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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 to Aalto, 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
â€Intimacy†exhibition at Helsinki Designmuseum presents 40 designers and companies at the intersection of novel politicization and digital disruption of fashion.
Idaliina Friman is the Young Designer of the Year 2021
The winning collection was created from recycled and surplus materials.
’It is important to identify and bring together the accumulated user knowledge'
In our series ‘I claim’, Kaisa Savolainen talks about the utilization of customer information in organizations.
The Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition showcases 30 projects for a more sustainable future
What is wise to design for future generations in a world of plenty?
UPM and Aalto University start co-operation on sustainable design
The main goal of the Design + Sustainability research project is to find new, effective ways to promote sustainable development.
Näytös21 fashion show made an impact also online
The main prize winner is Jenny Hytönen, also Sofia Ilmonen and Juha Vehmaanperä were awarded.
Vibrant living environments are created through more inclusive, sustainable and aesthetic design
Aalto University's New European Bauhaus event sought bold perspectives on multidisciplinary and systemic change.
Aalto University's Näytös21 online this year
This year, Aalto University's fashion show Näytös21 will be held online. The collections of the young designers will be presented on Friday 28 May at 21:00 (EEST) at aalto.fashion
Let ceramics challenge you at the EMMA Museum
The newly opened exhibition reflects on our relationship to ceramics, clay and the environment.
New web magazine to celebrate multidisciplinary expertise
Inspiring contents, solutions for the future and rich visual narrative. Read our new online magazine.
Multidisciplinary project 'Shimmering wood' shortlisted in Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards
Shimmering wood is an innovation of Noora Yau and Konrad Klockars.
