2027 |
University Research Fellow Project, funded by Saastamoinen Foundation |
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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.
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01/2021-12/2024 |
Kone Foundation |
| Conservatory cultures | 01/2021-12/2025 |
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) |
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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.
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Otto A. Malm Foundation & Kone Foundation |
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Correspondence with the Past
Elina Saloranta's artistic research examines Finnish singer Elli Forssell.
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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.
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01/2018 |
The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Svensk-Österbottniska samfundet & The Finnish Cultural Foundation |
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Data Ocean Theatre
The postdoctoral project continues Vincent Roumagnac's artistic research on re-ecologizing theatre.
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Developing student selection for the acting programme
Anu Koskinen's project investigates who, how, and why individuals are selected to study acting at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.
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06/2020-12/2024 |
The project is part of the Finnish Research Council’s profiling area ”Artistic thinking that is driven by artist pedagogy”. |
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Dialogue Generation for Radio Drama
The project explores the computational generation of dialogue for radio drama.
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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 |
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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.
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01/2023-12/2025 |
Kone Foundation |
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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.
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01/2021-12/2024 |
Kone Foundation |
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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.
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01/2019-11/2020 |
Wegeliuksen muistosäätiö, Musiikin edistämissäätiö (MES) & Suomen Säveltäjät ry |
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ExoSound
The research project investigates and develops artistic, technological and social prospects for participatory electronic sound arts that take place outdoors.
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09/2024-08/2028 |
Research Council of Finland |
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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.
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01/2022-12/2022 |
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation |
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Fast45
FAST45 investigates alternative futures for institutions of higher arts education in Europe.
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01/2021-12/2023 |
Erasmus+ programme of the European Union |
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Finnish National Ballet 100
Aino Kuokkanen researches the history of the Finnish National Ballet.
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Niilo Helander Foundation |
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Food
Timo Heino's research project "Food" explores food from different perspectives.
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01/2018-12/2020 | |
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Foreign Study Trips of Finnish Organists
The research project lead by Peter Peitsalo explores Finnish organ art.
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Forgotten bagpipes
"Forgotten Bagpipes - The Redesign of the Säkkipilli in Finland" aims at rebuilding the musical instrument and reviving the Finnish Piping tradition
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Fundamental Encounters ‒ Georges Didi-Huberman Before the Image
The project aims to shed more light on the points of convergence between the French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman and French phenomenology.
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02/2025-02/2027 | |
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Future Songwriting
The research project by Heidi Partti creates an international network of music teacher educators and a hybrid space for reflection and planning.
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01/2018-12/2020 |
Creative Europe programme of the European Union |
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FUTURED: Music teacher education for the future
The project's research objectives are to challenge the status quo of music teacher education in Norway, and to develop innovative and collaborative practices that could foster students’ collaborative, critical and democratic capacities.
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01/2019-12/2022 |
Research Council of Norway |
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GaiaStage — machines are socio-material arrangements
An activist music research project that uses a zero-carbon performance stage for music and other performances.
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Gestural philosophy
Luis Guerra's project explores collective artistic practices as informal devices of intentionless learning, radical democracy, and institutional activism.
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01/2023-08/2024 | |
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Global Visions Through Mobilizing Networks: Co-Developing Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Finland, Israel and Nepal
The research project funded by the Academy of Finland (2015 - 2020) creates an international network of music teacher educators and a hybrid space for reflection and planning.
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01/2015-12/2020 |
Academy of Finland |
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Grabando al caminar
Lea Kantonen researches the arts of indeginous people in Mexico. Grabando al caminar -project took place 2017-2018 and was funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
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01/2017-01/2018 |
Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs |
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Greatest Christmas Carols during the Covid-19 pandemic
This research project examines the experiences of church musicians from the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on the Greatest Christmas Carols -events.
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12/2020 | |
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Groans and muffled tones – hybrid, multidisciplinary realms of sounding bodies
The aim of the research project is to develop artist pedagogy and to subversively and horizontally alter the silo structures of the art university curricula.
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Health, Narrative and the Arts
Health, Narrative and the Arts offers training in narrative skills for professionals in healthcare and social work.
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01/2021 |
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation |
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Health, wellbeing and disability narratives in the arts
The overarching aim of this inter-cultural academic collaboration is to challenge academic ableism in higher education.
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01/2022-12/2024 |
The project is part of the SAFINET, the Southern African and Finnish Higher Education Institutions’ Network for Health and Wellbeing, within the Culture and Wellbeing sub-area. SAFINET is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Finland. |
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How to Do Things with Performance?
What can be done with performance? What actualises when a performance takes place, when it is documented, and when it is written about?
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01/2016-12/2021 |
Academy of Finland |