This was an article written in Estonian for Müürileht. The main topic was the increase in noise complaints in people living in and around popular places to spend time in Tallinn, like Telliskivi and Noblessner. These are both “culture factories” – former sites of manufacture appropriated by capital and culture.
Category: Writing
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Zaha Hadid’s Tallinn
This was an article written in Estonian for Müürileht. The article concentrated on two competitions recently won by Zaha Hadid Architects in Tallinn: the harbour masterplan and Ülemiste Rail Baltic terminal. It acknowledged that the city is now on the way to receive its first “starchitecture” and asked if it was necessary.
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Kopli, Reflecting Tallinn’s Polarities
This was a short article about Kopli, a district we were researching at the time with Urbiquity and students from the Estonian Academy of Arts. The core of the argument was that many of the most severe spatial injustices in Tallinn are being carried out in Kopli. Segregation, gentrification and speculative investment are all visible in the urban space here in the north of the capital.
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Reading the Street – Book and Exhibition
The exhibition showcased a selection of student work resulting from the “Art and the City” studio at the Estonian Academy of Arts as well as a presentation of the book “Reading the Street – Creative Methods in Doing Critical Urban Research on the Example of Two Streets in Milan and Tallinn” by the urbanism platform Urbiquity.
The aim of the “Art and the City” studio has been to merge artistic practices with researching urban space. The studio is interdisciplinary and its results have been publicly presented in the form of exhibitions and talks. The wider aim of the studio is to expand the concept of city-making – asking who and what has the power to shape urban space and what possibilities inhabitants of a city have for more agency over space.
The exhibition consisted of a selection of student work resulting from the “Art and the City” studio, which showcased how creative methodologies can enable difficult and critical conversations. The book “Reading the Street” combines the results of the 2018 “Art and the City” studio with the results from a parallel workshop conducted in Milan and offers a critical analysis of using creative methods for urban research.
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A City Read With One’s Feet
This was an article written for Estonian cultural newspaper SIRP. It is in Estonian. The focus of the article was the urbanist research methodologies of walking practices on the example of the studio I run at the Estonian Academy of Arts. This marked the first year of the studio and is based on the 50km walk we did with nearly 100 students around the filming locations of “Stalker” in Tallinn and in its vicinity.