The City Sets Paris exhibition is part of Designer Days Festival, the biggest yearly design event of France, from 31 May to the 4th of June. In this exhibit the metaphor of “city as stage” is introduced and used in order to critically investigate urban design, the multimodality of human action within it and the narratives embedded in the [...]
March 26th, 2012 - City Sets Paris workshopCity Sets lecturers and artists traveled to Paris last 15.03 to tutor the second workshop at EnSAD. The attendance and motivation of the students were very good as were also the works developed and delivered. Now the tutors and curators Marja Seliger, Mika Tu0mola and Heidi Tikka have an intense curating period ahead. The selection [...]
March 8th, 2012 - City Sets workshop startedOur Helsinki City Sets workshop successfully started last 5.03 with our team leaders’ lectures Marja Seliger and Mika Tuomola and Remy Bourganell our visiting lecturer from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD). Shortly after teams were assembled, equipment handed out and locations picked out. The groups started out gathering material to deliver their initial [...]
February 10th, 2012 - The City Sets exhibition is part of the Paris “Designer’s Days / 1-2-3-Helsinki, Design en Seine” eventThe exhibition will present artistic and practice-based research projects from the Aalto University and ENSAD bringing together professional artists currently completing their PhD thesis works at the Aalto University. The exhibits will take place in different locations including RATP metro stations’, where At Hand piece will be exhibited at Europe metro station till August 31st [...]
November 10th, 2011 - City Sets in the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programmeThe City Sets education, research and urban media art project has officially been selected as a part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme. The project started as a multidisciplinary education and research development project of the Aalto University Schools of Art and Design and Technology, the Departments of Media and Architecture, in 2010. In [...]
For the Art of Storytelling in New Media
Crucible Studio, a research group within Media Centre Lume and the Department of Media of the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, studies and develops narration of the digital, non-linear and interactive media. Our goal is to achieve deeper emotional experiences in the interactive media and to create production methods to develop content and technology simultaneously in the multi-talented teams of artists, designers, scientists and technology experts.
Modes of Action
Our activities are divided into three sectors:
1. Practise Based Research productions combine state-of-the-art expertise of design, drama, and technology. Productions are developed as applied research cases with industrial partners.
2. Education that combines expertise and resources of the different departments within the Aalto University, as well as other universities and research institutions.
3. Coordinating and Networking maps the development of the research, education and production of the interactive drama on an international scale and brings together professionals of the multidisciplinary fields in collaborations and joint events.
