The Kone Foundation awarded grants for academic researchers and artists
In autumn 2019, Kone Foundation awarded altogether EUR 30.6 million to bold initiatives in art and research. Grants were awarded to a total of 325 people, organisations or working groups. A grant was awarded to 5.8% of the applicants. Kone Foundation supports research in humanities, social sciences and environmental science, artistic research, and artistic work in all sectors of art.
“Kone Foundation has worked hard for several years to bring academic research and art together by funding joint projects between researchers and artists. It is gratifying to see researchers and artists work together in a growing number of research projects in particular. I am also happy to see such variety in the projects: it is essential to support thinking that approaches the world from different viewpoints, because it helps us to understand the complexity of the world today,” says Executive Director of Kone Foundation, Anna Talasniemi in the foundation’s press release.
The awarded grants for Aalto ARTS people
Academic Research
DOCTORAL CANDIDATE BILGE AKTAS 28 800 e, Department of DesignEntangled Agencies: examining material agency in felting to understand human-nonhuman co-existence
ARTIST, DOCTORAL CANDIDATE JON IRIGOYEN 52 000 e, Department of Art
Social Choreography: moving towards new ecologies of change
DOCTORAL CANDIDATE ANDREA MANCIANTI 57 600 e, Department of Media
The living threshold / Altered States. An ecological approach to queering immersive experiences
MASTER OF ARTS, DOCTORAL STUDENT EMILIA TIKKA 86 400 e, Department of Design
Dissertation: Xeno-Genealogies – Heredity after CRISPR
The Arts
MA, FILM DIRECTOR, DOCTORAL CANDIDATE KATJA LAUTAMATTI AND WORKING GROUP 33 600 e, Mussolinin karhu: fiktioelokuva suomalaisesta fasismista ja yhteisön kaipuusta
COMPOSER, GUITARIST ESA ONTTONEN 37 200 e
Reaaliaikaisen nuotinnusteknologian kehittäminen ja hyödyntäminen improvisoidussa musiikissa sekä uuden improvisaatioyhtyeen perustaminen
OTM, MASTER OF ARTS, ARTIST MARKO KARO 7 600 e
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