2013 Leadership Symposium | Helsinki

Registration

Registration is now closed.

We look forward to welcoming you in Helsinki!

Fees

Early-birds fee	€850
ELIA members	€950
Non-members	€1850
Accompanying person fee	€250

The registration fee includes access to all Symposium sessions, materials, publications, related events, three lunches and two dinners.

For partners travelling with delegates, the accompanying person fee includes attendances to two dinners, the mobile workshops and other social events.

Applicants are asked to provide:

• photograph (that will be used exclusively for the event)
• short biography (250 words max.)
• statement of expectations and/or recommendations for the Leadership Symposium

These files can be uploaded though the online registration tool.

Applicant Profile

To ensure an optimal level of interaction, representation, focus and collegiality, participation will be limited to leaders and key decision makers. Delegates will be senior figures from a diverse but representative set of arts and design institutions throughout the world. Collectively, the delegates will demonstrate:

• a range of professional, cultural and institutional backgrounds
• active engagement in key issues and debates affecting higher arts education and cultural management
• a willingness to contribute to and lead debates, share experience and practices, and carry forward initiatives that emerge from the Symposium

With an eye to oversubscription, applicants are encouraged to submit their forms as early as possible. To create an intimate and professional frame for discussion, the Leadership Symposium is limited to a maximum of 100 delegates. The organisers will seek to create an overall balanced representation of delegates based on the profiles submitted.

Programme

Wednesday 27 November 2013

09.30-17.30 
Registrations

10.00-11.30
Optional Tour: Theatre Academy

10.00-11.45
Optional Tour: Helsinki Music Centre

12.45-13.00 
Optional Presentation: Helsinki Congress Paasitorni

13.00-14.00
Lunch

14.00-17.00
Session: NOT HERE

14.00-14.30
Hand over from Vancouver to Helsinki
Welcome - Tiina Rosenberg
Welcome - Kieran Corcoran
Chair: Jan Kaila

14.30-15.10
Jun Jiang
Q&A

15.10-15.30
Coffee Break

15.30-16.15
Viktor Misiano
Q&A

16.15-17.00
Allyson Vanstone
Q&A
Closing Remarks

Buses leave from the Helsinki Congress Paasitorni at 18.40

19.00-20.00
Dinner Reception at the Helsinki City Hall

Thursday 28 November 2013

10.00 - 13.00  
Session: TRADING PLACES
Chair: Carla Delfos

10.00-11.30
Hedy d’Ancona
Table Talks

11.30-11.50
Coffee Break

11.50-13.00
Mike van Graan
Table Talks

13.00-14.00
Lunch

14.00-17.30 
Session HERE: Mobile Workshops 
All guided tours start and end at the conference venue.

At 18.15, delegates meet at the conference venue and are guided to the concert and dinner venue; approximately 10 minutes walking distance.

18.30-19.30
Concert (Piritta Restaurant)

19.30-22.00
Dinner Reception (Piritta Restaurant) 

Friday 29 November 2013

09.00 - 13.00 
Session: IMPACT FACTOR
Chair: Philippe Hardy

09.30-10.40
Frédéric Martel
Table Talks

10.40-11.00
Coffee Break

11.00-12.15
Terike Haapoja
Table Talks
Closing Remarks - Thomas D. Meier

12.15-13.00
Jin Xing

13.00 - 14.00
Lunch

Optional Visits - Academy of Fine Arts galleries

Mobile Workshops

Helsinki is well-known for its rich architecture ranging from the 18th century up to the present. The ELIA Leadership Symposium offers its participants the opportunity to engage in mobile workshops on the architecture in the Capital of Finland. Eight different three-hour excursions in small groups are led by professionals to different parts of the Helsinki metropolitan area. These visits to architectural monuments provide delegates with inside information on these unique places and interesting historical anecdotes.

1. Otaniemi's Modern University Campus in the 1950s and 1960s

After the Second World War, education became the central factor in Finland’s modernisation and social reconstruction, in which engineers and architects also played a major role. At the end of the 1950s Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), nowadays part of Aalto University, moved from the Helsinki city centre to Espoo, the western neighbouring municipality, which at the time was close to being in the countryside. In Otaniemi, they started to build an American style campus, designed by leading architects, that became regarded as a symbol of success in the 1960s.

Guide: Architect, Professor Emeritus Simo Paavilainen
Itinerary: Main building of the Aalto University School of Science and Technology and the library 1964-1969 (Alvar Aalto), Dipoli 1966 (Raili and Reima Pietilä), Otaniemi Chapel 1957 (Kaija and Heikki Siren). Participants following this tour will top off their tour with drink at Dipoli’s bar.

2. Layers  of Helsinki City 1: Business Life and Traffic from the Early 20th Century to Present Day

Helsinki’s growth accelerated in the late 19th century. Opportunities for architects were plentiful. The ambition of this period was matched only by the ferocity of competition between those wishing to make their mark on the emerging city. Helsinki was developed as a metropolis and as a capital; office buildings and traffic buildings attracted both financial and artistic investment. Helsinki Railway Station was built as a monument to modern connections and the Stockmann Department Store as the centre of consumer culture. In the beginning of the 1920s dreams of skyscrapers captured the city’s imagination but were forgotten by the1930s when the design of functionalist office buildings emphasised horizontal lines.

Guide: Docent of Aesthetics Kimmo Sarje
Itinerary: Central Railway Station 1904–1919 (Eliel Saarinen), Stockmann department store 1904–1930 & 1989 (Sigurd Frosterus & Kristian Gullichsen, Erkki Kairamo, Timo Vormala), Lasipalatsi 1936 (Niilo Kokko, Viljo Revell, Heimo Riihimäki), Hotel Torni 1931 (Bertel & Valter Jung). Participants following this tour will top off their tour with drink at Torni's bar.

3. Layers  of Helsinki City 2: Tradition and Art from the Early 20th Century to Present Day

When construction of the National Museum of Finland began in the early 20th century, its location in Töölö was far from the city centre.  As the years have passed, the area has grown into a cluster of culture and congress palaces: the National Museum of Finland, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma are all neighbours. National Romantic eclecticism was a natural choice for the National Museum of Finland’s style. Finlandia Hall, a venue for congresses and concerts, was covered with light coloured marble to indicate its status as a contemporary monument, whereas the starting point for the new Helsinki Music Centre’s design focused on moderate simplicity.

Guide: Architect, Professor Emeritus Vilhelm Helander
Itinerary: The National Museum of Finland 1902-1910 (Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren, Eliel Saarinen), Finlandia Hall 1971 (Alvar Aalto), Helsinki Music Centre 2011 (Marko Kivistö, Ola Laiho, Mikko Pulkkinen), Kiasma 1998 (Steven Holl). Participants following this route will top off their tour with drinks at the Kiasma’s restaurant.

4. Layers of Helsinki City 3: Politics and Art from the 1930s to Present Day

Finland became independent in 1917. The young republic wanted the Parliament House to play a central role in Helsinki’s cityscape and act as a symbol of democracy. The Parliament House was built on the rocky Arkadianmäki hill in the Töölö area. The winner of the architecture competition drew inspiration from Nordic Classicism. The rugged row of pillars of the façade and the red granite of the facing strengthen the monumental appearance. The building’s interior was designed in the spirit of classicism and Art Deco. Kunsthalle Helsinki, on the western side of the Parliament House, represent the same kind of Nordic Classicism of the time, but in a humble and unassuming way, without the pathos of the nation. The Concert Hall of Sibelius Academy features architecture representative of the transition from classicism to functionalism. The Parliament House also includes two annexes: modernist from the 1970s and post-modernist from 2004.

Guide: Docent of Art History Liisa Lindgren
Itinerary: Parliament House 1931 (J. S. Sirén), Finnish Parliament Annex aka. Little Parliament 2004 (Pekka Helin), Sibelius Academy's Concert Hall 1931 (Eino Forsman), Library Annex of the Parliament House 1977 -1978 (Pitkänen, Laiho, Raunio), Kunsthalle Helsinki 1928 (Hilding and Jarl Eklund). Participants following this route will top off their tour with drinks at Kunsthalle's restaurant.

5. Classicism in Helsinki from the Early 19th Century to the 1970s

Finland was separated from Sweden, its mother country of centuries, as a result of wars from 1808-1809. Finland became part of the Russian Empire as an autonomous Grand Duchy. In 1812 the capital was moved eastwards from Turku to Helsinki, closer to Russia’s centre of power in St. Petersburg. Helsinki’s city centre was built in a monumental empire-style by Johan Albrecht Ehrenström (1762-1847), who was in charge of the town plan, and by German-born Architect Carl Engel (1778-1840). The buildings of Helsinki Senate Square– the Government Palace, the Helsinki Cathedral, the University of Helsinki and its library – as well as some of the important buildings of the Market Square, such as the City Hall and the current Presidential Palace, are all Engel’s designs.

Guide: Professor of Art History Ville Lukkarinen
Itinerary: Helsinki Cathedral 1830-1852, Main Building of the University of Helsinki 1832 (Carl Engel), new side of the Main Building of the University of Helsinki 1937 (J.S. Sirén), the National Archives of Finland 1890, the House of the Estates 1891(Gustaf Nyström), main lobby of the City Hall of Helsinki 1965-1970 (Aarno Ruusuvuori). Participants following this route will to top off their tour with drinks at the Kappeli bar.

6. Romanticism and Orthodoxy in Helsinki from the 19th Century to Present Day

Finland is considered to be a republic of the bourgeoisie and workers; however, the nobility is also part of the Finnish tradition. In Helsinki, the Neo-Gothic House of Nobility was completed in 1862 as a symbol of the nobles’ leverage and also as a stage for the Diet of Finland – the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy - from1863-1864. Finland is often also considered to be a homogenous Evangelical-Lutheran nation. Historically, the borderline of Eastern and Western Rome did go through Finland. Therefore, Reformed Christianity and Eastern Orthodox are both part of the Finnish identity. The skyline of Helsinki’s South Harbour shows the Evangelical-Lutheran Helsinki Cathedral side-by-side with the Orthodox Uspenski Cathedral rising on the rock of Katajanokka. The Katajanokka area is also known for its National Romantic architecture, harbour warehouses, and a prison, which nowadays functions as a hotel.

Guide: Docent of Art History Renja Suominen-Kokkonen
Itinerary: House of Nobility 1862(G. Th. Chiewitz), Uspenski Cathedral 1862–1868 (Aleksei M. Gornostajev), two residential buildings in Katajanokka (Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen), Old Customs Warehouse (Gustaf Nyström), Harbour Warehouse (Lars Sonck), Warehouse (Erkki Huttunen). Participants following this route will top off their tour with drinks at Hotel Katajanokka’s bar. The hotel used to be a prison, which was designed by A. F. Granstedt (1837) and Selim A. Lindqvist (1903). SARC Architects are in charge of the alteration work (2007).

