Biography

Multidisciplinary artist and scholar

Dr. Raisa Foster (b. 1976) has focused on the questions of eco-social justice and sustainable life orientation for the past several years. She holds the titles of associate professor in dance pedagogy (University of the Arts Helsinki) and in social pedagogy, especially artistic research and practice (University of Eastern Finland). Originally a dance practitioner, Foster combines her expertise in body and movement with the possibilities of digital media, creating accessible but sensuously, emotionally, and cognitively stimulating total works of art. Her performances, media works, installations, and drawings have been exhibited in Finland and abroad. She has written several academic articles on the topics of recognition, contemporary art, dance, and ecosocial education. 

Artist Statement

For me, art is not "just art," but transformative action at its best. By making and speaking about art with the "more than human world," I want to emphasize how our lives are inextricably intertwined not only with other people but also with other animals, plants, and the entire web of life. To address the environmental crisis, we need to understand our place as humans in a radically new way. We cannot continue to elevate ourselves above the rest of nature and exploit other lives in pursuit of our own interests. We need to understand that without well-functioning ecosystems, there are no humans either. On the other hand, I firmly believe that adopting a new, more sustainable way of life does not have to mean scarcity and suffering. As we connect with a more than human world, we can find our lives enriched through and in this new and deeply meaningful relationship.

The End of a Story, 2023

Single-channel video, stereo,

English with subtitles in Finnish

7 min 16 sec

Director, writer & editor: Raisa Foster

The narration is based on Sami Keto's writings.

All the voice and visuals are generated with AI technology.

This form can be used to help you watch, analyze and interpret the video artwork. The form is also used to collect research data on the reception of the artwork.

The artwork has been completed as part of the research project titled Just and Unjust Environmental Wars (JUEW) (2023–2026), which is funded by the Kone Foundation. As part of the project's artistic research, the experiences of watching the video work are now being collected. The purpose of this research is to examine the experiences and meanings associated with human-caused environmental destruction, violent conflicts, and the threats they pose. > See more information.

With art, you must go there

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Foster, R., Mäkelä, J. & Martusewicz, R. (eds.) (2019). Art, EcoJustice, and Education. Intersecting Theories and Practices. New York: Routledge.

Purchase from Routledge.

FREE Companion Website features chapter resources, key concepts, guiding questions, and additional photos and links.

Foster, R., Heikkinen, H. L. T., Nyberg, C., Saari A., & Salonen, A. O. (eds.) (2023). Kertomuksia kestävästä elämästä. Helsinki: Into Kustannus.

[Stories about sustainable living,

Edited book in Finnish, Open access publication (PDF)]

Lataa kirja (PDF) ilmaiseksi TÄÄLTÄ.

Current projects 2023–

• 1.7.2023–30.6.2026, Senior artist/researcher (50 %), Just and Unjust Environmental Wars, artistic research project, funded by Kone Foundation

• Artistic collaborations, public speaking engagements, workshops, and lecturing by invitation. Inquiries (in Finnish and English).
  

Just and Unjust Environmental Wars (2023–2026)

1.7.2023–30.6.2026, Senior artist/researcher (50 %), Just and Unjust Environmental Wars, artistic research project, in collaboration with Teemu Mäki, Juha Mäkinen & Laura Puumala, funded by Kone Foundation

The project examines the nature and moral justification of environmental wars through science and art. It compares the perspectives of the prevailing paradigm of the ethics of war, the tradition of just war, environmental ethics, artistic research, and peace and conflict research in addressing human-based environmental threats. Typically, the justification of war is judged based on certain traditional moral principles. However, environmental threats have changed the world's security policy framework and the nature of wars, while the ethics of war have remained notably traditional.

The project analyzes this tension between the traditional just war tradition and the ethical challenges of modern environmental wars. Artistic research analyzes the experiences, meanings, and connections of human-caused environmental destruction and violent conflicts. Its focus is on the violent actions of humans towards their own and other species in the form of armed conflicts and other use of force that is considered violent.

