Lavastajakoulutus aktiivisena arkistona
Abstract
In this article, I will deal with the development of Finnish scenography education from the early 1970s to the 2010s. I will start with a summary of its most important phases, after which I will discuss on a general level how the artist pedagogy has changed in Finland, and how practice-based assignments serve as sites for knowledge formation. I will research the actual study contents of scenography on two levels. On the one hand, I will ask, what skills and knowledge have been considered relevant in the degree requirements as a whole. On the other hand, I will look at the assignments given at singular courses as performances modelling a scenographer’s artistic activity. I will focus on three turning points: the replacement of the craftsmanship tradition with modernist design education; the emergency of scenography as autonomous art, and the dispersion of a unified professional identity at the beginning of the 2000s.
