Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Research output per year
Scenographer, DA, Liisa Ikonen is the head of Expanded Scenography Research Group and the Principal Investigator in the Academy of Finland funded Floating Peripheries – Mediating the Sense of Place artistic research project (2017-2021). Floating Peripheries research consortium (Aalto University and University of Lapland) aims at enlarging the understanding of spatial and conceptual peripheries. It brings the practical and theoretical skills and epistemologies that have traditionally belonged to performing arts, visual arts and media art, to be distributed among a wide spectrum of societal forums. The main objective of the research consortium is to re-calibrate the multidimensionality and hidden potential of peripheries appearing in different contexts– in sub/urban spheres, social spaces of healthcare and wellbeing, digital networks and Arctic nature.
As a scenographer, Liisa Ikonen has worked throughout her 25–year career in both experimental and institutional fields of performing arts, and her research is closely tied with her artistic practice. Ikonen‘s expertise in renewing artistic research practices has been recognized e.g. through her systematic development work in project Hypnos (1994 – 2000) in which she developed work methods through several site specific performances in non-institutional found spaces in urban environment. Her dissertation Dialogical Scenography – Phenomenological Interpretation of an Alternative Work Process (2006,) based on artistic research in Hypnos group, won the Best Dissertation Award (2007) in University of Art and Design, Helsinki (UIAH). She has developed multidisciplinary design and application of alternative uses of scenographic means also as part of professor Tuuli Mattelmäki`s Tekes funded research project Spice – Spiritualizing Space (2009 -2011), that was focused on storytelling approaches in service design.
Doctor of Arts (Art and Design)
Award Date: 24 Nov 2006
Licentiate of Arts (Art and Design)
Award Date: 15 May 1996
Master of Arts (Art and Design)
Award Date: 17 May 1991
Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Performance › Art in coproduction › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Solo art production
01/09/2017 → 31/08/2021
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Ikonen, Liisa (Recipient), 1996
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Ikonen, Liisa (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Ikonen, Liisa (Supervising professor), Oscar Dempsey (Student prize recipient), Jenni Nylander (Student prize recipient), Bea-Stina Tornberg (Student prize recipient), Riikka Mäntymaa (Student prize recipient), Mirva Mietala (Student prize recipient), Riina Nieminen (Student prize recipient), Csilla Szlovák (Student prize recipient), Elina Ström (Student prize recipient) & Liisi Shorouh (Student prize recipient), 2019
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Maiju Loukola (Organiser), Liisa Ikonen (Organiser) & Pia Euro (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of a scientific or program committee of a conference or seminar
Liisa Ikonen (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › Statement of assessment of professorship
Liisa Ikonen (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Reviewer of other manuscript
Liisa Ikonen (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Reviewer of scientific journal
Liisa Ikonen (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation