Program
Antenna Design Challenge
Network antennas form part of the invisible backbone of any modern urban environment; we call, we surf—we don‘t even remember what life was like without mobile networks. Nokia Siemens Networks came up with a challenge for Aalto students: “What would an antenna look like in a future (2020) urban environment? Create an antenna that we don‘t need to hide!”
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City Sets - the urban stage
City Sets uses the metaphor of ‘city as stage’ in order to investigate critically the design elements, visual languages and narratives embedded in the cities.
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Aalto on Waves
Aalto on Waves is a student-driven innovation project in which 110 members of the Aalto community travel by ship to Brazil.
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Critical Studio
OK Do run a course at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture to explore alternative modes of establishing a practice and encourage individual voices in the creative field.
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Wonderwater
Wonderwater at Tian Hai was a pop-up event to raise awareness of relation of water use and food production. The water footprint is a relatively new but increasingly important tool for understanding our water consumption.
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Builders of the Future
Aalto University, the Association of Professional Graphic Designers in Finland and the Finnish Association of Designers are cooperatively organizing a design contest. The aim of the contest is to create a memorial to the donors who provided funds for the University’s endowment capital. The contest is open to Aalto students, staff members and alumni.
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spACE - design business programs for Aalto community and start-ups
spACE is a facility and series of design business programs for Aalto community and start-ups. ACE organizes several events, competitions and projects, which aim to bring up and promote design based growth oriented ideas and teams.
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Sharetribe
Sharetribe is a project targeted at making neighborhoods more social, and encouraging residents to act more ecologically. During 2012 there will be 5-15 neighborhoods selected from the Helsinki capital region and Lahti area to taking in part in the project.
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Genius Loci
The Genius Loci book introduces architecture, art and design at the School of Economics of the Aalto University. The idea for Genius Loci book came out of a project exploring the campus identity of the School of Economics and the walking tours arranged at and around the school.
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365 Wellbeing
365 Wellbeing contains of 12 projects which represent actual services or processes in the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen and Lahti. Projects address different dimensions of wellbeing, focusing in particular on municipal wellbeing services and patient-centered health care solutions.
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Base of the Pyramid
Base of the Pyramid aims at creating sustainable projects for emerging markets. The need for such initiatives stems from the fact that around two thirds of the population live on under 5 euros a day.
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Aalto Otaniemi Garden
Aalto University Degree Programmes in Environmental Art and Landscape Architecture launched a student challenge with the aim of designing a campus garden for the area between Otakaari and the Rakentajanaukio square in the Otaniemi campus.
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Designing for New Realities! Seminar
06.03.2012 / 10:00 - 16:00
What kind of future realities do you want to see? How can we affect our immediate social and wider environment through design? And how does design positively change the world?
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Oasis – a true 'living' room in Annantalo's yard
Master’s degree students from the Department of Architecture will be co-operating with Annantalo Arts Centre to implement a plan for rebuilding the garden area at Annantalo. The goal is to turn the garden into a pleasant, functional and barrier-free environment that is suitable for children, young people and families.
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Product Design Gala
27.04.-15.05.2012 / 10:00 - 16:00
The final results of the interdisciplinary Product Development Project course are featured to the public. In addition to participating the exhibition and related seminar, the audience is encouraged to meet the students and go for real hands-on experience with the new prototypes.
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Masters of Aalto
09.05.-03.06.2012 / 10:00 - 18:00
Masters of Aalto is a yearly event presenting thesis projects of new master graduates from all Aalto University schools.
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Sit Me
11.05.-16.09.2012 / 00:00 - 00:00
Furniture design students have taken a new stance on where to sit. Their work is on the borderline between fine art and applied art, more specifically, when everyday, functional seats are transformed into sculpture.
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Pavilion
12.05.-16.09.2012 / 11:00 - 21:00
Students of Aalto University designed a wooden pavilion which was placed in an empty lot between Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum in Helsinki in spring 2012. The Pavilion is a temporary construction and serves as a World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 as a hub and a meeting place for the general public, the media and visiting international experts during the summer months. The Pavilion house also an café.
