12.04.
- 28.04.
2017

Design Exploration and Experimentation: Matter Exhibition

12.-28.04.2017 / 18:01 - 00:20

Matter presents the results of the Design Exploration and Experimentation course. Projects from the students are in a broad range of creative disciplines everything from ceramics, interactive sculpture to food design.

Exhibitions and fairs

10.05.
2017

Materials Platform Launch

10.05.2017 / 15:00 - 17:00 Makerspace, Otaniementie 9, 02150, Espoo, FI

The Materials Platform fosters multidisciplinary efforts, networking and visibility. Welcome to join the launch event.

Lectures and seminars Other

  • materials
15.05.
2017

Art & Creative Practices at Aalto Festival

15.05.2017 / 11:00 - 17:30

Art & Creative Practices will be on display throughout the day with lectures, talks, gallery walks and more.

Exhibitions and fairs Lectures and seminars Other

  • art_and_creative_practices
15.05.
- 19.05.
2017

Future Media Centre to Aalto Campus

15.-19.05.2017 / 15:00 - 20:00 Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre, Otakaari 1 X, 02150, Espoo, FI

The main aim of the studio was to teach how to design an architecturally advanced large public building. Each student made an individual design project for the course.

Campus Exhibitions and fairs

  • Media_Centre
19.05.
2017

Dissertation in the field of design: MA Yiying Wu

19.05.2017 / 12:00 - 14:00 Lecture hall 822, Hämeentie 135 C, 00560, Helsinki, FI

The dissertation investigates how service design can provide opportunities for people to contribute to and with each other as capable individuals and develop meaningful social relations.

Dissertations

26.05.
- 27.05.
2017

Art & Virtual Reality at Kiasma

26.-27.05.2017 / 14:00 - 17:00 Kiasma, Mannerheiminaukio 2, 00100, Helsinki, FI

Kiasma debuts VR film, Ego Cure by Aalto's Synes Elischka.

Lectures and seminars Other

  • Kiasma
  • VR
08.06.
- 30.06.
2017

Masters of Architecture on display

08.-30.06.2017 / 23:03 - 23:03

A wide range of new design solutions and research showing visions of the future for everyday living, public spaces and landscapes is on show in Laituri.

Other

  • aalto_festival
21.06.
2017

Dissertation in the field of design: Lic.Sc. Louna Hakkarainen

21.06.2017 / 12:00 - 14:00 Lecture hall 822, Hämeentie 135 C, 00560, Helsinki, FI

The dissertation seeks to understand the potential of living lab platforms to tackle the challenges related to health care and elderly care. It takes a closer look at a smart floor that was developed in close collaboration with care professionals in a four-year living lab project that took place in a public nursing home in Finland.

Dissertations

24.06.
- 22.07.
2017

Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future-näyttely Portadownissa Pohjois-Irlannissa 24.6.-22.7.2017

24.06.-22.07.2017 / 01:00 - 19:02

The touring Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future exhibition, produced and curated by the Department of Design of Aalto University, opens its doors in June in its third venue in Portadown, Northern Ireland.

Exhibitions and fairs

  • ARTS
04.09.
- 30.09.
2017

Aalto Fashion Exhibition opens the Dipoli Gallery

04.-30.09.2017 / 07:45 - 21:45 Dipoli Gallery, Otakaari 24, 02150, Espoo, FI

The first exhibition in the brand new Dipoli Gallery presents top collections of Aalto University's fashion design students.

Exhibitions and fairs

07.09.
- 17.09.
2017

Glitter & Noise Exhibition

07.-17.09.2017

Ekin Kayis presents a selection of his graduation work in Glitter & Noise exhibition during Helsinki Design Week.

Other

  • Helsinki_Design_Week
07.09.
- 16.09.
2017

Forms from Steam

07.-16.09.2017

The exhibition Forms from Steam has opened In the National Museum, presenting the design students' views on Finnish sauna culture and visions of the new sauna.

