Soil Care Products by Mira Niittym盲ki
What if we treated soil as we treat our skin? After all, soil is the skin of the Earth, and our own skin is soil for billions of microbes. The project investigates ways to care for the degraded land and barren soil resulting from human actions. It also speculates on a future where soil care would be one of our daily routines. The work also satirically comments on the oversaturated field of beauty care products of our time when more than ever we should focus our care to more fundamental issues.
Saturday Night Fever by Lennart Engels
This video exhibits a performance in which Lennart Engels approaches rock climbing as an artistic practice to expose the underlying creative processes that occur in the act.
The Birth of Breath by Janne Melajoki
鈥淒o we breathe or are we breathed? The sanskrit prana, 鈥渂reathing forth,鈥 refers to the source and force of life and the vibratory energy of all manifestation鈥
Ghost Town by Etienne Thevenet
The emergence of latent images and forms through the manipulation of matter. Ghost Town is the thermal shock between ferrous and clay-based soils, both cracking and setting the other. The artwork aims to channel emotional frictions as generative force, by letting untold memories of childhood surface.聽
Circular Scapes, spring 2022 (online)
Welcome to the online exhibition for the Spring UWAS course, Innovative Approach to Circular Economy.
Designing with indigenous communities (2020-2024)
Designing with indigenous communities: participatory interventions to support resistance and intercultural communication in the Global South
The Workshoes and the Chasm by Aura Latva-Somppi
The influence of gap in a creative material process.
RAE2009
In 2009, the research conducted at the founding universities of Aalto University -- Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki -- was subjected to an international research evaluation (research assessment exercise, RAE) to evaluate the scientific quality and societal impact of the research and to identify research with world-class potential. This helped to formulate the seven key research areas of the university today.
RAI2018 - Research, Art and Impact Assessment
In the RAI2018 evaluation - Research, Art and Impact Assessment - external experts praised, for instance, the enthusiastic and collaborative work atmosphere, university鈥檚 infrastructure, the tenure track career system and the student-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Sustainable Cities and Multinational Corporations: A Future-Facing Perspective
Reimagining the city: how multinational corporations and cities jointly envision and shape sustainable cities of the future through a new generation of public-private partnerships.聽This research project employs a future-facing research methodology and investigates empirical cases within the four overlapping domains of a sustainable city: the environmental, economic, socio-cultural, as well as digital and virtual.
Nokia Industrial Doctoral School in Quantum Technology
Nokia Industrial Doctoral School in Quantum Technology is a long-term effort to train highly skilled PhDs in the field of quantum technology. The focus is on industrially relevant topics that range from fundamental science to applied research. There is a unique opportunity to work together with Nokia researchers since the program aims to connect them with the supervising professors at Aalto.
Kielibuusti - Teaching Finnish and Swedish to international experts
Kielibuusti (Language Boost) develops the teaching of Finnish and Swedish. Learn more about how we do it!
Evaluation of electric scooter deployment in the City of Helsinki (EVA-HEL)
Evaluation of electric scooter deployment in the City of Helsinki
Research fields and supervising professors (School of Chemical Engineering)
Research field is an area of academic research in which the school has agreed to provide doctoral education. The Aalto Doctoral Programme in Chemical Engineering offers doctoral education in 6 research fields. Each doctoral student is appointed a supervising professor who represents the research field approved for the student.
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