Students were asked to approach the meaning of the concept of matter. The first part of the course was an inspirational week in the Museum Estate of Hevossilta and in Nuutajärvi glass village, where a group of 10 students collaborated with professional glassblowers. This experimental workshop challenged the students to invent and test their own tools while experiencing hot glass work.

Students kept a working diary as a personal documentation method and as a way to introduce their thinking and working process to other students and teachers. In the final works, the theme matter appears as the actual physical concept of matter and also on the psychological level of ¨what matters¨. Projects from the students are in a broad range of creative disciplines everything from ceramics, interactive sculpture to food design.

Lecturers:
Maarit Mäkelä
Priska Falin

More info at: http://empirica.aalto.fi/2017/06/matter-exhibition/