7. Russian and Swedish Helsinki from the 18th and 19th Centuries

Sveaborg aka Suomenlinna, was the largest fortress built in Sweden in the 18th century. Together with its ally France, Sweden was preparing itself against Russia by building a sea fortress with a navy in front of Helsinki, calling it the ‘Gibraltar of the North’. This grand project, which began in 1748, became a major factor militarily, economically, as well as culturally.
As a result of the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809, Finland was separated from Sweden and became part of the Russian Empire. The Tsar wanted to strengthen the union by moving the capital from Turku in 1812 eastwards to Helsinki, closer to St. Petersburg. Helsinki’s city centre was built in a monumental empire-style by Johan Albrecht Ehrenström (1762-1847).  In the middle of the Senate Square, there is a monument of Alexander II and on shore of the Market Square, the Stone of the Empress – an obelisk, which was put up in honour of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna’s first visit to Helsinki.

Guide: Professor Emeritus of History Matti Klinge
Itinerary: From the Senate Square to Suomenlinna: Helsinki Cathedral 1830-1852, Senate Square, statue of Alexander II 1894 (Johannes Takanen & Walter Runeberg), Swedish Embassy 1920s (A. F. Granstedt 1843 & Torben Grut), the Stone of the Empress 1835 (Carl Engel), ferry to Suomenlinna, Russian barracks, Ehrensvärd’s fortress architecture in the 1750s and 1760s, Augustin Ehrensvärd’s grave 1805 (Gustav III & Johan Tobias Sergel). Participants following this route will top off their tour with drinks at the Jetty Barracks’ restaurant.

8. Arabianranta: Public Art in a New Residential Area

Arabianranta is a historically multi-layered new area. The area’s industrial centre is the renowned Arabia porcelain factory, which became the facilities for the University of Art and Design Helsinki in the 1980s. Nowadays the University of Art and Design Helsinki is a part of Aalto University. Arabianranta is also a new residential area, which has been developed ambitiously. Many of the residential buildings are designed by leading architects. In addition, the City of Helsinki has invested in public art pieces in Arabianranta, where they apply the ‘percent principle’. This means that a certain part of the construction costs are used for art procurements and environment art. The best-known art project is the Tapio Wirkkala Park, which is designed by Robert Wilson, a Director best known as the foremost vanguard theatre artist of The United States.

Guide: Architect, Professor Pentti Kareoja
Itinerary: Tapio Wirkkala Park 2013 (Robert Wilson), Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, as the Media Centre Lume, the Heltech Audio Visual Communications building, new residential buildings, public art projects.  Participants following this route will top off their tour with drinks at a local bar.

Themes

E/MERGE

New economies arise, powers shift and cultural hegemonies are being challenged. The world has become a complex system. Old configurations disband and new ones emerge. Soft power has become a buzzword, building on the arts and the creative industries and competing for the hearts and minds of people.

What the French call métissage stands for today’s new cultural paradigm, the interweavement of influences, the merging of ideas and meanings. What is local becomes global and it is in turn being transformed by this process. A new set of players with distinct intentions and values has stepped onto the stage. When we have only just begun to understand what is going on around us, forms and contents are already changing.

The new scale of globalised culture has led to far-reaching changes in organisational structures such as numerous mergers of art schools across Europe. Size seems to matter more than ever. Internationalisation has become a must, either at home, by forming strategic alliances and cooperations or by branching out.

How can higher art education institutions prepare for new and global challenges? How can its leadership remain active and creative facing developments of a postcolonial world gone fragile?

The 6th ELIA Leadership Symposium E/MERGE addresses three salient themes in today’s higher arts education: 

NOT HERE

How is art education thought about, organized and led in different parts of the world? What are the productive potentials for encounter that educators and facilitators of art and design have in a world controlled by high-speed technologies and economies? Are we still able to learn from each other?

And further: How should we think about the “local”  today? Has it become a part of the merged centre, or has it vanished into the margin?

TRADING PLACES

Current models of what globalisation means for Higher Education are outdated and need to be revised. Recent variations on the theme of education, mobility and recruitment as a form of commodity exchange with the 'Old World" as the main beneficiary are no longer relevant. The changed landscape of the 21st century must lead to a rethinking of the old relationship with a new emphasis on partnership and exchange in an intercultural world.

IMPACT FACTOR

Impact factor is the global mantra of the scientific community and its peer-reviewed publications. The impact of the arts on today's increasingly globalised world seems generally accepted in the rhetoric of governments and administration. Actual policies however still reflect the basic assumptions, that absolute priority must be given to both economy and science, one presumably feeding the world, the other explaining and advancing it. What would be the global mantra of an artistic community that claims equal importance of the arts for the further development of societies and cultures? How could this claim be substantiated and supported? 

Speakers

Hedy D'Ancona
Politician, Geographer and Sociologist  
Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Culture, The Netherlands

Mike van Graan
Theater Director,
Executive Director of the African Arts Institute, South Africa

Terike Haapoja
Visual Artist, Finland

Jun Jiang
Editor-in-chief of Urban China Magazine,
Founder of Underline Office, China

Frédéric Martel
Writer, Researcher, and Journalist, France

Viktor Misiano
Curator, Russia

Allyson Vanstone 
Dean of Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in Qatar

Jin Xing
Dancer, Choreographer, and Actress, China

Delegate Profiles

The listing of delegate profiles has been broken down into groups, according to the first letter(s) of the last name. Click on the groupings below for full bios and photos or scroll down for a brief overview of all delegates.

A-Be
Br-C
D-F
G-J
K
L-P
R-S
T-Z

 

A-Be

Aierken Abudureyimu / Rector / Xinjiang Arts Institute of China / China

Tuula Auer / Head of Degree Programme / Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Helsinki / Finland

Tuomas Auvinen / Dean /Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Bayaraa Baasandorjiin / Head of Department International Collaboration / Mongolian Soyol Urlagiin Ikh Surguuli / Mongolia

Ursula Bachman / Associate Dean / Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst / Switzerland

Borna Baletić / Dean / Akademija Dramske Umjetnosti Zagreb / Croatia

Thomas Beck / President / Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Switzerland

Stephen Beddoe / Director Student Enterprise & Employability / University of the Arts London / United Kingdom

Stuart Bennett / Head of the School of Art / Edinburgh College of Art / United Kingdom

Br-C

Andrea Braidt / Vice-Rector / Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien / Austria

Ross Brannigan / Lecturer / AUT University, School of Art and Design / New Zealand

Marjolijn Brussard / Dean of the School of Art & Design / Nottingham Trent University / United Kingdom

Ron Burnett / President and Vice-Chancellor / Emily Carr University of Art and Design / Canada

Nigel Carrington / Vice-Chancellor / University of the Arts London / United Kingdom

David Cascaro / Head / Haute école des arts du Rhin / France

Chung-Shiuan Chang / Vice President / Taipei National University of the Arts / Taiwan

Jan Cools / Coordinator / LUCA- School of Arts / Belgium

Kieran Corcoran / Head / School of Art, Design and Printing, Dublin Institute of Technology / Ireland

Paula Crabtree / Rektor / Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen / Norway

D-F

Nancy De Freitas / Associate Professor Postgraduate Studies / AUT University, School of Art and Design / New Zealand

Jet De Ranitz / President of the Executive Board / Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten / Netherlands

Carla Delfos / Executive Director / ELIA - The European League of the Institutes of the Arts / Netherlands

Jeremy Diggle / Head of School / RMIT University, Melbourne, School of Art / Australia

Liam Doona / Head of Department /  Dun Laoghaire Inst. of Art, Design and Technology / Ireland

Linda Drew / Deputy Director & Director of Academic Development / Glasgow School of Art / United Kingdom

Sonintogos Erdenetsogt / Rector / Mongolian Soyol Urlagiin Ikh Surguuli / Mongolia

Mike Fitzpatrick / Head of School / Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT /  Ireland 

Karen Fleming / Director of the Art & Design Research Institute / University of Ulster at Belfast / United Kingdom

Päivi Fredriksson / Head of Degree Programme in Design / Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Helsinki / Finland

G-J

Gyrid Garshol / Director / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo / Norway

Judy Glasman / Dean / University of Hertfordshire - School of Creative Arts / United Kingdom

John Green / Dean / Columbia College Chicago / United States

Nina Grunder / Member of the board of directors, coordination of teaching, international relations / Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Switzerland

Soili Hämäläinen / Professor emeritus / Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Philippe Hardy / Executive Managing Director / Ecole Europeenne Superieure d'Art de Bretagne / France

Fríða Björk Ingvarsdóttir / Rector / Listaháskóli Islands / Iceland

Lars Jerlach / Head of Department / AUT University, School of Art and Design / New Zealand

Tinna Joné / Head of Department / Stockholms dramatiska högskola / Sweden

Thera Jonker / Director HKU Expertise Centre in Education / HKU University of the Arts Utrecht / Netherlands
 

K

Jan Kaila / Vice Dean / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Andrey Khazbulatov / Vice Rector /  Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T.K. Zhurgenov / Kazakhstan

Bridget Kievits / Vice President / Executive Board / Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten / Netherlands

Maggie Kinloch / Vice-Principal / Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / United Kingdom

Magnus Kirchhoff / Director / Kulturbryggan / Sweden

Cecilie Broch Knudsen / Rector / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo / Norway

Markus Konttinen / Dean / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Jiri Kotalik / Rector / Akademie Vytvarnych Umení Praha / Czech Republic
 

L-P

Ann Laenen / Dean / LUCA- School of Arts / Belgium

Torben Lai / Head of Academic Affairs / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo / Norway

Désirée Majoor / Vice-President Executive Board / HKU University of the Arts Utrecht / Netherlands

Thomas D. Meier / President / Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / Switzerland

Kerstin Mey / Dean / University of Westminster, Media, Arts and Design / United Kingdom

John O'Connor / Director and Dean / School of Art, Design and Printing, Dublin Institute of Technology / Ireland

Kristina Paavela / Director of Administration / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Anitta Pankkonen / Director / Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Helsink / Finland

R-S

Milan Rasla / Associate Professor / Vysoká Skola Múzickych Umení v Bratislave / Slovakia

Tiina Rosenberg / Rector / University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Leena Rouhiainen / Vice Dean/  Theatre Academy, Performing Arts Research Centre, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Eija Salmi / Cumulus Secretary General / Cumulus / Finland

Johan Sandborg / Pro-rector / Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen / Norway

Johan Scott / Head of Department / Stockholms dramatiska högskola / Sweden

Arthur Sonnen / International Cooperation Coordinator / Maastricht Academy of Fina Arts and Design / Netherlands

Steven Spier / Dean of Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture / Kingston University / United Kingdom

Riikka Stewen / Vice Dean / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Leo Swinkels / Dean of Faculty / Maastricht Academy of Fina Arts and Design / Netherlands

Andrzej Syska / Vice Rector / University of Arts in Poznań / Poland

T-Z

Anita Taylor / Dean of School / Bath Spa University - School of Art & Design / United Kingdom

Ari Tenhula / Vice Dean/ Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Kevin Thompson / College Director / University of Macau - Residential College / China

D. Renee Turner / Director Piet Zwart Institute / Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam / Netherlands

Eija Vähälä / Managing Director / The Kuopio Academy of Design / Finland

Richard Vodicka / Vice Dean for International Affairs / Tomas Bata University / Czech Republic

Chris Wainwright / Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges / University of the Arts London / United Kingdom

Hartmut Wickert / Head of Department and Vice President / Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / Switzerland

Accommodations and Travel

It is recommended that delegates arrive in Helsinki either Tuesday 26 November or Wednesday 27 November early morning.

