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F2 Julkinen taiteellinen teoksen osatoteutus(2017-03-24) Maze, Ramia; Lee, Seungho; Hernberg, Hella; Kronqvist, Juha; Heinonen, Taneli; Pohjolainen, Miina; Lihhavtshuk, RomanThe mini-documentary about Design for Government (DFG) was produced in spring 2017. It outlines our approaches and projects commissioned to date from Finnish ministries, overviews motivations for and benefits of DfG from governmental, societal and design points of view. The 10-minute mini-documentary was produced for the ‘Enter and Encounter’ exhibition at Design Museum Helsinki where it is on view there (with Finnish subtitles) 24 Mar – 22 Oct 2017! Featured in the video are points of view from Richard Hylerstedt (DFG’15, design student at Aalto University), Suvi Kinnarinen Järvi (DFG’16, design student at Aalto), Anna-Kaisa Lahteenmaki-Smith (Science Specialist, Prime Minister’s Office), Fang-Yi Lee, DFG’14, design student at Aalto), Seungho Lee (founder of Design for Government), Ramia Mazé (Professor at Aalto), and Taina Nikula (Ministerial Advisor, Ministry of the Environment). DOCUMENTARY CREDITS Teachers: Ramia Mazé, Seungho Lee, Hella Hernberg, Juha Kronqvist, Taneli Heinonen ; Curatorial assistant: Miina Pohjolainen ; Video: Roman Lihhavtshuk ; Video graphics: Emma Berg ; Translation: Apropos Lingua Oy ; Images and photos by teachers, students, Da-Woon Chung and Glen Forde. - Disappearing islands – Cognitive capital, urban renewal and public art in Kalasatama and beyond
School of Arts, Design and Architecture | Master's thesis(2020) Pohjolainen, MiinaThis thesis examines the spatialized processes of knowledge-based economization through the public art commissioning and its reasonings, and unpacks the ways public art commissioning is intertwined with urban remodelling processes, which are reasoned with market rationality. Through these observations the thesis expands as a continuation to the previous critical public art discourses to consider and interpret ways to move beyond the limits of the current preconditions of cognitive capitalism. The case study of Kalasatama—a former cargo port transforming into a residential and commercial inner- city neighbourhood—maps out the local resonances of the global tendencies of urban remodelling and knowledge-based economization in Helsinki. These global tendencies and their interconnection with art are addressed as planning ideas—such as the smart city and the creative city—as the planning methods, such as strategic planning, and as the urban phenomena of spatial divide—such as gentrification and segregation. The ongoing urban remodelling of Kalasatama, which this thesis formulates as new-build gentrification, is steered by smart city thinking. The area works both as an urban living lab for testing smart solutions as well as it is branded as a vibrant cultural hub, in which the public art of the area is highlighted. Through the reasonings of participation and community building, the public art commissioning is connected with the branding of the area and linked with the market rationality of the urban renewal project. In the smart cities our lives happen increasingly with and through interfaces, which collect and restore our personal data for the profit of private companies, and thus the notion of citizenship is simultaneously being altered. This research aims to challenge the current status quo and introduce ways to bypass the instrumentalization of public art by introducing alternative theoretical and practical tools for producing the city space. As a curatorial research—an interdisciplinary research—this work takes its departure from the tradition of critical theory and draws from the versatile fields of knowledge, combining knowledge of urban social studies, urban planning theory, art history, political theory and contemporary art theory, as well as uses various methodologies from these fields besides the case study such as discourse analysis, interview and close reading as its means of inquiry.