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.
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 cont…
With the occasion of the screening of “The Optics of Space” at Heureka science center, we start off with a conversation on the cross-pollination between art and science. The film projection was dev…
The launching episode features a conversation of host María Villa with Bassam el Baroni, Assistant Professor of Curating of the ViCCA Masters, and Ksenia Kaverina, the curator in the Aalto Arts & C…