News about creativity and transdisciplinarity
Pinja Helasuo, preparing for Wappu: We are in this together
According to physics student Pinja Helasuo, the most challenging thing in daily life during COVID-19 has been tolerating spending all the time in the same room. The Guild of Physics and Helasuo’s closest friends and family have helped her cope. Helasuo was also involved in launching the WappuApu fundraising campaign to prevent student loneliness.
Welcome to the first ever miniature film festival on Instagram!
You have been invited to the premiere. The @aaltoarts Instagram account will feature seven short films from April 26th to May 1st.
Aarni Kapanen illustrates Dudes & Feelings podcasts
Fighting toxic masculinity with a podcast and the help of Visual Communication Design.
New data visualization provides creative ways of analyzing the genetic ancestry of Finland
A new study conducted at the University of Helsinki succeeded in assessing the genetic ancestry of more than 18,000 Finns. School of Arts, Design and Architecture contributed to the study’s information design and interactive data visualization.
New Media Master's Thesis presentations / Mon 14.12.2020
Welcome to follow New Media Master’s Thesis presentations!
THE ANTHROBSCENE – Media and the Environment course exhibition
The Fall 2020 ‘The Anthrobscene’* Exhibition features critical artworks by masters students as final outcomes of the Media and Environment Course at the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
The legendary director Francis Ford Coppola visits Finland at the invitation of ELO and KAVI
During his visit to Finland Francis Ford Coppola will be working together with ELO film school students.
Museum of Impossible Forms wins State Art Prize 2020
ViCCA congratulates its students and alumni who have been active (and often founding) members of the Museum of Impossible Forms (est. 2017) – an anti-racist and queer-feminist cultural center in the suburb of Kontula – for the 2020 State Art Prize that they received from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
A six-meter wide seaweed installation takes over Finnish shopping centre
Julia Lohmann's globally acknowledged seaweed pavilion is on display around the clock at A Bloc in Otaniemi, Finland.
Photography & VCD Master's Thesis Presentations Autumn 2020
Welcome to the MA thesis presentations of the Photography & Visual Communication Design programmes.
Winners in the campusart competition rooted in bioart and quantum physics
Laura Piispanen, Noora Heiskanen, Jenna Ahonen and Ayda Grisiute convinced the jury with their creativity.
Alum Ksenia Avetisova is a human at the heart of technology
Ksenia Avetisova moves around the virtual world as part of her job, but what brought her to Finland was a live rock gig.
Learning to unlearn: What could radically creative education be?
Juuso Tervo is urging us not only to learn new things, but also to unlearn the already learned.
Two new surveys confirm: gender exclusion is still common in the Finnish audiovisual industry
Employment is hindered by lack of networks. Women are also faced with gender-specific negative assessment in funding and production negotiations.
The next steps in developing creative pedagogy
Aalto University’s new strategy encourages us to spark dialogue, build understanding, and boost creativity in the different fields of pedagogy.
New Media Master's Thesis presentations / Mon 12.10.2020
Welcome to follow New Media Master’s Thesis presentations – Monday 12.10.2020!
'Beyond Matter – Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality' aims to develop novel solutions for the accessible documentation and presentation of exhibitions
Beyond Matter is an international, interdisciplinary project on the revival of past landmark exhibitions, the documentation of current exhibitions and the dissemination of documentation along with actual artworks –
both materially and immaterially present – in innovative ways.
both materially and immaterially present – in innovative ways.
SPICE promotes social cohesion by citizen curation of cultural heritage
An EU-H2020 funded SPICE aims to promote social cohesion by researching and developing tools and methods to support citizen curation with groups at risk of exclusion to actively interact and participate in a shared culture.
Occupying Zoom
Students from the Department of Media took their creative freedom to the limits and showed an example in occupying the space online.
