Ari Koivumäki

Lecturer of Media production, coordinator of two MA-level degree programs: Media production and Screenwriting in Mediapolis campus.

Doctor of Arts from Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Film and Television (2018); Licentiate of Arts in Theatre and Drama focused in Sound Design from Theater Academy (2001), Tampere University, Master of Social Sciences, Social Psychology (1991)

I have been lucky to take part in many Soundscape projects and publications in Finland together with Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology (http://www.aanimaisemat.fi/ , https://soundcloud.com/akueko) and in European level (http ://europeanacousticheritage.eu/). 

I have participated in preparation of several funded EU projects. Board member in Centre for Practise as Research in Theatre (2007-09),in ESR-projects ETKE 2009-12, Varustamo 2010-13, Kierre 1010-13, European Acoustic Heritage 2011-13, Mediapolis Campus 2013-16, Medeia 2015-17, MindTrek 2013 -18 WakeUpCardboard! 2018-20, SURE 2019-2023 and in ongoing project called EntreAction!   

I am a member of Audio Engineering Society (1981), FSAE, Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology (affiliate of WFAE, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, 1999, FSAE chair 2022- and WFAE Board member 2020-) and Finnish Society for Social Psychology (Suomen Sosiaalipsykologit ry. 1997)

In English

Implementing comfortable soundscapes in urban spaces? Beyond Listening symposium, CENSE, Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies, 2023, https://cense.earth/beyond-listening/abstract/ari-koivumaki-implementing-comfortable-soundscapes-in-urban-spaces

How to study the feeling of safety? Unheard Landscapes. Listening, resonating, inhabiting. International conference proceedings, pp. 163-174. Galaad Edizioni 2023, https:// ha l.science/hal-04061887/   

Ambiences and safety? Methods for security experience design 

Ambiances, Alloaesthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds. Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Ambiances, 2-4 December 2020, 2 vol., Réseau International Ambiances, conference-paper

Sonic garden  

Urban-Related Sensoria Environments, Technologies, Sensobiographies International Conference on Sensory Transformations 10–12 June 2020, conference-paper

Coincidental and Bottom-up Method for Soundwalking  

Ambiances, tomorrow, 2016 conference-paper

in Finnish

Maiseman äänittäminen. Äänimaisematutkimus äänisuunnittelun tukena (dissertation 2018) 

Korvintodistaminen ja ääniympäristön tallennuksen kuulokulmat (article 2017) 

Maiseman äänittäminen ja esittäminen (article 2016)