Dreaming of Socially Accessible Cultural Venues
What might a truly inclusive cultural venue for all look like?
Optical Vacuum
For decades, the theatre space has remained in the background in the mainstream cinematic experience. Different kinds of experiences are available at film festivals.
The People’s Theatre
In the 1930s, P.E. Blomstedt designed a theatre in Hakaniemi, Helsinki. Reading between the lines of an illustration drawing reveals the world view behind the design and the designer.
Artwashing Demolition
Utilising to-be-demolished buildings for temporary art shows is becoming a formalized urban development practice. However, it disregards the potential of existing urban spaces and ignores the temporary use and artistic agency as vehicles for place-shaping.
More Convincing Designs with AI
Artificial intelligence is especially useful in the early stages of planning – it enhances the factual basis and helps justify design solutions, argues Niko Kautonen.
AI Is Not Born out of Thin Air
Before we can go into the possibilities offered by AI applications, we need to understand what it takes to produce artificial intelligence, writes Ville Paananen.
AI Is a Tool for the Sustainability Leap
Artificial intelligence can benefit architects, especially when there are many variables in the design process – for example, reusable building parts from different sources, say Ron Aasholm and Maija Parviainen.
Industrial Revolution of Creativity
At its best, generative artificial intelligence is an aide in creative work and brainstorming, Mikael Tómasson says.
A Wise Body
What if a more sustainable way of building would be better perceived through the senses and emotions?