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Riikka Latva-Somppi is currently a doctoral candidate in Aalto University, Department of Design, EMPIRICA-research group 2018-2022. Her thesis work is supported by Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS:
Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Mäkelä, Maarit, Lindström, Kristina, & Ståhl, Åsa. (2021). Entangled Materialities: Caring for soil communities at glass industry sites. FormAkademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.4180
Vega, Luis & Aktas, Bilge M & Falin, Priska & Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Valle-Noronha, Julia (2021) Shared Authorship in Research through Art, Design, and Craft. Research in Arts and Education. 2021(1).https://researtsedu.com/2021-february-1
Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Mäkelä, Maarit (2020) Exploring Ecological and Material Sensitivity through Craft Practice in the Context of the Venice Lagoon. Aisthesis 13(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-10916
Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Mäkelä, Maarit. & Gündeşlioğlu, Özgu (2020). Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil. RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research, 14. https://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.697190
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Riikka Latva-Somppi (2021). Soil as a material mediator: Combining environmental research with ceramic practice. Keynote lecture for the topic Locality and materiality, 49th International Academy of Ceramics Congress, Rovaniemi, online 22.-23.9.2021.
Latva-Somppi, Riikka, Mäkelä, Maarit, Lindström, Kristina, & Ståhl, Åsa. (2021). Entangled Materialities: Caring for soil communities at glass industry sites. Biennal International Conference for the Craft Sciences, online, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2020). Using craft as a field of inquiry in contemporary environmental discourse. Exploratory paper. Art of Research Conference: Authorship and Responsibility, online, Aalto University, Otaniemi
Vega, Luis, Aktas, Bilge M, Falin, Priska, Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Valle-Noronha, Julia (2020). Shared Authorship in Research through Art, Design, and Craft. Art of Research Conference: Authorship and Responsibility, online, Aalto University, Otaniemi
Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2019). Traces from the Anthropocene. Sensing the Environment through Craft Practice. The Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Annual Conference 2019 27.-29.5.2019, Espoo, Finland (non-refereed)
CURATORIAL WORK:
Exhibition Soil Matters in The Designmuseum, Helsinki, FI 4.9.2020-10.1.2021 (co-curator, with Maarit Mäkelä)
read more about the exhibition and the Soil Laboratory-project.
Exhibition In Good Hands (co-curator, with Kieran Long)
in The Designmuseum, Helsinki, FI 24.1. 22.3.2020
in The Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä, FI 12.9.-5.12.2020
in The Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, FI 19.2.-18.4.2021
Exhibition Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil (curator) in Beta-Gallery, Espoo, 10.-26.10.2019 Designs for a Cooler Planet, Helsinki Design week
Exhibitions PYHÄNIEMI 2010-2018 fine art exhibitions in Pyhäniemi Manor, Hollola, FI (curator)
Exhibition Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future (curator),
Valkoinen sali, Kuparipaja, Fiskars, FI 9.11.-7.12.2016
Porzellanikon – Staatliches Museum für Porzellain , Selb, GE 21.1.-1.5.2017
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland 24.6.-22.7.2017
British Ceramics Biennial , Stoke-on-Trent, UK 23.9.-5.11.2018
Bröhan-Museum, Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco und Funktionalismus , Berlin, GE 20.1. – 18.4.2018
National Museum of Slovenia – Presernova, Ljubljana, SL 15.5. – 31.7.2018
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague Prague, CZ 4.9.-11.11.2018
EXHIBITIONS:
Kantava maa / Solid Ground at Väre, Aalto University, FI –
Ceramics Facing the New in EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, FI 14.4.2021-7.8.2022
Soil Matters in The Designmuseum, Helsinki, FI 4.9.2020-10.1.2021
Art of Research, Aalto University, Espoo, FI3.-4.12.2020 (online)
Resarch Pavilion #3 Infolab at Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki 25.10.-17.11.2019
Research Pavilion #3, Venice, IT 9.5.-28.8.2019
read more about the Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil -project
Workshop and exhibition Radical Relevances conference, Aalto University, Espoo, FI 25.-27.4. 2018
Read more in English:
Helsinki Design Weekly: Design Museum’s exhibition explores the materials used in design processes and their impact on soil
FORM magazine: Soil Matters at Designmuseum in Helsinki 1.10.2020
ICON magazine-ICON 202: Winter 2020, Designing with Soil
UNIARTS: 6.2.2019 Artists digging up contaminated soil
Lue lisää suomeksi:
Luonnonkirjo, 17.5.2021 : Working with Soil -työryhmä on mukana EMMAssa Särkyvää näyttelyssä
Helsinki Design Weekly: Designmuseon gallerianäyttely tarkastelee muotoilun ja teollisuuden vaikutuksia maaperään
Radio Helsinki-Helsinki Design Weekly: Maa-asiaa 1.10.2020
Aalto: 22.10.2018 Ympäristökysymykset esille keramiikkataiteen keinoin
SYKE: 25.10.2018 Suomalaiset keramiikkataiteilijat tekevät pilaantuneen maan näkyväksi Venetsian Tutkimuspaviljongissa
Aalto: 11.2. 2019 Taiteilijat saastuneen maan äärellä
SYKE: 15.9.2019 Keramiikkataide tuo näkyväksi ihmisen maaperään jättämät jäljet