Art&HENVI 2011–2012

Events

01 January, 2011

Helsinki, Finland

Art&HENVI was organised by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with the Helsinki University Centre for Environmental Research (HENVI) in the context of World Design Capital (WDC)...

PRIMA MATERIA - opening pictures

Here pictures from our opening on the 22nd of November. More about the exhibition PRIMA MATERIA All images by Till Bovermann http://blog.lfsaw.de/...

26 November 2012

The Provenience of Seawater

Have you ever thought that the water in the Baltic Sea has a history? The dissolved organic matter (DOM) can be tracked down to soil particles that...

24 September 2012

A friend of mine, Kirsi, told me about Swedish tradition of white rhubarb. Apparently, the rhubarb is covered from sun and for that it grows white....

11 September 2012

What’s going on under water?

Since spring 2012,there is a water quality monitoring device on Harakka Island, near the place where most of my water samples for the “Soups of...

Clear Stock from Källskär

A Soup of the Day (Tuesday 12.6.2012) was prepared on Källskär – an Island in the Finnish outer archipelago in Åland. The water looked extremely...

Cooking the Baltic Sea – Soup of the...

Ihave started my work in the Baltic Sea/MultiDOM -group with a series of experiments studying the colour of the sea. The colour of the water is...

Choises in forest or elsewhere

I've been having a pleasure to learn more about the research HENVI Forest is conducting in Department of Forest Sciences. Principal investigator...

Yesterday 5.3.2012 a visit to...

Me (Laura Beloff) Ursula Damm (artist from Berlin), Vesa Yli-Pelkonen ja Maija Taka visited 3 hydrology stations, which are measuring and analyzing...

Still in Berlin. As I am living at the former border between east and west,I could experience, how the urban wasteland around my appartment was...

12 February 2012

Multidom and tea

I have almost finished my ”touring” inside the HENVI Multidom project. In January I have met: 11.1.2012 Professor Sakari Kuikka & PhD Mikael...

8 February 2012

PRIMA MATERIA - four artistic positions on ecology

Living in a techno-organic world Starting point:

There is increasing interests in scientific research concerning the physiological and...

Urban Development Kit
The Urban Development Kit is a collection of tools provided to help plants in Helsinki and similar modern cities, to prevail...

Mari Keski Korsu

ALBEDO IN THE FOREST DIYclimate manipulation with albedo shields and suits Albedo shields and suits are designed to increase the sunlight...

Tuula Närhinen

The Colour of Water and the Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) The Art of Cooking down the Baltic Sea I have set a dining table with soups made...

PRIMA MATERIA - neljä taiteellista tutkimusta ekologiasta

Art&Henvi -hanke tutkii ympäristöä taiteen keinoin

Helsingin yliopiston ympäristötutkimuksen ja -opetuksen yksikkö HENVI ja Suomen...