School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Poster for Aalto ARTS Grad Show from 3rd Sept to 6th Oct, with abstract black and cream design on a black background.
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Coming soon: Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2025

We're thrilled to invite you to the Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2025 of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture!
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Lectures and seminars

Events programme – Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025

Attend open seminars, talks, tours, film screenings and workshops.
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Research & Art, University Published:

Eloseminaari themes were creativity, meaningfulness, and visions for the future

The annual get-together event brought together the Aalto ARTS community and provided inspiration for the start of the academic year.
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Awards and Recognition, Research & Art Published:

ELO films praised at the Haugesund Film Festival

My Name is Hope won the Next Nordic Generation Award. The Lightning Rod as well as Aalto University's ELO Film School got an honorary mention.
A sculpted model casting a shadow resembling Stonehenge onto a green-lit screen, with people standing nearby.
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Summer school explored sustainable alternatives for construction

The Aalto ARTS summer school challenged participants to envision a society in which it is not possible to build anything new. What would that be like, and how would it change the work of spatial actors such as architects and designers?
Modern atrium in an office building with two dark metal diagonal beams, large windows, and people wearing safety gear.
Appointments Published:

Mikael “Miklu” Silvanto started as Professor of Practice at Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture

The professorship, established with donated funds, started on the 15th of August 2025 at the Department of Design and will focus on developing collaboration models between people and technology.

The Long Read by Aalto ARTS

Longform stories, in-depth features and profiles, data visualizations and more coming up - enjoy our webmag!

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Creativity Unfolded

Aalto University’s blog series Creativity Unfolded focuses on insights linked to creativity in a multitude of ways. Topics include design, technology, media, architecture, film, games, art theory and more. Read and join the conversation.

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Aalto student – New Student Guide replaces Into

Into.aalto.fi has been migrated to the Aalto.fi site, and the new Student Guide contains information and news for students

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Aalto University is committed to promoting equality, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination in all its activities. We aim to provide a non-discriminatory, gender-equal and accessible environment in which employees and students with diverse backgrounds and duties receive equal treatment and are free to participate without discrimination in university activities.

Students at campus
Professor Marco Steinberg behind his desk

Professor Marco Steinberg: ’We need to change, and we need to do it now’

Professor of Practice in Strategic and Industrial Design says that the world’s most pressing issues, like climate change, won’t be addressed by tinkering at the edges of today’s solutions but rather require a more fundamental redesign.

News
Henrika Yliriskun väitös taidekasvatuksen alalta tarkastettiin Aalto-yliopistossa maaliskuussa 2021.

‘Environmental art education should address the problem of human-centeredness’

‘I claim’ series presents our researchers and the results of their work. Henrika Ylirisku researches the premises of environmental art education.

News
Man in sunny winter cityscape

Aarni Kapanen illustrates Dudes & Feelings podcasts

Fighting toxic masculinity with a podcast and the help of Visual Communication Design.

News
Julia Lohmann's Department of Seaweed at WEF. Photo: Mikko Raskinen

Julia Lohmann: ‘We know too much and do too little’

Lohmann’s magnificent seaweed pavilion won the sustainable design category for Dezeen Awards 2020.

News
Karin Krokfors, kuva: Sanna Lehto

'We must look to the past, for a lesson in designing buildings for the future'

Architect Karin Krokfors says buildings should be designed to be adaptable over time. And that history holds plenty of examples for us to study.

News
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Building interdisciplinary connections through a new joint position

This September will be a start of building a new connection between disciplines as Sebastian Schlecht takes on the position as the professor of practice in Sound in Virtual Reality.

News

Aalto Art and Design Cases

Aalto Design Cases is a platform for activity-based creativity and practice-based research in the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

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Nyang'oro Girls Dormitory, a project by Hollmén Reuter Sandman

Prominent art at Aalto University

Aalto University promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art.

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Dipoli artworks
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Exhibitions

Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2025 exhibition opening

Join us in celebrating our graduates from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture! Let's meet in Kipsari on 3 September 2025 at 3 p.m.
A blue-green heatmap-style background with a black circle in the center. Inside the circle, white text reads: Designs for a Cooler Planet. On the left, the word 'Events' appears on black. The image serves as a visual header for Aalto University’s Designs for a Cooler Planet events calendar.
Lectures and seminars

Events programme – Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025

Attend open seminars, talks, tours, film screenings and workshops.
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Lectures and seminars, Staff trainings, IT & digital tools, Support for teams, Training to support research, Workshops

Marsio Presents, 5 September 2025: Creative Teaching with Media & AI

Explore media & AI in teaching at Marsio: Keynote by Jani Romanoff, talks by Aalto University educators, and studio exploration.
CodeRefinery workshop: git version control, reproducibility, good coding practices
Staff trainings, Workshops

CodeRefinery September/October 2025

If you are writing (or will write!) code that is used in research, then this workshop is for you!
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