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Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Aalto University's School of Arts, Design and Architecture is an institution of higher education for

The Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture is an institution of higher education for design, media, architecture, motion picture, art education and art. The school's unique character is a result of its ability to combine experience stemming from a long tradition with new thinking in a way that enables new, creative solutions. The key areas of research are
- design
- digital media
- audiovisual representation
- art
- visual culture
- well-being architecture and emerging technologies
- urban planning and design. The School of Arts, Design and Architecture produces specialists and innovators of art, design and architecture with strong artistic and technical skills.

06/10/2026

Camilla Naukkarinen is the Young Designer of the Year 2026! Big congratulations! 👏😍

Camilla is an MA graduate from Aalto University’s Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design programme. She combines historical craft techniques with a striking design language to create a whole that challenges the viewer to look at familiar things from a new perspective. 💫

Her winning entry, created for this year’s theme “What a Surprise”, features hand-woven flowers made from synthetic hair fibres and metal wire, with each flower sewn onto the base fabric by hand. 🪡

The idea draws inspiration from a Victorian-era tradition in which flowers were made from the hair of loved ones and assembled into memorial wreaths. Hair has also been a recurring theme in Camilla’s own life and work, influenced by her mother and grandmother, who both worked as hairdressers. 🪮

Read more via the link in bio.

📸 Photos by Saara Taussi:
1-4 Camilla’s winning work
5 Portrait of Camilla Naukkarinen

01/10/2026

Still haven’t seen the Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2026? This is your last chance! 🔥

Welcome to discover the latest in design, architecture, film, art and media!

💨 Hop on the metro or the light rail line 15 and visit the Grad Show!
📅 Open until 7 Oct 2026
📍 Väre building, Aalto campus
💫 Free entry!

The Aalto ARTS Grad Show is a part of Aalto University's wider Designs for a Cooler Planet festival, and also part of the Helsinki Design Week official programme.

29/09/2026

Attention, please! 🪩 This is the theme of Aavistus Festival 2026 – a biennial of audiovisual art and VJ culture in Helsinki.

The festival presents an international lineup of VJ and audiovisual performances, media art installations, screening of video art and fulldome films, projection mapping works, talks, workshops, and more.

Aavistus was founded by our Visual Communication Design students Merle Karp and Anni Tolvanen, Aalto Medialab alum Suvi Parrila, and producer Hannu Häkkinen in 2020. Since then, many Aalto students have joined the core working group and the production team.

The festival fosters innovation and creativity in audiovisual arts, enriching Helsinki’s cultural scene and giving audiences a unique opportunity to explore its diverse world.

See you on the dance floor! 🔥

Aavistus Festival 2026
🌍 Over 50 acts from 21 countries
📅 30 Sept - 4 Oct 2026
📍Helsinki, Finland
🎟️ Festival passes & tickets on sale

More info in comments. 🔗

📸 Photos from the previous Aavistus festivals:
1. Photo: Rajatonvimma
2. VJ performance by Katia Vonna, photo: Anna Valli
3-4. Photo: Liu Wenyi
5. Performance by Juan Qin & Emma Valtonen, photo: Matias Keski-Kuha
6. Aavistus 2024, work by Paula Lehtonen, photo: Susse Seppälä

28/09/2026

Join us for a special screening featuring thought-provoking and captivating MA short films from ELO Film School! 🎬🍿

This event is part of the Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2026, which celebrates the talented and creative Aalto ARTS graduates! Free entry! 🎟️

Marsio Cinema
📍Otakaari 2 A, Aalto campus

Wed 30 Sept
🍿 First screening 15:00-16:00
🍿 Second screening 16:15-17:50

MA films at Marsio Cinema:
🎥 SCENT OF AN ANCESTRAL DREAM, doc, dir. Shamsil Balkis,
🎥 DANCERS ONLY, doc, dir. Siiri Selin
🎥 VETEEN PIIRRETTY (Drawn in Water), animation/doc, dir. Heta Jokinen
🎥 TJ28 (28 Days Left), fiction, dir. Yasmin Najjar
🎥 VUOROSANAT (A Part of Unwritten), dir. Arman Zafari
🎥 VILLASUKKA (Woolen Sock), animation, dir. Katariina Haukka
🎥 MEMORABILIA, fiction, dir. Roosa Vuokkola
🎥 ASTRO TV, fiction, 2025, dir. Magdaleena Jakkila

More details in comments!