The Symposium programme runs from Wednesday 27 November noon time to Friday 29 November late afternoon.
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Hotels

Scandic Paasi Hotel

www.scandichotels.com
All Standard Rooms have been booked already; Superior, Superioe Extra and Suite Rooms are still available. Please use the website to see the rates.

Hotel Scandic Paasi is located next to the Paasitorni Congress Centre, venue of the Leadership Sympoisum, therefore the most convenient accommodation for delegates. Hotel Scandic Paasi is situated by the sea in central Helsinki and has excellent transport links to Helsinki airport and other city areas.
 

 

Other Hotels at Walking Distance:

Hilton Helsinki Strand

www.helsinki-strand.hilton.com
Single for 136,20€ per night
Double for 156,20€ per night

Reservation/Booking Code: G1PAAA  (to be included in the Promotion/Offer code box)

Deadline: 12 November 2013
 

Cumulus Hakaniemi 

www.cumulus.fi/hotellit/hakaniemi/en_GB/yhteystiedot/
Standard Single or Double/Twin range from  110,98€ to 131,16€ per night

Reservations by email at hakaniemi.cumulus@restel.fi or by phone at +358 9 54660100
Reservation/Booking Code:  ELIA 2013
Deadline: 12 November 2013

Travel to and from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

 

Taxi 

From Helsinki-Vantaa Airport to Hotels Scandic Paasi, Hilton Helsinki Strand and Cumulus Hakaniemi, taxi costs approximately 45 €.

Airport taxi’s  (for passengers up top 8 persons to various addresses)  is a good alternative and cheaper than a normal taxi.  Both types of taxis can be catched at the airport.
 

Bus

There’s a local bus N. 615 from the Airport that leaves every 15 minutes from platform 2 at Terminal 1 and platform 21 at Terminal 2.

Tickets can be bought from the bus driver (4,50 € / adult).

The bus stop is next to the hotel Cumulus Hakaniemi, the departure stop is called Hakaniemi (2402).

From the bus stop 100 m to Hotel Paasi and 150 m to Hilton Helsinki Strand.

 

For further information about travel to and from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport click here

Venues 
 

Main Venue: Helsinki Congress Paasitorni

Image Source: Helsinki Tourism Material Bank - Helsinki Congress Paasitorni

The ruggedly beautiful granite fortress in Siltasaari, now the Paasitorni conference and congress centre, was designed by architect Karl Lindahl, and opened as the Helsinki Workers’ House, providing leisure activities, entertainment and education for the workers of Helsinki, in 1908. The building has been tastefully restored to its former glory, respecting its historic past yet meeting all the demands made of a modern conference centre.

The oldest part of the Paasitorni building, completed in 1908, is late Art Nouveau in style. The building’s facade, main staircase and the Congress Hall are expertly decorated with images of tools and symbols depicting various occupations to highlight the skill of the craftsman. Geometric shapes and abstract ornamentation, including designs drawn from nature, create a clear, timeless impression combined with warm, harmonious colours.

Image Source: Helsinki Tourism Material Bank - Helsinki Congress Paasitorni

 

Helsinki

Image Source: Helsinki Tourism Material Bank / Photographer: Niklas Sjöblom

Helsinki is unique among Northern European cities. The lifestyle in the second-most northern capital city in the world is full of contrasts and activities in the form of hundreds of events and friendly people. Helsinki's identity has been formed by cultural influences from both the East and West.

For more information on the highlights of Helsinki visit www.visithelsinki.fi/en

University of the Arts Helsinki

Finnish Academy of Fine Arts + Sibelius Academy + Theatre Academy Helsinki = University of the Arts Helsinki

The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Sibelius Academy and Theatre Academy Helsinki merged at the beginning of 2013 into an arts university, in English called the University of the Arts Helsinki (Taideyliopisto in Finnish).

The University of the Arts Helsinki fosters our art heritage and educates artists whose work provides society with life force and new perspectives and ways of thinking, encouraging people to ask questions. The University of the Arts Helsinki brings the arts to the very core of society.
The University consists of three academies that have equal educational contents and cultural weight. The staff and the students of the existing universities were transferred to the University of the Arts Helsinki. There are a total of approximately 2,100 students and the full-time equivalent of personnel is 600. www.uniarts.fi/en/

History of Helsinki in a Nutshell

Sweden’s King Gustavus Vasa founded Helsinki on the mouth of Vantaanjoki River in 1550 to compete with Tallinn for Baltic Sea trade. The town grew slowly however, and the centre of Helsinki was moved to its current location in the 1600s.

In 1748 Sweden began construction of the Suomenlinna Maritime Fortress off the coast of Helsinki to counter the growing threat from Russia. The massive project brought additional wealth, inhabitants and merchants to the town.

Russia conquered Finland in 1809. The status of Helsinki was raised to capital of the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland three years later. A monumental Empire-style city plan was drawn up to reflect the power of Russia and the Tsar.

Finland became independent in 1917, and Helsinki assumed the demanding new role of capital of the young republic. City planning was characterised by Classicism and Functionalism.
Recovering from the hardships of war, Helsinki hosted the Summer Olympics in 1952. The games created an international reputation for Helsinki as an efficient and friendly host city.
Helsinki is recognised as a city in which many differing views can interact in a constructive atmosphere.

Helsinki was one of nine European Cities of Culture in 2000. Helsinki received additional international cultural visibility when it successfully hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. Couple of years later Helsinki was chosen as World Design Capital for the year 2012.

Cultural Programme

 

Two guided tours are planned for Wednesday morning. Delegates are invited to indicate though the registration form whether they wish to attend.

Optional Guided Tours to the Helsinki Music Centre - Concert Hall and the Theatre Academy

• The building of Helsinki Music Centre is home to the Sibelius Academy and two symphony orchestras, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. The design of the building grows from outside in and is at its boldest in the architectural and acoustic surfaces of the Concert Hall.

• Founded in 1979 , Theatre Academy Helsinki provides the highest education in theatre and dance in Finland, training actors (in Finnish and Swedish), directors, dramaturges, lighting and sound designers, professionals in dance (choreographers and dancers), performance artists, dance and theatre pedagogues.

Academy of Fine Arts Galleries

The Academy of Fine Arts has three gallery spaces in which the following exhibitions are open to the public during the conference:
http://www.kuva.fi/en/

Kaiku-Gallery:  Exchange students exhibition

Kaikukatu 4
00530 Helsinki
Opening: 27.11.- 8.12.
mon – fri 11 – 19, sat - sun 12-16
15 min walking distance from the main conference venue

Kuva / Tila -Gallery: Bachelor students exhibition

Merimiehenkatu 36
00150 Helsinki  
Bachelor students exhibition
Opening: 29.11.-22.12.
tue – sun 11-18
Public transport from the conference venue: Tram n. 6 from Hakaniemi
 

Kuvataideakatemia - Gallery: exhibition of Carolin Koss – Atem (video Art)

Kasarminkatu 44
00130 Helsinki
Carolin Koss exhibition – Atem (video art)
Opening: 20.11. – 1.12.
daily 11-18
Public transport from the conference venue: Tram n. 3 from Hakaniemi

Dinner reception at the Helsinki City Hall

Helsinki City Hall is located in the 'Lion Block' of the Empire-style city centre.  The southern side of the block is dominated by the City Hall’s Neoclassical façade. City offices, meeting rooms and reception halls are situated in the former merchant houses on the Senate Square. The dinner reception will be held in the Empire Room which is situated in Merchant Bock’s house and considered as the most beautiful reception hall in the city.

Concert at Cafe Piritta : Minni Ilmonen & The Helsinki Koto Ensemble

The Helsinki Koto Ensemble is an innovative music group of professional Finnish folk and jazz musicians. The ensemble was established 2003 by Minni Ilmonen, to be the vehicle for her compositions. The music is inspired by the Finnish folk music tradition and the Japanese 13-stringed instrument koto. In her music, Minni Ilmonen combines the sounds of the Finnish national instrument kantele together with the koto. The Helsinki Koto Ensemble has played in several concerts and other events around Finland. Besides Finland, band has toured Japan and Scotland.

Hedy D'Ancona

Politician, Geographer and Sociologist
Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Culture,
The Netherlands

Hedy D'Ancona was the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport and State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment for issues concerning women's liberation in The Netherlands. She also served in the European Parliament and in the first chamber of the Dutch parliament, for the Labour Party.

Outside of government, she is known for starting the feminist monthly Opzij as well as the special interest lobbying group, Man-Vrouw-Maatschappij (Man-Woman-Society), which she co-founded with Joke Kool-Smit.

In 1992, Hedy d'Ancona was awarded the Harriet Freezerring, a women's liberation prize, by Opzij. In 1994, she was named as a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 2002, she won the Aletta Jacobsprijs, a women's emancipation prize awarded by University of Groningen every two years. She has been and still is involved with various Dutch cultural institutions as a Board Member, including the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Nederlands Architecture Institute, and the Dutch Federation of Cultural Industries.

Photo by Lonneke Stulen

Mike van Graan

Theater Director,
Executive Director of the African Arts Institute, South Africa

Mike van Graan is the Executive Director of the African Arts Institute (AFAI), a South African NGO based in Cape Town whose two-fold mission is to help develop leadership for the African creative sector and to build regional markets for African artists and their creative works. Until recently, he also served as the Secretary General of Arterial Network, a pan-African network of artists, cultural activists, creative enterprises, and others engaged in the African creative sector and its contribution to human rights, democracy, and development on the African continent.

