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AeRaTe Symposium Programme

5 May 2025, 9:15–18:00 | Marsio Stage, Aalto University

Welcome and Keynote

9:15 – Welcome, opening words by Maarit Mäkelä
9:25 – Keynote: Mika Elo – horizon of expectat_
9:55 – Q&A

Session 1 – Chair: Harri Laakso

10:15 – Tianjun Li – Free as Bird
10:20 – Leandro Ferre Caetano – Cartographies of Care: Curatorial Practices as Regenerative Networks
10:35 – Laureen Mahler – Material, Transformation, and the Fold
10:50 – Break

Session 2 – Chair: Julia Valle Noronha

11:20 – Maija Savolainen – Phytopia: dream about sailing and cyanobacteria
11:35 – Gregoire Rousseau – ON-AIR
11:50 – Q&A
12:00 – Lunch

13:00 – Katarina Blomqvist – Invitation to Interlistening: Corespiration and Resonance in Documentary Encounters
13:05 – Teemu Lehmusruusu – On-site Trophic Verses: Regenerating belonging in rural landscapes through soil-society relations
13:20 – Satu Herrala – Forest as a Geopolitical Stage
13:35 – Bogdanova, Aula, Dimitrievska-Cilakova, Spasevska – Collaborative Aiming to Miss: Reinventing Aspirations in Site-Sensitive Design
14:05 – Denise Ziegler – Picking Flowers in the City
14:20 – Break
14:35 – Q&A

Session 3 – Chair: Sheryl Doruff

15:05 – Cynthia Blanchette – Evolutionary Deviance
15:10 – Elina Koivisto – Architecture in the More Than Human World
15:25 – Aku Meriläinen – Excluded
15:35 – Montana Torrey – What Color is the Cambrian Sky?
15:45 – Alejandra Vera – Exploring the volcanic landscape
15:50 – Q&A

Publication Launch and Closing

16:00 – The Presence of Exchange: GIFT in Artistic Research and Beyond – Denise Ziegler, Laura Beloff, Cynthia Blanchette, Hanna Vahvaselkä
16:10 – Closing Remarks by Laura Beloff

Exhibition Opening and Performances

17:00 – Exhibition Opening
17:15 – Juan Duarte – Smoking Mirror: Aethereal Resonances
17:30 – Ivan Chaparro – Concert: Afro-Indigenous Music of Resistance

Film Screening – 12 May 2025

Marsio Cinema, 15:00–16:30
Chair: Susanna Helke
15:05 – François Yazbeck – ±·Ã©³¦°ù´Ç²õ±ð (2024)
16:25 – Q&A