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Creative Sustainability
Aalto kampuskuvaa

How to apply to Creative Sustainability Master's Programme

How to apply to Creative Sustainability Master's Programme

Department of Art
A person dressed in a protective suit is trying to scratch a bog. (Short art movie.)

Human/Non-Human Interconnections in Art, Visual Culture & Everyday Life

“Art and art-based learning provides us with an alternative way of perceiving the climate crisis. It has the potential to motivate new modes of engaging with and caring for a world which is more important than ourselves. Art and art-based learning can encourage us to make new connections between living things, objects and materials,” a ViCCA student proposes.

Department of Art
Photo: Enlighten image Jaesong Park. Three people working together.

Art, Education & Entrepreneurship LAB

Art, Education & Entrepreneurship course from the NoVA master programme of Aalto ARTS, in collaboration with the Aalto Ventures Programme 

Programme director's handbook
Ekonominaukio 1 staircase to 1st floor. Photo by Unto Rautio.

Stakeholder review - TEE 2020

The stakeholder review aims at an evaluation of Aalto University current programme portfolio and visions for future.

Sustainability
SDG accord

Aalto is committed to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Aalto is the first Finnish university to sign universities' global Sustainable Development Goals Accord.

Research & Art
Biofilia logo

Workshops at Biofilia as part of ClimATE Events

Biofilia, a biological art unit at Aalto University, will facilitate two workshops as part of the ClimATE. 

Sustainability
Cellulose-based fabric from the Ioncell process

Kicking off the "Better Business - Better Society" series

Researchers and partners from the Finix sustainable textile system project, co-led by SUB scholars, kicked off the Aalto Business School "Better Business - Better Society" seminar series.

Sustainability
Sustainability Science Days

Sustainability networks

Aalto University operates actively in global and national sustainability networks. Get to know our networks better.

Sustainability
Otaniemen kampuksen puistonäkymä

Fighting climate change with more conscious office supply orders

Sustainability is an important criterion when choosing an office supply provider.

Unfolded
Baltic Characters. Idea: Anni Avela, Illustration by Gero Grundmann

Baltic characters

In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught. –Baba Dioum, 1968.

Unfolded
Students' portraits with their adopted creatures in Kristineberg workshop in April, 2019

Empathy: Design in a Social Context

Reaching out to non-human stakeholders

Center for Markets in Transition CEMAT
Panelists discussing during the Northern Dimension Future Forum in St Petersburg in 2018

Save the Date 28 Nov 2019: Northern Dimension Future Forum "Fresh and sustainable experiments of the Global North"

ND Future Forum presents technology- and human-centered sustainable solutions to societal challenges in health, transport, environment and culture.

Sustainability
Maarintie 8

Demand response for district heating in the Maarintie 8 building

The Maarintie 8 building located in Otaniemi houses, among others, the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation.

Sustainability
campus kampus Otakaari 1 winter talvi Kuva: Mikko Raskinen / Aalto-yliopisto

Utilising local heat production

A Master’s thesis made for the Aalto University Campus & Real Estate (Aalto CRE) in 2015 produced information on advancing the energy self-sufficiency on campus

Sustainability
Maarintalo

Lightning system reneval in Maarintalo

The lighting systems of Maarintalo were modernised in Autumn 2013 as the illuminance of the former system fell below recommended limits

Sustainability
LED street lamp

LED-lights

Investments in LED lighting have been made in several buildings on the campus - LEDs save energy and reduce the need for maintenance

Sustainability
Kampus campus Kuva: Unto Rautio / Aalto-yliopisto

School as a Service

One purpose of this experiment is to test flexible and cost-efficient operating models that can later be expanded and scaled to apply to other educational institutes and services

Sustainability
Kandidaattikeskus

Otakaari 1 renovation

The renovation of the building was a massive project that was carried out in four phases during 2007–2015

Research & Art
Namkyu Chun dissertation cover

FTF news

Burning news related to Fashion/Textile Futures research group.

Sustainability
Otakaari 1 Kuva: Aino Huovio / Aalto-yliopisto

Lobby screens as part of campus service communication

The main goals of these lobby screens were to more easily communicate information about modification, repair and maintenance projects in buildings