We welcome peers, partners and publics to a series of free monthly breakfasts at SOLU Space in Kalasatama.

Reading matters is a regular reading circle that activates the SOLU library and brings people together to discuss matters connected to our projects and wider programme.

Open call for Ways of seeing: life – glass – chem workshop with Laura Beloff at Biofilia from 9–19 April 2024. Deadline for applications 18th February.

In March 2024, Jean Danton carried out a field study on permafrost in an area of peat mounts (palsas) around Kilpisjärvi. Using certain digging techniques, he extracted soil samplers while explored the ecological network in interaction with the permafrost thawing process. Permafrost is, in some way, a bioindicator of the both atmospheric temperature and social dynamics of current times; a trace of impermanence from a distant latitude. A geo-somatization that reveals a dispossession, an epochal swerve.

We are looking for a Finnish artist or an artist based in Finland for a month-long art & science research residency in Tokyo, Japan, during autumn and winter 2024.

Andscapes was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. The group critically engaged with questions of scale and the tools used to understand our surroundings. In this blog post, the group shares their journey and process during the two-week-long field laboratory.

TALE was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. The group set out to navigate the plurality of times that present themselves in the landscape in and around Kilpisjärvi. In this blog post, the group shares their journey and process during the two-week-long field laboratory.

Wait and Hear was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. The group proposed an open exploration based on listening and the groups activities were based on both listening and somatic experience. In this blog post, the group shares their journey and process during the two-week-long field laboratory.

Lucy Davis presents her project Crocodile Seeds as part of the Garden Futures exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

The third iteration of SOLU Dialogues by Kaajal Modi is inspired by Finnish and Global South fermentation practices, sauna culture, seed and Oodi libraries and recent attempts to codify and monitor the human microbiome.

Open call for MicroMatters workshop with Katri Naukkarinen at SOLU Space from 29th February until 1st March 2024. Deadline for applications 21st January.

Artists, researchers and technologists can apply for support for sustainable mobility or mobility-related work taking place in 2024. Deadline for applications is 30th March 2024.