Visitors, friends, and event producers:
Thank you for making Aalto Festival 2017 spectacular!
See you again in 2018.
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We got all kinds of robots, movies, calculations, experiments, games, art, formulas, buildings, proposals, algorithms, animations, prototypes, speeches, and ideas.
This year, we celebrated the centennial of Finland. Throughout the month of May over hundred events showcased the talent of our university's students, graduates, and faculty across the metropolitan area.
Past events
Bags in Process
Exhibition of Designing into a Brand -workshop with accessories designer Juha Marttila from Burberry
20.04.2017 – 31.05.2017
New Biomateriality Lab in Design Museum's exhibition Enter and Encounter
The New Biomateriality Lab presents new Finnish biomaterials, mainly based on wood.
24.03.2017 – 21.10.2017
Design for Government course in Design Museum's exhibition Enter and Encounter
The optimistic exhibition focuses on the future, asking how design challenges the present and shapes things to come.
24.03.2017 – 22.10.2017
Otaniemi Free Space
Otaniemi Free Space is a student-driven community playground, test platform and cultural space.
07.04.2017 – 20.05.2017
SEES
Exhibition by a group of art education students deals with themes of seeing, visibility, in-betweenness and hiding.
18.04.2017 – 11.05.2017
Aalto Festival goes Aalto Open Air
Aalto Festival pop-up events in the first ever Aalto Open Air.
19.04.2017
Global Impact: Ecological Handprints 1
Three afternoons with guest lecturers and discussions on the new concept of ecological handprints.
19.04.2017
Science Café – Music and Brain
When children start music as a hobby, a lot of changes start to happen in their brains. Why?
22.04.2017
Building Expertise for Innovation Conference
Conference brings together industrialists, policy makers and academics in technology, strategy and digitalisation.
25.04.2017 – 27.04.2017
Costume Lectures: Costume Lecture 1
Characterising Costume Design, by Dr Phoenix Thomas, Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher in Costume Design, UK.
26.04.2017
Global Impact: Ecological Handprints 2
Three afternoons with guest lecturers and discussions on the new concept of ecological handprints.
26.04.2017
Costume Lectures: Costume Lecture 2
Fitting Threads: Creative Collaboration and Reflective Process in the Costume Design Process by Dr Suzanne Osmond.
03.05.2017
Functional clothing 2017 exhibition
Exhibition of the results of Functional clothing course 2017 with Ilona Hyötyläinen.
03.05.2017 – 31.05.2017
Opening of the Aalto Bioproduct Centre
The centre meets the multidisciplinary needs of research and education, fulfilling the requirements of modern bioeconomy.
03.05.2017
IDEA=HUMANITY 1
BA students from across Aalto ARTS have created personal art works reflecting on this moment in time.
04.05.2017 – 12.05.2017
Japanese Perspectives on Nature and Design
Lecturer Masahiko Kimura presents his works and discusses the approach to graphic design and typography in Japan.
04.05.2017
ELO Spring Screening 2017
Latest films by the students of Department of Film, Television and Scenography ELO.
05.05.2017
Defence of dissertation in the field of computer science, Andreas Henelius, M.Sc. (Tech.)
Title of the dissertation is: "Exploring classifier attribute interactions and time series using constrained randomisations"
05.05.2017
Defence of dissertation: Yu Liu, M.Sc. (Tech.)
Title of the dissertation is: Antecedents and Outcomes of Partnering Abroad with Local Firms: Evidence from Cross-border Venture Capital
05.05.2017
Defence of Dissertation: Anne-Maria Visuri, M.Sc. (Tech.)
The title of the dissertation is: Impurity dynamics and nearest-neighbor interactions in one-dimensional lattices
05.05.2017
Defence of Dissertation in the field of Economics, Anna Sahari, M.Sc.
Essays on Households' Technology Choices and Long-Term Energy Use.
05.05.2017
Social Fabric of Migration: Textile Work and Exhibition
Participatory textile work, which tells what it is to move from one country to another.
05.05.2017 – 26.05.2017
Core Warmth: Encounters inspired by Joseph Beuys
Performances by the students of Aalto University and the Theatre Academy bring new participatory insights to exhibition.
05.05.2017
alternative facts in Rautatientori
Come and challenge yourself and your views of the world, art and humanity. In addition to the experience you will be a part of the contemporary art and part of an installation which will be presented in Art Fair Finland '17.
06.05.2017
Critique of Utopia
Lecture on the Contemporary Chinese City:
08.05.2017
Green Infrastructures in Baltic Cities Exhibition
The exhibition presents a set of multifunctional green infrastructures in four cities.
08.05.2017 – 31.05.2017
Sensual Mathematics
Art exhibition of artworks by transdisciplinary groups of mathematics and art and architecture students.
09.05.2017 – 31.08.2017
Costume Lectures: Costume Lecture 3
Embodied Interactions: Wearable Electronics in Costume for Performance by Professor Sofia Pantouvaki.
