Press releases
A greenhouse out of wood: new design makes vertical farming greener
Efficient insulation halves energy consumption and could boost the income of vertical farms
They changed Finnish fashion in the 2020鈥檚
鈥滻ntimacy鈥 exhibition at Helsinki Designmuseum presents 40 designers and companies at the intersection of novel politicization and digital disruption of fashion.
Open online design course launched for non-designers
Design Bits is an introduction course to help people everywhere become more creative problem-solvers
Shopping centre A Blanc celebrates opening on Otaniemi campus
Designed by Alvar Aalto, the building previously known as Otaniemi鈥檚 old shopping centre, has a new name after the renovation and opened in the middle of the Aalto University campus
Promoting sustainability of transport in cities calls for a mindset change
In an openly available new book, researchers call for human-scale thinking in urban transport.
On Friday night, BepiColombo will pass by Mercury for the first time
Researchers at Aalto University have been involved in building the particle measurement instruments for the probe. They will provide new information about Mercury and its space weather.
Researchers predict viewer interest, not just attention, in public screen content
New method automatically adapts content to user preferences by using easily obtainable viewing data
FITech Network University gained extra time for free ICT courses
The university courses open to all in the field of ICT will be continued until the end of 2023.
Researchers mimic how water and wind create complex shapes in nature
No hands required: new study shows how particles can be directed into desired shapes with energy fields and smart algorithm.
Changing climate increases the need for water diplomacy
Water issues are increasingly political, meaning tensions need to be tackled in new ways
Physicists make square droplets and liquid lattices
Driving systems out of equilibrium with electric fields proves useful for creating liquid shapes that are nearly impossible to find in nature
President Ilkka Niemel盲: 鈥楥uts to research are always cuts to education鈥
European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and Chair of the Aalto University Student Union Milja Leinonen also spoke at opening of the academic year. The ceremony was held online.
Learning the art of science communication in the NDI Policy Brief Training workshop
The Northern Dimension Institute hosted the third Policy Brief Training workshop on Sept. 1, 2021.
Investors turn to suburbs 鈥 with varying results
One- and two-room-flats are being built in Myyrm盲ki, and family apartments in Myllypuro. The difference is explained above all by various planning and land transfer requirements, says researcher Johanna Lilius. The revival of housing estate neighbourhoods can become expensive for older residents.
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ModerninArvo project affects debate on fate of modern buildings
The main individual sector in creating a carbon-neutral Finland is renovation construction. The surge in demolition and replacement of young building stock and entire areas through carbon-intensive construction is problematic for sustainability. The ModerninArvo project aims at finding solutions to the continued shrinking of the life cycles of architecture, and the renovation and re-use of the architecture from recent decades. The project is being funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
Doctoral thesis: Technology that's better at detecting hate speech may also increase security risks
Advances in language technology don't only facilitate moderation but also censorship, says Tommi Gr枚ndahl, who is defending his dissertation on language technology methods.
NDI Briefing Note: The urgent need for standardized assessment of microplastic pollution in the Arctic Ocean
The researchers suggest that the development of standard protocols for microplastic pollution analysis should be approached as a co-creation effort among research laboratories and other institutions. Citizens could also be engaged in the sampling and hot-spot identification.
This would decrease the costs of fieldwork and educate citizens of Arctic communities on environmental issues and the responsible use of plastics.
This would decrease the costs of fieldwork and educate citizens of Arctic communities on environmental issues and the responsible use of plastics.
Samuel Kaski receives major international funding for the development of AI methods
Aalto University Professor Samuel Kaski has been awarded the Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship to establish a new center of excellence. The funding relates to Kaski鈥檚 work at the University of Manchester, but Finnish research on modeling user intent will also benefit.
