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The Finnish Design Push, a joint initiative between School of Arts, Design and Architecture and Technology Industries of Finland, started collaboration with five SME technology companies by exploring design integration into their digital services.

Landscape architect Anni Järvitalo designed a festive outfit for the President's Independence Day reception that combines modular design and seaweed research in collaboration with designer Sofia Ilmonen and Professor Julia Lohmann.

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in Great Britain has awarded the title to Julia Lohmann for her work in regenerative design, sustainable materials and design ethics.

The designer, who is about to graduate from Aalto University’s Master’s programme, wants to reform menswear and challenge traditional manufacturing methods.

The Feminist Border Crossings seminar was organized at Aalto University to celebrate the launch of the Design Culture Studies Research Group and the 20th anniversary of Hilma, a network of ten gender studies units in Finland.

Supporting children's learning skills has a major impact on their further education and employment, among other things.

Master of Arts Luis Vega will defend the doctoral thesis "Thinking with people and pots: A practice-led design study of sociomaterially distributed thought processes" on November 15, 2024, at noon. The defence will be held in Lecture Hall H304 and online via zoom.

Celebration event to close the Flowing carbon exhibition

Policy codesign and more effective decision-making are needed to accelerate the energy transition toward zero emissions

The Friends of Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture DAMY awards a new prize, The Future Award, which highlights talented students' views on sustainable and resource-efficient design and visual culture.

Designing public spaces on the periphery of cities requires designers to let go of control

Rantanen's master's thesis aims to bring about structural changes and envisions a gender equality shift for women and non-binary people by 2030.

In the I claim series Satu Lähteenoja shows that the transition arena method increases the understanding of systemic change among civil servants and decision-makers and helps them to think further into the future.

Professor of Textile Design Maarit Salolainen wants to see closer cooperation not only between research in different fields but also between the university, the industry and resellers to bring about change.

Advancing sustainability transformations – Co-design for sustainable development policies (title of thesis)

At the annual Aalto University Fashion Show, a total of seven prizes were awarded to fashion students' works. Innovation, high technical skills and sustainability were emphasised in the award criteria.

Let it Flow – Making Generative Service Design Work (title of thesis)

Smart Wearables courses allow students to work on projects in multidisciplinary teams, generating incredibly creative projects and enabling them to learn from each other

An Italian designer and a Japanese architect are presenting their collaboration, inspired by the Finnish culture, at the "Salone del Mobile" in Milan in April. Other design projects from Aalto are on display at the INTERDEPENDENCE exhibition.

A clothing exchange and workshop series organised as part of citizen engagement activities for the EU project Textile Recycling Excellence (T-REX). Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Kirsi Niinimäki and doctoral researcher Kasia Gorniak from the Fashion/Textile Futures research group, with workshops facilitated by Aalto students, staff and alumni. Workshops are free to attend but registration is necessary.

The Ceramics Handbook guides the reader to working with clay through texts, images, illustrations, animations, and videos.

Aalto University students were victorious in the ALPHA competition for Nordic fashion schools.

Katarina Blind, a student of product design, has designed a better bus experience for the public transport system in Helsinki and pitched it to the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority HSL

The lamp installation Evolumination invited viewers to reflect on the environment and the diversity of life.

Nathalie Lautenbacher's Rule of Play is one of the latest public art works in the City of Helsinki. The wall relief consists of two different sets of works placed on the exterior walls of the newly completed Sompasaari daycare centre, at eye level.

Professor of Practice in Strategic and Industrial Design says that the world’s most pressing issues, like climate change, won’t be addressed by tinkering at the edges of today’s solutions but rather require a more fundamental redesign.

Aalto University Bioinnovation Center participated in the prestigious Dutch Design Week (DDW) for the very first time, joined by several experimental initiatives from the Aalto ChemArts program.

Aalto University is part of the City of Helsinki’s biochar project that is looking for ways to improve carbon sequestration, create circular waste systems and make urban vegetation thrive.