10.05.2017
Materials Platform Launch
The Materials Platform fosters multidisciplinary efforts, networking and visibility.
10.05.2017
Global Impact: Ecological Handprints 3
Three afternoons with guest lecturers and discussions on the new concept of ecological handprints.
10.05.2017
KuvisMovies 2017
A screening of the latest short films by the students of Aalto ARTS Art Education.
10.05.2017
Defence of dissertation in the field of mathematics, Amaro Barreal Fernández, M.Sc.
Title of the dissertation is: Lattice Codes for Physical Layer Communications
11.05.2017
Aalto SCI Project Course – Grand Finale
12.05.2017
Public Defences of Doctoral Dissertations
Seven public examinations of doctoral dissertations from different schools of Aalto University.
12.05.2017
Core Warmth: Encounters inspired by Joseph Beuys
Performances by the students of Aalto University and the Theatre Academy bring new participatory insights to exhibition.
12.05.2017
Lost & Found: Visual Communication Design
The exhibition extravaganza celebrates the work produced in the Visual Communication Design Programme this academic year.
12.05.2017 – 13.05.2017
Otaniemi Urban Week
The week includes discussions, talks, grilling together, idea pitching and movie screenings to broaden the understanding of what makes this space truly urban.
15.05.2017 – 21.05.2017
Art & Creative Practices presents
Aalto Artist in Residence TALK, UWAS on Wheels, Gallery walk
15.05.2017
Future Media Centre to Aalto Campus
The exhibition presents alternative solutions for the building of a new Media Centre of Aalto University.
15.05.2017 – 19.05.2017
Automation and Electrical Engineering Project work course – Final Gala
Outcomes of project works related to Automation and Electrical Engineering.
16.05.2017
Helsinki New Fashion Seminar
International fashion seminar focuses on the topic Turning Creativity into Profitable Business.
16.05.2017
Presentation on Exploring Swissness: Infrastructure – Mountainland – Lakeland
The students of the Department of Architecture introduce responsive and adaptive designs for the areas of Zurich, Rhône Delta and the Gotthard.
16.05.2017
Superimposed Verticality – Studio Hong Kong Final Review
The projects address emergent spatial forms and practices of hyperdense living in the former British Colony in order to identify the DNA of density.
16.05.2017
Aalto Mathematics and Arts Colloquium
Professor Daina Taimina (Cornell University): Study mathematics and ... become an artist?
16.05.2017
Product Design Project Presentation Day
Interdisciplinary PdP -course teams present their projects and outcomes on stage.
17.05.2017
Digital Landscape Architecture Exhibition
Responsive, visionary landscape architecture design proposals and new concepts of how to create artificial islands in Espoo.
17.05.2017 – 09.06.2017
Bit Bang 9 Final Seminar: Entrepreneurship
Discussions of entrepreneurship in academia. Can academics be entrepreneurial?
17.05.2017
Millennium Talks: Asking more from research
The discussions inted to brainstorm how technologies emanating from frontier research can be taken advantage of in industry, clinical care and in research in Finland.
17.05.2017 – 18.05.2017
AVP Thought Leaders' Talk - Building Online Business
Join us to learn how to build successful online businesses with CEO of Holvi, Antti-Jussi Suominen!
17.05.2017
Näytös 17
The annual student fashion show by the School of Arts, Design and Architecture presents graduate collections from both BA and MA degree students.
17.05.2017
Aalto ARTS & ENG Project Course – Final Show
Aalto ARTS & ENG Project Course – Final Show
18.05.2017
Dissertation in the field of Film and Television: M.Sc. Kai Kuikkaniemi
The dissertation focuses on researching and developing various live audience interaction production from concerts and audience gaming to lectures.
18.05.2017
Critical is the New Black: Fashion in the 21st Century
International fashion scholars discuss the possibilities of fashion as social commentary and critique beyond consumerism.
18.05.2017
Interlocking Macro-Particle Structures
An exhibition for an introduction to interlocking macro-particle structures.
18.05.2017 – 31.05.2017
Product Design Gala
The multidisciplinary student teams present new innovation prototypes for real-life challenges.
19.05.2017
IDBM Impact
Join Aalto's multidisciplinary IDBM community to explore how interdisciplinarity enables innovation in practice.
19.05.2017
Harald Herlin Learning Centre Demo Day
Learn more about the Learning Centre’s services for studies, research and artistic activities.
19.05.2017
Public Defences of Doctoral Dissertations
Five public examinations of doctoral dissertations from different schools of Aalto University.
19.05.2017
Cryptoparty
Online security is a tricky subject. It all starts from simply making sure your password is not, well ‘password’, and continues to more and more complex efforts to make your movements on the internet private.
19.05.2017
Core Warmth: Encounters inspired by Joseph Beuys 3
Performances by the students of Aalto University and the Theatre Academy bring new participatory insights to exhibition.
19.05.2017
TOKYO's Spring Sales
The Spring Sales are an annual tradition, which gives the students an opportunity to sell their artworks and products.
