Aalto University News
Students鈥 soundscape fills the New Children鈥檚 Hospital
A generative soundscape in a hospital is the first of its kind in the world. Created by Sound in New Media students at Aalto Media Lab, the soundscape will be developed further on the basis of user studies and research over years to come.

Thesis award for student for studying controversial forest relationships
New Media student Juulia Juutiainen has been awarded the Rajapinta Association Thesis Award. Rajapinta is a Finnish researcher community focusing on digital social sciences and awards theses studied in Finnish universities. The awards are given to theses that are social science motivated studies of technologies or are using technology to help to run with social science research.

Students鈥 art works illustrate Helsinki metro stations
Several of the selected works are made by Aalto students. An exhibition of the art works opens today in Kamppi.

World premiere: Play Quantum Garden and help build a quantum computer!
Quantum Garden, a new and exciting Science and Art project, will be exhibited from 16.11 until 14.12. at A Bloc shopping center, Otaniemi.

Student wins major award with mobile music app
鈥淥penness is the way forward,鈥 says Ilari Niitamo, winner of the Apple Design Award 2018.

Artificial intelligence meets art
The story of AI will not be fully explored without the inclusion of art, believes doctoral student Kasperi M盲ki-Reinikka, who wants to collide art and technology 鈥 while exploiting the tensions that exist between them.

Andrea Mancianti: Inventing VR Blindphones
Mancianti presented his invention at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria last week.

M8 Art Space opens up a new series of exhibitions
Video works by Jemina Lindholm were selected as the first exhibition.

Aalto brings students鈥 art and creativity projects to Flow Festival
Students鈥 murals, films, videos, animations, design, art education workshops and architecture will be on display.

QS Ranking: Aalto places 140th in the world
Aalto is #1 in Finland with regard to relative number of research citations and employer reputation.

World Challenge 2018 Finals in Finland on 27鈥30 August 鈥 work for a better world
Innovators are invited to develop apps that improve life on earth by utilising satellite data.

Finding the unknown, D.Sc. Natalie Segercrantz
Doctoral graduate Natalie Segercrantz likens research work to being an explorer. In a laboratory, one can encounter something that has never been witnessed before.

OBJEKTI brings contemporary art to everyday surroundings in Espoo
The exhibition presents contemporary sculpture, participatory projects and iInstallations in and around Espoo centre throughout summer.

InSEA congress 2018 focuses on the societal impact of art education
Interventions of European Art Education congress 2018, taking place 18鈥21 June at Aalto University, will host several hundred academics and practitioners on art education from around the globe.
Exhibition Haltuunotto offers views on virtual art
A large part of the exhibition鈥檚 media artists are Aalto University's teachers and staff.
Three Aalto students awarded Fulbright grants to top US universities
The highly valued grant will enable graduate studies and research at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology starting this fall.
IHME School project provides art education for schoolchildren
Students of art education in Aalto University run IHME School workshops as part of the IHME Festival.

Juuso Tervo wins 2018 Manuel Barkan Memorial Award for art education
Aalto alumnus and postdoctoral researcher recognized for excellence in art education research

Prize-winning photographer Maija Tammi looks for new ways to depict sickness in photographic art
Doctoral thesis 鈥漇ick Photography. Representations of Sickness in Art Photography鈥 is examined 12th December.