Teamwork and a playful attitude inspired Joona Järvinen, MA student of Collaborative and Industrial Design.

The designer, who graduated from Aalto University's fashion MA programme, believes that fashion should be more accessible.

A research team at Aalto is developing an accessible magnetic resonance imaging machine

Aalto ARTS student Anurag Sarda’s master’s thesis project (CoID) was inspired by the Indian traditional culinary technique of butter making.

The Habitare Design Competition is intended for students studying art, design, and architecture in Finland. This year ‘s theme of the competition was “Tools for togetherness”, which required the teams to design and implement new types of tools to promote togetherness and interaction on a human scale or more widely.

'I believe that those of us who can and are capable have a duty to work to make the world a little better place all the time. For example, we can try to improve the situation of those who are not so well off.'

The School of Arts, Design and Architecture has a long tradition of working together with companies to solve challenges of many kind. Last spring, design students designed concrete speaker models for audio equipment manufacturer Genelec.

In our I Claim series Emīlija Veselova talks about how climate change challenges design approach and its human-centered approaches.

'I came with a lot of energy and a lot of willingness to do different things and integrate, but also, the winter was coming. Even though I like new experiences, it was not always easy to arrive in the moment when every day was a little bit darker.'

Sofia Guridi, a doctoral student at Aalto University’s Bioinnovation Center, wants to introduce bio-based smart textiles that help improve people’s everyday life.

Aalto University researchers organised workshops for seventh graders, whose creative thinking skills were put to the test in designing future information services

Aalto University's Fashion Show on Friday 26 May displayed collections by Bachelor's and Master's students.

Aalto University's student fashion show Näytös23 will take place on the Otaniemi campus on Friday 26 May at 20:00. You can follow the invitation-only event on Instagram @aalto_fashion

I claim series presents Kaisu Savola, who explores a generation of design students and design professionals in Finland, in the 1960s and 1970s, as they became aware of the two contradictory faces of design.

I claim series presents researchers and their recent dissertations at School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Presenting the new professors: Professor in sustainable design İdil Gaziulusoy

The Textile Artist of the Year award is the most prestigious textile art award in Finland.

Fashion design graduate Tuuli-Tytti Koivula from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland won the top prize at this season's Alpha show 31 January, 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The newly published CreaTures Co-Laboratory Catalogue offers an overview of experiences, insights and outcomes that emerged from 20 experimental artistic productions developed within the CreaTures project in 2020 – 2022.

New professors: Mikko Jalas has been appointed as Associate Professor (tenured) in the field of Co-innovating for Circular Solutions from July 2022.

Kirsi Niinimäki has dedicated her career to studying the environmental impact of the textile industry and fast fashion and to finding solutions to the problems it causes.

The exhibition features research projects and student works related to textiles at Aalto University.

Aalto University has been invited to showcase its sustainable textile and fashion solutions at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Aalto University is part of a consortium that has launched an innovative European Union (EU) funded project to create a circular system for post-consumer textile waste.

DIALOGUES event in New York 2–6 November reimagines the landscape of tomorrow’s textiles and fashion

"Interwoven - Exploring Materials and Structures" by Professor Maarit Salolainen is a thorough overview of the textile design pedagogy at Aalto University

Särmäkari explores how the role of the fashion designer is changing with the digital fashion boom

In addition to the main prize the unisex collection won also the audience prize

As the environmental impact of the fashion and textile industries becomes clearer, the demand and need for sustainable alternatives is growing. One international research group aims to replace toxic synthetic dyes with natural alternatives, ranging from plants to microbes to food waste.

Open until 12 October 2022, Designs for a Cooler Planet is an annual exhibit showcasing bold designs that approach sustainability from avenues including fashion, food and materials.

Meet our new professors: Professor in Fashion Design, Julia Valle Noronha

Interwoven is a joyoys exploration into woven textile design with almost 500 pages and over 1500 photographs.

A hundred years ago, cattail fluff was used as life vest filling – now a Finnish company wants the eco-friendly material for pillows and winter coats.