Project outcomes (2023–) (the list is updated during the project)

Public artistic activities

• Poster text "The Logic of Domination" at Teemu Mäki’s exhibition Do you remember Chechnya?, @ Cultural Centre Caisa’s Gallery, Helsinki, 6.–29.4.2023 and Critical Gallery, Turku, 6.3.–31.3.2024
  
• Silent Walk, 30 minutes walk and discussion @ Climate, Death, and (Mental) Wellbeing workshop, Climate Security Festival, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, 21.9.2023
• The End of a Story (2023), AI-generated videoart, single-channel video with sound in English (subtitles in Finnish), 7 min 16 sec, @ Environmental War project opening symposium, Oodi, Helsinki, 30.11.2023

Publications intended for the general public

• Mäkinen, J. & Foster, R. (2023). Luonto on Ukarainassakin sodan puolustuskyvytön uhri. Vieraskynä. Helsingin Sanomat, 4.8.2023. https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000009735270.html
• Ekokriisi ja taiteen tieto [Ecocrisis and the artistic knowledge], presentation @ Environmental War project opening symposium, Oodi, Helsinki, 30.11.2023

Publications intended for professional communities

• Mäkinen, J. & Foster, R. (2024). Näkökulmia sotilaan ympäristövastuuseen. 22.2.2024. Kylkirauta.fi, https://kylkirauta.fi/index.php/2024/02/22/juha-makinen-raisa-foster-nakokulmia-sotilaan-ymparistovastuuseen/
  

Latest projects (2017–2023)

selected artistic research projects (2017–2023),

including publications related directly to the artworks

"FOOD" ISEAS 2022

1.8.2022–, ISEAS2022 "FOOD" by Katja Juhola, Collaborating artist

• two video artworks at the group exhibition, Lapua Art Museum, 23.9.2023–20.1.2024

International group of artists and researchers from different fields were invited to work collectively with each other and community members. The ISEAS Food Symposium held four art events in Lapua and Seinäjoki in August 2022. Each artist/scientist team worked with socially engaged art methods with communities of Tiistenjoki elementary school, Seinäjoki high school, young farmers, and the elderly book club. The project results will be reported as an art exhibition in the Lapua Art Museum in the fall/winter of 2023. Two of my video works created based on artistic research with high school students will be shown at the exhibition.

Tacit Gaze (2021)

• Tacit Gaze (2021), video installations, together with Arna Valsdottir; 2.–24.10.2021, Cultural House Laikku, Gallery, Tampere, Finland
  
• 11.11.2018 work-in-progress II, Heim Video Festival, Akureyri, Iceland
  
• 8/2017 work-in-progress, video installation & live performance, Akureyri, Iceland
  

Parts of the installation also presented:

• Husavik’s Red (2021), video work, together with Arna Valsdottir, 11.6. – 28.8.2022, Horses exhibition, Kimmo Pyykkö Art Museum, Kangasala, Finland
  
• Entrance (2018), video work together with Arna Valsdottir 21.–23.9.2018 Visual Festival, Joensuu
  

Tacit Gaze is a surround video and sound installation that weaves into the architecture of the Gallery at the Cultural House Laikku. The exhibition invites the audience to join the artists on

their sensory journey. The video material was created through embodied explorations in which the artists allowed sensations to guide them and a common rhythm to carry the work forward.

During the embodied exploration they decided to communicate non-verbally as much as possible. The artists paid attention to each other’s focus and used cameras to capture these moments of perception. The random encounters with moss, fly, mountain, cow, bathtub and an abandoned fish factory are now presented as fragments of the artists’ journey. The mosaic-like work is offered to create a sensory feel of the silent conversations with different environments and creatures.

Tacit Gaze (2021) – video installation, Raisa Foster & Arna Valsdóttir

Cultural House Laikku, Tampere, Finland, 2.–24.10.2021

Laikku's large gallery space is now a more coherent and memorable spatial experience than perhaps ever before. The sound and video installation Tacit Gaze created by Arna Valsdóttir from Iceland and Raisa Foster from Tampere is very close to an authentic nature experience. ...

