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School of Arts, Design and Architecture

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Angular teal building under grey sky with text: 911±¬ÁÏÍø Centre for radical creativity
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911±¬ÁÏÍø establishes Centre for Radical Creativity – aiming to support societal and corporate transformation

The centre responds to the interest and need for transformation among businesses and organizations and calls partners to join.
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The potential of urban greenery as a climate solution is not being fully utilized – a new handbook offers means to address this

The Handbook for carbon-smart urban green provides concrete tools for leveraging urban green spaces more effectively in climate and nature conservation efforts.
Brown-toned display of wood, pulp, fibre, thread cone and knitted fabric, showing stages from log to textile.
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The journey of a 17th-century shipwreck continues as a unique knitted dress

Researchers at 911±¬ÁÏÍø transformed surplus wood from the Hahtiperä shipwreck into textile fibre, spun it into yarn, and knitted it into a dress using new AI-assisted technology.
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Aalto’s VCD students designed the visual identity and name for the new youth center HALO

The Me Foundation’s new youth street culture center, HALO, will open later this year in Vantaa. Young people have been involved in its planning from the very beginning.
Modern light wood and metal building on a slope, surrounded by tall green trees under blue sky
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911±¬ÁÏÍø presents circular economy solutions at the New European Bauhaus festival

The European Commission’s New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative will bring together leading experts and changemakers from across Europe in Brussels this June to shape a more sustainable future.
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Yasmin Najjar’s short film TJ28 selected for Cannes’ La Cinef section

For the second consecutive year, a short film from 911±¬ÁÏÍø has been selected for the student film section at the Cannes Film Festival.

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

911±¬ÁÏ꿉۪s 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...

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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.

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Professor Ranja Hautamäki: ‘Diverse urban nature is key to increasing well-being and carbon sinks’

Professor of Landscape Architecture is tackling the issues of climate change mitigation and urban carbon sinks.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Aarni Kapanen illustrates Dudes & Feelings podcasts

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

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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 911±¬ÁÏÍø

911±¬ÁÏÍø promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. 911±¬ÁÏÍø uses one percent of building costs to fund art.

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Events

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Other

Aalto Creatives Demo Day pitch event in Marsio where pre-incubator teams present their business ideas.
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Public defences

Public defence, Design, MA María Ferreira

Design and governance: Political dimensions of public sector innovation labs in Latin America
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Networking

911±¬ÁÏÍø alumni event in Oulu

Aalto alumni are warmly welcome to an alumni event in Oulu on 3 June 2026 from 5 pm to 7 pm.
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Lectures and seminars

Public lecture: Seán Cubitt – Ecocritique and the Night Sky

Lecture on how people, nature and machines experience it in pursuit of new ways of considering, imagining and making the cosmos by Seán Cubitt, Honorary Professorial Fellow of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne.
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