After the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, he was appointed as a Special Adviser to the first minister responsible for arts and culture where he played an influential role in shaping post-apartheid cultural policies. In 2011, he was appointed by UNESCO as a Technical Adviser to assist governments in the global south to develop cultural policies aligned to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.  He was appointed as Artscape’s Associate Playwright and is considered as one of South Africa’s leading contemporary playwrights, having garnered numerous nominations and awards for his plays that interrogate the post-apartheid South African condition.

He received the Standing Ovation award at the 2012 National Arts Festival for his sustained contribution to the Festival as a writer and activist.

Terike Haapoja

Visual Artist, Finland

Terike Haapoja is a visual artist, working and living in Helsinki. Her work consists of installations and collaborative projects, characterised by the use of new media and new technology. In her projects Haapoja investigates our relationship to the non-human world from scientific, existential, and political viewpoints. Haapoja's projects are mostly large-scale and built around thematic framing, often including collaborations with professionals from other fields of studies. Currently Haapoja works on her practice-based Phd at the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. Haapoja's work has been shown widely in solo and group exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally. Haapoja represents Finland in the 55. Venice Biennale, 2013.

Image Credit: Noora Geagea © Terike Haapoja

Jun Jiang

Editor-in-chief of Urban China Magazine,
Founder of Underline Office, China

Jun Jiang is a Research-architect, archive-editor and freelance-writer. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Urban China Magazine (2005-2010, topics include We Make Cities, Made in China, Socialist New Village, Chinese Family, Chinatown, Collective Movement, etc.), a project director at Strelka School of Architecture, Design and Media in Moscow (2010-2011), a visiting fellow at the ESRC Centre on Migration Policy and Society of Oxford University (2011-2012) and an associate professor in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

He has been working on urban research and experimental study, exploring the interrelationship between design phenomenon and urban dynamic with fieldtrips covering over 200 Chinese cities and around 50 countries. His work has been presented in exhibitions such as Get It Louder (2005,2007), Guangdong Triennale (2005), Shenzhen Biennale (2005,2007,2011), China Contemporary in Rotterdam (2006), and Kassel Documenta XII (2007).

He acted as the curator of the international exhibition 'Street Belongs to…All of Us!' in China (2008). He has been invited to lecture in universities such as CUHK, Harvard University, UCL, Tokyo University, Seoul University, Princeton University, Columbia University, IIT, University of Toronto, University of Sao Paulo, etc. Since 2009, his Urban China Magazine has been exhibited in three museums in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago as the first Chinese magazine being exhibited overseas in travelling solo exhibitions.

He has been the chief-editor for books such as Urban China: Work in Progress (co-edited with Brendan McGetrick, 2009) and A Village by the SEZ (for the Shenzhen Pavilion in Shanghai EXPO, 2010), among others.

Frédéric Martel

Writer, Researcher, and Journalist, France

Frédéric Martel, senior researcher and journalist, has a PhD in Sociology and four master degrees in law, political science, philosophy, and sociology. He has been visiting scholar at Harvard and teaches at Sciences Po Paris.

He is the author of eight books, including On Culture in America (Gallimard, 2006) and the best-seller Mainstream : On the Global War on Culture and Medias (Flammarion, 2010, translated in twenty countries). 

As a journalist, Frédéric Martel is the anchor of the weekly radio program Soft Power on French National Public Radio (France Culture/Radio France). in addition to acting as the editor of the book review site nonfiction.fr

Martel is also a senior researcher at IRIS, the Institute of International Relations (Paris).
 

Image Credit: Arnaud Février © Flammarion

Viktor Misiano

Curator, Russia

Viktor Misiano was a curator of contemporary art at the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow from 1980 until 1990. From 1992 to 1997 he was the director of the Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Moscow. He curated the Russian participation in the Istanbul Biennale (1992), the Venice Biennale (1995, 2003), the São Paulo Biennale (2002, 2004), and the Valencia Biennale (2001). He was on the curatorial team for Manifesta I in Rotterdam in 1996. In 1993 he was a founder of the Moscow Art Magazine and has been its editor-in-chief ever since; in 2003 he was a founder of the Manifesta Journal: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship (Amsterdam) and has been an editor there since 2011. In 2005 he curated the first Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2007 he realised the large scale exhibition project ‘Progressive Nostalgia: Art from the Former USSR’ in the Centro per l’arte contemporanea (Prato, Italy),the Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece) KUMU (Tallinn, Estonia) and KIASMA (Helsinki, Finland). His latest exhibition project is  ‘Impossible Community’ realised at the  Moscow Museum for Modern Art in 2011. From October 2010 he is a Chairman of the International Foundation Manifesta, Docent of the Nuova Academia Belle Arti (NABA) in Milano, and holds a honorary doctorate from the Helsinki University for Art and Design. 

Allyson Vanstone

Dean of Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in Qatar,
a partner of the Qatar Foundation.

Allyson Vanstone, prior to joining VCUQatar in 2007, served as:

Faculty, then Dean, School of Design, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada; 
Chair, Design Department, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, USA; 
Chair, Media Technology at Dubai Women’s College, UAE.

Under Vanstone’s leadership, VCUQatar educational programs, research, entrepreneurship, community engagement and facilities have achieved significant expansion.

The first Master of Fine Arts program in Design Studies in the Gulf region and the first undergraduate visual arts program in Qatar were both initiated in 2009, followed by the first Bachelor of Art in Art History in 2012. These programs joined the three inaugural Bachelor of Fine Arts programs in Fashion, Graphic and Interior Design. An office dedicated to research and entrepreneurship, directly linked with alumni affairs, was initiated in 2009 and expanded in 2011 to guide and support faculty, student and alumni research, entrepreneurship and collaborative creative projects with external organizations. The university more than doubled in size in 2010, bringing all activities under one roof, with the addition of a media lab, digital fabrication lab, printmaking studios, photography studio, expanded library and the first materials library in the region.

Vanstone frequently serves on boards and accreditation teams to support professional and educational developments in design and the visual arts. She is currently a member of the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journal International Advisory Board and serves on the Qatar Foundation, Hamad bin Khalifa University Deans’ Council. In North America, Vanstone participated on NASAD and provincial accreditation teams, as well as Canadian committees for arts, innovation, and education, such as the inaugural Inukshuk Fund Committee to develop national guidelines and grants for innovative interactive projects. Vanstone has also served as a member of The Technology Center Advisory Board at the British Columbia Institute of Technology to review Medical, Forensic, Computer Technology, Engineering, and Business proposals from a design perspective. She has initiated and supported numerous collaborations between education and industry, government and associations for the design of systems, products, and multi-institutional programmes, with groups such as Multiculturalism BC; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; City of Seattle Departments of Arts & Culture, Sustainability, & Environment; and more recently, the Qatar Museums Authority and the Qatar Science & Technology Park. Vanstone’s work has led to presentations with groups such as Icograda, ICFAD, QF Research.

Samuel West

Actor and Director, United Kingdom

Theatre includes the title roles in Hamlet and Richard II (RSC), Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville), ENRON (Chichester, Royal Court and Noel Coward), The Family Reunion and Betrayal (Donmar), A Number (Sheffield, Chichester and Cape Town), Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (Public Theater New York), Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible), The Master and Margarita, Doctor Faustus and Cain (Chichester), Antony and Cleopatra, Arcadia and The Sea (National Theatre), Journey’s End and Mr Cinders (King’s Head), Henry IV Parts I & II (ETT on tour and at the Old Vic), The Importance of Being Earnest (Royal Exchange), A Life in the Theatre (Haymarket), Les Parents Terribles (Orange Tree) and The Browning Version (Birmingham Rep). 

Television includes The Man Who Would Be Bond (forthcoming), Mr Selfridge (two series), Eternal Law, Murder on the Orient Express, Law and Order, Desperate Romantics, Any Human Heart, Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley, Random Quest, Foyle’s War, Cambridge Spies, Waking the Dead, Longitude, Hornblower, A Breed of Heroes, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Heavy Weather, Over Here, The Maitlands and Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  He has narrated five documentary series for the historian Laurence Rees, including The Nazis: a Warning from History.

Films include Posh (forthcoming), Van Helsing, Iris, Howards End, Schweitzer, Pandæmonium, Complicity, Reunion, Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre, Archipel (in French), A Feast at Midnight, Carrington, Stiff Upper Lips, Rupert’s Land and three for director Roger Michell: Persuasion, Notting Hill and Hyde Park on Hudson.  Sam is the voice of Pongo in Disney’s 101 Dalmatians II.

Radio more than forty plays, including works by Pinter, Coward, Frayn, Stoppard, Simon Gray and Laura Wade. He has also recorded over sixty audiobooks.

As a reciter, Sam has appeared with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC.  In 2002 he performed Walton’s Henry V at the Last Night of the Proms. 

Directing includes Close the Coalhouse Door (Northern Stage, national tour and BBC Radio 4), Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory and Trafalgar Sudios), Waste (Almeida), Money (BBC Radio 3) and The Magic Flute for the Palestine Mozart Festival. From 2005 - 2007 Sam was Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, where he directed The Romans in Britain, Insignificance, the European premiere of The Clean House and As You Like It (also RSC).

Samuel West is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts and a member of the council of the British Actors' Union, Equity. In his spare time he goes birdwatching.

Jin Xing 

Dancer, Choreographer, and Actress, China

Jin Xing is a true icon as artist and opinion leader in today’s Chinese society. Trained as a dancer and being a highly decorated officer in the PLA at an early age, Jin Xing pursued further studies in the U.S. and Europe for several years before returning to her home country in 1995. She founded Jin Xing Dance Theatre, the country’s first independent dance company and led it to international acclaim.

In addition to her awarded dance career Jin Xing proved her versatile talent in movies and theatre plays as well. Her achievements in the cultural field have received manifold recognition: an honorary doctor degree in the UK and the French government’s “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Lettres et des Artists” to name a few.

Since 2012 Jin Xing commands a highly influential voice in public through her strong TV presence, among others as host of her own talk show, and through her huge fan base in the Chinese blogosphere which reaches nearly a million followers.

Jin Xing not only represents a new generation of China today. Her name means more as a synonym for courage, freedom, self responsibility and the endless power of an artful spirit.

