space – body
body – space




Homo Ludens:
Facilitating Freer Play in The Urban Environment
 Aalto University
School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Department of Architecture
Master’s Thesis
Supervisor: Anni Vartola


Homo Ludens: Facilitating Freer Play in the Urban Environment explores play as an essential but often suppressed part of everyday urban life. Rather than treating play as something reserved for children or confined to playgrounds and designated zones, the project studies how adults play in the city and...


Choreography of Protest      


TU Delft
Faculty of Architecture
Venla Keskinen, Aska Welford
design project
Charleroi, Belgium
In this project, through slag heaps, we analysed the post-industrial landscape of Charleroi, Belgium. The slag heaps, the unnatural hills of waste of the steel plants found around the city of Charleroi, Belgium, are a physical manifestation of a once flourishing city that since the end of the industrial age, went into...          





Radical Gardening Exhibition  
Manifesta 12 Biennale
TU Delft, OMA
Jiekai Woo, Venla Keskinen
curatorial work
Palermo, Italy


Conceived as a series of open-ended explorations and engaged with the framework of Manifesta12 Palermo, the design and research studio proposes an exploration of some of the most relevant ‘gardens’ of the city...





Nature of Hope Exhibition  
International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR)
production work
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Rotterdam, The Netherlands


The 11th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam proposed to foster the potential of spatial design to move toward an architecture of ecologies. Centering the themes of nature, hope, land, and relations, the IABR amplified more than 75 practices that acknowledge people and materials...





Kekäle Sauna

European Architecture Student’s Assembly
Leena Salo, Jenni Salomaa, Anni Nokkonen, Venla Keskinen
co-workshop facilitator
Nida, Lithuania













Group SoupSauna building as collective study
self-organized study group
Explore Lab, TU Delft
Stichting Kunsteiland, Rotterdam
2019

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Somebody’s Watching Me

One Night’s Dance
Dansateliers
choreographic work
Rotterdam, The Netherland


Somebody’s Watching Me is a work created as part of Dansateliers One Night’s Dance talent development trajectory for emerging choreographers. It explores how we cope with expectations and navigate structures that attempt to define us. The work begins with a childhood memory...





One

Motel Mozaique: Friday Night Live
choreographic & performance work
Kunsthal
Rotterdam, The Netherlands


One is a site-specific work created as a spatial intervention for the Sylvie Fleury’s exhibition Yes to All. This work explores the idea of unity and ‘one body’ through posing and vocabulary of...





Under My Umbrella

Artistic development platform for Ballroom artists
Founder & artistic lead
The Netherlands


Under My Umbrella is a platform rooted in Ballroom culture that creates opportunities and supports artists in developing their performance practices beyond the scene into broader professional contexts. It creates space for experimentation and acts as a bridge between Ballroom and the wider...


PLAYGROUND

Ballroom practice space & community platform
Venla Keskinen, James Parnell
Co-founder


PLAYGROUND is a Ballroom practice space and community platform for and by individuals in the Dutch ballroom scene. It is a DIY practice space that creates a safe(r) space for community members to come together, learn, practice, and most importantly, have fun. Artistic expression through dance (voguing), performance...






Transdisciplinary Encounters
MSc2 studio, TU Delft
guest teacher
Delft, The Netherlands / Tampere, Finland


TU Delft MSc1 design and research studio Transdisciplinary Encounters operated along three main realms of practice: that of architecture and other spatial practices; one which recruits philosophy and theory; and finally, the realm of dance and choreography. Within this framework, I was invited to join as a movement teacher...





TEST:PROTEST
 European Architect’s Students Assembly
Luis Laulanne, Valeria Khripatch, Venla Keskinen
co-workshop facilitator
Rijeka, Croatia


Re:claiming the streets and public spaces of the city in a fun, humouristic, artful way, through performance – this is the ambition we set for the test-Protest workshop which took place within the EASA Croatia (RE:EASA) event during two weeks in the summer 2018 in Rijeka...




Yamuna Forzani selected collaborations
Choreographic & performance work
The Netherlands


Collaborations:

Talking Threads Exhibition: Angels Delight (2023)
Utopia Ball x Discoteca Amore (2023)
Taste of Ballroom (2023)
Angels Delight x DDW opening (2022)
ARK Amsterdam x Kiki House of Angels (2022)
Come Alive Festival (2021)
Angels Delight Residency Fashion Show (2021)
Utopia Ball part 2 (2019)
Utopia Ball Fashion Show part 1 (2018)







Q4:QuantifiedHamish Fulton
Exhibition card
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1985

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Ballroom ArchiveHamish Fulton
Exhibition card
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1972

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