20.05.2017
AYY 7th Annual Ball
Welcome all Aalto University Student Union (AYY) members to participate in the annual celebrations: kick off with a cocktail party and the dinner with excellent program.
20.05.2017
Opening of the A.lava theatre and event space
The 'Wood Program' constructs a theatre and event space at the Annantalo Arts Center in Helsinki.
22.05.2017 – 01.09.2017
Electrical Engineering Workshop – Final Gala
Students present the results of their hands-on projects.
22.05.2017
Global Impact: Cities in Transition course review
Cities in Transition course final review.
22.05.2017
Global Impact: Co-creating Frugal & Reverse Innovations in Complex Global Systems
Valokuvanäyttelyssä esitellään kolme tutkimusprojektia, jotka tehtiin Tanzaniaan, Zanzibariin ja Intiaan.
22.05.2017 – 26.05.2017
Global Impact: Sustainable Global Technologies Studio
Experiences and results of multidisciplinary student team's development projects done in Mexico, Tanzania and Greece.
22.05.2017
Design for Government – Final Show
Student teams present proposals addressing complex challenges gaced by the Finnish government.
23.05.2017
IDEA=HUMANITY 2
BA students from across Aalto ARTS have created personal art works reflecting on this moment in time.
23.05.2017 – 02.06.2017
Health Transformations: How smarter data use can improve health and wellbeing
How the smart use of health data and its technologies can promote health and stimulate dynamic innovation clusters across the EU.
23.05.2017
Sustainability Game Changers – New Stories of Sustainability
The event and the online exhibition share students visions of the change needed for sustainability.
23.05.2017
Media Lab Demo Day
Short presentations of the works Media Lab students and researchers, mock-ups, innovations and networking.
23.05.2017
Aalto Start-Up Center Spring Festival
An open house event with start-up stories, fresh Aalto news with good music and delicious refreshments.
23.05.2017
Energy Gala
Join us to celebrate the recent achievements in the diverse field of energy research and teaching, network and enjoy refeshments.
23.05.2017
Pack-Age Show
Multidisciplinary design teams present their innovative package designs and novel packaging concepts.
24.05.2017
DADA Night!
Music, audiovisual performances and media art by Media Lab students. BYOB & have fun with us! Free and open to everyone. For updated lineup, follow the FB event. Welcome!
24.05.2017 – 25.05.2017
alternative facts – Art Fair Suomi ’17
Art installation will challenge your views of the world, art and humanity
25.05.2017 – 28.05.2017
Defence of dissertation in the field of Speech and Language Technology, M.Sc. (Tech.) Sofoklis Kakouros
Cognitive and probabilistic basis of prominence perception in speech.
26.05.2017
Defence of dissertation in the field of computer science, Orestis Kostakis, M.Sc. (Tech.)
Advances in Analysing Temporal Data.
26.05.2017
Defence of dissertation in the field of International Business, Rilana Riikkinen, M.Sc. (Econ.)
Taking Sustainability to the Operational Level: Purchasing within the MNC.
26.05.2017
Gallery walks and artist talks, Art Fair Suomi'17
Three fun and interactive guided tours organised by the art education students of Aalto ARTS.
27.05.2017
Visualizing Knowledge 2017
The educational experience raises awareness about the impact of information design, its tools and best practices.
29.05.2017
Defence of Dissertation in the field of art education: DEA Anna-Kaarina Peura
Échafaudages du réel. Images d'une vie prospère dans l'oeuvre stratégique de Walter Benjamin.
29.05.2017
Education@Aalto
An open event to share ideas of education, collaborate in workshops, demo sessions and round-up discussions.
30.05.2017
Defence of Dissertation in the field of architecture: Architect Juhana Heikonen
San Clemente in Rome. A New Reconstruction of the Early 5th c. Basilica.
30.05.2017
ME310 Aalto Global Innovation Program Expo
Presentations of Design Thinking projects with companies OP, Roland Garros, BASF, and Xylem.
30.05.2017
Mentoring Programme Closing Gala
Mentors and mentees celebrate the past mentoring year with networking and co-working.
30.05.2017
BoA'17 - Bachelors of Arts
The graduation exhibition of the bachelor students from the major in design.
01.06.2017 – 21.06.2017
Defence of dissertation in the field of Signal Processing for Communications, Lic.Sc. (Tech.) Markku Kiviranta
Spectral and Power Efficient Modulation Methods in Presence of Nonlinear Distortions.
01.06.2017
Dissertation in the field of contemporary art: MA Mikko Ijäs
Fragments of the Hunt. Persistence Hunting, Tracking and Prehistoric Art.
01.06.2017
Bio2 Annual Seminar: From fundamentals to applications
Research seminar on bio-products: selected presentations, a keynote speaker and scientific poster gallery.
02.06.2017
Masters of Architecture
Department of Architecture presents selected works of Architecture Master.
09.06.2017 – 30.06.2017