Organizers, supervisers, teachers

The workshop is organized by Pro Arte Foundation in St. Petersburg proarte.ru


Listening to Architecture, Composing spaces. Baltic Network of Design, Architecture and Music

Partner Project of the St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts (Russia), CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media (Finland) and Danish Cultural Institute. Supported by the European Union


The project aims to introduce in Russia the best European experiences in the fields of environment friendly architecture and energy-saving building construction, design of public spaces for disabled people and design and architecture for children through a number of activities. There will be study visits of Russian professionals from the North-Western Russia to EU partner countries Finland and Denmark, educational programs for Russian children and students with EU experts and professionals (lectures and workshops) and realization of a number of students’ projects for disabled people in municipal cultural institutions.

Tutors and teachers of the course:
Irina Golovenok, architect
Marjo Mäenpää, professor Aalto University

Monday 3 December 2012

Worshop schedule

Accessibility Audits
Before the workshop teams are working with accessibility audits with the supervision of architect Irina Golovenok in
Sheremetev Palace in St Peterburg
Aalto Library in Wyborg
Philharmonic in Petrozavodsk

Teams are
documenting with video and images and making 
  • interviews with the visitors, 
  • blind visitor(s) and the staff
  • making notes for the final report and concept

Workshop week in Pro Arte, St Petersburg
3.12.2012 Monday
14.00-16.00 Lectures Marjo Mäenpää: Principles of design for all / Principles of concept design
16.00-16.30 coffee break
16.30-21.00 Teams presentation – a short overview of the visit. Planning the team work – teams start to work for their concepts

4.12.2012 Tuesday
14.00-16.00 Lecture Marjo Mäenpää: Visitors with special needs – principles of designing for blind and visual impaired
16.00-16.30 coffee break
16.30-21.00 Teams work with their concept –task is to study the special mission and affairs of the targets of audits.

5.12.2012 Wednesday
14.00-16.00 Teams present their current work done - discussion
16.00-16.30 coffee break
19.30-21.00 Lecture Marjo Mäenpää: User centered design – co-design – designing with users and audience

6.12.2012 Thursday
14.00-21.00 Teams work with their concepts. Work is tutored by teachers

7.12.2012 Friday
14.00-16.00 Teams work with their concepts. Work is tutored by teachers
16.00-19.00 Teams presentations and evaluation of the work and concepts
19.00-19.30 coffee break
19.30-21.00 Open discussion of the Workshop  results


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