The mosaic-like video projections in Laikku's gallery create parallel experiential realities, which have calmness, closeness to nature, harmony and gentleness in common. A space beyond language is created, where the viewer can rest and detach from their everyday thoughts, at least for a while.

- Katri Kovasiipi, 20 October 2021, Kulttuuritoimitus.fi

Tacit Gaze (2021) – video installation, Raisa Foster & Arna Valsdóttir

Cultural House Laikku, Tampere, Finland, 2.–24.10.2021

Entrance (2018), video work together with Arna Valsdottir 21.–23.9.2018 Visual Festival, Joensuu

Husavik’s Red (2021), video work, together with Arna Valsdottir,

11.6. – 28.8.2022, Horses exhibition, Kimmo Pyykkö Art Museum, Kangasala, Finland

More than human (2020–2021)

• More than human (2021), solo exhibition, drawings, video, and sound art 4.–23.6.2021,
  

Gallery Saskia, Tampere

Based on the research project Re-Connect/Re-Collect: Crossing the Divides through Memories of Cold War Childhoods, Tampere University, Faculty of Education and Culture ,

funded by Kone Foundation, personal senior artist/researcher grant 1.10.2020–31.8.2021

The exhibition consists of charcoal, chalk, and ink drawings as well as sound and video

art. The starting point of the multidisciplinary art practice was the human's embodied

relation to the world. Humans live in and engage with the world not only through thinking

minds but also as emotional and sensing bodies. But this is something that humans tend

to increasingly forget. This separation from the living world causes ecological problems,

which are, in fact, the problems of culture: the modern humans have failed to adapt

their culture to the planetary boundaries. We live as humans in the world as if we were

"pure" conscious beings without a body and a relation with our environment.

The exhibition was created by exploring memories that describe childhood experiences in different environments and interactions with other living beings. Humans carry perceptions, emotions, and memories in their living bodies. In the video and sound art, childhood memory stories are combined with the artist's own experiences, poetic and metaphorical narratives, and previously recorded and archived materials. The drawings have also been created by "upcycling," that is, continuing previous drawings by editing, covering, and destabilizing them. Through observations, coincidences, additions, deletions, lines, and rubbing, the image are done and undone in way that they would breathe again and be in constant motion.

More than human (2021), solo exhibition, drawings, video, and sound art 4.–23.6.2021,

Gallery Saskia, Tampere

More than human (2021), solo exhibition, drawings, video, and sound art 4.–23.6.2021,

Gallery Saskia, Tampere

The Body (2021)

single-channel video with sound in English, duration 3'33 min

• Foster, R. (2023). The Living Dying Body: Arriving at the Awareness of All Life’s Interdependencies through a Video Artwork. Research in Arts and Education, 2023(1), 32–43. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.126189
  

63 windows (2021)

sound in English, stereo, duration 5'06 min

• Foster, R., Törmä, T., Hokkanen, L., & Zin, M. (2022). 63 windows: Generating Relationality Through Poetic and Metaphorical Engagement. Research in Arts and Education, 2022(2), 56–67. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.122974
  

Which came first, the chicken

or the egg? (2021)

sound in English, stereo, duration 1'49 min

• Foster, R., Mnemo ZIN, Keto, S. & Pulkki, J. (2022). Recognizing Ecosocialization in Childhood Memories, Educational Studies, 58:4, 560-574, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2022.2051031
  

Tiny creatures (2021)

single-channel video

with sound in English, duration 1'13 min

• Foster, R. (in press). Anarchive and arts-based research – upcycling rediscovered memories and materials. In Mnemo ZIN (Ed.) Reconfiguring Cold War Childhoods: Memory- and Art-work. Open Book Publishers.
  

