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(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.

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.

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

Posted on June 13, 2022December 4, 2025 by Trojan Horse

(Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2022
“Speculative Educational Institutions and Cities of the Near Future”
With Linda Boļšakova METASITU (Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina) and Ingrid Svanfeldt
June 13 – 19, 2022

(Re)configuring Territories research programme continued as a week-long Spring School on June 13 – 19, 2022.

The spring school explored the politics of collective imagination in the midst of the socio-political and technological upheavals. How do the changing perceptions of territorial relationships, the experiences of belonging to a place, the multiple spatial layers of history, and their connection to human and non-human agencies shape abilities to imagine futures? What are the possible roles and structures of educational institutions that could develop the necessary skills and knowledge of political imagination?

The Spring School consisted of three overlapping workshops which together formed a School for Speculative Environmental Education.

Posted on June 3, 2022December 4, 2025 by Trojan Horse

Live Action Role-playing the City
LARP (Live Action Role-Play) -workshop
June 3–5, 2022
Narva, Eastern Estonia

During the weekend Narva unfoldes as a series of spaces, events, and creatures. The cityscape gives a frame for the exercises and at the same time, the exercises become active players in the city.

Live-Action Role-playing the City was a weekend-long workshop that explored performative artistic research in the context of urban surroundings. How can cities be approached by means of LARPs? How can LARP exercises be used for questions dealing with the city? What kind of power structures emerge?

In the workshop, participants read texts, built scenarios, wrote characters and did performative walking exercises in the context of Narva.

(Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2021

Posted on May 31, 2021December 4, 2025 by Trojan Horse

(Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2021
With Francisco Martínez and Andra Aaloe,
Maria Muuk, and MYCKET (Mariana Alves Silva, Katarina Bonnevier and Thérèse Kristiansson)
May 31 – June 6, 2021

(Re)configuring Territories programme Spring School 2021 took place during the Covid-19 pandemic.

We were very happy to be able to host participants both at Narva and online. Three simultaneous workshops took place mentored by anthropologist Francisco Martínez and urbanist Andra Aaloe, graphic designer, baker and writer Maria Muuk, and architecture, art and design practice MYCKET (Mariana Alves Silva, Katarina Bonnevier and Thérèse Kristiansson).

Dear Mist: A Journey Through Folklore and Energy Politics

Posted on May 28, 2021December 4, 2025 by Trojan Horse

Dear Mist: A Journey Through Folklore and Energy Politics.
LARP (Live Action Role-Play)
May 28–30, 2021
Online

Dear Mist: A Journey Through Folklore and Energy Politics was a live action role-play taking place in Narva, eastern Estonia. Because of the ongoing epidemiological situation the LARP participants took part to the LARP online; facilitated by technologies like geo-located audio AR, instant messaging apps, Zoom and live-stream webcams. The river Narva and its lore were transported and beamed to locations in Europe and around the world.

(Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2019

Posted on May 6, 2019December 4, 2025 by Trojan Horse

(Re)configuring Territories Spring School 2019
With Yin Aiwen, Damiano Cerrone, Polina Medvedeva and 15 participants
May 6–12, 2019

The first instalment of the (Re)configuring Territories programme was a week-long Spring School that took place at Narva Art Residency in May 2019. The Spring School was structured around three overlapping workshops, each of which approached Narva as an archive but from a different angle and on a different temporal scale.

What kinds of conflicts and tensions can we find in the material, informational and social sediments of the city? Whose stories are being told, written down and archived? Who are the main protagonists? Whose voices are not being heard?