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Co-Creative Apps
Apps and other digital applications have gradually found their way into the spatial design toolkits of Estonian local governments. I asked various local governments what kind of digital co-creative and engagement tools they have launched for smart governance.
A Conversation With the Developers of Ülemiste City
Ülemiste City has in the past 15 years evolved from industrial urban fringe to international smart city district. We inquired from the developers about the problems they are tackling in Ülemiste district and how they are assisted by science and technology in solving them.
Urban Planning Driven by Life-Based Data
Achieving balance in the planning of natural and artificial environments necessitates tools that provide both the expert and the resident a comprehensive overview of landscape quality in different regions. What are the tools to assist in the analysis of life-based data?
Digital, Virtual and Physical Space—Connected or Still Apart?
Does the legal space facilitate or hinder us in turning living environment in Estonia smart and in a smart way?
Winter 2022 (107): Evolution or Revolution?
(R)evolution 〉Jaak Tomberg, Urmo Mets, Kaja Pae (text below)PERSONAJohan Tali. Only Cities Can Save Us Now! 〉Interviewed by Joonas HellermaVisioning 〉Kaja PaeThe New Cruise Terminal in Tallinn 〉Tuomas SilvennoinenA Low-Tech Table 〉Hannes PraksZerotopia 〉Kalev RajanguSPECULATIVE PROJECTS Los Angeles Cultural Hypertrophy 〉Sille PihlakThe Vision of Heliorg in Harjuoru 〉Villem TomisteDigital Park 〉Lauri EltermaaDark Matter 〉Ahti Sepsivart A
One More Museum, Please!
The stories we have heard ever since the beginning of the century about the merchandising of museums and the transformation of all culture into an unending festival are greatly exaggerated. The new cultural buildings are good examples of state-commissioned public spaces that are quite self-aware with no desire to go along with the general trends of commercialisation.
Adaptations: Estonian Architects Swept by the Winds of Transition
Little was built following the re-establishment of Estonian independence in the early 1990s, however, the debates held and practices established largely came to set the foundations for the dominant issues in the architectural field in the past decades.
Autumn 2021 (106): Spatial Revolutions
How does change in society reflect in architecture? In order to answer this question, we look back on the spatial design in the thirty years of regained independence. What kinds of spaces have accommodated us in the last three decades at work, in school and while enjoying culture? What have our homes been like?
In the Long Run we are all dead
The exhibition ‘The City Unfinished. Urban Visions of Tallinn’ at the Museum of Estonian Architecture 22.01–16.05.2021. Curated by Johan Tali, design Raul Kalvo, graphic design Stuudio Stuudio, translation and proofreading Kaja Randam, Kaisa Kaer, Mirel Püss and Johan Tali. The research project ‘The City Unfinished’ conducted at the Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts takes a look at the big picture in the city of Tallinn and the concerns and opportunities of modern urban planning.
