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This webmag showcases a selection of some of our most ambitious projects. Enjoy these long reads from the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. We've been educating creative professionals for over 150 years. Join us in celebrating this milestone!
Feature stories
Coming to terms with complexity
Unpredictable, multi-dimensional, interconnected, systemic issues. Where do you begin solving them? Could creative practices, such as design, be an effective remedy in the face of complicated problems?
Changing aspirations
Green legislation, ambitious product innovation, smart circular economy strategies and genuine collaboration between industry stakeholders are what it takes to make resource-efficient, low-carbon construction a reality. But for this change to be sustainable, it needs an extra push – and that’s where we all come in.
Health and wellbeing architecture creates environments that promote wellbeing
The mission of health and wellbeing architecture is to create environments that promote wellbeing. However, the prevailing design culture does not sufficiently take into account human needs, which is reflected in a lack of wellbeing in built environments.
A new boom in Finnish cinema
Finland’s film industry is thriving and attracting new audiences at home and overseas. In recent years, Finnish films have been picking up nods and gongs at some of the most highly regarded film festivals around the world. It wasn’t always like this so, what’s changed?
Limitless, inexhaustible
Fashion resists attempts at definition and refuses to fit a mould. It’s a true hybrid, comprising countless different professions and specialisms.
Experts in mess
Have you ever wondered how humankind has managed to build an 800-metre skyscraper and send space tourists to the stratosphere and back, but we’re still failing to meet our targets for cutting pollution?
Data visualisation helps us understand the world
Information design plays an important role not only in our daily lives, but also in presenting scientific results.
The next gaming revolution
Our understanding of what gaming is tends to be fairly superficial. Beyond the confines of the for-profit gaming industry exists a diverse and thriving gaming culture offering virtually unlimited possibilities and potential.
Towards friendly-sounding environments
Designed soundscapes create multi-sensory experiences
Exploring the metaverse
What will our future virtual realities look like? Or will there be any at all?
Form matters
Visual communication can promote knowledge acquisition and help us to become better thinkers. But for that to become a reality, we first need to develop a better understanding of the potential visual communication offers.
Time Out! Rethinking Construction
Our planet cannot sustain the current construction culture. We need a Time out! and a big change in mindset. Check out the work of the Aalto University community for a more sustainable built environment.
Wardrobe of the Future shows the future of fashion
It is clear that the textile, clothing and fashion industries need to change. How do we do it? Discover the Aalto University community's visions for a sustainable fashion future.
Selected themes, books and exhibitions
Research project brings the fashion of Renaissance to life
How did fashion spread during the Renaissance, and how did ordinary people dress? Novel methods and reconstructions shed new light on the era.
Aalto University’s pedagogy in textiles studies relies on ‘textile thinking’
Textile design pedagogy at Aalto University aims at a holistic understanding of textiles and their potential.
Landscape architects are constantly shaping our surroundings. They take care of the environment as a whole.
Building with wood is a climate-friendly option
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.
Julia Lohmann underlines, that design can play a major role in realizing sustainable changes on a vast scale.
Biomaterials are the best options as we seek more sustainable ways for our current world of materials.
Action! - Women's turn
Gender equality project in the film and TV sector has identified barriers to equality and women's employment in the sector
New Wave, radical ideas and the rise of Finnish movies
More than 60 years of Finnish film education! Film education in Finland began among the first in Europe.
The first ever miniature film festival on Instagram
Our art-house short film festival presents seven tailor-made films on @aaltoarts
Today, bioart is maybe more relevant than ever – it doesn’t provide solutions but prompts critical questions.
The exhibition presents contemporary ceramics and reflections on the world around it.
Builders of Finland
150 years of higher architectural education in Finland
Builders of the Future
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of higher education in industrial arts
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Aalto Art and Design Cases
Aalto Design Cases is a platform for activity-based creativity and practice-based research in the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Furthering the sustainability agenda with creativity
CHEMARTS website
Photography studies at Aalto website
The study programme's website
Aalto Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design major's own website. Learn more about course highlights, course leaders, facilities and more!
Bio-based Dyes and Pigments for Colour Palette
Public art collections at Aalto University
The aim of public art across Aalto is to create a vibrant environment for experiencing the world through various perspectives and for embracing imagination, intuition, and exploration.
