Management

Dean Tuomas Auvinen

Tuomas Auvinen has broad experience in demanding leadership roles at arts institutions. He has served as the Dean of the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts and Rector of Sibelius Academy, as well as Executive Director of the Finnish National Theatre and CEO of the Association of Finnish Theatres, amongst other positions.

He has completed his dissertation on arts policy and management at City University of London. He has also earned an Executive MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics.  

Vice Dean, Laura Beloff

Arts and Creative Practices

Laura Beloff is an artist and professor in the Department of Art and Media. She is interested in the intersection of art, life sciences and technology. In particular, questions about the future of the human-altered environment and organisms, and the changing and overlapping definitions of the terms biology, technology, artificial and authentic. In her work, she often takes a critical perspective on the evolving connections between humans, non-human actors and society. Beloff is active both in the international art scene and in the academic world.

Vice Dean Turkka Keinonen

Research and impact (On Research leave)

Professor Turkka Keinonen’s research interests lay in user-centred design, product concept design and the justice of design. He has worked as the head of Department of Design and hold positions at Nokia Research Center and National University of Singapore. He has published more than 100 articles, conference papers, book chapters and patents.

Vice Dean Tuuli Mattelmäki

Research and impact (Substitute)

Tuuli Mattelmäki is an expert in co-design and service design. She acts as a tenured associate professor at Aalto University and as the Head of the Department of Design. The starting point for her research has been in empathic and explorative approaches in human-centered design. She is interested in public sector and service design-related questions, and more recently in creative practices and transformational futures. 

Vice Dean Rasmus Vuori

Teaching

Rasmus Vuori has taught in New Media Design and Production at the Media Lab Helsinki, now Aalto University, since 2001. As Vice Dean, he is responsible for teaching. Mr Vuori is a media artist and researcher who has been working with interactive and generative media technology since he started hacking computers and networks the 1980's, always with an emphasis on communication, education, cultural activism and artistic expression.

Rasmus Vuori has participated in a wide range of different creative projects across continents, usually in transdisciplinary teams designing behaviour and interaction, combining conceptual thinking with low-level practical implementations – in art exhibitions, operas, theatre performances as well as for commercial companies and educational institutions. His approach to technology has always remained instrumental, with an emphasis on art and culture. Generative storytelling, interactive art, and experience design are his main professional interests.