Balance (2018), in the More than Human exibition, 4.–23.6.2021, Gallery Saskia, Tampere

Ecosocial Otherness (2018–2019)

• 1.7.–31.12.2018 Multidisciplinary art project on ecosocial otherness,

Tampere, Finland / Akureyri, Iceland, funded by Arts Promotion Centre Finland

The artistic research project produced four artworks - a photography installation, a 360 video work, and two performances. All the works handle the topic of otherness, but they all look at this common theme from different perspectives and through various subthemes (disability, animals, environment). However, the starting point of each work is an embodied relation with otherness.

He died for my sins (2019)

photo installation on animal rights

3 double-sided lightboxes with 6 canvas prints, black aluminium frames

1300x2000mm each

Technical production: Jussi-Pekka Arkkola

Assistent: Satu Järvinen

Thank you: Arna Valsdottir, Juhamatti Niemi-Kapee, Arts Promotion Centre of Finland

17.4.–2.5.2019 Paavali Church, Helsinki

26.9.–18.10.2020 Visual Catalyst exhibition, Backlight Festival 2020, Tampere

• Foster, R. (2020). He died for my sins. In J. Suonpää (ed.) Visual Catalysts / Visuaaliset katalyytit. CICAT2025, Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulun julkaisuja. https://cicat2025.turkuamk.fi/en/visual-catalysts/book/
  

He died for my sins (2019), photo installation, Paavali Church, Helsinki & Laikku Gallery, Tampere

V.I.P. (2019)

virtual reality artwork on (dis)ability

Production:

Rami Saarikorpi, 360-panorama

Performers: Jenni Päily, Mari Heinilä ja Jarmo Skön

Voice: Virpi Maikkola, Virpi Koskela, Marja Skaffari

Sound recording: Jukka Ruostila

Thank you: Taideverstas Wärjäämö, City of Tampere, Arts Promotion Centre of Finland

9.3.2019 Cultural Centre Laikku, Tampere

In the collections of South Eastern University of Applied Sciences.

• Foster, R. (2017). Minkälainen tahansa tavallinen. Collection of research poems. Helsinki: Books on Demand.

[Any kind of ordinary]

• Foster, R. (2022). Toiseuden moninainen kokemus: Tutkimusrunous taistelevan vammaistutkimuksen menetelmänä. Aikuiskasvatus, 42(1), 50–66. https://doi.org/10.33336/aik.115553 [Experience of diverse Other – Poetic inquiry as a method for rebellious disability research]
  

V.I.P. (2019), virtual reality artwork on (dis)ability, 9.3.2019 Cultural Centre Laikku, Tampere

The Work of Art in the Time of Non-Production (2018), site-specific participatory performance

8.-11.11.2018 A! Performance Festival, Akureyri, Iceland

The Princess of Plastific Ocean (2018), street performance, performer Satu Järvinen,

photo JP Arkkola, 9.8.2018 Tampere

Past projects (2008–2016)

selected artworks (film, video, and stage and site-specific works)

Lupina (2016)

one channel video installation without sound

In the collections of Tampere Art Museum.

Performer: Olavi Karvonen

Camera: Mika Peltomaa

2.-23.12.2016 Break a Brain festival, Koskikeskus, Tampere

27.4.-1.5.2018 Koskipuisto I bus stop, Tampere

1.-30.6.2018 Enviro-Art – a group exhibition, Joseph Saxton Gallery, Canton, Ohio

18.-21.6.2018 Dark Days, White Nights, Curated exhibition of InSEA 2018, Aalto

University, Espoo

30.7.-1.8.2018 Havis Amanda tram stop, Kauppatori, Helsinki

Sounds of Grey (2016)

dance film (director, editor)

Performer: Olavi Karvonen

Camera: Mika Peltomaa

Music: Ari Karema

Premier 27.2.2016 Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere

9.5.2016 Tanssivirtaa Dance Festival, Tampere

6.4.2018 Loikka Dance Film Festival

2018—2019 Loikka on Tour, an official selection of the touring program:

22.5.2018 Tanssivirtaa Dance Festival, Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere

18.8.2018 Back to School, KinoMarilyn, Loviisa

24.8.2018 DanceFest, Kotka

4.-11.8.2018 [te] Che -festival, Chiostri di Santa Caterina, Italia

19.10.2018 October FilmFestival, Vaasa

22.1.2019 TENEK Dance Film Festival Reynosa, Mexico

25.4.2019 2. Szerpentin Dance Film Fest, Budapest, Hungary

Enginn hittir einhvern (2016)

(choreography)

Skript: Peter Asmussen

Translation: Jón Atli Jónasson

Director: Simon Boberg

Actors: María Ellingsen and Björn Ingi Hilmarsson

Choreographer: Raisa Foster

Music composer: Andreas Ljones

Set design: Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson

Lighting design: Björn Bergsteinn Guðmundsson

Photography: Christopher Lund

Premier 11.3.2016 Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland

3.9. 2016 Nordic House, Torshavn, Faroe Islands

2.10.2016 City theatre, Akureyri, Iceland

Rikka (2014)

movement-based installation/performance (direction, concept)

Performer: Ale Ripatti

Sound: Alpo Nummelin

Premier 2.5.2014 Huopakattotehdas, Tampere, Finland

21.3.2015 (video documentation/installation) Art, Activism and EcoJustice

Conference, Eastern Michigan University, USA

Ketjureaktio (2012)

physical and visual theatre (animateur/director)

Performer: Olavi Karvonen

Premier 17.12.2012, TV-studio, Mikkeli, Finland

9.11.2013 Valvesali, Oulu,

29.11.2013 Artium-Sali, Mikkeli,

8.12.2013 Teatteri Satama, Joensuu,

13.-15.3.2014 Demoteatteri, Tutkivan teatterityön keskus, Tampere

6.3.2015 Kangasala-talo

Nymphaea Noir (2010)

butoh performance (choreography, performance)

Premier 20.10.2010, Kangasala, Finland

4.2.2011 Kangasala

13.11.2011 Liikettä! festival, Telakka Theatre, Tampere, Finland

Monopeli (2010)

physical theatre and visual art (animateur/director)

Performer: Mona Ratalahti

Visuals: Tiitu Takalo

Lighting design: Jere Mönkkönen

Music: Sami Sippola

Premier 12.11.2010 Demoteatteri, Tutkivan teatterityön keskus

1. season: 12.–14.11., 22.–26.11.2010

2. season: 24.–28.1.2011

Katiska (2008)

dance theatre work with young men (animateur/director)

Premier 8.5.2008 Hällä-stage, Tampere, Finland

10.8.2008 Tampere

28.11.2008 Tampere

6.-8.4.2009 Tampere

14.5.2009 Feldkirch, Austria

22.-23.5.2009 Arnhem, The Netherlands

16.6.2009 Kuopio

18.9.2009 Bremen, Germany

6.-7.10.2009 Espoo

9.10.2009 Helsinki

4.-5.11.2009 Salo

10.11.2009 Odense, Denmark

29.8.2010 Tampere

29.4.2011 Joensuu

13.-15.3.2014 Tampere

6.5.2014 Helsinki

6.3.2015 Kangasala

Katiska is a collaboration of animateur/director Raisa Foster, composer Maija Koskenalusta and originally six 15–18 year old young men (Mikael Hautala, Rasmus Järvenpää, Valtteri Lahti, Aimo Laitamo, Lauri Mäkinen, Jere Riihinen). Before this project, the boys had not done dancing or theatre. The lighting is designed by Jere Mönkkönen and the video animations by Antti Kuosmanen.

"The work changed my world."

"Katiska boys deserve praise"

by Riina Hannuksela in the Savon Sanomat newspaper in June 18, 2009.

• Foster, R. (2012). The Pedagogy of Recognition: Dancing Identity and Mutuality. Doctoral dissertation. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1779. Tampere University Press.
  