Image Credit: Dirk Bleicker

Delegate Profiles A-Be

Aierken Abudureyimu / Rector / Xinjiang Arts Institute of China / China

Tuula Auer / Head of Degree Programme / Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Helsinki / Finland

Tuomas Auvinen / Dean /Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki / 
Finland

Tuomas Auvinen is responsible for managing the daily functions and strategic planning of Sibelius Academy as well as the development of the organization and its policies. Tuomas Auvinen has a PhD in Arts Management and an Executive MBA qualification.

He has experience in academia and culture management as the CEO of the Association of Finnish Theatres and as the Executive Director of the Finnish National Theatre. Auvinen started as the new rector of Sibelius Academy as of April 2012, and with the launch of the University of the Arts Helsinki he became the Dean of the Sibelius Academy.

Bayaraa Baasandorjiin / Head of Department International Collaboration / Mongolian Soyol Urlagiin Ikh Surguuli / Mongolia

Bayaraa Baasandorj is a Head of Department of International Collaboration at the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. During her career at the university she worked as a Dean of the Faculty of Management in Culture and Arts, a Chair of the Department of Social Sciences and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages. She was educated at the Kubansky State University, Russian Federation, being specialized in history, and graduated from the National University of Mongolia as an English interpreter. Her area of expertise is development and implementation of international projects in the field of arts and culture. As a project leader and project coordinator she initiated and organized numerous international trainings, workshops and forums in the field of arts management, cultural administration, cultural tourism, creative industries and cultural policy. In the role of a dean and a project manager, she put her efforts into establishment of the first in the country MA training program in Arts Management. She coordinated trainers’ teamwork on curriculum development and shaping up its training program. Assoc. prof. Bayaraa Baasandorjiin is an initiator of such international events as nomadic arts festival 'Culture Naadam' and international discourse meetings 'Tree of Culture', which are organized by MSUAC annually in collaboration with its international partners.

Ursula Bachman / Associate Dean / Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst / Switzerland

Ursula Bachman was born in Zug, Switzerland in 1963. She studied arts in Lucerne and Birmingham and graduated as a Master of Fine Arts. She lived and worked in New York in 1995/96 and Cairo in 1998/99. She traveled extensively through several arabic countries. Since 1996 Professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and the Arts. 2004 - 2011 she has been a member of the Swiss UNESCO commission. Since 1990 exhibitions in museums and galeries and participations in video- and animation festivals in Switzerland and abroad (D; F; GB; I; PL; USA; EG; SY; IRQ; RO). Her work is present in several collections and in public places. Since 2011 Associate Dean at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and the Arts and Head of Interdisciplinary and International Programmes.

Borna Baletić / Dean / Akademija Dramske Umjetnosti Zagreb / Croatia

Thomas Beck / President / Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Switzerland

Dr. Thomas Beck, born in Kiel (Germany), worked as a journalist for German newspapers before he studied literature and musicology in Erlangen (Germany). In 1992 Thomas Beck went to Switzerland and worked as head of dramaturgy at the opera house of St.Gallen (Switzerland). In 1997 he changed to Swiss National Television in Zurich where he became head of the performing arts department.

In 2009 Thomas Beck was appointed president of the University of the Arts in Bern (Switzerland). Since 2011 he is also president of the conference of Swiss Art Schools and since 2000 board member of the International Music and Media Center (IMZ) in Vienna.

Stephen Beddoe / Director Student Enterprise & Employability / University of the Arts London / United Kingdom

Stuart Bennett / Head of the School of Art / Edinburgh College of Art /
United Kingdom

Delegate Profiles Br-C 

Andrea Braidt / Vice-Rector / Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien / Austria

Mag. Dr. Andrea B. Braidt MLitt is Vice-Rector for Art and Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As a reseacher with degrees in film studies and comparative literature her research focus and publication lies activity on narratology, genre theory and gender/queer studies. International fellowships and appointments brought her to USA, Canada and Budapest, where she was guest professor at CEU Central Euroepan University. From 2004-2011 she was Senior Scientist at the TFM Department for Theater, Film, and Media Studies at Vienna University, leading numerous research projects, organising international conferences, teaching extensively. The Vice-Rectorate for Art and Research, which was newly established with Braidt’s appointment at the Academy, is responsible for stimulating research activity especially in the field of arts based research, for supporting the doctoral programs at the Academy, for conference and publication activity and for national and international co-operations and networks. 
 

Ross Brannigan / Lecturer / AUT University, School of Art and Design / 
New Zealand

Ross Brannigan lectures in Performance and Digital Media.  He is also a practitioner – in theatre and screen - and working on a PhD. topic of Cinematic Theatre & Theatrical Cinema.  He is married with two young girls and lives in a dilapidated villa in Auckland, New Zealand.
 

Research Interests
• Intermediality
• Cinematic Theatre & Theatrical Cinema
• The Use of Digital Media in Live Theatre
• Liminality

Selected Presentations/Publications
2011 Expanding Documentary – Navigating Diverse Cultures in the Production of Look at you Aroha Atu Aroha Mai
2009 Auckland Fringe – Holding the Digital Mirror up to Nature
2009 Counties Manukau District Health Board – Look at You – Aroha Atu, Aroha Mai
2008 ANZSA Dunedin - Holding the mirror up to nature – constructing a practice-as-research project to explore theories of the digital double from the perspective of the actor
2004 ANZSA Canberra - Possible Interfaces Between interactive Digital Media and Live Shakespearian Theatre

Professional theatre and screen practice includes
Short Film – Martha & Edward – Dirs Dennis Brooks & Ayla Amano, The Lost One – Dir Yvette Thomas
TV – 50+ Eps - Almighty Johnsons, Spartacus, Cancerman, Legend of the Seeker
Film – Tracker, Redhead – Loving Lucy
Theatre – 30+ productions - Hamlet, Me & My Friend, Icarus’ Mother at Court, Mercury, Centrepoint, Fortune

Marjolijn Brussard / Dean of the School of Art & Design / Nottingham Trent University / United Kingdom

Marjolijn Brussaard is the Dean of the School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University. She is a former Executive Board member of Cumulus (an international organisation of 160 Universities and institutes for Art, Media and Design) and Dean for the School of Art & Economics, Utrecht School of the Arts, in the Netherlands working on arts management and creative entrepreneurship. She worked as a trainer and consultant for universities around the world on management and curricula in Art & Design.
 

Ron Burnett / President and Vice-Chancellor / Emily Carr University of Art and Design / Canada

Dr. Burnett has been President + Vice-Chancellor of Emily Carr University of Art + Design since 1996. In 2010, Dr. Burnett was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government and received the International Digital Media and Arts Association Outstanding Leadership Award.  He received his BA, MA and PhD from McGill University in the areas of media arts, communications and cultural studies. He began his career as a post-secondary professor and administrator at Vanier College in Montreal where he founded the Creative Arts Department. He went on to work at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia and then became the Director of the Graduate Program in Communications at McGill University.

In a career spanning forty years, Dr. Burnett has published three books, over 150 articles, book chapters and reviews as well as two monographs. Internationally known for his work in media and distance education, he served on an “eminent persons panel” at UNESCO in Paris to advise on the development of Internet resources for the Third World. He is a member of the Learning Development Institute Board, the European League of Institutes of the Arts Representative Board, the Executive Committee and Board of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, the BCNET Board, the British Columbia Achievement Foundation Board and is former Chair of the Knowledge Network Board of Governors.

In 2012, he received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Media in honour of his significant contributions and achievements and in 2002, he received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for service to Canada and Canadians. He was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 2003 and was voted Educator of the Year by the Canadian New Media Association in 2005. Dr. Burnett is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program in Film and Video at York University, Toronto, he is the William Evans Fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and is a Burda Scholar at Ben Gurion University, Israel. 
 

Nigel Carrington / Vice-Chancellor / University of the Arts London /
United Kingdom

Nigel Carrington is the Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London.  University of the Arts London, which has 19,000 students across its six Colleges, is Europe’s largest university for the study of art, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts.  Before joining the University in 2008, Nigel’s career was in the commercial sector, including 21 years with Baker & McKenzie, the international law firm, where he was Managing Partner of the London Office and Chairman of the Firm’s European Region, and 7 years with the McLaren Group where he was Managing Director and Deputy Chairman.  As a practising lawyer until 1994, Nigel specialized in advising companies and other organizations on mergers, acquisitions and alliances.  As a business leader for 14 years before taking up his present role, Nigel managed complex “people” organizations which relied for their success on maintaining a successful balance between encouraging individual creativity and developing institutional consensus.

Nigel studied law at St John’s College, Oxford University and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. 

David Cascaro / Head / Haute école des arts du Rhin / France

Chung-Shiuan Chang / Vice President / Taipei National University of the Arts / Taiwan

Chung-shiuan Chang obtained an Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1991 with her research focus on children’s creative dance. She was a founding member of Neo-Classic Dance Company led by Dr. Liu Feng-hsueh, a respected choreographer and dance scholar in Taiwan. She has been a full-time teacher at the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) since 1992. At TNUA, besides teaching, she was selected as the chair of dance department, the dean of the school of dance from 2000 to 2006. Currently she is the vice president at TNUA.

Jan Cools / Coordinator / LUCA- School of Arts / Belgium

Jan Cools  was active as a curator in Antwerp, Amsterdam, The Hague, London, Liverpool, Dakar, etc. Since 2006 he is research coordinator Visual and Audiovisual Arts at the Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design Brussels. He wrote several articles and publications on Belgian contemporary art.

He was co-curator of the international conferences “The Academy strikes back”, (Brussels, 4 - 5 June 2010) and  “A Certain Ma Ness”, (Amsterdam, 8 March 2008); and the international expert meeting “Becoming Bologna”, (IUAV, Venice 6 - 7 June 2009). Together with Henk Slager he was co-editor of the book "Agonistic Academies" (2011).

Kieran Corcoran / Head / School of Art, Design and Printing, Dublin Institute of Technology / Ireland

Kieran Corcoran is Head of the School of Art, Design and Printing in the College of Arts and Tourism in the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.

He has recently edited Art Futures: Current Issues in Higher Arts Education (2011) and Peer Power!:The Future of Higher Arts Education in Europe (2010).

He is currently President of ELIA and a member of the SHARE steering committee.
 

Paula Crabtree / Rektor / Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen / Norway

Paula Crabtree's background is as an artist working primarily with painting and photography having exhibited nationally and internationally. She is also a Social Anthropologist.

From August 2010 Paula Crabtree has been the Rector at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB). Before that from 2002 to 2010 Paula Crabtree held the position of Dean at the Dept of Fine Art, KHiB. She was active in KUNO the Nordic/Baltic network for Fine Art Institutions and was elected chair between 2004 and 2006.

