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'I know you think I’m crazy'
Dissertation of the Month: in Mikko Koivisto's opinion, psychiatrically disabled people must have the right to define themselves and their role in the society.
Reality Capture: Automated Construction Site Productivity and Quality Monitoring
If you want to improve the productivity and quality of construction work, you need an efficient way to monitor progress and detect quality issues on a daily basis.
Landscape architect Jussi Virta gets the Lappset Prize
In his master's thesis, Virta explores how children's development can be better supported by renewing playgrounds.
Research Winter Day presented School’s research to high schoolers and industry partners
On 6 February, we had the pleasure of presenting our school’s research to hundreds of upper secondary school students, industry partners and alumni at the Research Winter Day.
Young programmers competed at Aalto – competitions help improve one's programming skills and can even open the doors to university
Good performance at the Finnish Olympiad in Informatics can help upper secondary school students get into a Finnish university to study technology and pursue a career as a successful coder
A smart jumpsuit provides information on infants’ movement and development
A new innovation by University of Helsinki and Aalto University makes it possible, for the first time, to quantitatively assess children’s spontaneous movement in the natural environment.
Join Aalto Ventures Program Summer Course - Creating Multidimensional Experiences!
Aalto Ventures Program Summer Course Creating Multidimensional Experiences will be running again in August 2020 – signup is now open!
Deep learning can fool listeners by imitating any guitar amplifier
A study from the Aalto Acoustics Lab demonstrates that digital simulations of guitar amplifiers can sound just like the real thing. The implications are that as the software models continue to improve, they can replace traditional analogue guitar amplifiers, which are bulky, fragile and expensive.
The latest installation talks available on video
Aalto University's newly tenured professors reveal the secrets of fashion history and science of security, among other things.
Aalto ARTS Annual Review celebrated the highlights of 2019
Nine awards and prizes were presented 5 February 2020 at the traditional get-together for Aalto ARTS faculty, staff and students.
EIT Manufacturing Info session 2020 - Call results and Business Plan 2020
A status update on EIT Manufacturing activities e.g. Project call results, Match Making Events, EIT Manufacturing MSc School and Upcoming call)
Calls for the FIRI Roadmap and for the Centre of Excellence (CoE) programme
The Academy of Finland is going to open a call for the FIRI Roadmap call for the years 2021-2024 and the Centre of Excellence (CoE) programme for the years 2022-2029.
This strange instrument from Joker soundtrack was invented in Finland
There are only five of them in the world. And one of them can be heard throughout the movie that just won the Oscar for Original score. This rare device is the electro-acoustic halldorophone, and its story can be traced back to Finland and to the workshops of the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Internship in Japan: Working as an Industrial Designer at Mitsubishi Electric
Janne Pärssinen, a master student in Industrial Design, is delighted he had influence on the projects as an intern.
Professor Michael Hummel awarded a Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council
The ERC grant facilitates the commercialisation of developments that evolved from ERC-funded research projects.
Building with wood is a climate-friendly option – the Wood Wonders exhibition provides five interesting viewpoints on construction
Forest wood used in buildings can bind carbon for centuries. Wood is a strong and versatile building material that improves indoor air quality, reduces the need for heating and air conditioning – and provides pleasure.
What is work and what is its future?
According to experts, we will define work in the future in a different way than we do now.
Aalto’s up-and-coming designers’ ‘Armchair’ exhibition on display at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair
Aalto University is presenting an exhibition called ‘Armchair’ at Stockholm Furniture Fair
CME alumnus Adam Lim: ‘I wish we’d had more time together!’
AVP summer school alumnus Adam from SUTD Singapore University of Technology & Design shares his experiences attending Creating Multidimensional Experiences last summer.
