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Aalto Digital Creatives has launched Art & Tech Open Call for a development grant for creative industry projects

Find out more about the open call at the Art & Tech Open Call Demo Day event on Friday 8.4.2022 at Roihupelto Studios.
Campus, Cooperation
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A person with VR glasses

How an exciting engineering challenge drew a physicist into solar painting

A scientist and an artist worked together to produce a painting that produces electricity, as well as a transdisciplinary podcast. Next, they want to let audiences see all the beautiful things that researchers are normally too shy to showcase.

Research & Art
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Janne Halme

Space 21 coordinator Jason Selvarajan encourages everyone to experiment

Get to know Jason Selvarajan, coordinator of Space 21, Aalto's new project space
Campus, University
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Photo of Jason Selvarajan, Space 21 coordinator.

Aalto Digital Creatives pre-incubator program announces an open call for creative industry projects

Deadline for applications is on 23 March 2022.
Campus, Cooperation
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Digital Creatives

How to lead and educate for the future?

Aalto's capacity building project experiments with methods, which may help us become more capable of implementing systemic changes
University
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Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management and Tuomas Auvinen, Champion of Radical Creativity at Aalto University.

Space 21 - a project space for experimentation!

Space 21, a project space for the use of all Aalto community, opened its doors in spring 2022
Campus, University
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Five students building an installation in a rough project space.

Theory U - How to lead from the future while it emerges?

Creative people, like artists and scientists, invent and create the new by stepping from the visible world into the invisible world of imagination, and then returning back into the visible. We all can develop our sensitivity, intuition and leadership capabilities to increase creativity.
Research & Art
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Maria Joutsenvirta

Learning for the future: systemic solutions require new ways of learning and collaborating

Aalto offers its staff a chance to experiment with transformative learning method, that can initiate changes in mindsets and remove invisible barriers to creativity
University
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Social Presencing Theater UN Cambodia

Aalto University joins the City of Helsinki's new campus incubator programme

Helsinki wants to create a strong network of business incubators in the city in cooperation with higher education institutions.
Campus, Cooperation
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Aalto Startup Center

Radical Creativity fostering re-thinking

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn. But as the world is changing at a pace like never before, the most crucial skill may be the ability to think again and unlearn.
University
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Aalto innovations present at Flow Festival, photo by Samuli Pentti

A funding call encourages radically creative risk-taking and bold transdisciplinary combinations in research

The internal funding call is open until February 10, 2022.
For Aalto community
Research & Art
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Radical creativity illustration: Anna Muchenikova

What's Life 1.5 like? – Apply now for Designs for a Cooler Planet 2022 to showcase a sustainable future

The climate crisis and biodiversity loss call for radical new ideas. How does your work contribute to wiser consumption, climate solutions or a more sustainable working life? Designs for a Cooler Planet 2022 will present Aalto's most interesting projects to support sustainability – apply now!
Research & Art
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Designs for a Cooler Planet 2022 – Open call

Good design benefits us all – welcome to open DesignTalks lecture series

Join us for our open lecture series discussing about the relevance of design in different contexts.
Studies
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Oops: A circular economy workshop abuzzed activity and ejected personal biases

Head of Radical Creativity Riikka Mäkikoskela witnessed the power of creativity while leading a workshop.
Aalto Magazine
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Henkilökuvassa Riikka Mäkikoskela katsoo kameraan, kädet ovat kohotettuina kämmenet ylöspäin, hänellä on yllään keltainen pellavapaita.

Open online design course launched for non-designers

Design Bits is an introduction course to help people everywhere become more creative problem-solvers
Press releases, Studies
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Design Bits is Aalto's introductory online course to design for non-designers. Illustration: Paulo Dziobczenski

Ryoji Matsuzaki found the power of teamwork through his studies – ‘By making a donation, I want to give back to my alma mater’

Aalto University's IDBM Master's Programme prepared Ryoji Matsuzaki well for working life and finding his own strengths. He also found his place on the Finnish labour market.
Cooperation
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Ryoji Matsuzaki

Creativity is an important future skill - this symposium will help you understand creativity in a new way

Thriving in today’s fast-changing world requires creativity. The Aalto Creativity Symposium (September 10–11, 2021) welcomes everyone who wants to better understand the science of creativity.
Research & Art
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The Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition showcases 30 projects for a more sustainable future

What is wise to design for future generations in a world of plenty?
Campus, Cooperation, Research & Art
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Resource Wisdom Designs for a Cooler_Planet heroimage design Aino Salonen and Oona Raadelma

Tuomas Auvinen: Radical creativity as culture

Creativity is experimenting, and therefore a valuable skill for us all to master in a constantly changing and complex world. Radical creativity does not appear overnight, but we can build capabilities for it, says Dean Tuomas Auvinen.
University
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Tuomas Auvinen

Teaching creativity to computers - Christian Guckelsberger wants to equip AI with the motivation to discover the unexpected

Research on computational intrinsic motivation could answer some fundamental questions about the nature of creativity, but also improve household robotics or even self-driving cars
Research & Art
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Christian Guckelsberger in front of graffiti