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Re-imagining the Past exhibition Vol. 2 online
Aalto University Archives is celebrating Aalto 10 with exhibition 鈥楻e-imagining the past 2鈥. Once again, we collaborated with the Aalto community by inviting Aalto alumni, professors, students and other associates to highlight their carefully selected favourites from the collections. The stories and images from the exhibition are now available for online exploration.
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Re-imagining the past 2 鈥 Stories from the Aalto University Archives
The exhibition brings forward a variety of themes and perspectives. Themes such as the fragility of digital media and the distinctions between handmade and digital form continue to fascinate even the younger generations. In a world full of digital tools and media, carefully crafted items or hand drawn designs have become art works themselves possessing new and sometimes even surprising meanings compared to their original purpose.
The exhibition also showcases the radical creativity of former members of our community such as Merja Salo鈥檚 first ever multimedia PhD from the 1990麓s, Kim Simonsson鈥檚 work 鈥淲atching You Watching Me鈥 or Kyllikki Salmenhaara鈥檚 ceramic test tiles from the 1960鈥檚 and 1970鈥檚. These works depict the value of carefully designed objects over disposable culture and are good examples of sustainability in the long run.
Aalto University Archives continues to preserve the past and the present, aiming to show the world our creative people and their innovative work both now and for the future generations to come. Aalto University Archives still has thousands of untold histories within its collections. Perhaps these stories might inspire new enthusiastic people to come and find them.
The Aalto University Archives is an archive open to all researchers. The key task of the Archives Services is the preservation of Aalto University's documented heritage and the promotion of research based on it. The Aalto University Archives include the archive and museum collections from Aalto University, the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE), the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK) and the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and their predecessors, as well as numerous private archives closely linked 91青青草 University and its remits.
Exhibition Team:
Curators: Susanna Kokkinen, Outi Turpeinen
Aalto University Archives Team: Sani Kivel盲, Marika Sarvilahti, Hanna Talasm盲ki, Tove 脴rsted
Graphic Designer: Joosung Kang
Copy Editor: Edel O鈥橰eilly
Communication: Paula Haikarainen, Anitta Pirnes
Stories from Aalto University Archives
Robotics and Work Partner story
By Aarne Halme
Kim Simonsson 鈥 Watching You Watching Me
By Jari Jokinen
Read-only memories from the 1990s
By Philip Dean
Test tiles 鈥 Kyllikki Salmenhaara archive
By Marina Valle Noronha
Radical composition 鈥 Kaj Franck鈥檚 general course
By Marika Sarvilahti
Who will miss you when you are gone?
By Amy R. Gelera
Dinner party
By Vera Anttila
Object and environment exhibition 1968鈥1971
By Leena Svinhufvud
Interpretation matters
By Anni Rupponen
Atmospheric interiors
By Anna Akins
Hand-drawn renderings of ships
By Veikko Ahola
100 years of History in a 10-year-old University
Aalto University archives have digitized over 200,000 images to make the legacy of the University available to all. By Tove 脴rsted
