Welcome to the Island of Trojan Horses!
16. lokakuu 2017
An exhibition, or rather an island for reading and discussing questions about working life, is brought to the Aalto University Learning Centre Lobby by the Trojan Horse collective.
Media students ready for space festival in India
11. lokakuu 2017
After a year of developing, testing, sharing and experimenting, the Aalto University Media students are ready to move their space-related installation to India.
Contribute to the Dipoli Living Room Housewarming
11. lokakuu 2017
There is an accumulative exhibition project going on in Dipoli that grows across three weeks, until October 27.
Alumni Elina Brotherus on exhibition in Paris
3. lokakuu 2017
Aalto University alumni, photographer Elina Brotherus has an exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The exhibition "Règle du jeu" (Game Rules) presents a renewed Brotherus.
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Heidi Karjalainen is the Young Designer of the Year 2017
27. syyskuu 2017
MA fashion student Heidi Karjalainen won the prize of the Young Designer of the Year. Her design of the Finnish folk costume combines traditional men's pinstripe with women's formal party wear.
Other Honored
Developing design learning
25. syyskuu 2017
More collaboration with Art Education in Aalto University and SuoMu, the Finnish Association of Design Learning
Cooperation Studies
Immersive tour into Rembrandt’s painting from 1632
25. syyskuu 2017
Interactive diorama, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a virtual reality simulation, that takes a visitor deep into a painting by Rembrandt from 1632. It allows an immersive exploration in a space beyond the 2D surface.
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Photography student Karl Ketamo’s work in the Photo X Photoville
25. syyskuu 2017
Aalto University MA student from the photographic unit, Karl Ketamo, has been curated to be part of the Rotterdam Photo X Photoville photo festival 12-24 September. Ketamo is one of four visual artists presented in the festival’s exhibition “(Un)Bound”.
Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen receives Dorothy Waxman Special Jury’s Mention
20. syyskuu 2017
In addition to Korolainen, Aalto Arts Textile design graduates Aamu Salo, Tiina Paavilainen and MA-student Antonina Sedakova were among the 15 finalists in the International competition.
Honored
Jaakko Kahilaniemi has won the Majaoja Prize 10.000e
18. syyskuu 2017
Photographic artist Jaakko Kahilaniemi has won the main prize 10.000 euros awarded by Majaoja Foundation with his photo series 100 Hectares of Understanding. The series deals with forest and understanding and owning it.
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Anssi Pulkkinen’s ruins installation in Habitare
13. syyskuu 2017
The Habitare Fair shows sculptor Anssi Pulkkinen’s installation of a ruined Syrian home, Street View (Reassembled), in the Fair Center on 13-17 September.
Other Science and art
Reeta Ek the Young Designer of the Year 2017
12. syyskuu 2017
The Young Designer of the Year prize of 2017 is given to textile and surface designer Reeta Ek
Honored Science and art
Maija Tammi shortlisted for National Portrait Gallery’s prize for the best photographic portrait
11. syyskuu 2017
Tammi’s photograph portrays Erica, an android developed at Osaka University.
Science and art
Call for Submissions: Radical Relevances Conference
7. syyskuu 2017
First Global Radical Relevances Conference 25.–27.4.2018. Submissions by 30th of September / We invite researchers and artists straddling multiple (or within one) disciplines to submit papers and artworks
Science and art
Aalto University on-display at Helsinki Design Week
6. syyskuu 2017
A recap of Aalto's many activities as part of the city wide festival of arts and design.
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Students among the finalists in the Waxman Textile Prize 2017
4. syyskuu 2017
Textile design graduates Aamu Salo, Tiina Paavilainen, Antonina Sedakova and Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen among the finalists in the International Waxman Textile Prize.
Honored Other
Students of photography showcased at the CHART Nordic contemporary art fair
29. elokuu 2017
Gallery Taik Persons hosts works from Aalto University’s students and alumni.
Science and art
Student animations light up the Flow Festival’s stages
14. heinäkuu 2017
The ‘Animated Maniacs’ series of experimental works make comprehensive use of different techniques from 3D computer animations to hand drawn pieces.
Science and art Cooperation
Aalto students paint a 100-meter mural for the Flow Festival
7. heinäkuu 2017
‘Jukeboksi’ painting is inspired by music at this year’s festival and it will consume 93 liters of paint.
Science and art Cooperation
Tekes funding awarded for a project aiming at understanding human emotions in digital interaction
27. kesäkuu 2017
The research will produce new understanding about the factors of effective human collaboration and the possibilities of emotion-related data in business.
Science and art Cooperation
Academy of Finland awards 280 000 to Arts based research project, "Floating Peripheries – Mediating the Sense of Place"
19. kesäkuu 2017
In partnership with the University of Lapland over the next four-years.
Press releases Other
BA graduate Maija Mero wins the coveted LVMH Graduate Prize 2017
19. kesäkuu 2017
Aalto graduate's impressive work was honored at the Paris event. Mero received 10 000 and was hired by LVMH-owned fashion house, Kenzo.
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Aalto partners with Helsinki’s Flow Festival to showcase art and creativity at the Summer’s must-see music and culture event
7. kesäkuu 2017
Aalto students will be on display throughout the festival with murals, films, videos, animations, design, art education workshops and architecture.
Cooperation Press releases Science and art Other
Fragments of the Hunt : Persistence Hunting, Tracking and Prehistoric Art
23. toukokuu 2017
How a humanities scholar and artist from Aalto unraveled an ancient mystery about cave paintings in Africa.
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Presented by Aalto’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, SCSMI2017 offers a rare international film conference in Finland.
17. toukokuu 2017
For 4 days in June Aalto’s Töölö Campus will be crowded by enthusiastic film and media professionals, researchers and students, gathering around 100 talks on philosophy, aesthetics, history and cognitive psychology of cinematic storytelling.
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