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Exhibitions

(2021-2023) Glass – Hand Formed Matter touring exhibition. Bröhan-Museum, The Glass Factory, The Finnish Glass Museum, Museum Baruther Glashütte, Finland, Germany.

(2021-2022) Ceramic Facing the New, EMMA: Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland.

(2021) Solid Ground, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

(2020-2021) Soil Matters, Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland.

(2020) Art of Research: Authorship and Responsibility Exhibition (online) Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

(2019) Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil, Designs for a Cooler Planet HDW, Beta Gallery, Espoo, Finland.

(2019) RP#3 Infolab, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.

(2019) Research pavilion #3, Venice, Italy

Recognitions and awards

(2021) Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil, four artefacts in Aalto public art acquisitions.

(2020) Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil, artefact chosen for the second judging of The 12th International Ceramics competition Mino.

(2020) Design club call winner, Design Museum Helsinki, Exhibition proposal for Soil Matters by Maarit Mäkelä and Riikka Latva-Somppi.

(2019) Finalist, Working with Soil- group shortlisted for the Whitegold International Ceramics Prize. https://www.staustell.co.uk/2019-shortlist/

(2018) Proposal Traces from the Anthropocene was chosen as one of the research cells housing Working with Soil- project (Mäkelä & Latva-Somppi) and Insects (Tuula Närhinen). https://sites.uniarts.fi/web/research-pavilion-2019/traces-from-the-anthropocene

Publications

Mäkelä, Maarit & Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2022). Encountering soil matters. In: Anna Valtonen and Petra Nikkinen (eds.): Designing Change: New Opportunities for Organisations. Aalto University publication series (free download: https://shop.aalto.fi/p/1699-designing-change/).

Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2022). Working with Soil: Craft, Design and Coactive Power. HannahArendt.Net, 11(1).  https://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/467

Latva-Somppi, Riikka. Soil Laboratory: Crafting Experiments in an Exhibition Setting. In: Biljana Fredriksen and Camilla Groth (eds.): Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education through the Arts: Crafting-with the environment. Springer. (In press).

Mäkelä, Maarit. Crafting in dialogue with the material environment. In: Biljana Fredriksen and Camilla Groth (eds.): Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education through the Arts: Crafting-with the environment. Springer. (In press).

Vega, Luis, Aktas, Bilge M, Falin, Priska, Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Valle-Noronha, Julia (2021) Shared Authorship in Research through Art, Design, and Craft. Research in Arts and Education. 2021(1). https://researtsedu.com/2021-february-1

Latva-Somppi, Riikka, Mäkelä, Maarit, Lindström, Kristina, & Ståhl, Åsa. (2021). Entangled Materialities: Caring for soil communities at glass industry sites. FormAkademisk – forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk14(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.4180

Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Mäkelä, Maarit (2020) Exploring Ecological and Material Sensitivity through Craft Practice in the Context of the Venice Lagoon. Aisthesis 13(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-10916

Latva-Somppi, Riikka, Mäkelä, Maarit. & Gündeşlioğlu, Özgü (2020). Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil. RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research, 14. https://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.697190

Conference proceedings

Latva-Somppi, Riikka. Soil as a Material Mediator: Combining Environmental Research with Ceramic Practice: Keynote lecture on the topic of “Locality and Materiality”, Congress and General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics-Online. 22-23 Sep 2021.

Latva-Somppi, Riikka, Mäkelä, Maarit, Lindström, Kristina, & Ståhl, Åsa. (2021). Entangled Materialities: Caring for soil communities at glass industry sites. Biennal International Conference for the Craft Sciences, online, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. May 2-6.

Latva-Somppi, Riikka. (2020). Using craft as a field of inquiry in contemporary environmental discourse. Exploratory paper. Art of Research Conference: Authorship and Responsibility, online, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. 

Vega, Luis, Aktas, Bilge M, Falin, Priska, Latva-Somppi, Riikka & Valle-Noronha, Julia (2020). Shared Authorship in Research through Art, Design, and Craft. Art of Research Conference: Authorship and Responsibility, online, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2019). Traces from the Anthropocene. Sensing the Environment through Craft Practice. The Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Annual Conference 2019 27.-29.5.2019, Espoo, Finland (non-refereed)