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Reconfiguring Territories

Territooriumite ümber mõtestamine

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Month: April 2022

Ingrid Svanfeldt

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Ingrid Svanfeldt is a journalist, teacher in journalism, and media entrepreneur with a master’s degree in media and communication from Helsinki university. Currently, she teaches journalism at the Swedish School of Social Sciences at Helsinki University and works on a roleplay project about Freedom of Speech and Belarusian journalists. Her company has produced documentaries, and various shorter radio and tv-programs for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle.

Ingrid Svanfeldt’s Svanfeldtmedia was founded in 2007.

In 2006 Ingrid Svanfeldt creates an educational concept, Video i klassen (Video in the classroom), which becomes popular among teachers around Finland. In 2006-2013 Ingrid Svanfeldt’s Svanfeldtmedia works with Video i klassen- courses and film festivals together with Cityfolkhögskolan (later Axxell) vocational school. During the same period, Svanfeldtmedia, in collaboration with Stefan Svanfeldt’s Bisamedia, sells in-depth news- and current affairs-programs to Yle’s current affairs tv-programs Närbild and OBS. They also produce radio programmes and shorter videos for companies, municipalities and organizations. In 2016 Ingrid Svanfeldt gets a teacher diploma from Helsinki university and starts working part time as a teacher in television- and radio and freelance journalism, at the University of Haaga – Helia in Helsinki and from 2015 onwards mainly at the Swedish-speaking journalism program at the Swedish School of Social science at the university of Helsinki. 

Ingrid Svanfeldt has taken part in many international projects such as a trip to the Republic of Tuva in Russia 2013 or the European Year of Volunteering in Latvia 2011-2012, the EU project for diversity in media, MEDIANE and a co-operation with a Portuguese radio journalist in Portugal in 2014 and an Internet café for refugees, which was organized in Svanfeldtmedia’s and Bisamedia’s studio in 2015-2016 by the local Sjundby traditionsförening. 

Spring School 2022 Open Call

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(Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2022
“Speculative Educational Institutions and Cities of the Near Future”
With Linda Boļšakova METASITU (Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina) and Ingrid Svanfeldt
June 13 – 19, 2022

(Re)configuring Territories research programme continues as a week-long Spring School on June 13 – 19, 2022. 

This year’s programme explores the politics of collective imagination in the midst of the socio-political and technological upheavals we currently face. How do the changing perceptions of territorial relationships, the experiences of belonging to a place, the multiple spatial layers of history, and their connection to human and non-human agencies shape abilities to imagine futures? What are the possible roles and structures of educational institutions that could develop the necessary skills and knowledge of political imagination?

The Spring School will consist of three overlapping workshops which together form a School for Speculative Environmental Education.

Seeds, Pollen, Future workshop led by Linda Boļšakova will explore the thermodynamic reincarnation in which we have been configured from that which has come “before” us and reconfigured into future beings. Participants will gather pollen and share seeds, flesh out speculative stories, predict the future and engage in intimate connection-building practices of contact improvisation and ecosexual prompts.

In the the Tactics for Freedom of Speech workshop led by journalist Ingrid Svanfeldt, we will look at freedom of speech and the role of media as an infrastructure forming societies and constructing inter-territorial roles and positions. In the workshop, we will learn and draft practices that can be used in conditions where freedom of expression is limited. The workshop will focus on examples from Belarus, also looking at the challenges journalists and media face elsewhere, like in Narva. 

In the Modelling Urban Degrowth workshop led by METASITU, we will work on a collective model to express notions of urban degrowth for which we -as of yet- lack words. Departing from the Degrowth Manual’s three chapters – Cartography, Memory, Future – we will explore the material aspects of each layer taking as the city of Narva as the focus of the discussion.

Each of the three workshops can host 5 participants.

Spring School registration fee, 50€, covers a workshop, vegan meals, and dormitory-style accommodation at the residency. 

The due date for the Spring School applications was April 27, 23:59 (EEST), 2022.

Spring School 2022 Workshops
→ Весенняя Школа
→ Kevadkool
→ Kevätkoulun työpajat

Seeds, Pollen, Future

Seeds, Pollen, Future workshop in Reconfiguring Territories Spring School 2022
The aim of the Seeds, Pollen, Future workshop is to nurture, form, grow, and become more aware of connections that are already there and those that are newly forged. What are we except for a living relation? And what does this imply for agency and identity?
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Modelling Urban Degrowth

Modelling Urban Degrowth
Models and master plans are often used to illustrate growth-driven urban futures, but what would a model for degrowth look like?
→ Read More

Tactics for Freedom of Speech

Tactics for Freedom of Speech
The Tactics for Freedom of Speech workshop looked at freedom of speech and the role of media as an infrastructure forming societies and constructing inter-territorial roles and positions.
→ Read More

