productions

PRODUCTIONS (selection)

stone road frames

Field Notes -report
Chaussée de Mons -
Bergensesteenweg -walk:
Impressions, Ideas and Observations
(PDF-file, 9 mt).

WEATHER PHOTOS (2008)

Visit the international -photoblog here

sunglasses

EUROSIGNS AROUND THE WORLD (2003-)

This is an ongoing collective project. Go here if you want to join the team.

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION - CALL SHOPS (2003-)

CHEZ NAS, BRUSSELS
© RIITTA OITTINEN 2009

recent group exhibitions

Unplanned: Research and Experiments at the Urban Scale Superfront Gallery, Los Angeles (starting March 2010)
The Stone Road -workshop, De Markten, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brussels 2009
Glogal Imaginaries, The Whitworth Art gallery, Manchester, 2009
Multi media comptetition's -exhibition, Finnish Seamen's Mission, Brussels 2008

Weather Photos, Zendai MoMA 欢迎中国地区的朋友們加入! Shanghai 2008

exhibitions

Consulting member of committee for Permanent exhibition on the history of Helsinki MEMORY. City Museum of Helsinki, Finland (European Museum award, special honor) 1993-1997.
Advisor on exhibition A museum of museums (Ihme ja kumma). Karkkila, teollisuusalue, Finland 1995
Organiser of the exhibition What the elderly think about ageing (Mitä ikäihmiset ajattelevat vanhenemisesta) presented at Tuusulan kansalaisopisto 1993; Jugendsali, Helsinki 1993; Kuntokallio, Sipoo 1994; International confernce on Third Age), University of Helsinki 1995

WEB & PUBLICATION PROJECTS

Historia y Comunicación Social (member of scientific committee 2009-)
Ydin (member of editorial board 2008-)
Kasviksena Belgiassa (vegetarian eating in Belgium 2008-)
Agricola. Suomen historiaverkon uutis- ja keskustelufoorumi (moderator 2007-)
Ennen & nyt. Historian tietosanomat (member of editorial board 2007-)
Kasvatus ja aika. Kasvatuksen historiallis-yhteiskunnallinen julkaisu (member of editorial board 2007-)
Brussels TOF-people. Discover Brussels (member 2007-)
Työväenhistorian uutisvirtaa -blogi (collaborator 2005)
Osuuskunta Vastapaino (member of editorial board 1991-)

SHORT FILM

(1988) Vapaan kansan lahja vapaalle tieteelle. (A docu-fiction of intellectual property rights). With Jari Ehrnrooth & Jaana Lähteenmaa & Jukka-Pekka Piimies (27 min). Videotallenne. PDF-esite

WORK IN PROGRESS

Corner shops & small business
Call Shops in Brussels
Images of Aging
Branding EUro(pe) from above, below and sideways
Project on Eurosignboards and representations of Europe (including 1000+ documentary photographs). Presented at

Mediacity Conference Media and Urban Space, Bauhaus University, Weimar (2006)
Conference Heritage (Ideology, Politics, Culture). European Science Foundation, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2006).
Eurodiversity 4 Conference Diversity in Cities; Visible and Invisible Walls, UCL, London (2007)
ECREA Conference Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights, Brussels (2007)
Conference Meeting the Other, University of Helsinki (2008)
Inaugural Conference of the International Society for Cultural History. University of Ghent (2008)
Eurosigns around the World. Conference Glocal Imaginaries: Writing/Migration/Place. Lancaster University and Whitworth Gallery (2009)