"Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future" - experiences from a two-year exhibition tour
Produced and coordinated by Aalto University鈥檚 Department of Design, the exhibition has taught staff and students a lot of the industry and cooperation.

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.

Aalto-Helsinki awarded gold medal in iGEM 2018
Multidisciplinary student team from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki made it to the top category out of three in iGEM Giant Jamboree 24鈥28 October in Boston.

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.

Underwater rover created by international student team to be shown at Dubai Design Week
After months of work on two continents, underwater rover Find-X can be seen at an international exhibition of student works at Dubai Design Week in November.
Crystal Flowers in Halls of Mirrors course - apply now
The course is a unique opportunity to work with your hands and to build an exhibition in a group with many talents - including science.
Jenni Haukio to wear gown made of sustainable Ioncell material at December鈥檚 Independence Day reception
Ioncell is a new technology that creates high-quality textile fibres from wood or recycled materials.

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre awarded in Spain
Ilja Rautsi's horror comedy was awarded the M茅li猫s d'Argent Prize for the Best European Fantasy Short Film today on Friday at the San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.

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.

Maria Sir茅n receives the Young Golden Award of Costume Design
Maria Sir茅n has won the Young Golden Award of Costume Design at an international costume design competition.

Environmental issues get form by ceramic art
Finnish ceramic artists visualise land contamination in Venice research pavilion.

Fibre technologies revolutionising the textile industry win the European Commission's Regiostars Awards
VTT and Aalto University鈥檚 TeKiDe project won the category Achieving sustainability through low carbon emissions.

Innovating in the IDBM Challenge course for the future of Helsinki and Copenhagen
Students in this multidisciplinary and multi-format IDBM Challenge course developed practical solutions for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

A tale of forbidden love from Nairobi
Rafiki, a film shot by Christopher Wessels, is screened at the Love & Anarchy Helsinki International Film Festival. Wessels graduated from Aalto University a couple of years ago.

Aalto University among the 10 best landscape architecture programmes
Five student projects were selected to represent Aalto at the Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona.

"Feels great!" - Jaakko Kahilaniemi won ING Unseen Talent Award
"Nature Like Capital" photo series by Kahilaniemi focuses on how people use nature as capital - not as environment and a natural place.

Architectural week in libraries this week
Libraries all over Finland celebrate architecture 1-7 October, for the first time. Architectural week is inspired by Finland's exhibition at the Venice International Architecture Biennale.

Finlandia Prize for Architecture for the New Children鈥檚 Hospital
The hospital was designed from child's point of view.

At ten years old, Design Factory is yet to make itself obsolete
The experimentation platform has grown beyond Aalto University and become a global network. More boundaries remain to be broken, even within Design Factory鈥檚 own operating environment.
