Nominees for the Metex Awards announced
The four Metex Prize nominees are graduates at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Technology Industries of Finland's Centennial Foundation awards the Metex Prize 23 January.
Revival of garment mending: communal reskilling addresses global issues of textile waste
Dissertation of the month: Mending clothes, one of the oldest practices known to humankind, nowadays stands for global awareness of the textile waste problem.
The temporary facilities of Finlandia Hall, 鈥淟ittle Finlandia鈥 has been developed with Wood Program and Building Design Studio
Little Finlandia will bring a comfortable living room open to all in the T枚枚l枚nlahti Bay area.
Visual design enables communication between cultures
Award-winning designer Chao Yang sees visual communication design as a means to communicate across borders.
鈥業f you study data science, you won鈥檛 limit your choice of career in the future鈥
Before starting her Data Science studies at Aalto, Angeline Jayanegara obtained a diploma in fashion design. In the future, she would like to work as a Data Scientist in the fashion industry.
The university's new decade started joyously
Almost 1300 people celebrated the 10-year-old Aalto 鈥 take a look at the photos!
Concrete is聽cast stone moulded by humans
The聽Betoni鈥揅oncrete exhibition presents聽concrete and its use聽from the point of view of聽engineers, architects, designers and聽artists.聽The exhibition opens up on the 23 January in Dipoli.
Pattern Lab 20 designers present new collection in Heimtextil Messe Frankfurt 7鈥10 January
Pattern Lab has an impressive history of more than twenty years of selling successful designs to Scandinavian and international markets. A number of today鈥檚 top textile designers in Finland are Pattern Lab alumni.
Anna Valtonen's portrait was revealed
The portrait of Anna Valtonen, former Dean of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, was unveiled at Aalto University's 10th anniversary on 8 January. The portrait was created by the artist, Doctor of Art Maija Tammi.
In ten years, Aalto University has created a world-class centre of expertise
Aalto University has brought together science, art, technology and business at the Otaniemi campus and is now one of the world's leading universities in these key areas. Aalto celebrates its 10th anniversary on Wednesday 8 January 2020.
Architecture and design for healthcare
The Health Talks @ Aalto event discusses how design and architecture can be used to benefit different patient groups.
Growing demand for climate-friendly construction: could wood architecture become one of Finland鈥檚 exports?
The Wood Wonders exhibition to be opened at Helsinki Airport on the 5th of February will show passengers the innovations related to wood construction and display the sector鈥檚 latest developments.
Aalto students awarded for their master鈥檚 theses in the field of human-computer interaction
SIGCHI Finland promotes research and education in the field of human-computer interaction and organises a Master's Thesis Competition once a year
EIT Climate-KIC supported Ioncell directly offers an innovation that regenerates fibres, while enabling them to be recyclable and biodegradable
Ioncell, conceptualised out of Aalto University, provides a closed-loop technology to regenerate cellulosic fibres without using harmful chemicals.
Xmas Demo Day 2019 in photos
Collection of photos from the latest Demo Day organized on the 5th of December 2019.
Finland鈥檚 exhibition in the Biennale Architettura 2020 honors the Finnish prefabricated wooden houses of the WWII era
The exhibition will be conceived and curated by three researchers and teachers at Aalto University.
Food for thought 鈥 rethinking Singapore鈥檚 Hawker Centres
Singapore鈥檚 traditional open-air cooked food centres or hawker centres presented a perfect case to be explored jointly by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Aalto University.
Students develop tools for Helsinki to evaluate the impact of design
Aalto University鈥檚 Department of Design and the City of Helsinki initiated collaboration last spring to evaluate the impact of the City's design activities. The evaluation represents the first extensive survey of the City鈥檚 design projects and the benefits and challenges of those projects.
Finland Prizes awarded to professor, designer Pirjo K盲盲ri盲inen and alumna, artist and activist Marja Helander
Among this year鈥檚 prize recipients were Professor of Practice of Design driven fibre innovation聽Pirjo K盲盲ri盲inen and Aalto ARTS alumna, photographer, filmmaker and activist Marja Helander.
Kati Hagros, how is digitalisation visible at your home?
According 黑料网's Chief Digital Officer, open-mindedness and a desire for experimentation keeps us up to date with digital progress.
