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Allocation from the LHÍ 2025 research fund
Allocation from the LHÍ 2025 research fund
The board of the Iceland Academy of the Arts Research Fund has completed the allocation of grants for the year 2025. The board of the fund for the 2025–2026 academic year consists of: Pétur Jónasson, professor and dean of the Department of Music, Katrín María Káradóttir, professor at the Department of Design, and Steinunn Knuts-Önnudottir, a doctorate in performing arts and an external representative. The total allocation of the fund amounted to 5 million ISK this time.
Total received 15 applications this year, from the school's five departments:
- Design department: 7 applications
- Department of Fine Arts: 2 applications
- Department of Music: 2 applications
- Film Department: 2 applications
- Department of Art Education: 2 applications
The role of the fund is to support the research of permanent academic staff with a research quota and to contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of art. The University of the Arts conducts diverse research, working with a variety of materials, forms and media. Strong research is the foundation of knowledge creation, ideological renewal and artistic approach. Respect is shown for different approaches, subjects and presentations. With this, the University of the Arts wants to strengthen the research culture of the school and increase the quality of the research that is carried out there.
Grants were awarded for the following research projects:
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Adam Flint Taylor, Assistant Professor at the Department of Design - Political Graphic Design Archive
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Katrín Ólína Pétursdóttir, Dean of the Faculty of Design - Skagafjörður's material heritage – steel, stone and the reuse of materials in design
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Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir, associate professor at the Faculty of Art Education - Unstable country
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Hildur Bjarnadóttir, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts - Scale and rhythm
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Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir, associate professor at the Department of Film Arts - Selected scenes from films and plays, for use in teaching directing
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Birna Geirfinnsdóttir, professor at the Faculty of Design - A study of the graphic design of Harður Ágústsson
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Berglind Jóna Hlynsdóttir, visual artist and doctoral student - Shadowless vacuum cleaner
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Einar Torfi Einarsson, professor at the Department of Music - Undetermined time: other temporal entities and settings beyond the octave
