THE BALTIC RECOLLECTIONS: Reflections on scholarly visits to Finland, Estonia, Sweden & Denmark in 2024

The Baltic Recollections featured analytical and critical reflections by a small but dedicated team of Thai researchers from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand, on their study trips to the four countries bordering the Baltic Sea during the summer of 2024. Incorporating cross-cultural learning experiences from the three-week long excursions to Finland, Estonia, Sweden, and Denmark to its thematic fil rouge, this book presented in-depth investigations on the creations and meanings of the built environment through a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Aside from dissolving conventional disciplinary boundaries, not only did the scholarly content of the quintipartite chapters in the Baltic Recollections demonstrate multidimensional advancements of knowledge beyond architectural and design scholarship, but also expansive scope of intellectual profundity. Aiming to engage multiple readership, both the objects and subjects of inquiries were diverse, ranging from architecture and urban space, furniture and product designs, ethnographic research, real-life learning and pedagogy, heritage conservation and management, to European and cross-cultural studies"