Workshop mentors
→ Наставники семинара
→ Töötubade mentorid
→ Työpajan mentorit

Linda Boļšakova

Linda Boļšakova
My practice explores the human relationship with the environment and draws parallels between human embodiment and other material embodiments, especially those of plants. It aims to expose these connections and participate in developing a stronger sense of belonging to ecosystems and to the larger community of beings that mutually inhabit our planet.
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METASITU

METASITU
METASITU is a collectivity that explores the way we relate to territory across time and disciplines, for a queerer tomorrow. Our practice is centred around non-hierarchical symbiotic pedagogies that take the form of urbanism residencies, architectural interventions, intentional communities, self-publishing, real estate experiments, and videos. Our work has largely focused on shrinking cities in Eastern Ukraine: mainly through our ongoing project ‘The Degrowth Institute’, where we explore ways of incorporating notions of degrowth to urban masterplanning. The Degrowth Institute also researched vacancy, and ruinification processes in Dubai’s office towers, among others.
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Ingrid Svanfeldt

Ingrid Svanfeldt
Ingrid Svanfeldt is a journalist, teacher in journalism and media entrepreneur with a masters degree in media and communication from Helsinki university. Currently she teaches journalism at the Swedish School of Social Sciences at Helsinki university and works with a roleplay project about Freedom of Speech and Belarusian journalists. Her company has produced documentaries and various shorter radio and tv-programs for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle.
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Summer School 2025 Open Call

Jun 6, 2025
Summer School 2025 Open Call
Ecologies of Trust is a five-day summer school held in Daugavpils, Eastern Latvia.  The starting points for the summer school are the city’s fortress building, the meandering river, and the city’s multispecies inhabitants. The summer school aims to answer critical questions: How can design practices facilitate meaningful change in the midst of geopolitical and ecological crises? How do more-than-human design approaches shape everyday spatial practices in the context of Daugavpils? How do the increased geopolitical tensions in the Eastern Baltic influence understanding of infrastructures? How do these two phenomena relate and influence each other?
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Ecologies of Trust / Uzticības ekoloģijas

Jun 28, 2024
Ecologies of Trust / Uzticības ekoloģijas
Ecologies of Trust is a second phase of (Re)configuring Territories research programme, and the Program Launch event is a first step in relocating the programme to Daugavpils. The aim of the event is to reflect these questions, make connections with local inhabitants and institutions, and to situate the programme in the human and more-than-human networks for the coming years.
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НА КОЗЕ НЕ ПОДЪЕДЕШЬ (YOU CAN’T GET THERE ON A GOAT)

Oct 12, 2022
НА КОЗЕ НЕ ПОДЪЕДЕШЬ (YOU CAN’T GET THERE ON A GOAT)
The exhibition ‘НА КОЗЕ НЕ ПОДЪЕДЕШЬ (YOU CAN’T GET THERE ON A GOAT)’ exhibition debuts two site-specific spatial gallery interventions by recent NART Artists-in -Residents Andrea Stanislav (US) and varialambo (Varia Sjöström, Hatz Lambo) (FI/DE). The two solo projects link to transfigure NART’s gallery spaces through a physicality of visual poetics and theatre, informed by dreams, experiences, performances, and unexpected events which took place at NART on the Estonian-Russian border in the Summer of 2022. Both artists reflect upon the sight of Narva as a contextualised charged corridor or ‘Zona’, where language, exile, history, neighbourliness, rapprochement, diplomacy and cyclical memories shift into immersive environments of light, sound, sculpture and moving image.
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Festival of Invitations

Oct 4, 2022
Reconfiguring Territories – Festival of Invitations Poster
We are organizing a festival at Narva Art Residency. The festival is called Festival of Invitations, and it consists of lectures, discussions, workshops and a celebratory dinner at the Narva Art Residency and its surroundings. The event also celebrates the opening of an exhibition by varialambo [1] and Andréa Stanislav. This event is the concluding part of four-year (Re)configuring Territories research project, and we hope that it will bring together both those who have participated in the project in the previous years and those who have not yet become familiar with it.
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The Seeds, Pollen, Future performance review

Jul 1, 2022
The Seeds, Pollen, Future performance review
Sean Roy Parker who is in the Kreenholm Plants residency at Nart in June and July wrote a lovely review of the Seeds, Pollen, Future Spring School workshop group’s performance.
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School of the Near Future – (Re)configuring Territories Spring School Open Day

Jun 17, 2022
Reconfiguring Territories programme poster in front of Narva Art Residency
We are happy to invite you to the School of the Near Future in Narva Art Residency to conclude (Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2022.
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Linda Boļšakova

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My practice explores the human relationship with the environment and draws parallels between human embodiment and other material embodiments, especially those of plants. It aims to expose these connections and participate in developing a stronger sense of belonging to ecosystems and to the larger community of beings that mutually inhabit our planet.

I turn my body into a conduit for expressing the meaning of natural processes, seeking the symbiosis of these biological units, a symbiosis based on equality and reciprocity. This is a perspective influenced by the idea of ecofeminism, transcorporeality and vital materialism.