Since 2008 Crabtree has been co-artistic director (with Prof. Anthony Dean) for NEU NOW Festivals: Vilnius 2009, Nantes 2010, Tallinn 2011, Porto/Guinio 2012.
Crabtree has, through her years as Dean at the Dept. of Fine Art at KHiB gained a substantial insight into Fine Art education, not only in Norway and across the Nordic countries, but more widely across Europe. This has been enhanced by her continual participation in ELIA working groups, KUNO as well as having the co-responsibility for establishing and steering PARADOX the Fine Art European Forum. She has been a member of several international teams carrying out institutional reviews of Quality Assurance in art institutions in Romania, Lithuania, Sweden, Palestine and Turkey. Through ELIA and the Inter}artes thematic network and PARADOX Crabtree has worked on Teaching and Learning in the Arts and focusing intensively on Tuning in European Fine Art.

She is also a Member of the Austrian Advisory Board of the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) - part of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Delegate Profiles D-F

Nancy De Freitas / Associate Professor Postgraduate Studies / AUT University, School of Art and Design / New Zealand

Nancy de Freitas is Associate Professor and Programme Leader of the Master of Arts Management, School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Nancy has lectured internationally at host institutions that include Parsons the New School for Design, New York; Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal; OCAD University, Toronto; Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto; Faculty for the Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Hertfordshire, UK; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane; Massey University, Wellington and the Design School, UNITEC, Auckland. In 2012, she presented: ‘Aligning Making & Writing: a guide to art and design research publication’ at the Making, Materiality and Knowledge Conference, Telemark University, Notodden, Norway; and ‘Asserting Material Thinking: the language we speak’ at the Art of Research IV Conference at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland.

Her current research interests include: professional education for the design, creative and cultural sectors; the language of practice-led research reporting; the effect of documentation and reflection practices on professional development; and 'material thinking' approaches. She is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Studies in Material Thinking. Nancy received a Fulbright Travel Award in support of an invitational speaking tour in the USA, November/December 2012, to lecture at PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, at Parsons The New School For Design, NYC and at the Pratt Institute, NYC.

Jet De Ranitz / President of the Executive Board / Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten / Netherlands

Jet de Ranitz (The Hague, 1970) has been chairman of the Executive Board since 1 April 2011. Together with her colleague Bridget Kievits she has the final responsibility for strategy, policy and execution at the AHK. Within the Executive Board the portfolios and areas of expertise have been divided. De Ranitz leads the directors of the academies and the service office. She also holds the portfolios finances, planning & control, real estate, ICT, facility management, human resources and external communication, and she represents the school externally.

From 2006-2011 De Ranitz was managing director of Nederlands Dans Theater, one of the best contemporary dance companies in the world. Prior to joining the Nederlands Dans Theater, De Ranitz was managing director of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. 

Carla Delfos / Executive Director / ELIA - The European League of the Institutes of the Arts / Netherlands

Carla Delfos was born in The Netherlands and graduated from the Theatre school in Amsterdam 1976. She worked as an actress, theatre director and writer until 1988 and was involved in the organisation of international events and director of Foundation EuroTheatre from 1987 until 1989. She worked as a drama teacher in the Theatre school in Amsterdam from 1976 until 1999. She was a Board member of the Theatre school Amsterdam from 1982 until 1989 and played a role in the merger into the Amsterdam School of the Arts.

In 1989 she started developing the Founding Conference for the European League of Institutes of the Arts – ELIA, an international organisation now representing over 350 higher arts education institutions and universities in 47 countries. ELIA is the primary independent membership organisation representing all subject disciplines and has a membership of more than 350 arts institutions in 47 countries. Through its membership network ELIA promotes dialogue, mobility, research, sharing of best practice and activities between artists, teachers, administrators and leaders, altogether representing more than 300,000 art students.

Since the founding of the organisation in 1990 she is Executive Director of ELIA and guided the organisation to where it is today. In 1996 Carla Delfos was awarded by the French Government and was knighted Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2001 she was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Art by the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen; in 2009, an Honorary Doctorate from Columbia College, Chicago and Honorary Fellowship of Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

She serves in several national and international boards and sporadically teaches theatre.

Jeremy Diggle / Head of School / RMIT University, Melbourne, School of Art / Australia

Professor Jeremy Diggle is the Head of the School of Art at RMIT University in Melbourne. Prior to his RMIT appointment, Professor Diggle held senior positions across a range of international universities.

As a practicing artist and innovator, Jeremy's work is widely known. He creates complex narrative abstract compositions by experimenting with visual languages and traditional, contemporary and digital media.

Jeremy has acted as an evaluator for the Swiss National Science Foundation and has held memberships with the Great Western Research Committee in the UK and the research advisory group of the Tate Gallery St Ives. During his lengthy career in Europe Jeremy was an elected board member of ELIA (European League of Institutes for the Arts), CHEAD (Council for Higher Education in Art and Design), SCOPACS (Standing Committee of Principals of Art Colleges Scotland) and the national secretary for NAFAE (National Association for Fine Art Education). He has recently been elected to the Executive of DDCA (Australia Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts).
 

Liam Doona / Head of Department /  Dun Laoghaire Inst. of Art, Design and Technology / Ireland

Linda Drew / Deputy Director & Director of Academic Development / Glasgow School of Art / United Kingdom

Linda joined the GSA in August 2011 from the University of the Arts London (UAL) where she was Dean of the Graduate School for Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon. She is currently the Chair of CHEAD (Council for Higher Education in Art and Design) and is a member of the Design Commission, an industry-led research group, which sits alongside the Associate Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group. She is also a member of the Singapore British Business Council and an External Quality Reviewer for arts higher education at the Singapore Ministry of Education. Linda was Head of College at Chelsea College of Art and Design (UAL 2006-7). Before joining the University of the Arts as Dean at Chelsea in 2003, she was Co-Director of the Art, Design and Communication subject centre based at the University of Brighton. She is founding editor of the highly regarded peer-reviewed research journal Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, published by Intellect books for over 10 years. Linda is an alumna of Saint Martins School of Art, a Fellow of the Design Research Society (FDRS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).
 

Sonintogos Erdenetsogt / Rector / Mongolian Soyol Urlagiin Ikh Surguuli / Mongolia

Sonintogos Erdenetsogt (PhD) is a Rector of the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She graduated from the Saints-Petersburg State University (formerly known as Leningrad State University), Russian Federation, being specialized in journalism. She defended her PhD at the National University of Mongolia on the issues related to language specifics of TV advertisement in Mongolia. She is a journalist with extensive work experience, gained during her employment at the leading news agencies, newspapers and radio of the country. Prof. Sonintogos Erdenetsogt authored, co-authored, translated and edited more than 20 books and textbooks and worked as an editor and consultant for several documentaries. She implemented numerous projects in the field of arts and culture, including international forum 'Culture and Development' organized under the auspices of UNESCO in Ulaanbaatar in 2012. Currently she is a board member and jury of several professional organizations and association such as Baldorj Foundation, Norovbanzad Association, and Consortium of Mongolian Universities and Colleges. Since 2010 she is a Vice-president of Academy of Radio and Television, and in 2012 she was elected as a Vice-president of Asian League of Institutions of Arts (ALIA). Nowadays Prof. Sonintogos is working intensively in the field of cultural education and public arts, leading the university in organizing nomadic arts festival 'Culture Naadam' and a street festival 'My city – my homeland', organized annually with the joint efforts of MSUAC international partners and Ulaanbaatar city government.   
 

Mike Fitzpatrick / Head of School / Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT / Ireland 

Mike Fitzpatrick is currently Head of School of Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT. Previously Director/Curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art from 2000-2009 curating over eighty exhibitions including Simon Starling, Lindsay Seers, John Shinnors, Clare Langan, Connolly Cleary, Sean Lynch, Amanda Coogan, Tom Molloy, retrospectives by Walter Verling and Jack Donovan and a survey exhibition of 21st century Irish art. Ireland's commissioner for the Venice Biennale 2007 curating the artist Gerard Byrne also for his exhibition at Lismore Castle in 2010. Curator of the Visual Art strand at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2005 & 2006.

Personal solo Exhibitions include ‘Everything Must Go’ Art in General, New York, ‘Selling America’ Silverstein Gallery, New York and Galway Art Centre, BIAD Birmingham, Limerick City Gallery of Art, OMAC, Belfast and Project Art Centre, Dublin. Exhibited in selected shows in Ireland, UK, USA, Hungry, Australia and Italy.

Fellowships, Residencies, Education; Independent Study Programme, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Studio Fellowship at PS1 Museum, LIC, New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha NE. Education; Research Studies at University of Liverpool. MA, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, BCU, Italian Gov. Scholarship, Academia De Brera, Milan, PTA, Dip Fine Art, Limerick School of Art and Design.

Publications; Tuxedo Junction, 1960: Gerard Byrne by Lismore Castle Arts, 2010 (interview). Eamon O’Kane, Studio In The Woods: 2004, Campus Galerie Bayreuth, Walter Verling, exhibition catalogue, Pub. Limerick City Gallery of Art by Gandon Ed.
Memberships: Director eva International Biennial, Trustee of the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Member of Programme Committee of Limerick City of Culture 2014

Karen Fleming / Director of the Art & Design Research Institute / University of Ulster at Belfast / United Kingdom









Päivi Fredriksson / Head of Degree Programme in Design / Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Helsinki / Finland

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Gyrid Garshol / Director / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo / Norway

Judy Glasman / Dean / University of Hertfordshire - School of Creative Arts / United Kingdom

Judy Glasman is Dean of the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire just north of London, which is a large campus-based University known for its business engagement. She studied art and design history at the University of London and architectural history at the Bartlett School of Architecture, subsequently taking her teaching qualification at the Institute of Education in London and an MBA with the University of Leicester. Her research and publications at this time were concerned with immigrant populations and building conversions. The School of Creative Arts has 2,300 students at all levels and teaches higher education students in subjects including visual arts, design disciplines, film and television, animation and games, music composition, technology and business and art therapy at undergraduate, postgraduate and research level. Research in the School is focused on research-based practice, art and design theory, games and animation, and digital design. At the University of Hertfordshire she has led the development of a strong employability and external engagement agenda for all courses, supporting structures for a research-informed curriculum, as well as establishing international partnerships and an international population of students in order to benefit from cultural diversity. She is Trustee of Digswell Arts Trust which runs regional artists’ studios, as well as the Creative Enterprise Studio School. She is a member of the executive of the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design which represents the HE art and design sector.
 

