Heidi Karjalainen is the Young Designer of the Year 2017
27. syyskuu 2017
MA fashion student Heidi Karjalainen won the prize of the Young Designer of the Year. Her design of the Finnish folk costume combines traditional men's pinstripe with women's formal party wear.
Other Honored
Developing design learning
25. syyskuu 2017
More collaboration with Art Education in Aalto University and SuoMu, the Finnish Association of Design Learning
Cooperation Studies
Immersive tour into Rembrandt’s painting from 1632
25. syyskuu 2017
Interactive diorama, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a virtual reality simulation, that takes a visitor deep into a painting by Rembrandt from 1632. It allows an immersive exploration in a space beyond the 2D surface.
Other
Photography student Karl Ketamo’s work in the Photo X Photoville
25. syyskuu 2017
Aalto University MA student from the photographic unit, Karl Ketamo, has been curated to be part of the Rotterdam Photo X Photoville photo festival 12-24 September. Ketamo is one of four visual artists presented in the festival’s exhibition “(Un)Bound”.
Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen receives Dorothy Waxman Special Jury’s Mention
20. syyskuu 2017
In addition to Korolainen, Aalto Arts Textile design graduates Aamu Salo, Tiina Paavilainen and MA-student Antonina Sedakova were among the 15 finalists in the International competition.
Honored
Jaakko Kahilaniemi has won the Majaoja Prize 10.000e
18. syyskuu 2017
Photographic artist Jaakko Kahilaniemi has won the main prize 10.000 euros awarded by Majaoja Foundation with his photo series 100 Hectares of Understanding. The series deals with forest and understanding and owning it.
Press releases Other
Anssi Pulkkinen’s ruins installation in Habitare
13. syyskuu 2017
The Habitare Fair shows sculptor Anssi Pulkkinen’s installation of a ruined Syrian home, Street View (Reassembled), in the Fair Center on 13-17 September.
Other Science and art
Reeta Ek the Young Designer of the Year 2017
12. syyskuu 2017
The Young Designer of the Year prize of 2017 is given to textile and surface designer Reeta Ek
Honored Science and art
Call for Submissions: Radical Relevances Conference
7. syyskuu 2017
First Global Radical Relevances Conference 25.–27.4.2018. Submissions by 30th of September / We invite researchers and artists straddling multiple (or within one) disciplines to submit papers and artworks
Science and art
Aalto University on-display at Helsinki Design Week
6. syyskuu 2017
A recap of Aalto's many activities as part of the city wide festival of arts and design.
Other
Students among the finalists in the Waxman Textile Prize 2017
4. syyskuu 2017
Textile design graduates Aamu Salo, Tiina Paavilainen, Antonina Sedakova and Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen among the finalists in the International Waxman Textile Prize.
Honored Other
Artistic interventions at Kamppi Center
28. kesäkuu 2017
A new kind of public art was produced at the ‘Media Intervention in the City’ course.
Studies Science and art Cooperation
Academy of Finland awards 280 000 to Arts based research project, "Floating Peripheries – Mediating the Sense of Place"
19. kesäkuu 2017
In partnership with the University of Lapland over the next four-years.
Press releases Other
BA graduate Maija Mero wins the coveted LVMH Graduate Prize 2017
19. kesäkuu 2017
Aalto graduate's impressive work was honored at the Paris event. Mero received 10 000 and was hired by LVMH-owned fashion house, Kenzo.
Other
Aalto partners with Helsinki’s Flow Festival to showcase art and creativity at the Summer’s must-see music and culture event
7. kesäkuu 2017
Aalto students will be on display throughout the festival with murals, films, videos, animations, design, art education workshops and architecture.
Cooperation Press releases Science and art Other
Fragments of the Hunt : Persistence Hunting, Tracking and Prehistoric Art
23. toukokuu 2017
How a humanities scholar and artist from Aalto unraveled an ancient mystery about cave paintings in Africa.
Press releases Other
Presented by Aalto’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, SCSMI2017 offers a rare international film conference in Finland.
17. toukokuu 2017
For 4 days in June Aalto’s Töölö Campus will be crowded by enthusiastic film and media professionals, researchers and students, gathering around 100 talks on philosophy, aesthetics, history and cognitive psychology of cinematic storytelling.
Press releases Other
Future Media Center -exhibition
12. toukokuu 2017
Exhibition of the student work from the course Building Design Studio for Master students
Campus Studies Science and art Cooperation Other
Aalto Festival takes over the Helsinki metropolitan area in May
6. huhtikuu 2017
As Finland celebrates its 100th year of independence, Aalto University opens its annual festival showcasing the work of the schools of science, technology, arts, and business.
Campus Studies Science and art Press releases Cooperation Other
Danish composer Kristian Eidnes Andersen visits Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture
28. maaliskuu 2017
Andersen has worked as a sound designer and composer on some of the most significant European films of the last two decades.
Campus Science and art Other
Aalto University Professor Kevin Tavin receives International Ziegfeld Award
14. maaliskuu 2017
Professor of International Art Education, Kevin Tavin, from the Department of Art, has been honoured with the International Ziegfeld Award by the United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA).
Honored Science and art Other
Professor Paula Hohti receives two million euros of ERC funding for research into renaissance fashion and culture
1. helmikuu 2017
Experimental processing of materials from fashion history opens up new interpretations of daily life in bygone times.
Honored Science and art Cooperation Other
Aalto Magazine #18 focuses on art and creativity
21. joulukuu 2016
The new issue of Aalto University Magazine studies the impact of art and creative practices in society.
Other
Researchers of non-wetting surfaces and meanings of Renaissance fashion awarded €2 million EU grants
16. joulukuu 2016
The European Research Council has awarded €2 million to the projects of Professor Robin Ras and Professor Paula Hohti.
Science and art Press releases
VOLUME 2 – High Fidelity? -symposium on Sound Art opens 23.11
10. marraskuu 2016
VOLUME 2 – High Fidelity? symposium on Sound Art focuses on space and sound as artistic materials.
Science and art