📋 Tender Overview
The virtual and experiential Museum of Contemporary Awareness is designed to support the reflection of different emotions caused by citizens in the corona pandemic. The museum which combines science and art captures the feelings experienced during the pandemic in Finland from March 2020 onwards.In order for recovery to begin we must first face our feelings. The Museum of Contemporary Art which is being launched today is based on this premise which is a virtual collection and an experiential account of the feelings of the pandemic period in Finland.Emotions have been gathered by studying statistics search trends consumer consumption behavior organization surveys social media and online phenomena news and peoples movements and behavior at turning points in emergencies such as the proclamation of the Emergency Preparedness Act or the closure of Uusimaa. To support the information gathered experts in various fields have helped to interpret peoples behavior.The client of the Museum of Contemporary Sense is the Finnish Office in the Prime Ministers OfficeLink to another site which aims to strengthen mental resilience through dialogue and everyday coping campaigns. The Museum of Contemporary Sense is designed to support citizens in recovering from the crisis and at the same time record exceptional time in an exceptional way. Mental crisis resilience is one of the seven vital functions of a societys security strategy. Experiences of being heard and seen are one important factor in maintaining mental crisis resilience. The museum offers an opportunity for this and thus strives to strengthen the resilience of society says Pivi Tampere Communications Manager of the Finland Works project . The emotional museum is a collaboration between science and art The creative implementer of the museum is Hasan partners and the technical implementer is Into-Digital Oy. In addition to the main actors researchers of phenomena and people artists organizations as well as expert companies in the field of information have been involved.To support the information gathered in the museum experts and researchers from different fields open up the emotions behind the statistics and phenomena. Psychotherapist Maaret Kallio analyzes the role of emotions in recovery . The emotional world of relationships is opened by Psychotherapist psychologist Suvi Laru . Grief researcher Mari Pulkkinen talks about the effects of mourning and the permanence of loss . Information on sleep insomnia and coronary somnolence is provided by sleep researcher Markku Partinen . Researcher at the University of Helsinki Niko Pyrhnenopens the mechanisms and emotions behind the belief in conspiracies and student TYY a member of the Representative Council and the student association Affect Associations chairman Dan Santamki gave the students face the feelings of the exception period. Riikka Nurmi an expert in promoting mental health in early childhood education at MIELI Finnish Mental Health Association speaks about the well-being of children during exceptional periods . Tuulia Kovanen an expert in violence work from the Association of First and Shelter Homes talks about the challenges that homes and families experienced during the exceptional period.The museums photographs have been obtained from about 30 professional and amateur photographers who photographed everyday life during the pandemic in Finland as part of the Exception Space2020 project. Through the Summer of Arts project the museum project also involved six artists who graduated during the pandemic Heta-Linnea Kovanen Janne Saarinen Jenni Turunlahti Jonna Hyttinen Terhi Adler and Jirko Viljanen who each interpreted one of the six basic emotions in their own work. The works of art will be displayed at the launch of the museum and posters made from them can be freely downloaded from the museums website. The Summer of Arts was a major project of the Finnish Cultural Foundation in 2021 implemented by the Finnish Cultural and Artistic Association KULTA ry.Aitomation Google Finland Oy Meltwater and Statistics Finland have also helped to search for information interpret information or otherwise build a museum. The sound world of the museum has been composed and produced by Markku Mkel .
