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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.
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