📸 Cropped stills from shorts:
1. TJ28 (28 Days Left), dir. Yasmin Najjar
2. DANCERS ONLY, dir. Siiri Selin
3. SCENT OF AN ANCESTRAL DREAM, dir. Shamsil Balkis
4. VETEEN PIIRRETTY, dir. Heta Jokinen
5. VILLASUKKA (Woolen Sock), dir. Katariina Haukka

24/09/2026

Want to try some DIY in creative practices? 🤩

We’re so proud of our Aalto ARTS graduates who are pursuing their creative passion into careers that are rewarding and exciting! But even if you’re not a professional creative yourself, YOU can start experimenting, too.

At Aalto, we have plenty of possibilities to explore design, architecture, craftmanship and creativity — in your own time and place, online and completely free! For example:

Want to know what makes creativity radical?
💫 Dive into the Radical creativity online course!

Ever wondered what design really is all about?
💫 Take the online course for non-designers.

Interested in experimenting with materials?
💫 Get cooking with some recipes from the CHEMARTS Cookbook.

Are you into Data Viz?
💫 Browse some state-of-the-art talks from the annual Viz Knowledge conference.

Get involved – check the link in comments 👀✨

And if you want to get inspired by the work of our graduating students, come explore the Aalto ARTS Grad Show on campus! ❤️ On view until 7 Oct.

📸 Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2026 works, photos Anne Kinnunen:
1. Hanna Klie: Frames
2. Veronika Valtonen: Letters for a Post-literate World

22/09/2026

We are celebrating the 90th birthday of Juhani Pallasmaa this week! 🤩

Finnish architect and educator Juhani Pallasmaa is widely known for his lectures, essays and books, many of which have become touchstones in the discussions on human experience and architecture. But his thinking and legacy extend well beyond any single text or line of thought.

Throughout his life, Pallasmaa has engaged with philosophy, neuroscience, literature, poetry, film and the visual arts, continually returning to questions of perception, imagination, memory, solitude and the relationship between the individual and the built environment.

The predecessors of Aalto University have also had the great pleasure of having Pallasmaa as Rector of he University of Art and Design Helsinki (1970–71), and as Professor at Helsinki University of Technology (1991–97).

Join us’ for Phenomena: Celebrating the Influence and Legacy of Juhani Pallasmaa’, a symposium marking his 90th birthday and reflecting on the relevance of his thinking today. Speakers will explore his ideas on how architecture shapes what we feel, see, and share in everyday life.

Featuring an international group of prominent architects and thinkers, including: Fuensanta Nieto & Enrique Sobejano, Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara, Peter MacKeith, Susan Stewart, Sarah Robinson and Juliette Kennedy.

📅 Fri 25 Sept 2026
⏰ 13-18:00 (UTC +3)
📍 Live stream online, link in comments 🔗
💫 Free entry to live stream

📸 Images 1-5 copyright Juhani Pallasmaa Architects.
1. Korundi, Art Museum and Concert Hall, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2011
2. House of Silence, Siikakoski, Finland, 2001
3. Chair, prototype, 1991
4. Helsinki City Planning Office, underground extension, stairway. Helsinki, 1992
5. Tea House, Mäntyharju, Finland, 2002
6. Portrait of Juhani Pallasmaa by Antti Laine

17/09/2026

Cinephiles hoy! Going to Love & Anarchy film festival? 🎬 Don’t miss these amazing shorts from our very own ELO Film School students! 🍿

Finland’s biggest film festival, Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy, promotes the artistry of filmmaking alongside inventive, controversial and visually stunning new films. The festival also seeks to screen films that would otherwise not be seen in Finnish theatres.

Check out these gems competing in the R&A Shorts: National Competition:

🎥AETERNUS FLORERE, doc, 2025, dir. Milja Härkönen

🎥VAIN YKSI VOI KELLUA (The One Who Floats), 2025, fiction, dir. Jasmin Gummerus

🎥ETÄISYYKSIÄ (Interspace), 2026, animation, dir. Jesse Lähilehto

🎥VUOROSANAT (A Part Unwritten), 2026, fiction, dir. Arman Zafari

🎥KANSSANI AINA (Forever With Me), 2026, doc. dir. Noa Korhonen & Myrsky Virmavirta

🎥SEKASAUNA (Mixed Sauna), 2026, fiction, dir. Juuso Timonen

🎥TJ28 (28 Days Left), 2026, fiction, dir. Yasmin Najjar

🎥MUNKKI (Killing Me Softly), 2026, documentary, dir. Viena Kytöjoki

🎥MAJOR BAG ALERT, 2026, fiction, dir. Viljami Penttilä

And one more gem, part of the Official Selection in the Night Visions screening:

