Rooted in neuroaesthetic methodologies and explorations of invasiveness and behaviour, the work was developed in collaboration with schools and applied learning methods. Its evolution was guided by Paula Karvonen’s artistic research, drawing from neuro- and ecopsychology, somatic perception, dysregulation, and embodied learning processes shaped through biographies, biophilias, and social design. Central to this is an investigation and appreciation with spatial dramaturgy—how space, (temporary) necessity, an iterated route, sense of release, tension or discomfort, and proximity choreograph forms of comprehension, behaviour and an autonomy and cognition beyond. The project formed part of School as (a) Designer – Economics of Temporalities, Unmediating Future Feasibilities and Design Expertises In-situ, where Karvonen acted as the principal author of the artistic methodology and research. Within the Design Akatemia school programme (https://ado.fi, https://www.ornamo.fi/en, https://www.ornamo.fi/en/article/critical-curiosity-for-schools/), she developed and explored approaches that position students, teachers and participants as thinkers, designers and actors of lived experience and affective cognition. Sleep-philia is a horizontal study in which the beauty and difficulty of being exhales through a drawn line. The horizontal plane becomes a site for sensing, wisdom of nervous system and subtle recognition of being. The installation unfolded through ten planks, ten pencils, salt, sugar and the logics of release—mapping contours of time and being, whether collective or solitary, regulated or dysfunctional, aesthetic or non-aesthetic. The work suggests that true comprehension can be as demanding as a line -as being itself. Rest appears as an elemental offering—a quiet yet profound form of existence. The project is funded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), Architecture and Design, and contributed to the final production during 2024–2026. Participatory workshops were carried out in school, gallery and museum contexts with students, teachers, other participants, performers and art and entrepreneurship pilots. New forms of collaboration and action are also being developed and integrated further based on various ways of the project concept and the research. Alongside the Sleep-philia exhibition at Galleria Tila, Helsinki, in September 2025, a further exhibition was presented at the Architecture and Design Museum Studio in Helsinki (School Inhale - 10 October to 31 December 2025). The exhibition is curated and it was set together with the students and their work based on the several working briefs and time spent together during 2024-2025. To take part, please contact: paula@sosio.fi / +358503762005

Serving and acting with sap & birchly surprises. For the love of birch, release & life. Respect nature, life, release & one & other -------- En osaa päättää. Osaako koivu? Kun mansikkaa syön koivua ajattelen. Kun haavojani parannan, mäntyjä kiitän. Neljästä vuodenajasta, kiitos niistäkin. Entä koivu, millaisia kiitoksia se toivoisi antavan? It is hard to decide. Does the BIRCH ever hesitate? When eating strawberries, I think of BIRCH. Curing my wounds gracing pines. Seasons turn each a gift. But tell me, BIRCH—what gratitude you wish. Koivu olet sinä, me olemme koivu. Koivu on meissä. Se kuulee sinua. Kertoo sinulle viisauksia. Antaa oksat varjoksi, lehdet vihdoiksi, ravinnoksi ja kauneudeksi. Keväällä se antaa sydämensä mahlana, aikana ja rakkautena. Vaikka se on ulkoa mustavalkoinen sisältä se on kaikkea muuta. MISTÄ KOIVU TOIVOISI KIITOSTA Miten viettää aikaa koivun kanssa? Yhdessä ja erikseen? Hitaasti. Purkautuen. Organizers: SOSIO & Friends, Biotheatre -Acts of release Cast: DJ Satakielet - Luscinia & Turdus merula - Museum Of Release - Paula Karvonen - Danielle Yukari - Ana Crisis - Simo Vassinen - Merja Kokkonen - Kati Reijonen - Lauri Soini - Juhani Lehtiranta @paulahelenaka @danielle.yukari @crisrodher @simovassinen @islaja @kati_reijonen @peculiar_knack Special thanks: R4 Temporary Community Space @r4_space ClassicAudio @classicaudiofinland Pönttöpalvelu @palvelupontto Puhdistamo @puhdistamo Heinolan Lintuhoitola All sap, birch, sauna & bird devotees Photography/ video/ cuts: Roberto Puentes @robertopuentes Illustrations/ Birch art/ Future edible wisdoms: Alejandra Alarcón @al.alarcon @edible___landscapes

Notes to share and hold further. Metal and music play with Ilkka Ala-Fossi

Metalwork and structures for Lotta Petronella -Materia Medica of Islands, 2023, Helsinki Biennial 12.6.-17.9.2023, Vallisaari, Helsinki, HAM/Helsinki Biennial

Design & development for the Kitchen, Studio Kitchen & Space of Recharge - with Sanna Gebeyehu Åkerlund for Konstsamfundet

With Scope Design Oy @scopedesign_interiors

Interior Architecture & Concept: (1908) Lars Sonck (2020) Mint & More Creative Agency @mintmorecreative www.mintmore.fi Design & Delivery for metal furniture: Peltin Oy @peltinshop

with Essi Nádor & Gea Karja

with Johanna & Pekka - 1000 g wall

Photography by Juha Laitalainen http://www.valokuvamaailma.fi/Sivusto/Yhteystietoni.html

metal furniture and fantasies

Metal sheet play

Made to order Coffee Brew Dock with HarioV50, made for Sami Tallberg Wild Herb Cafe pop-up restaurant at L3, Helsinki Design Week 2015 /// www.samitallberg.com

coffee play for Restaurant Pompier, Eteläesplanadi 8, 00130 Helsinki, Finland

concept and plays for Liike Helsinki, Finland

Design and manufacture for set of custom-made shelves and other furniture in collaboration with Suvi-Maria Silvola, Interior Design Studio, Apricus Design

Design collaboration & made to order objects for Cargo Coffee & Vegetarian Food Restaurant, Helsinki, Finland, Ruoholahdenranta 8 //// www.cargohelsinki.fi

Poblenou, Barcelona

Labeling and concept play

for Sosio / Petri collective

..phosphorus & potassiums for nerves & balance (Taste of Helsinki, Finland, http://www.tasteofhelsinki.fi/en/)

www.havuu.fi

set of tools for communication www.graphicconcrete.com/en/