Metex Award to Ville Piippo
The thesis, in the field of design, focuses on driving ergonomics and sustainable design of an electric motorbike.
A record number of applications ʵ University
There has been an enormous increase in applications for a study place in master’s and English bachelor’s programmes
Creative concepts for travelling by land
Reducing flying is an easy way to decrease your personal carbon footprint. The Matka Nordic Travel Fair 2020 showed new solutions for how to encourage travel by land.
You do not need to speak Finnish to get a summer job
More than 70% of the employers that participated in the Aalto Summer Job Day are also happy to hire foreigners who do not speak Finnish.
Power outage in Otaniemi area
There was a power outage in Otaniemi area. The issue is now resolved and repaired.
Julia Lohmann: ‘We know too much and do too little’
Lohmann’s magnificent seaweed pavilion won the sustainable design category for Dezeen Awards 2020.
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, “Little Finlandia” has been developed with Wood Program and Building Design Studio
Little Finlandia will bring a comfortable living room open to all in the Töölönlahti Bay area.
Visual design enables communication between cultures
Award-winning designer Chao Yang sees visual communication design as a means to communicate across borders.
‘If you study data science, you won’t limit your choice of career in the future’
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 – take a look at the photos!
Concrete is cast stone moulded by humans
The Betoni–Concrete exhibition presents concrete and its use from the point of view of engineers, architects, designers and artists. The exhibition opens up on the 23 January in Dipoli.
Pattern Lab 20 designers present new collection in Heimtextil Messe Frankfurt 7–10 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’s 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’s 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’s latest developments.
Aalto students awarded for their master’s 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