Societal impact

• approximately
• 35 conference presentations
  
• 85 invited lectures and workshops
  
• 100 appearances in media (newspapers, magazines, radio, tv) related to the art and research activities

Arts for Parks workshop for artist and scholars in Ohio, USA, 2017.

Dance animateuring workshop in Mikkeli, Finland, 2012.

MEDIA APPEARANCE

approximately 100 appearances in media (newspapers, magazines, radio, tv) related to the art and research activities, for example:

• The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 17.4.2022, Elämme liikaa järkeilyn varassa – meidän tulisi luottaa enemmän kehomme tietoon, [We rely too much on reasoning – we should trust more on our embodied knowledge] https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10002595
  

• The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle 12.12.2017, Tutkimus varoittaa: "Taideaineiden karsiminen kouluopetuksesta olisi hirveä karhunpalvelus nuorille ja tulevaisuudelle", [The study warns: "Removing art subjects from schools would be a terrible disservice to young people and the future"], https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9971314 (Most shared)
  

Publications

Peer-reviewed scientific articles

• Foster, R. & Sutela, K. (2024) Ecosocial approach to music education, Music Education Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2319586
  
• Foster, R. (2023). Tosiasioita ja kuvittelukykyä – taiteella toivoa ekokriisien ajassa. In T. Konst, M. Kantola, A. Mutanen & M. Friman (eds). Kestävä elämänmuoto. Turun ammattikorkeakoulun tutkimuksia 51. Turun ammattikorkeakoulu. [Facts and imagination – hope with art in the time of ecocrises]
• Foster, R. (2023). The Living Dying Body: Arriving at the Awareness of All Life’s Interdependencies through a Video Artwork. Research in Arts and Education, 2023(1), 32–43. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.126189
  
• Sipari, S., Helenius, S., Vänskä, N., Foster, R., & Salonen, A. O. (2023). Osallistuva tutkimus-, kehittämis- ja innovaatiokumppanuus ammattikorkeakoulukontekstissa. Ammattikasvatuksen Aikakauskirja, 24(4), 10–27. https://journal.fi/akakk/article/view/125872 [Participatory research, development, and innovation partnership in the context of university of applied sciences]
  
• Foster, R., Törmä, T., Hokkanen, L., & Zin, M. (2022). 63 windows: Generating Relationality Through Poetic and Metaphorical Engagement. Research in Arts and Education, 2022(2), 56–67. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.122974
  
• Keto, S., Foster, R., Pulkki, J., Salonen, A. O. & Värri, V.-M. (2022). Ekososiaalinen kasvatus – viisi teesiä ratkaisuehdotuksena antroposeenin ajan haasteeseen. Kasvatus & Aika, 16(3), 49–69. https://doi.org/10.33350/ka.111741 [Ecosocial education – five theses as suggestions for the challenge of Anthropocene]
  
• Foster, R., Mnemo ZIN, Keto, S. & Pulkki, J. (2022). Recognizing Ecosocialization in Childhood Memories, Educational Studies, 58:4, 560-574, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2022.2051031
  
• Foster, R. (2022, reprint). Visual art campaigns. In P. Leavy (ed.) Popularizing Scholarly Research. Research Methods and Practices. New York: Oxford University Press.
  
• Foster, R., Salonen, A. O. & Sutela, K. (2022). Taidekasvatuksen ekososiaalinen kehys: Kohti kestävyystietoista elämänorientaatiota. Kasvatus 53 (2), 118–129. https://doi.org/10.33348/kvt.115918 [The ecosocial framework for art education: Towards sustainable life orientation.]
  
