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Developing new uses and meanings leads to fresh innovations
28.10.2014 Finland's future is built not only on technological innovation, but also the ability to see things differently.
Promoting more inclusive education through art education
01.10.2014 In the 1920s, music and pictorial art merged in teaching methods of art education. This old, but avant-garde tradition could be utilised in today's art education as well.
Sound makes a difference to the film viewing experience
16.09.2014 Watching a film is an all-encompassing experience in which sound plays a larger role than we realise, according to the findings of the first doctoral research in the field of sound design.
Traditional landscape familiar from Finnish visual art also appears among old stage scenes
22.08.2014 Type scenes from history depicting ideal Finnish landscapes can still be found on the stages of Finnish theatre associations.
Postmodernism returned the forgotten values to Finnish architecture at the end of the 20th century
20.08.2014 A recent dissertation shows that the postmodernist trend was of central importance in the rise of Finnish architecture to new international fame.
A first FiDiPro for Aalto ARTS in Costume Methodologies
18.06.2014 The School of Arts, Design and Architecture has received its first ever FiDiPro post as Professor Peter McNeil will be supporting the development of Costume Methodologies, a research project run by Professor Sofia Pantouvaki. The project engages research from all of the fields of costume design.
PUPA offers funding for projects carried out in the Pori region
18.06.2014 The PUPA operating model created last autumn will start at the beginning of 2015. However, the Pori Urban Platform of Aalto University (PUPA) is already of interest to existing local operators and also makes possible the presence of Aalto University in the Pori region.
Suburban residents get inspired by collaborative efforts
11.06.2014 Planning work based on the needs of residents and collaboration with professionals is being instigated in order to develop suburbs.
Unexpected target groups interested in townhouse living
10.06.2014 An Aalto University study gives indications that townhouses appeal to a pioneering type of resident willing to compromise on living space for environmental reasons.
What happens between the theatre stage and audience?
19.05.2014 Traditional stage design is increasingly being combined with new media technologies in the performing arts.
Mass tourism has impoverished the architecture of Lapland and changed familiar landscapes
25.04.2014 The increase in tourism to the region has had a significant impact on traditional Lapland travel destinations, landscapes, and the environment.
How should residents' needs be considered in housing production?
08.04.2014 In the planning and construction of housing, new ways are needed to benefit from the requirements, values and experiences of residents.
An architect who knows wood admires log cabins
02.04.2014 Using scanty resources, our forebears built durable homes. A Japanese architect, who has made Finland his home, investigates what we could learn from them.
Design research helps develop more useful mobile services
27.03.2014 Studying real life makes it possible to design more innovative mobile applications which can be of concrete benefit to people in their daily lives.
Architects need to understand the textual nature of an image
13.11.2013 Architects work primarily with images, which is why the pictorial understanding that forms the basis of their work is not irrelevant.
Uncertainty worth tolerating in design
05.11.2013 In conceptualising new services, getting a moment of insight might involve a long wait. Patience is nevertheless worthwhile, according to a recent doctoral dissertation.
Art is a tool for communicating in the social world
19.08.2013 According to the doctoral dissertation of Mika Karhu, M.A. (Art and Design), one of the essential roles of art is to act as a way of expressing social experiences. The dissertation discusses how the social world affects the work of artists. At the same time, it explores the origins of art and how arts have changed during the past centuries resulting in the work of modern artists.
Art-based environmental education inspires people to look at familiar landscapes in a new way
14.08.2013 In our digital culture, many people lack a direct experience with the ‘real’ natural world and do not feel connected to it in any way.
Academy of Finland funding for Handling Mind research project
12.02.2013 A multidisciplinary research consortium led by Maarit Mäkelä, Professor at the Department of Design of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, and Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Professor of Craft Studies at the University of Helsinki, has received a grant of nearly EUR 1 million for their Handling Mind research project. The grant has been awarded from the Academy of Finland’s Research Programme on the Human Mind.
Memories and experiences make a piece of jewellery important for a woman
15.01.2013 Women own and wear jewellery for the sake of others. Through their use of jewellery, women indicate belonging to a certain group, such as family or persons with a similar worldview or values. Jewellery is important for women, as it is associated with a number of significant memories and personal experiences.
Design games make users part of product and service design
14.08.2012 Along with professional designers, companies and service providers have a growing interest in involving users in the design of products and services. Play-like methods are utilised in joint ideation sessions.
Floating Eco Cities Combine Green Building with Finnish Shipbuilding Expertise
29.02.2012 The Finnish shipbuilding industry may become a future expert in building ecological cities.
Interdisciplinary thinker Samuel Weber lectured about politics, poetics and the media at School of Art and Design
19.12.2011 Samuel Weber, a leading American thinker across the disciplines of literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, gave three open lectures at TaiK on 13-16 December.
From Disposable to Sustainable
01.12.2011 Kirsi Niinimäki’s study shows that environmentally friendly design affects consumption behaviour.
Leena Valkeapää examines in her dissertation the culture and the way of life of the Reindeer Sami
25.10.2011 “All this is my home / these fjords rivers lakes / this cold this sunshine these storms” (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, 1979)
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