Lotta Helene Jalava
Born in 1985 Helsinki, Finland

EDUCATION

(2024) Master of Art (MA)
Master programme in Art and Media
Major studies: Art Education
Aalto University School of Art and Design

2021 Teachers' Qualifications in Arts
Faculty of Education
Tampere University

2015 Landscape Architect (MLA)
Major studies: Landscape design and construction
Minor studies: Scenography (personal minor studies entity)
Aalto University School of Art and Design

2010 Bachelor of Science (BS)
Architecture Department
Helsinki University of Technology

2004 Finnish Baccalaureate
Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Visual Arts

RECENT WORK

since 2015 - Entrepreneur
Artist / Landscape architect
MAISEMASTUDIO, Helsinki

since 2015 - Part-time university teacher
Landscape architecture
Aalto University School of Art and Design

04/2022-04/2024 on family leave

2020-21 Part-time art teacher
Interdisciplinary art courses
Kansalaisfoorumi, Helsinki

2020 Art teacher trainee
Basic education in visual arts
Espoo School of Art, Espoo

11/2017-09/2019 on family leave

2017 Exhibition architect (freelance)
The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki

2016-17 Landscape architect (freelance)
MASU planning Oy, Helsinki and Copenhagen

2015-17 Project architect / Landscape architect (freelance)
Casagrande Laboratory, Helsinki

2015-17 Landscape architect (freelance)
City of Jyväskylä, Finland

2016 Illustrator (freelance)
Espoo City Museum, Finland

2013-14 Landscape architect
Janne Saario Landscape Architecture

2011-14 Landscape architect
Hemgård Landscape Design, Helsinki

2013 Landscape architect
BeiJiGuang, Peking and Helsinki

2010-12 Producer
WASTELANDS: XXXII European Architecture Students Assembly
Architecture festival, Helsinki

POSITIONS OF TRUST

Thesis examiner Aalto University School of Art and Design 2023

Thesis supervisor Aalto University School of Art and Design 2023(-24)

GRANTS AND STIPENDS

2017 TAIKE / Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Landscape Experience team in Reykjavik, Iceland

2015 Aalto University School of Art and Design, Architecture Department
Stipend for Landscape architecture graduation with distinction
”Excellent examination with artistic interdisciplinary and experimentally bold visions.”

2012 TAIKE / Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Wastelands team

2012 WDC / World Design Capital Helsinki – International Council of Societies of
Industrial Design ICSID, Wastelands team

2011 SAFA / Finnish Association of Architects, Wastelands team

2011 Svenska Kulturfonden / The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland,
Wastelands team

2011 SKR / Finnish Cultural Foundation, Wastelands team

2011 Helsinki World Design Capital winning entry for summer planting’s design
competition in Helsinki

EXHIBITIONS AND PRODUCTIONS

(2024) Weathered weather-patinated clothing fabrics and collaboration with a fashion brand

2021 Future fossiles stopping the time with plants, clay and plaster, exhibited online, Aalto University

2021 Several hours they grow while falling slowly towards ground
HD-video 3:30 min, exhibited online

2021 Interseptio HD-video 6:22 min, exhibited online, Aalto University

2021 Whole Lotta Weather interdisciplinary research blog and online exhibition
https://wholelottaweather.blogspot.com/, Aalto University

2020 Vale of Immersion multidisciplinary exhibition in virtual reality, Aalto University

2017 Landscapes co-exhibition at Out of the Dark concept store Helsinki

2017 Landscape Experience interdisciplinary installation, Design March festival Reykjavik

2017 Finnish Art Society co-exhibition at Cable Factory Helsinki

2016 permanent spatial art work with plants and mosses, Nosto digi agency Helsinki

2016 several permanent spatial art works with plants and patinated surfaces as part of the interior design, Music club G Livelab Helsinki

2016 Illustrations for Glims Farmstead Museum on permanent exhibition,
Espoo City Museum

2016 Infinite immersion mural and trade booth design for City of Jyväskylä

2015 solo exhibition Island of landscapes in Wanha Woimala Jyväskylä

2015 solo exhibition 3.0 in Telakkaranta R 26 Helsinki

2013-14 solo exhibition Fragiles and installation, Theatre Academy Helsinki

2013 scenography and performative croquis for a dance production Fragiles
in Theatre Academy Helsinki

2013 Saiho-ji illustrated animation and studies of moss patterns, co-exhibition, Aalto University Tampere

2010-12 WASTELANDS European Architecture Students Assembly festival production, Helsinki

2012 FINNSCAPES outdoor co-exhibition, Aalto University, Lasipalatsinaukio Helsinki

2011-12 Sketch 1: Kokongi scenography for a dance production in Aalto University Helsinki

2011 Hunting Greens botanical animation in co-exhibition, Belgrade

2011 Urban landscape and light co-exhibition, Mom what's architecture? gallery Helsinki

2011 Hunter Diaries illustrated animation, 1:10 min loop, in co-exhibition, Manchester

PUBLICATIONS

Whole Lotta Weather (2021) interdisciplinary research blog
https://wholelottaweather.blogspot.com/, Aalto University

Maisemien saari (2015).
Master’s thesis in landscape architecture, Aalto University Espoo.

Wastelands monograph (2013). Helsinki : Wastelands / EASAFinland
Co-authors: Pekka Ijäs, Emmi Jääskeläinen, Janne Melajoki, Eero Alho, Ville Mellin
ISBN 978-952-93-2085-1 (print), ISBN 978-952-93-2086-8 (PDF)