Squirrel's Nest: Recent Episodes
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The Squirrel’s Nest podcast harvests critical perspectives in Aalto University by developing conversations around contemporary life, and the ways knowledge and practice are built for today and for the future. The podcast is a development of editor and mediator María Villa for Aalto University’s Arts & Creative Practices initiative, commissioned by curator Ksenia Kaverina.
The not-so-lost art of the modern journal In this episode we re-explore the diary. Diaries have represented traditionally as a means for people to express their innermost feelings, thoughts, and desires through personal reflection on the pages of a book. While even today, some people still pursue journaling either as a habit born in their […]
What is love? Three guests from the Aalto community with diverse backgrounds carefully narrate their own individual experiences and feelings about love in the form of fragmented dialogue and stream of consciousness. The podcast provides different values of love, on how to redefine our cultural norms concerning it, and how to become more open to […]
Sounds from Soil is a project about music and earth. In this episode, we meet the composer and percussionist Adriano Adewale and reflect on the Afro-Brazilian musical tradition as identity and how it relates to the element of earth and groundedness. We also visit the dance workshop held by dancer and choreographer Carolina Paulino in […]
What are the concerns involved and the complex challenges of designing technology for a better, safer life? What is the flip side of the quantified self? How to ensure the agency, autonomy and control users have over their data? How does it support skills like reflection and self-regulation? What can prototypes built in Media Design […]
With the occasion of the screening of “The Optics of Space” at Heureka Science Center in Helsinki, the fall 2018, we started off with a conversation on the cross-pollination between art and science. The film projection was developed for a planetarium by curator Aily Nash with works by artists Lucy Raven, and James N. Kienitz […]
Ystävä or kaveri? It may not sound familiar, but those two words have the same meaning —a friend. As two foreigners (Diana, from Slovakia, and Vilis, from Latvia) who met two months ago at Aalto Uni, we are talking about the basic idea behind the friendship focusing on the connections we made during our stay […]
Our launching episode features a conversation of host María Villa with Bassam el Baroni, appointed in 2018 as new Assistant Professor of curating of the ViCCA Masters, and Ksenia Kaverina, the curator in the Aalto Arts & Creative Practices Initiative that originally produced the podcast show. We venture to discuss the original idea of Chilean […]