Lectures and seminars Other

08.09.
- 28.09.
2017

Progress & Repeat exhibition

08.-28.09.2017

Welcome to textile exhibition Progress & Repeat presented by design students from Aalto ARTS

Other

  • Helsinki_Design_Week
09.09.
- 17.09.
2017

RED" RED? RED! - Crafting Plastic Waste Exhibition

09.-17.09.2017 / 12:00 - 19:00 Unioninkatu 25, 00170, Helsinki, FI

Students turned old Coca-Cola crates into art and design pieces during an experimental design course.

Exhibitions and fairs

  • exhibition
  • Circular_Economy
  • recycling
  • design
11.09.
- 14.09.
2017

Aalto Design Research Book Talks - Dialogues on Design and Society

11.-14.09.2017 Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki, FI

Interested in the complex relationship between design and society? Curious about the hot topics in design research today?

Lectures and seminars Other

  • Helsinki_Design_Week
  • design
11.09.
2017

Perspectives: New Approaches towards Sustainable Design

11.09.2017 / 13:00 - 17:30 Aalto University, Room A1, Otakaari 1X, 02150, Espoo, FI

This symposium aims to provide incentives for new and creative ways of thinking about sustainability in architectural design.

Lectures and seminars Other

  • architecture
12.09.
- 16.09.
2017

Functional & Emotional Design -exhibition

12.-16.09.2017 Marian Sairaala, (building 3), Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00100, Helsinki, FI

As part of Helsinki Design Week, Functional and Emotional Design -exhibition presents works from Aalto University’s Functional Clothing & Materials and Colour & Material Design courses.

Exhibitions and fairs Other

  • fashion
12.09.
2017

Samuji Talks: Jenni Reuter

12.09.2017

Samuji Talks is a conversation series about creativity, society, sustainability, aesthetics, art and kindness hosted by journalist Ville Blåfield

14.09.
- 06.10.
2017

Welded & woven new typologies 2017 at Artek 2nd Cycle

14.09.-06.10.2017

Exhibition by the MA students in furniture and textile desing at Aalto University is focusing on how the material characteristics of textile and steel affect the act of “sitting”.

Other

15.09.
2017

Aalto Design Talks by Jonathan Olivares

15.09.2017 / 14:00 - 15:00

You are warmly welcome to participate a lecture given by designer Jonathan Olivares, the head of Jonathan Olivares Design Research (JODR), in the Design Museum this Friday. During the talk, Olivares will discuss his recent projects.

Lectures and seminars

19.09.
2017

Lost in the Wood(s) Seminar & Book Launch

19.09.2017 / 15:00 - 20:00

Lost in the Wood(s) is a new book on the circular economy by Aalto ARTS Books.

Lectures and seminars Other

  • design
23.10.
- 15.11.
2017

Activating the Archive through Generative Systems

23.10.-15.11.2017

Materials from Aalto University’s Learning Centre Rare Books Collection become activated in a graphic design project by Siri Bachmann.

Exhibitions and fairs

31.10.
2017

Aalto Studios Hackathon 31 October

31.10.2017

Come and hack into the black box of Aalto Studios at a Hackathon on October 31. Join in for a day of ideation, teamwork, pitches, applause, pizza and mingling. But most importantly, come and build Aalto Studios into something worthy of 2020!

Other

01.11.
2017

Public Art Now! seminar November 1

01.11.2017 / 12:00 - 17:00 Aalto University, Dipoli, Otakaari 24, 02150, Espoo, FI

Join us for a variety of viewpoints on public art at the Public Art Now! seminar November 1. Seminar is discussing public art from different perspectives and focusing on how art affects us in our everyday environment.

Lectures and seminars

  • seminar
02.11.
2017

Design Now !

02.11.2017 / 09:00 - 16:00 Otaniementie 9, 02150, Espoo, FI

Long gone are the days when design was simply a way to make things pretty and more attractive to buy. Today, design making and thinking has found its way into almost every corner of society. Products of all shapes and sizes are still being designed, but so are services, businesses, data, systems, politics, education, and futures.

Lectures and seminars