Art of Research VII: Authorship and Responsibility

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Biography Dr. Harri Laakso is Professor of Photography Research at Aalto University, Finland. He is an artist, researcher and curator interested in photographic im-ages and theory, artistic research and word/image relations. His curatorial work includes co-curating Finnish and Nordic pavilions at Venice Biennale 2013. He has led many research projects (e.g. ‘Figures of Touch’, Academy of Finland, 2009-2012) and is currently senior researcher in ‘Floating Peripheries— Mediating the Sense of Place’ (Academy of Finland, 2017–2021). Dr. Sofia Pantouvaki is a scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University, Finland. She is an awarded practising designer for theatre, film, opera and dance productions in European venues and curator of many international projects. Chair of Critical Costume and a founding Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Studies in Costume and Performance. She led the research project ‘Costume Methodologies’ (Academy of Finland, 2014-2018) and is lead editor of Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods (Bloomsbury, 2021). Julia Valle-Noronha is a designer-researcher particular interest the practices that take place between people and the clothes they wear. Holding a 2019) Visual Arts 2014), she is currently Associate Professor in Fashion/Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Visiting Researcher in Design at Aalto