Tarja-Kaarina Laamanen Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Finland

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Uusimaa, Finland

I worked in European Datemats consortium project in the Chemarts team at Aalto University. I analysed students' processes in the Chemarts interdiciplinary learning environment in two different courses. The first study related to Chemarts Summer School was published in DRS 2022 conference proceedings and the second one studying international Datemats workshop held at Chemarts, will be published in the project's final publication.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

FDA was a nationwide project (2018-2020) to develop and promote Finnish design education. The project was carried out in collaboration with Ornamo and universities providing higher design education in Finland. Together these associates were committed to increase the quality of design education so that it would better respond to the needs of future and working life. I was coordinating one of the eight working-packages that operated in the project. The working-package focused on creating a collaborative platform for design education in Finland.

Tampere Area, Finland

I teached textile crafts in class teacher education. We did several interesting and creative projects with students. In basic studies students learned the craft techniques in material exercises as well as experimenting with digital printing and laser cutting. They also learned about ideation, design and making process in their own course project. In advanced studies students had courses for product designing and expressive designing. In both of these they were first familiarised with theoretical underpinnings and current themes in the field. The rest of the course included their own projects.

Helsinki Area, Finland

I finished an analysis of design students creative processes.

Helsinki

I was responsible of the milliner-, tailor-, interior- and dress making students' design teaching. The teaching included guidance to the basics of the visual expression with different techniques such as drawing and aquarelle. Students practiced to illustrate different textile materials, proportions of human and apparell. Students also got to know the basics of the design process and designing for the customer(s) in the project type of tasks.

Helsinki Area, Finland

I worked as postdoctoral researcher at research group EMPIRICA in the Handling mind -project. I analysed design students' design ideation and creative processes from the Design experimentation and experimentation (DEE) course.

Craft Studies And Textile Teacher Education

I was working one year with a full-time scholarship promoted by the Alfred Kordelin foundation to finish my PhD studies in year 2015. During this period I wrote summary to my articles'​ based dissertation with a title "Generating and transforming representations in design ideation" . I had my defend in March 2016.

Helsinki, Finland

I was conducting my PhD studies in the Handling Mind -research project (see http://blogs.helsinki.fi/handling-mind/). During this research period I reported three studies concerning design ideation and design activity. In addition of taking part of the research group, I taught together with Elisa Kärki course titled "Sustainability in crafts".

Helsinki

I worked as an instructor in body flow movement method (see bodyblow. info) twice a week.

Helsinki

I was responsible of teaching clothing and apparel for the first year students. Teaching included dress- and pattern making with the German Muller & Sohn pattern drafting system. We arranged also a charity fashion show with the local animal shelter. Students created unique apparel from recycled textiles and they were shown and sold in the Kierrätystehdas (Recycle factory) event in spring 2013 held at Helsinki.

Espoo

I had responsibility of two courses of Textile teacher education basic studies: Pattern making and Design project I. I designed the schedule and materials for teaching. The teaching included principles and logic of the pattern making with Nordic pattern drafting system. The making and design process of clothing covered teaching technical and visual design as well a social and cultural perspectives to apparel. In addition to support academic learning, I introduced theoretical model for the analysis of design and making.

Helsinki, Finland

Teaching art and crafts (didactic I) for prospective teachers in the Early Childhood Education

Helsinki, Finland

I had responsibility of two courses of Textile teacher education basic studies: Pattern making and Design project I. I designed the schedule and materials for teaching. The teaching included principles and logic of the pattern making with Nordic pattern drafting system. The making and design process of clothing covered teaching technical and visual design as well a social and cultural perspectives to apparel. In addition to support academic learning, I introduced theoretical model for the analysis of design and making.

Phd (Ed.), Art, Craft And Design

Design

60 ECTS, including design thinking, user centered design, ideation methods, visual communicating, coceptualising, prototyping, 2Dand 3D.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Art, Craft And Design