Technological developments are opening up new possibilities for textile printing.

Fashion designer Justus Kantakoski and photographer Mortti Saarnia, were nominated for an EMMA Award this year for a music video for Suistamon Sähkö.

The pattern design project's latest sales mark the highest sales record in history. The course with a strong brand will also be renewed.

Finland seemed a bit like destiny for this Ugandan-born entrepreneur and Aalto alumnus.

Exhibition "Design for Every Body" at Design Museum explores the importance of design from the perspective of equality.

Also BA fashion student Leevi Ikäheimo wins a prize at the fashion competition 2022.

In our series ‘I claim’, Kaisa Savolainen talks about the utilization of customer information in organizations.

The research results of the Sun-powered Textiles project will be presented

The winning collection was created from recycled and surplus materials.

”Intimacy” exhibition at Helsinki Designmuseum presents 40 designers and companies at the intersection of novel politicization and digital disruption of fashion.

The visually impressive collection made versatile use of recycled material.

Dissertation of the Month: What if interfaces we use are able to distinguish whether we are looking at them or not, and change their behavior accordingly?

Elisa Defossez entered the competition with her Master’s Thesis Project Nukumori – Surfaces of coziness.

Latimer’s winning work draws on drag culture. Outfits play with the sexes and are adaptable.

Amina Saada’s work Red Bride is now featured in the exhibition Absent Bodies at Designmuseum Danmark.

Matilda Palmu, who will graduate from the Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design master's programme in autumn 2020, describes her artistic process.

Team No Pressure from Aalto University won 2nd place at the international Student Service Design Challenge 2020.

Collaboration between designers, researchers and stakeholders can lead to better solutions for society and the environment.

Amongst the honourable mentions is the Oryza Collective by Talisa Dwiyani and Alexia Venot.

Inspiration for Material Enthusiasts

A new innovation by University of Helsinki and Aalto University makes it possible, for the first time, to quantitatively assess children’s spontaneous movement in the natural environment.

Aalto takes home two prizes at the Fashion Finland Gala and ranks third at CEO World Magazine fashion school listing

The transdisciplinary project highlights how the arts can contribute to addressing climate change and associated effects. The project aims at demonstrating effective paths to achieving sustainability, social cohesion and peaceful co-existence at a time of rapid change.

Aalto University’s Department of Design and the City of Helsinki initiated collaboration last spring to evaluate the impact of the City's design activities. The evaluation represents the first extensive survey of the City’s design projects and the benefits and challenges of those projects.

Companies around the world use design to grow their business. The three-year research project looks for ways to speed up the transformation of small businesses to become more design-driven. The first year has already given great results.

Janne Pärssinen, a master student in Industrial Design, is delighted he had influence on the projects as an intern.

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.

Industrial designer, Academy Fellow Researcher Andrea Botero Cabrera is interested in unconventional spaces where innovation and collaboration happen, that are not recognized as such.

CHEMARTS exhibition showcases fascinating recyclable prototypes which are toxic-free, recyclable and don't release micro-plastics.

Combining artistic and technical design expertise in teaching is a unique concept worldwide.

How empathy, close listening and design thinking enable Claudia Garduño and the AaltoLAB Mexico to find the most urgent problems in an indigenous community.

From recycled materials to Ioncell fabric, Aalto fashion design will light up the Fashion Meets Sustainability event in Paris

Ines Kalliala won the Näytös19 Award. In the Aalto fashion students’ fashion show also Alexander Luonto, Justus Kantakoski and working group Elina Heilanen, Aleksandra Hellberg, Camilla Naukkarinen and Noora Vihervirta were awarded.

Kaisamari Hintikka was ordained as a bishop on 10 February at the Espoo Cathedral wearing elegant and modern bishop’s clothing.

Contemporary Design master student Maria Punkkinen is one of the six winners in the European ceramics competition. The theme of the competition was Go Green - Ceramics and the Environment.

The touring exhibition will open in its sixth venue in Ljubljana next week.