Lecturer, Writing a Personal Essay Together, Aalto University, Helsinki

Rooted in curiosity and the desire to grasp the nuanced and multidimensional art scenes, the essays will be reflective of the theoretical and poetic impact of art on human thought and society, and vice versa. In these sessions, we work on writing a personal essay together. Students will receive a reading pack ahead of the first session. Then we go over the reading material and analyze them in terms of learning what it means to write short personal essays, and then find possible ways to structure essays (narrative essay, flash essay, fragmented essay, etc). Students get to share their writings in progress in small groups and get individual time with the lecturer to discuss questions and concerns, what worked and what didn’t during the writing process.