I am a multidisciplinary, research-based artist working in the fields of installation and performance. The works grow out of the time-space where they are situated.

Linda Boļšakova has collaborated with leading scientists from the National Botanic Garden and Institute for Environmental Solutions in Latvia, as well as the Association for the Conservation of Antalya Orchids and Biodiversity. For the project series “Semina futuri: placeholder for future coexistence” Boļšakova collaborated with composers scientists, web developers and 3D artists. Recently she gathered seed stories at the urban Gardens of Sporta Pils that reveal the semantics of people and plants, their relationships and connections.

Solo shows include “Intimacy of strangers” at ISSP Gallery and “off spring” at ALMA Gallery. She has participated at the “Starptelpa” and “No New Idols” festivals, as well as numerous other solo and group exhibitions in Scotland, Turkey and Latvia. She has taken part in residencies including the VV Foundation’s PAiR programme in Pāvilosta, Latvia, and at Zengården, the head temple of the Swedish Zen Buddhist Society, as well as at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop.

Boļšakova graduated from a Contemporary Art Practice and Philosophy course with a first-class honours degree in Scotland (2017) after graduating from the Photography course at Edinburgh College. In 2018, she completed the Performance Art Course in Riga.

Modelling Urban Degrowth

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Spring School 2022
→ Весенняя Школа 2022
→ Kevadkool 2022
→ Kevätkoulu 2022

Modelling Urban Degrowth

When talking about planning for urban degrowth, we lack a lexicon that allows us to express ideas or think of successful urban futures articulated through vectors that aren’t growth – the very essence of (contemporary) city-building is expansionist at its core.

Models and master plans are often used to illustrate growth-driven urban futures, but what would a model for degrowth look like? During the Modelling Urban Degrowth workshop, we will work on a collective model to express notions of urban degrowth for which we -as of yet- lack words. Departing from the Degrowth Manual‘s three chapters – Cartography, Memory, Future – we will explore the material aspects of each layer taking as the basis the city of Narva.

During the Spring School week the Modelling Urban Degrowth group explored new models for talking about degrowth, particularly in post-industrial shrinking cities, like Narva.

In this context, together with the participants Anni Saviaro, Joanna Łałowska, Aneta Kohoutová, Annela Samuel, and Grant Penfield Haugen, METASITU (Eduardo and Liva) tried to develop tools that would help us address the materiality of shrinking cities, and position them in timelines.

How do the elements that make up a city sit in non-human timelines? How can we, collectively, talk and think about the materiality of a city? Why do we need to record the materiality of a shrinking city in the context of urban degrowth?

At the end of the week the group compiled the tools, exercices and discussions and made a booklet.

Degrowth Manual

Workshop mentors
→ Наставники семинара
→ Töötubade mentorid
→ Työpajan mentorit

METASITU

METASITU
METASITU is a collectivity that explores the way we relate to territory across time and disciplines, for a queerer tomorrow. Our practice is centred around non-hierarchical symbiotic pedagogies that take the form of urbanism residencies, architectural interventions, intentional communities, self-publishing, real estate experiments, and videos. Our work has largely focused on shrinking cities in Eastern Ukraine: mainly through our ongoing project ‘The Degrowth Institute’, where we explore ways of incorporating notions of degrowth to urban masterplanning. The Degrowth Institute also researched vacancy, and ruinification processes in Dubai’s office towers, among others.
→ Read More

Spring School 2022 Workshops
→ Весенняя Школа
→ Kevadkool
→ Kevätkoulun työpajat

Seeds, Pollen, Future

Seeds, Pollen, Future workshop in Reconfiguring Territories Spring School 2022
The aim of the Seeds, Pollen, Future workshop is to nurture, form, grow, and become more aware of connections that are already there and those that are newly forged. What are we except for a living relation? And what does this imply for agency and identity?
→ Read More

Modelling Urban Degrowth

Modelling Urban Degrowth
Models and master plans are often used to illustrate growth-driven urban futures, but what would a model for degrowth look like?
→ Read More

Tactics for Freedom of Speech

Tactics for Freedom of Speech
The Tactics for Freedom of Speech workshop looked at freedom of speech and the role of media as an infrastructure forming societies and constructing inter-territorial roles and positions.
→ Read More

METASITU

Posted on by Reconfiguring Territories

METASITU is a collectivity that explores the way we relate to territory across time and disciplines, for a queerer tomorrow.

Our practice is centred around non-hierarchical symbiotic pedagogies that take the form of urbanism residencies, architectural interventions, intentional communities, self-publishing, real estate experiments, and videos. Our work has largely focused on shrinking cities in Eastern Ukraine: mainly through our ongoing project ‘The Degrowth Institute‘, where we explore ways of incorporating notions of degrowth to urban masterplanning. The Degrowth Institute also researched vacancy, and ruinification processes in Dubai’s office towers, among others.