🎥 BODYRAVE, 2025, animation/experimental, dir. Harri Connell, Felix Järjenpää, Leo Lindgren

👉 Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy
📅 17-27 Sept 2026
📍 Various cinemas in Helsinki

More info and screening times below 👇

📸 Cropped stills from the shorts:
1. MAJOR BAG ALERT, dir. Viljami Penttilä
2. ETÄISYYKSIÄ (Interspace), dir. Jesse Lähilehto
3. KANSSANI AINA (Forever With Me), dir. Noa Korhonen & Myrsky Virmavirta
4. MUNKKI (Killing Me Softly), dir. Viena Kytöjoki
5. BODYRAVE, 2025, dir. Harri Connell, Felix Järjenpää, Leo Lindgren
6. VAIN YKSI VOI KELLUA (The One Who Floats), dir. Jasmin Gummerus

15/09/2026

When visiting the Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition in Marsio building, you might’ve wondered what this cute orange “kiosk” is all about. Actually, it’s a great statement of the power of design! 💥

This infographic presentation depicts the collaboration between the City of Espoo and our very own Doctor of Arts, service designer Annukka Svanda. Their collaborative work has yielded outstanding results in improving employment among highly educated immigrants.

At KOSKE, Espoo’s Competence Centre for Highly Educated Immigrants, 52% of clients have found work in their own field — a remarkable figure for a group considered one of the most difficult to employ.

These exceptional employment outcomes are the result of bold and open-minded collaboration with service design research in its core. Design has influenced not only the service’s structure, usability, and quality, but also the internal processes behind it.

“In Finland, people often say that employment services don’t work — and they don’t, if they are designed around systems rather than people,” Annukka Svanda says. “We need to have the courage to ask what a person really needs, rather than simply considering what the system can offer. Our example proves that public service structures can be redesigned to be more human-centred — while also becoming more productive and cost-effective.”

💫 Visuals are based on the original concept & design by Aurora Navarro Villacampa, interpreted for exhibition by Emilia Lonka.

📸 Photos: Liivia Pallas

11/09/2026

Is it alive or not? 👀

Hugo Enkenberg’s thesis in the field of costume design examines the difficulties of achieving realism in artificial human agents, such as animatronic/puppet characters. The goal of his thesis was to find ways to design a realistic character that feels believable, approachable and “alive”. Hugo used himself as the model. The result was close but not identical to an actual human, and thus it can still be perceived as somewhat eerie.

Hugo says: “The reasons for picking this subject were largely based on personal interest and through the making of this project, I wanted to gain skills that would be useful for me as an emerging professional. However, the use of animatronic characters has increased in the film industry after a period of majority of visual effects being created digitally, thus making this a topical subject from the point of the field as well.”

👉 Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2026
💫 Free entry!
📅 Open until 7 Oct 2026
📍 Väre building on Aalto campus

⏰ Opening hours:
Mon-Thu 8-21
Fri 8-20
Sat 9-17
Sun closed

The Aalto ARTS Grad Show is part of Aalto University's Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition and also part of the Helsinki Design Week official programme.

📸 Photos: Liivia Pallas

10/09/2026

In an age of 3D printing and digital seriality, where it’s possible to produce identical, perfect objects endlessly, making a "real" object comes down to intentional imperfection. But is it possible to simulate and control flaws and imperfections to give industrially produced objects a more human touch? 🤔

The answer is yes, if you ask designer, recent graduate Vili Sihvola. In his thesis “Unique Seriality” Vili experiments with ceramic 3D printing and creates unique errors in small cup-like models. The goal is to create interesting and organic surface textures by incorporating imperfections into products printed in a precise industrial fabrication.

When everything can be mathematically perfect, imperfection becomes a sign of human touch, history and character. It is exactly how creators can prevent objects from looking sterile or artificial in an era of flawless 3D printing and digital rendering.

👉 Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2026
💫 Free entry!
📅 Open until 7 Oct 2026
📍Väre building on Aalto campus

⏰ Opening hours:
Mon-Thu 8-21
Fri 8-20
Sat 9-17
Sun closed

The Aalto ARTS Grad Show is part of Aalto University's Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition and also part of the Helsinki Design Week official programme.

📸 Photos: Anne Kinnunen

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