ABOUT

Emilia Tikka is a Finnish transdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher based in Switzerland. Her work explores design as an intercosmological practice, navigating between different knowledge cultures and ways of knowing. Drawing on speculative storytelling, collaborative research, filmmaking, and object-making, her current artistic and research practice centres on collaborative filmmaking in the reindeer worlds of Sápmi, Finland.

She received her Doctor of Arts degree from Aalto University, Helsinki, where her research was conducted within the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Emilia is also an associate member at the Exellence Cluster Matters of Activity in Berlin and an advisor for speculative and critical design methodologies in CollActive Materials, a collaborative project between: Matters of Activity. Image Space Material, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Science of Intelligence, Technical University Berlin. She is also frequent lecturer on speculative and critical design practises in academic and public settings. Her former affiliations include: visiting scholar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, artist in residence at the laboratories of Max-Delbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, artist in residence in Tokyo Art and Science, artist in residence in 2-year EU project Art4med to mention a few. Emilia Tikka has two Master`s Degrees in two different fields of design.

Her art and design works have been exhibited at Schering Stiftung in Berlin, EMMA Museum of Modern Art in Finland, Ars Electronica in Austria, New York University Arts Centre in United Arab Emirates, Gregg Museum for Art and Design in USA, Imagine Science Film Festival NYC in USA, STATE Studio in Germany and Tekniska Museet in Sweden to mention a few. Her work and research has been featured in press including Nature, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Freitag, Tagesspiegel, Berlin ArtLink and ARTE TV Channel to mention few.