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Researchers developed invisible, machine-washable solar cell technology for clothing
The discrete nature of the cells protects them – and makes the clothes more attractive, the physics and design researchers say. Promising applications include work and outdoor clothing, and curtains which react to changes in the amount of light.
Art for All festival returns in August
The cross-artistic festival will take place 26.-28.8.2022 in the Helsinki Botanical Garden. The event features pieces from performing arts to installations and audiovisual works.
Kone Foundation donates 800 000 euros ʵ University's area of art and design
With this donation, the foundation wants to support research in the arts and artistic research in particular. The aim is to safeguard the diversity of disciplines and freedom of research in fields of education that have suffered from funding cuts and educational policy prioritisation.
PatternLab set an all-time sales record
The pattern design project's latest sales mark the highest sales record in history. The course with a strong brand will also be renewed.
Exhibition: Design creates equality
Exhibition "Design for Every Body" at Design Museum explores the importance of design from the perspective of equality.
Design builds transformation capacity
The book Designing Change is a quick and readable cross-section of Aalto's world-leading design research
The Annual Review provided an overview of the achievements in 2021
The virtual event presented the key results and achievements of the School.
Vision 2030: This is what the clothes of the future will look like
Fashion designers turned old hand towels and used work clothes into a sustainable clothing collection.
Rafaela Seppälä donates 500 000 euros ʵ University's area of art and design
The substantial donation is part of the government matching funding campaign that will run until the end of June 2022.
Aalto fashion graduate Boram Yoo wins Designers' Nest Award
Also BA fashion student Leevi Ikäheimo wins a prize at the fashion competition 2022.
Academy funding: Future energy communities and energy self-sufficiency
The DigiDecarbon project explores citizens' digital energy communities.
Designing future healthcare
Concepts for future digital healthcare created by design students are on display at the Dubai World Expo 2022.
Multidisciplinary research project based on origami seeks solutions for industrial needs
A joint project covering the fields of mathematics, engineering and arts is about to start at Aalto, where the aim is to study and develop folding technology for the needs of industry. In addition ʵ, the project includes VTT as coordinator, and several companies from the forest industry to the machine design and cosmetics brands, such as Stora Enso, Metsä Group, Lumene, Mirka, Elomatic, Anpap, Orfer and Soften. Business Finland granted funding for the Co-Innovation project.
Learning for the future: systemic solutions require new ways of learning and collaborating
Aalto offers its staff a chance to experiment with transformative learning method, that can initiate changes in mindsets and remove invisible barriers to creativity
Aalto University FaCT MA students took part in a new Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum educational project
FaCT MA students Eerika Yli-Rahko and Hanna-Lotta Hanhela have participated in a novel collaboration between Aalto University and the prestigious Spanish Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum.
Pilot production line for Ioncell launched — a top made with the stronger-than-cotton ecofibre gets its colour from Finnish fields
In addition to producing the innovative textile fibre, the pilot production line will be used to develop wood-based carbon fibres.
Assistant professor Yu Xiao: Making daily activities easier with Extended Reality
Daily life is the ground for the research projects by assistant professor Yu Xiao and her group at Aalto University.
Good design benefits us all – welcome to open DesignTalks lecture series
Join us for our open lecture series discussing about the relevance of design in different contexts.
Finding the red thread between design research, science and technology and innovation
Industrial designer, Academy Fellow Researcher Andrea Botero Cabrera will take on the position of Associate Professor, New Frontiers in Design in Aalto University starting from August 2022.
They changed Finnish fashion in the 2020’s
”Intimacy” exhibition at Helsinki Designmuseum presents 40 designers and companies at the intersection of novel politicization and digital disruption of fashion.