John Green / Dean / Columbia College Chicago / United States

John is the Allen and Lynn Tuner Chair of Theatre, and currently serves as the Interim Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College Chicago. He was born and educated in England, where he received his Ph.D. in theatre from the University of Plymouth. As a director he has over 100 productions to his credit, which have been staged internationally in the UK, including four productions at the Edinburgh International Festival, Ireland, France, Slovenia, Russia and Australia. In the United States he has had a long association as guest director at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, and for the past two seasons has directed staged readings of new works in translation for Chicago’s International Voices Project. He has received a number of “best director” awards at festivals including, The London Student Drama Festival, The National Student Drama Festival of Great Britain, and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.   
 

Nina Grunder / Member of the board of directors, coordination of teaching, international relations / Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB / Switzerland

Born in Bern (Switzerland), initially trained to be an elementary school teacher and then studied classical singing at the Bern University of the Arts. Already during her studies, she built up the first successful student agency at a Swiss music university, which she subsequently ran for many years. From 2008 on, after several years of managing events and various different music productions (including for the Biennale in Venice, the festival Warsaw Autumn, the "Tage für neue Kammermusik" in Witten and the Stadttheater Bern), she dedicated her time more to education. First, she established further education programmes and, then, the first Swiss PhD programme for graduates of art universities. She was also the executive director of the renowned Concours Nicati, a competition for interpreters, and member of the directorate at Opera Schloss Hallwyl. Since 2011, Nina Grunder has been responsible for the further education field "singing voice" of the Bern University of the Arts. As a member of the university`s bord of directors, she has been supervising the areas teaching, internationalisation and quality management since August 2012. 
 

Soili Hämäläinen / Professor emeritus / Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

 
Philippe Hardy / Executive Managing Director / Ecole Europeenne Superieure d'Art de Bretagne / France

National of France, Philippe Hardy has acquired an extensive working experience in the field of the Contemporary Arts in various European countries. He has held, for example, the position of Director of the French Institutes in Turin, Italy and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, From 2006 to 2009 he was General Inspector of the Contemporary Arts at the French Ministry of Culture where he frequently dealt with issues related to art education.

In October 2009 the City of Rennes entrusted him with the management of the Rennes Art School. Since 2011 Philippe Hardy is Executive Managing Director of the EESAB, the European Superior School of Art of Brittany, institution created in 2011and regrouping the four former art schools of the Breton Region, i.e. those of the cities of Rennes, Brest, Quimper and Lorient with a total of approximately 1000 students.

He has managed the merger of the four art schools into one, while developing different international exchange projects with European and non-European countries, as well as collaborations with local industrial and institutional partners, like, for instance, the University of Rennes and Yves Rocher. 

Fríða Björk Ingvarsdóttir / Rector / Listaháskóli Islands / Iceland

Tinna Joné / Head of Department / Stockholms dramatiska högskola / Sweden

Thera Jonker / Director HKU Expertise Centre in Education / HKU University of the Arts Utrecht / Netherlands

Thera Jonker is Director of the HKU Expertise Centre in Education. The Centre develops, links and disseminates knowledge in arts education and creativity in and outside HKU through research, courses, and professional development programmes. She teaches at the cross disciplinary Master of Education in Arts which is part of the centre. Since 2012 she is Chair of the Advisory Board on Dutch Higher Arts Education at the Dutch Higher Education Council. As member of the ELIA Executive Board she is involved in several networks and conferences (Teachers' Academy).

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Jan Kaila / Vice Dean / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Jan Kaila (born 1957) studied at the Doctoral Studies Program at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts from 1997 to 2002. The subject of his doctorate, completed in 2002, was Photographicality and Representation in Contemporary Art.

Kaila worked in the 1980s and 1990s as a full-time and visiting contracted teacher and lecturer in several Nordic photography schools, including the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the School of Photography at Gothenburg University. In 2001, he was elected Professor of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and, in 2004, he was appointed Professor of Artistic Research and also Head of the Doctoral Studies Program at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008, he was elected Vice Rector of the Academy. In 2013 he became Vice Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki.

Since his Doctorate in Fine Arts Kaila has published and lectured regularly about artistic research. Together with Henk Slager, Kaila was the founding member of European Artistic Research Network (EARN) in 2004 and in 2010 he was nominated as a member in the executive board of the Society of Artistic Research (publisher of Journal of Aristic Research, JAR). Kaila has also worked as an evaluator of fine art education and artistic research in Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Austria and Ireland.

Since 1980, Kaila has held solo exhibitions and participated in group shows in many European countries, the United States, Japan and South Korea. Kaila has also worked as a curator and has published writings about visual art and photography.

Andrey Khazbulatov / Vice Rector /  Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T.K. Zhurgenov / Kazakhstan

Bridget Kievits / Vice President / Executive Board / Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten / Netherlands

Born in 1960 in Holland, Bridget Kievits studied Dutch Language and Literature in Amsterdam, where she graduated Cum Laude in 1988. After graduation Kievits started working at De Nederlandse Opera, where after two years she became manager of the Opera Choir. In 2004 Kievits left the Opera and became head of the management team at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.

In 2008 Kievits went to the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK), where she became Secretary to the Executive Board, under Olchert Brouwer, then President. Since October 2010 Kievits has been Vice-President of the Executive Board, together with her colleague, Jet de Ranitz, who joined the AHK in April 2011 as President. Kievits’ principal portfolios are education and research, quality control, lectorates, student affairs and accreditations.

The AHK consists of six independent and unique art schools, from the Conservatoire of Amsterdam, to the Reinwardt Academy for cultural heritage studies. The board has the final responsibility for these schools; to govern them with an eye on the uniqueness of each school, with an understanding of their differences and with a vision on what they have in common.

As Vice-President of the Board Kievits’ mission is to create the best possibilities for those people who actually do the work: students, teachers, artistic leaders and directors. That means making sure the management is of high quality, that there is a demanding but safe atmosphere in which the talent of students can be fostered and developed, and that they are well prepared for the outside world that awaits them.

Since October 2012 Bridget Kievits is a member of the Representative Board of ELIA.
 

Maggie Kinloch / Vice-Principal / Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / United Kingdom

Maggie Kinloch is Vice Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has worked at a senior level in the Higher Education Conservatoire sector throughout the UK since 1994. Educated at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the University of Glasgow. Professor Kinloch has taught drama in secondary and special schools. She has also been: 

• Director of Drama at Glasgow Arts Centre
• Associate Director of TAG and Annexe Theatre Companies.
• Artistic Director/Chief Executive of the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews

Following her time at the Byre Theatre, Professor Kinloch moved into education at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama where she designed and led the MA Advanced Theatre Practice programme. After a further period as Head of the School of Acting at ArtsEd, London, she returned to Scotland to become Head of the School of Drama at Queen Margaret University for 5 years, prior to her appointment as Director of Drama at the then RSAMD. She was promoted to Vice Principal in 2009.

Since 1994, she has visited conservatoires and theatre companies in over 20 countries and has developed an extensive understanding of artist education around the world.

Professor Kinloch has extensive Committee and Board experience with a range of arts organisations. This currently includes:

• Serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Theatre of Scotland
• Serving as a member of the Board of Director of the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Trust, Scotland
• Chair of the Equality and Diversity Forum of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Previous appointments of this sort include:

• Chair of Glasgay Festival
• International Advisory Panel to Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
• Director of European League of Institutes of the Arts

Magnus Kirchhoff / Director / Kulturbryggan / Sweden










Cecilie Broch Knudsen / Rector / Oslo National Academy of the Arts / Norway

Cecilie Broch Knudsen, born in New York 1950, was elected rector/president at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2007 and reelected for another 4 year period in 2011. The institution, a merger of five schools, moved to one campus in 2010. Oslo National Academy of the Arts is the largest educational instituion within the arts in Norway with a portfolio ranging from the performing arts to the visual arts including fine art, applied arts and desing.
 

• Leader of the Professional Council for Artistic Research in The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions
• Member of council to ULTIMA, Oslo Contemporary Music festival
• Member of council to Knowledge Oslo
• Member of council to Norsk Barnebok Institutt
• Member of jury of the Telenor Culture Prize
• Board member of the Jewish Museum in Oslo.

Markus Konttinen / Dean / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Jiri Kotalik / Rector / Akademie Vytvarnych Umení Praha / Czech Republic

 

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Ann Laenen / Dean / LUCA- School of Arts / Belgium

Torben Lai / Head of Academic Affairs / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo / Norway

Désirée Majoor / Vice-President Executive Board / HKU University of the Arts Utrecht / Netherlands

Désirée Majoor, Vice-President of the Executive Board at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, has extremely wide experience in higher education. Previously, she was associated with the HKU as the chair of the Theatre Faculty, after which she was director of the Faculty of Communication and Journalism at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. She has also worked in various managerial positions at Utrecht University. 






 

Thomas D. Meier / President / Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / Switzerland
Thomas D. Meier is the Acting President of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), following his appointment in 2008. He was born in Basel and raised in Wil (Canton of St. Gallen). He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Bern, where he studied history and English and American Literature. His professional experience includes a research assistantship at the University of Bern, public relations work in the arts and culture, and managerial responsibilities at Bern Historical Museum. From 1996 to 2003, he served as Director of the Museum of Communication in Bern. He was appointed Director of Bern University of the Arts in 2003. During his museum appointments, he was President of the Swiss Section of the International Council of Museums and a member of various cultural policy bodies. He is active in various international cultural policy networks. 

 

Kerstin Mey / Dean / University of Westminster, Media, Arts and Design / United Kingdom

Kerstin Mey studied Art, and German language and literature at Humboldt University to MA level. There, Mey also gained a PhD in Art Theory/Aesthetics. Mey was appointed to a lecturership at Humboldt University in 1990. In 1992 Mey took on a position as DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Lektor at Warwick University. In her time there, she studied for a PGDip in European Cultural Policy and Administration. In 1996 Mey was offered a lecturing position in Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee University, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer there in 2000. In 2004 Mey moved to the University of Ulster where she was appointed Professor of Fine Art and formed part of a team of three to set up a major new initiative: Interface – Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design. While heading up its research strand 'Art and its Locations' Mey also took on the Directorship of the Research Institute Art and Design. She also acted as Chair and Interim CEO of Ormeau Baths Gallery during its transition phase. In 2009 Mey took up responsibilities as Director of Research and Enterprise at the University for the Creative Arts. While at UCA, she took on the Directorship of CREST, the GuildHE Consortium for Research Excellence, Support and Training. Mey has served on a number of Advisory Groups and Boards including Cathedral Art Quarter Steering Group, Belfast Healthy Cities, and UCA Board of Governors.
 