• Foster, R., Mansikka-aho, A. & Salonen, A.O. (2022). Ekososiaalinen sivistys osallistumisen, vaikuttamisen ja kestävän tulevaisuuden rakentamisen pohjana. In N. Hienonen, P. Nilivaara, M. Saarnio & M.-P. Vainikainen (eds.) Laaja-alainen osaaminen koulussa: Ajattelijana ja oppijana kehittyminen. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 204–2017. [Ecosocial approach to participation, involvement and building a sustainable future]
  
• Foster, R. (2022). Toiseuden moninainen kokemus: Tutkimusrunous taistelevan vammaistutkimuksen menetelmänä. Aikuiskasvatus, 42(1), 50–66. https://doi.org/10.33336/aik.115553 [Experience of diverse Other – Poetic inquiry as a method for rebellious disability research]
  
• Foster, R. & Turkki, N. (2021) EcoJustice Approach to Dance Education. Journal of Dance Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2021.1906430
  

• Keto, S., & Foster, R. (2021). Ecosocialization – an Ecological Turn in the Process of Socialization. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 30(1-2), 34–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2020.1854826
  
• Järvinen, S., Foster, R., & Morris, N. (2020). Ympäristöinnostaja luontokokemusten ja ekososiaalisesti merkittävien suhteiden välittäjänä. Sosiaalipedagoginen Aikakauskirja, 21, 39–62. https://doi.org/10.30675/sa.91582 [Environmental animateur as an interpreter of nature experiences and ecosocially significant relationships]
  
• Foster, R. (2020). Ricoeurin polku tunnistamisesta ja tuntemisesta tunnustukseen. In O. Hirvonen (ed.) Tunnustuksen filosofia ja politiikka. Helsinki: SKS. [Ricoeur’s course of recognition]
  
• Foster, R., Salonen, A. O. & Keto, S. (2019). Kestävyystietoinen elämänorientaatio pedagogisena päämääränä. In T. Autio, L. Hakala & T. Kujala (eds.) Opetussuunnitelmatutkimus – ajan merkkejä ja siirtymiä. Tampere University Press. https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/118706/kestavyystietoinen_elamanorientaatio_pedagogisena_paamaarana.pdf [Sustainable life orientation as a pedagogical aim]
  
• Foster, R. (2019). Visual art campaigns. In P. Leavy (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship. New York: Oxford University Press.
  
• Foster, R. (2019). Recognizing Mutuality: The More-than-human World and Me. In R. Foster, J. Mäkelä & R. Martusewicz (eds.) Art, EcoJustice, and Education. Intersecting Theories and Practices. New York: Routledge, 257–297.
  
• Foster, R. (2017). Nykytaidekasvatus toisintekemisenä ekososiaalisten kriisien aikakaudella. Sosiaalipedagoginen aikakauskirja. Vuosikirja 2017, vol 18. https://journal.fi/sosiaalipedagogiikka/article/view/63484 [Contemporary art education as (un)doing in the era of eco-social crisis]
  
• Foster, R. (2016). Hiljainen kosketus – kohti ekofilosofista kasvatusta. In A. Suominen (ed.) Taidekasvatus ympäristöhuolen aikakaudella – avauksia, suuntia, mahdollisuuksia. Helsinki: Aalto ARTS Books. https://shop.aalto.fi/media/filer_public/b9/d5/b9d5af0c-c63a-43b5-bacb-6f86cbccc859/taidekasvatusymparistohuolenaikakaudella.pdf [Silent touch – towards ecophilosophical education]
  
• Foster, R. (2014). Egottomuuden kokemus tanssi-innostamisessa. In A. Saari, O.-J. Jokisaari, & V.-M. Värri (eds.). Ajan kasvatus. Kasvatusfilosofia aikalaiskritiikkinä. Tampere University Press. https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/103678/978-951-44-9613-4.pdf [The experience of I-lessness in dance aimateuring]
  
• Foster, R. (2014). The presence of real reality: six theses on dance animateuring. Nordic Journal of Dance – practice, education and research. Volume 5 (2), 2014. https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/njd-2014-0009
  
• Foster, R. (2012). Tanssi-innostaminen herkistäjänä keholliseen ymmärrykseen. Sosiaalipedagoginen Aikakauskirja, 13, 31–51. https://doi.org/10.30675/sa.122072
  
• [Dance animateuring awakening to embodied understanding]
  
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