Aalto Media Lab
Aalto Media Lab
The Media Lab was founded in 1994 and is now a part of the Department of Art and Media at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture of the Aalto University.
The mission of the Media Lab is to explore, discover and comprehend the new digital technology and its impact in society; to find and exploit the possibilities it opens to communication, interaction and expression and to evaluate, understand and deal with the challenges it poses to design and creative production.
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Last chance to nominate for 2024 Aalto University Open Science Award
The deadline for submissions is 3 Dec, 2024.
Call for nominees for Aalto University’s Open Science Award 2024
Nominate yourself, your colleague, a research group, a department, or a project for the award.
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Training in open research, including AI, ethics, data visualisation, and more – register now
New topics included! Registrations for autumn 2024 are open.Events
Hands-on Data Protection, Dec 3 & 5, 2024
Learn about data protection in this two-day workshop with Data Agents Dr. Enrico Glerean, Dr. Essi Viitanen, and Legal Counsel Anniina Harju.
Public defence in New Media, MA, MET Solip Park
Understanding Game Work Migration: Game Expats in Finland (title of the thesis)
Public defence in Art Education, Architect Toni Kauppila
Turning the Tables: Emerging Practices of Pedagogic Architect (title of thesis)Latest Theses
The theses from the Media Lab are on public display at the Aalto University library as well as some of the latest ones also online. First recorded theses are from 1995 up to this date.
Media Lab Demo Days
Already in the late 1990s we adopted the slogan, ‘hands on with minds on’ to explain our work. We also adopted the ‘demo or die’ attitude of other Media Labs and formalised this into bi-annual Demodays, organised at the end of each term.
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Media Lab at the Department of Art anf Media offers interdisciplinary studies in design and production of new media, games and sound. Also various areas and amounts of design, arts, computer science, communication, cognitive science, sociology etc. are present during your studies in Media Lab.
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Department of Art and Media
The departments of Art and Media at Aalto University School of Arts, Design & Architecture have merged as of 1st January 2022. Professor Harri Laakso has been appointed as Head of the new Department of Art & Media.
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