Artranta
Karstula
Website
www.artranta.fi/briefly-in-english ↗ (opens in a new tab)Disciplines
Design, Architecture
Founded
2012
Contact information
Pirkko Siivola, tel. +358 (0)400 556292, email pirkko.siivola(at)artranta.fi
Address
Kokkolantie 12, FI-43500 Karstula
View on map ↗Accommodation and organization
Housing and meals are served in Karstulan Evankelinen Opisto (folk high school in Karstula), there is also an atelier where you can work.
Artranta Association was founded by a group of design enthusiasts in a small town called Karstula in Central Finland. Artranta has worked with a team of top Finnish designers: Aki Choklat, Jonas Hakaniemi and Harri Koskinen. The vision is that within a few years the Artranta Design Residence Centre will be built in Karstula.
How to apply
Applications all year long.
By email: pirkko.siivola(at)artranta.fi
Residency
Disciplines
- Industrial design
- Architecture
- Ceramics and jewelry design
- Fashion, textile and leather design
Resources
- Workshops with machines (wood and metal carving) and equipment (tools including robots)
- 3D printers
- Wireless internet connection
Duration of residencies: 1–3 months
Number of designers at a time: 1–3
Expenses paid by Artranta Association:
- Housing
- Study space, atelier and work station
- Wage for lectures & workshops for entrepreneurs & students
- Possible presentation of the designer’s work in the exhibition area in Galleria Himmeli, Karstula
What is expected of you
- Give lectures & run workshops
- Run workshops with feedback for students and entrepreneurs
- Presenting a plan of the stay in the residence with a work schedule included
Expenses paid by designer: Travels, food & own work materials
The Artranta Residence will be the first design and architecture residence in Finland. You can get the most inspiring environment for your own projects in Artranta. The nature with its forests and lakes offers a calm and peaceful place to work with natural materials and to live in. One can use wood and its by-products, plants, clay, textile, skin and bones of animals etc., all natural and sustainable materials in your design experiments.