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Dirikka 2012+
Dirikka 2012+ is a unique program for Aalto students to join in with businesses, the public sector, research and training. The goal: become a new generation of leaders who are able to truly think holistically and take new approaches towards sustainability.
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Cumulus Helsinki: Northern World Mandate
24.-26.05.2012 / 09:00 - 17:00
The Cumulus Conference will follow the overall theme of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 theme “Open Helsinki – Embedding Design in Life”. The conference will dig in the theme by asking questions like how design knowledge can support public services in the development of open, participative city environment.
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Näytös XII - fashion show
25.05.2012 / 18:30 - 21:00
Näytös XII is a yearly held fashion show organized by the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. It exhibits the curated thesis projects by MA and BA students. Showtime is on May 25th, 2012.
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ARTS Exposed! – Art Sale and Other Transactions
26.-27.05.2012 / 11:00 - 16:00
Arts Exposed! is a two-day art and design sale event, but it's much more than just a show. Selected works by students and alumni of the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture will be up for sale, taking over the Pavilion in the heart of the design capital for one weekend. Don't miss it!
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The Renewal of the Maternity Pack
29.06.-02.09.2012 / 09:00 - 19:00
Maternity pack is the first benefit that the society offers for a family with a new born baby in Finland. The pack is given to around 40 000 families every year.
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Wastelands
16.-29.07.2012 / 09:00 - 19:00
EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly) is an independent event of architecture students, with an annually changing venue country. EASA can be described as a two-week long architecture festival for about 500 architecture students taking part. Over 42 countries and over 240 architecture schools are represented from all over Europe.
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Aalto Camp for Societal Innovations (ACSI)
07.-14.08.2012 / 09:00 - 19:00
Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation ACSI is a global new generation innovation process. The heart of ACSI is an annual innovation camp, where solutions and prototypes are created to meet the challenges of broad societal topics.
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4th Sustainable Summer School
25.08.-03.09.2012 / 09:00 - 17:00
Summer school on Sustainable Design for design, architecture and other interested students on Suomenlinna island from 25th August to 3rd of September 2012. Expert day at August 29th at the Pavilion.
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Happy End?
Helsinki Art Museum and Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture join forces in the Happy End? exhibition to consider the kind of futures available to people. Will our future life be easy, fun and ecologically alternative or wasteful, destructive and tragic? All of these future scenarios include hopes, dreams, good and bad.
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Now, Citizen meets sustainable design in Vaasa
14.09.2012 / 13:00
The Now, Citizen meets Sustainable Design initiative brings the many forms and applications of design up front and center in Vaasa. The aim of the initiative is to demonstrate for audiences how, with the help of working design; products can be created that are both serviceable for people and good for nature.
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Visualizing Knowledge
17.09.2012 / 09:00 - 17:00
The Visualizing Knowledge (Tieto Näkyväksi in Finnish) seminar will gather a group of Finnish and international practical and theoretical experts in the field to discuss the current state and future of illustrative information presentation.
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Soft Tower
17.09.2012 / 12:00
Soft Tower is an innovation project focused on high-rise buildings. High-rise is a device for spatial optimization, creating peaks of density. It is perhaps the most powerful device for sustainable building due to the optimization of the urban infrastructure. Most of tall buildings however have a bad image caused by serial reproduction and technocratic atmosphere.
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Radical Design Week 2012
26.10.-04.11.2012 / 00:00 - 00:00
RDW 2012 is a one-of-a-kind future-oriented event in China featuring the most successful Finnish design and service brands and companies, as well as top Finnish and international designers and architects.
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Co-Core -open critique session
12.-14.12.2012 / 09:00 - 19:00
Rather than showing off the finished work, Co-Core intends to mix the formats of exhibition and pedagogical presence. Co-Core is a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary project aiming at presenting and discussing student works in a rich dialogue with teachers and students from different universities.
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