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Aalto University鈥檚 Art & Design now 7th best in the world
Architecture improved its position, reaching 42nd place, while Business again made the top 100 in the recently published QS World University Rankings
Maria Punkkinen succeeded in the Future Lights in Ceramics competition
Contemporary Design master student Maria Punkkinen is one of the six winners in the European ceramics competition. The theme of the competition was Go Green - Ceramics and the Environment.
鈥淒esign can be so many things鈥
Design historian and chief curator Kaisu Savola explains why the XXII Triennale di Milano is important to Finland, and how Aalto University hopes it will change how we define design, now and in the future.
Quantum Wheel brings world-class game makers and quantum physicists together
From 15th until 17th February 2019 the Helsinki SkyWheel and Allas Sea Pool are the base for the 5th Quantum Game Jam; an intensive weekend during which game makers and physicists get together with the aim of creating games that harness the nature of quantum mechanics.
Public art sparks our imagination
Aalto University is the first university in Finland to commit to the principle of the art percent.
Artists digging up contaminated soil
Artistic research does not provide ready-made answers, but instead raises important questions. Artist researchers are currently interested in global topics such as climate change and migration.
School of Arts, Design and Architecture awarded promoters of creative skills
In the Annual Review of the school altogether eleven prizes were awarded.
The first installation talks of 2019 now available on video
Aalto's newly tenured professors reveal the secrets of fire safety engineering and resilient architecture, among other things.
Victorious Bocuse d'Or platter for Team Finland designed by Aalto students
Aalto University MA students Jinghua Zeng and Niko Mankinen designed Team Finland's platter for Bocuse d鈥橭r, an international gastronomic competition.
Student-run 脛脛NIAALTO IV, festival of audiovisual oddity, takes over Helsinki
For the past 4 years, 脛盲niaalto, an audiovisual festival led by students, has been growing from an office floor meetup to a full scale, one month lasting festival in one of the most culturally central areas of Helsinki.
Finland opts for people-first experimentation at Milan Triennale
Celebrating inventiveness, curiosity and a willingness to fail, Finland will present its exhibition Everyday Experiments at the 22nd Milan Triennale from 1 March to 1 September this year.
Finnish fashion showcase event, Fashion in Helsinki, receives state export subsidy
Event among five cultural export projects funded by Finland鈥檚 Ministry of Education and Culture.
Making sense of a being
For Professor Harri Laakso, a photograph is much more than what the eyes can see on a wall or on a screen.
Rewiring art education
K盲sity枚koulu Robotti is an extra-curricular school for kids that is as much about having fun bending circuits as about learning by breaking boundaries.
Fragile Water exhibition highlights vulnerability of water resources
Water resources are limited and vulnerable in many places in the world. Design students and water researchers joined forces to visualise sustainable water solutions in the Fragile Water exhibition.
Quantum Garden uses sculpture to get the public to train AI
The sculpture gathers data sequences to help solve a quantum computing problem.
AI鈥檚 story won鈥檛 be complete without art
Aalto鈥檚 Kasperi M盲ki-Reinikka wants art and technology to collide and make something new
Media Lab students to exhibit in Seoul, South Korea in May 2019
Students from Aalto Media Lab were invited by KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and aSSIST, Seoul School of Integrated Sciences and Technologies to exhibit their works in Seoul for the second time.
Photos from the last Xmas Demo Day
Collection of photos from the last Demo Day organized on the 5th of December 2018 at the Maker Space, Learning Centre of Aalto University.
