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Awards and Recognition, University Published:

Honorary Doctors in Arts and Design 2025

The School of Arts, Design and Architecture has granted the title of Honorary Doctor to six distinguished professionals in the fields of art and design.
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Awards and Recognition Published:

Helmi Donner's The Lightning Rod to premiere in Cannes

The Lightning Rod (orig. Matalapaine), written and directed by Helmi Donner, has been selected to La Cinef, the official section of the Cannes Film Festival for short films made in film schools.
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Cinema Sheryl opens its doors – New student-oriented cinema aiming at young people and film culture

The cinema brings a completely new, student-driven perspective to the movie experience – designed for and by young people.
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Research & Art Published:

A super year for Aalto ARTS at the Venice Biennale

Finnish expertise will be widely showcased at the upcoming Biennale Architettura in Venice, and Aalto ARTS researchers and alumni are play a major role in the programme.
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Awards and Recognition Published:

Professor Rauno Ronkainen is Cinematographer of the Year

The Cinematographer of the Year Award 2024, presented by the Finnish Society of Cinematographers, was awarded to Rauno Ronkainen for his film Stormskerry Maja.
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The Scientific and Artistic Advisory Board (SAAB) has reviewed Aalto ARTS activities

Aalto ARTS has an international Scientific and Artistic Advisory Board (SAAB) that meets regularly to support the development of the School, especially in the area of research. The support group visited Aalto University campus in November 2024.

The Long Read by Aalto ARTS

Longform stories, in-depth features and profiles, data visualizations and more coming up - enjoy our webmag!

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Creativity Unfolded

Aalto University’s blog series Creativity Unfolded focuses on insights linked to creativity in a multitude of ways. Topics include design, technology, media, architecture, film, games, art theory and more. Read and join the conversation.

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Aalto student – New Student Guide replaces Into

Into.aalto.fi has been migrated to the Aalto.fi site, and the new Student Guide contains information and news for students

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Aalto University is committed to promoting equality, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination in all its activities. We aim to provide a non-discriminatory, gender-equal and accessible environment in which employees and students with diverse backgrounds and duties receive equal treatment and are free to participate without discrimination in university activities.

Students at campus

Meet our people

Professor Marco Steinberg behind his desk

Professor Marco Steinberg: ’We need to change, and we need to do it now’

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.

News
Henrika Yliriskun väitös taidekasvatuksen alalta tarkastettiin Aalto-yliopistossa maaliskuussa 2021.

‘Environmental art education should address the problem of human-centeredness’

‘I claim’ series presents our researchers and the results of their work. Henrika Ylirisku researches the premises of environmental art education.

News
Man in sunny winter cityscape

Aarni Kapanen illustrates Dudes & Feelings podcasts

Fighting toxic masculinity with a podcast and the help of Visual Communication Design.

News
Julia Lohmann's Department of Seaweed at WEF. Photo: Mikko Raskinen

Julia Lohmann: ‘We know too much and do too little’

Lohmann’s magnificent seaweed pavilion won the sustainable design category for Dezeen Awards 2020.

News
Karin Krokfors, kuva: Sanna Lehto

'We must look to the past, for a lesson in designing buildings for the future'

Architect Karin Krokfors says buildings should be designed to be adaptable over time. And that history holds plenty of examples for us to study.

News
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Building interdisciplinary connections through a new joint position

This September will be a start of building a new connection between disciplines as Sebastian Schlecht takes on the position as the professor of practice in Sound in Virtual Reality.

News

Aalto Art and Design Cases

Aalto Design Cases is a platform for activity-based creativity and practice-based research in the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

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Nyang'oro Girls Dormitory, a project by Hollmén Reuter Sandman

Prominent art at Aalto University

Aalto University promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art.

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Dipoli artworks

Events

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Campus, Other, Students

TOKYO SPRING SALES 2025

Join the celebration of fresh design thinking in the heart of Otaniemi! Aalto Arts students and alumni's TOKYO SPRING SALES will be held on 3–4 May.
Poster for Ääniaalto Festival. Dates: 3-4 May 2025 at Majansali, Oodi Library.
Exhibitions, Students

ÄÄNIAALTO FESTIVAL 2025

The festival highlights performances, audiovisual artwork, talks, and panel discussions from up and coming artists.
Discover and explore research data - in collaboration with KTH.
Lectures and seminars, Staff trainings, IT & digital tools, Support for teams, Training to support research

Discover and explore research data, May 15, 2025

Welcome to a webinar on data re-use and exploratory data visualisation.
In the backgroud, headshot of Vera Liao. In the front, white overlay with text: "Design Interrupted. Upcoming talk on 15.05.2025. 17:00-19:00, Lecture Hall A304, 3rd floor, Kemistintie 1, Espoo. Vera Liao: Design for Responsible AI"
Lectures and seminars

Design for Responsible AI

In her talk, Vera Liao will reflect on the roles design can and should play in Responsible AI.
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