Study Options
The Department offers degrees in New Media, Visual Communication Design and Photography. Annual application period is from November to December. Find out the dates and application procedure for each programme from the study option specific page.
Game Design and Development - Art and Media, Master of Arts (Art and Design)
A unique mix of artistic and technical aspects in game design and development, grounded in Nordic game dev culture and the latest research.
New Media - Art and Media, Master of Arts (Art and Design)
In a technology-saturated world, it is indispensable to understand and study the impacts that technology has on individuals, organisations and society. The New Media major brings together a multicultural group of students with very versatile skills and backgrounds.
Sound in New Media - Art and Media, Master of Arts (Art and Design)
The aim of the Major in Sound in New Media is to explore, discover and comprehend the emerging digital technology and its aural impact in society; to find and exploit the possibilities it opens to acoustic communication, sonic interaction and new interfaces for musical expression and to evaluate, understand and deal with the challenges it poses to art, design, and creative production in the auditory domain.
Photography - Art and Media, Master of Arts (Art and Design)
A photograph has an all-piercing force in society and culture, impacting individuals, communities and nations alike. In our image-saturated world, the significance of a powerful photograph hasn’t been lost. If anything, artists and photographers with something to say are needed now, more than ever before.
Visual Communication Design - Art and Media, Master of Arts (Art and Design)
In the Visual Communication Design major you get to investigate contemporary modes of acting and thinking through visual communication.
Doctoral Studies
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture offers doctoral studies in the fields of architecture, art, design, media, film and scenography. There are seven research groups and three focuses in which DA students can complete their studies.
Get to know our research groups
Aalto Visual Communication Design (AVCD)
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Embodied Design Research Group
Embodied Design Research Group studies embodied design as a design agenda. Current computing systems treat human beings mostly as connected minds, quite completely disregarding our bodily engagement with the world. Embodied design embraces the human body as a central resource for action, communication, and play.
Game Research Group
Research group
Photography
Focus area
Learning Environments (LeGroup)
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Sound and Physical Interaction (SOPI)
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Systems of Representation
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Study at Aalto
Do you want to study in the Nordics in Finland? At Aalto University science and art meet technology and business. We believe in the power of curiosity and encourage our students to explore the unknown as well as to learn and do things in a whole new way.
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