Tero Heikkinen | Researcher | Doctoral Student MA, Spatial Design | tel. +35850381735 | tero.heikkinentaik.fi
Designers make use of various computer-based tools, both hardware and software. The computer itself has become an enduring element of the design practice. Yet designers from non-technical fields have been excluded from some of the more fruitful aspects of the medium. I am interested in how visual design tools work as a vehicle for progressing materials in creative ways.
My contribution would address creative aspects of the designers’ computational tools and point a direction for more open-ended and fluent ways of working with digital material.
During 2006-2007, I have worked as a researcher in the project Studio’n’Site – Mixed reality tools for spatial design.
During 2008-2009, I have been working as a researcher in the Taik Future Home Institute.
During 2010, I am working full time on my doctoral research with the grant that I have received from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri foundation.
From the photograph / painting series “Landscapes” in the exhibition Art from Research.
” This series of images and paintings began from a belief that there is shared terrain in the making of art, design and research. They all involve the activity of becoming familiar with the object of the study and processing the resulting material afterwards. The results become a basis for a renewed search. Through these works I wanted to examine place as experienced, reproduced as seen, and as a set of measures.”