Our projects

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

Search results: 23

Project name	Project time	Funder
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Health, Narrative and the Arts Health, Narrative and the Arts offers training in narrative skills for professionals in healthcare and social work.	01/2021	Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
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?	01/2016-12/2021	Academy of Finland
IN.TUNE – Innovative Universities in Music & Arts in Europe IN.TUNE – Innovative Universities in Music and Arts in Europe is the first European Universities Alliance in the field of music and arts.	01/2024-12/2027	European Union
Interactivity in Performance Design (Ves) Degree programmes in lighting and sound design develop teaching curricula and learning environments by researching different intersections and phenomena within contemporary performance.	01/2017
Learning narrative competence Reflective writing courses at Uniarts Helsinki aim to foster narrative competence among social work and healthcare professionals. This research project investigates professionals’ assumptions of narrative competence, their experiences of course participation and evaluates how the learning objectives for the courses are met.	04/2022-12/2023	The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation and The University of the Arts Helsinki
Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees Although we are often accused of “not seeing the forest for the trees”, this project wants to look at the opposite danger, not seeing the trees for the forest, and focus on individual trees.	01/2020-12/2021	The Finnish Cultural Foundation
Mobility and Literature in the Arts (MobiLit) The project promotes the mobility of African and Finnish writing students, researchers and teachers.	01/2022-12/2024	Ministry of Culture and Education in Finland
Nordic Choreographic Platform (NCP) The platform supports Nordic educational exchange and collaboration in the field of choreography. It is part of the annual studies of the master's programme in choreography. The implementation of the studies varies from year to year.
PIMDI: A pedagogy of imaginative dialogues The Erasmus+ strategic partnership developed a pedagogical approach and framework of “imaginative dialogues”. This pedagogy takes the (potential) tension between incompatible differences as a productive and engaging starting point in order to open up a dialogical ‘third space’ between them.	09/2020-08/2023	European Union Erasmus + programme
Scenkonst med i lärande (SMIL) Scenkonst med i lärande (SMIL) is a development and research project exploring how the performing arts could be integrated as part of the learning environments of comprehensive schools and pre-primary education. The project is funded by the SKAPA fund of the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.	01/2023-12/2026	Svenska kulturfonden
Theatre Academy Dance Collective TADaC A collective of second year master's students in dance performance and a platform for their thesis projects.	01/2007
Vision for performing arts education for 2030 The project aims at establishing a national vision for the state of education in theatre, dance, circus and performance art for 2030.	08/2021-12/2022
Xeno-/exo-/astro-/choreoreadings The project's main objective is to develop new perspectives to place- and site-responsive practices and produce artworks that emerge from engaging with the critical material of speculative fiction, astrobiology, astronomical data, and queer theory.	01/2020-12/2022	The Finnish Cultural Foundation