Tommi, Author at Trojan Horse

(Re)configuring Territories Summer School 2025 “Ecologies of Trust”

Posted on June 30, 2025December 4, 2025 by Tommi

(Re)configuring Territories Summer School 2025
“Ecologies of Trust”
June 30 – July 4, 2025
Daugavpils, Latvia

Ecologies of Trust was a five-day summer school held in Daugavpils, Eastern Latvia.

The starting points for the summer school were the city’s fortress building, the meandering river, and the city’s multispecies inhabitants. The summer school aimed to answer critical questions: How can design practices facilitate meaningful change in the midst of geopolitical and ecological crises? How do more-than-human design approaches shape everyday spatial practices in the context of Daugavpils? How do the increased geopolitical tensions in the Eastern Baltic influence understanding of infrastructures? How do these two phenomena relate and influence each other?

Ecologies of Trust – Program Launch

Posted on June 28, 2024December 4, 2025 by Tommi

Ecologies of Trust – Program Launch
Friday, June 28, 2024. 15:00–17:30
Daugavpils Fortress (Rothko Museum’s Conference Centre, Mihaila iela 3, Daugavpils)

How do more-than-human design approaches shape everyday spatial practices in the context of Daugavpils? How do the increased geopolitical tensions in the Eastern Baltic influence understanding of landscape? How do these two phenomena relate and influence each other?

Ecologies of Trust is a second phase of (Re)configuring Territories research programme, and the Program Launch event is a first step in relocating the programme to Daugavpils. The aim of the event is to reflect these questions, make connections with local inhabitants and institutions, and to situate the programme in the human and more-than-human networks for the coming years. During the next years the programme will aim to make space for design researchers and local Daugavpils communities to experiment with situated and collaborative research methods and find ways to reflect the context of eastern Baltics in dialogue.

Trojan Horse Summer Retreat 2023

Posted on May 31, 2023December 4, 2025 by Tommi

TROJAN HORSE SUMMER RETREAT 🏕 2023
August 14–21, 2023
Bengtsår, Finland

In 2023 the Trojan Horse Summer event took the form of a self sustained summer retreat. We hoped to create a space where individuals can unwind, forge meaningful connections, and openly share 👋 their questions and challenges. The retreat allowed space to 🦦relax, 🌦spend time to together in an immersive week-long retreat program that embraced experimentation and fostered a deep understanding of care, collectivism, and shared knowledge. Located on the island of Bengtsår, our retreat offered a serene environment that enabled participants to dedicate their time and energy to creativity, peer exchange, research projects and practices.

Festival of Invitations

Posted on October 29, 2022December 4, 2025 by Tommi

Festival of Invitations
The concluding event of (Re)configuring Territories research programme
With Kirill Adõlin, Rael Artel, Kreenholm Plants, Laura Kuusk, Polina Medvedeva, Filipa Pontes, Nadya Tjuška
opening of the exhibition by Andréa Stanislav and varialambo and more!
29.–30.10.2022
Narva Museum Art Gallery and Narva Art Residency

Festival of Invitations was the concluding part of three-year (Re)configuring Territories research project, bringing together both those who have participated in the project in the previous years and those who have not yet become familiar with it. This festival was a way to share the thoughts, poems, videos, conflicts between worldviews and ways of being together we developed and got to know during this time.

The event consisted of lectures, discussions, workshops and a celebratory dinner at the Narva Art Residency and its surroundings. The event also celebrated the opening of an exhibition by varialambo and Andréa Stanislav.