Future concepts
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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