John O'Connor / Director and Dean / School of Art, Design and Printing, Dublin Institute of Technology / Ireland

As a Director of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) John O'Connor is a member of the Senior Leadership Team, chaired by the President, which has overall responsibility for leading and managing the Institute.

O'Connor is also Dean of the College of Arts and Tourism – comprising seven schools and three research centres. With over 4,500 students and around 450 academic staff it is one of the the largest of the four colleges in DIT. In this capacity O'Connor sits on the Academic Council of DIT and chairs a range of sub-committees. He is also chair of the College Leadership Team which has responsibility for the strategic and operational direction of the College.

O'Connor joined the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in 1994 as Course Leader of the Diploma in Graphic Reproduction Technology and in 1998 was appointed Senior Lecturer in Design and Head of the School of Art, Design & Printing. He led the development of the only full time honours degree programme to be delivered on an offshore island in Ireland, the BA in Visual Art. Commencing with a pilot in 2000 there is now a biennial intake of new students boosting Sherkin's population of 120 outside the tourist season. In April 2010 President of Ireland Mary McAleese attended the conferring ceremony – the first ever visit of an Irish President to the island. The programme is offered in partnership with the Sherkin Island Development Society and with support from the Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the West Cork Arts Centre. In September 2008 a new Masters programme developed specifically for the Design Ireland Skillnets was launched. 

One of the modules O'Connor developed and continue to teach, Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?, won the national Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning in 2010. The module then won the Learning Without Frontiers Award in London in 2012.
 

Kristina Paavela / Director of Administration / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Anitta Pankkonen / Director / Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Helsinki / Finland

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Milan Rasla / Associate Professor / Vysoká Skola Múzickych Umení v Bratislave / Slovakia

Tiina Rosenberg / Rector / University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Tiina Rosenberg is the rector at the University of the Arts Helsinki from 2013 until 2017. She is on a leave of absence from her professorship at the University of Stockholm. She has previously worked as a professor of gender studies, director of studies, and department head at the universities of Stockholm and Lund.

Dr. Rosenberg’s research has focused on feminist theatre, performance studies, feminist theories, gender and sexuality, and critical theory. She is also an active contributor to social debates. She has published monographs and articles in academic publications and anthologies.

Her most recent book is Ilska, hopp och solidaritet: Med feministisk scenkonst in i framtiden (2012), which discusses feminist performance art in Sweden. Rosenberg’s other works are En regissörs estetik: Ludvig Josephson och den tidiga teaterregin (1993), Byxbegär (2000), Queerfeministisk Agenda (2002), Besvärliga människor: Teatersamtal med Suzanne Osten (2004), Könet brinner! Judith Butlers texter i urval (2005), Ogjort genus (2006), L-ordet: Vart tog alla lesbiska vägen? (2006), and Bögarnas Zarah: diva, ikon, kult (2009). She also co-wrote Teater i Sverige (2004) with Lena Hammargren, Karin Helander, and Willmar Sauter.
 

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Leena Rouhiainen / Vice Dean/  Theatre Academy, Performing Arts Research Centre, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Eija Salmi / Cumulus Secretary General / Cumulus / Finland

Johan Sandborg / Pro-rector / Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen / Norway

Johan Scott / Head of Department / Stockholms dramatiska högskola / Sweden

Arthur Sonnen / International Cooperation Coordinator / Maastricht Academy of Fina Arts and Design / Netherlands

Steven Spier / Dean of Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture / Kingston University / United Kingdom

Professor Steven Spier has been Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University London since September 2012. Previously he was head of the School of Architecture and Design in Belfast after being the founding Vice-Chancellor of a new university of the built environment and metropolitan development in Hamburg: the HafenCity University. He has also been head of the School of Architecture at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.

Professor Spier has two main research areas. The first is choreography as a spatial organising system. He has pursued this mainly through the work of William Forsythe and is the author of the first English-language book on him: William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography. It Starts from Any Point. His second research area is contemporary European architecture, especially Swiss. He is the author of the influential book Swiss Made as well as numerous articles in a variety of academic journals and magazines.

He has been honoured for his contributions to architecture education with an honorary fellowship of the Royal Incorporation Architects of Scotland (Hon)FRIAS and of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). He has served on numerous architecture award panels and architect selection panels.

Professor Spier has had many directorships. He has recently joined the board of Cryptic, a renowned production house that fuses music, sonic art, theatre and multi-media. He was on the board of Scottish Ballet from 2003 to 2012. He was a director on the first board of Architecture and Design Scotland as well as of The Centre, which commissioned renowned artists to work outside of the gallery context.

He has a BA in philosophy and a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. He was born in Montreal, grew in the USA and has lived for the last 20 years in Zurich, Berlin, Hamburg, London and Glasgow. He holds four passports.
 

Riikka Stewen / Vice Dean / Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Leo Swinkels / Dean of Faculty / Maastricht Academy of Fina Arts and Design / Netherlands

Andrzej Syska / Vice Rector / University of Arts in Poznań / Poland

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Anita Taylor / Dean of School / Bath Spa University - School of Art & Design / United Kingdom

Anita Taylor is the Dean of Bath School of Art & Design at Bath Spa University.  Prior to this appointment in 2013, she was Director & CEO of the National Art School in Sydney, Australia (2009-2013); Director of The Centre for Drawing, a Research Centre of the University of the Arts London (2006-2009); Dean of Wimbledon College of Art, UAL (2006-2008) and Vice Principal of Wimbledon School of Art, London (2004-2006) prior to merger with UAL; and was previously Deputy Head of Art, Media & Design, University of Gloucestershire where she was initially appointed as Head of Painting in 1991. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of the University of Sydney, affiliated to Sydney College of the Arts.

Anita is a practicing artist, primarily exhibiting paintings and drawings nationally and internationally. She is founding Director of the leading award for contemporary drawing in the UK, the Jerwood Drawing Prize (1994-present). Her research and practice is focussed on the investigation and interrogation of the role of drawing in creative practice, and more widely.  She was a member of the Art & Design Panel for the UK Higher Education Funding Councils Research Assessment Exercise RAE2008, a Peer Review College Member for Arts & Humanities Research Council from 2004-07; and is a member of the Creative Arts and Performing Arts Panel for the University Grants Committee, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Hong Kong Research Exercise 2014.  She participates widely in review panels, external examining, panel discussions and conferences nationally and internationally.

Ari Tenhula / Vice Dean/ Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki / Finland

Kevin Thompson / College Director / University of Macau - Residential College / China

Diretor do Colégio Memorial Moon Chun; The Master, Moon Chun Memorial College; University of Macau

Recognised internationally as one of the most pre-eminent academy and conservatoire directors, from 2004-2012, Director (Vice-Chancellor 5) of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, one of the largest and most comprehensive academies in the world. Previously, Principal of Dartington, and of Birmingham Conservatoire.

In 2012, personally invited to help found from concept, an Oxbridge-style collegiate system within the University of Macau, and to serve as inaugural Master (Director do Colégio, Professor Especialmente Recrutado) of one of the first of its Colleges, Colêgio Memorial Moon Chun, on the newly acquired island of Hengqin. The island campus, a 10 billion construction now all but complete, was handed over to UM at midnight on 20 July 2013, as officials from Guangdong border control withdrew from the north gate of the University’s campus, a gesture for which there is ‘no recent precedence’, NYTimes, 17 July 2013 .

Orquestra de Macau, the Macao Orchestra, is now taking up residence on the new campus in a purpose built complex of Concert Hall, Rehearsal and Recital Hall facilities.

Previously led two of the United Kingdom’s most progressive arts institutions, as Principal of the Birmingham Conservatoire, and as Principal of Dartington.

Undertaken key significant strategic rôles in terms of ELIA Leadership Symposia, he was steer chair of the first symposium in 2003, and has been actively involved in each of the subsequent symposia: starting with Los Angeles 2003, London 2005, Hong Kong 2007, with Clore (UK) Cultural Leadership Programme 2008, ELIA Zurich Symposium, and Metasenta programme, in Lucerne, 2009, and the Vancouver Leadership Symposium 2011.

Prior to taking up the Macau post he was Chairman of the Royal West of England Academy, of Pilot Theatre Company, an Arts Council England, National Portfolio Organisation, and a Board Director of an Arts University Bournemouth.

D. Renee Turner / Director Piet Zwart Institute / Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam / Netherlands

Eija Vähälä / Managing Director / The Kuopio Academy of Design / Finland

Richard Vodicka / Vice Dean for International Affairs / Tomas Bata University / Czech Republic

 

Chris Wainwright / Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges / University of the Arts London / United Kingdom

Chris Wainwright is an artist and curator and the Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges, of the University of the Arts London. He is currently a member of The Tate Britain Council and a Trustee of Cape Farewell, an artist run organisation that promotes a cultural response to climate change.

His recent projects include installations of the video works  ‘Between Time and Space’, at the Heijo Palace in Nara and ‘The Moons of Higashiyama’at the Kodai-ji temple, Kyoto, both in Japan and ‘Trauma’ at the Culturcentrum, Brugge in Belgium. His work is currently being shown as part of the UK touring exhibition ‘Fleeting Arcadias – Thirty Years of British Landscape Photography from the Arts Council Collection’.  He has recently curated and participated in a major international touring exhibition ‘U-n-f-o-l-d’ of work by artists addressing climate change. This has been shown in Vienna, London, Newcastle, Chicago, New York, and future venues include Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo.

Chris Wainwright’s work is held in many major collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Arts Council of England; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris: the Polaroid Corporation, Boston, USA: and Unilever, London. 
 

Hartmut Wickert / Head of Department and Vice President / Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / Switzerland

Born on 24.5.1953 in Bad Wildungen, Germany.
1972-1974 Studies German philology, sociology, journalism at Ruhr-University in Bochum
1974-1978 at Georg-August-University in Göttingen. 1978 State examination. Trainee of Giorgio Strehler.

Since 2006 Head of Department Performing Arts and Film/Vice president, Zurich University of the Art
2000 – 2006 Freelance director, productions at Thalia Theatre Hamburg, Schauspiel Graz, Staatstheater Mainz, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, German National Theatre Weimar, Theaterhaus Jena
1993 – 2000 Leading director at Niedersächsisches Staatsschauspiel, Hannover
1989 – 1993 Freelance director at Theatre Basel, Leading director at Theater Konstanz
1984 – 1988 Artistic director at Tübinger Zimmertheater
1982/83 Dramatic advisor and theatre director at Ruhrfestspiele Recklingausen