Main Street – the collaboration study project between RCA’s Service Design and Aalto University’s Architecture has been part of Designs for a Cooler Planet event (exhibition and seminars) Wed 08.09.2021 – Wed 29.09.2021: The Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition showcases 30 projects for a more sustainable future Designs…
In spring 2021, Group X organized a building design studio course (Advanced Building Design Studio) at Aalto University Department of Architecture, in collaboration with the Architecture Department of Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), Tokyo, Japan, and its professors Kiwa Matsushita and Satoru Yamashiro. The Aalto student’s assignment was to…
After the huge success of School as a Service (SaaS), comes the new project Aalto Main Street! In process of development by Aalto University Department of Architecture A multidisciplinary joint studio course for master level will take place in Autum 2020 in collaboration with the Service Design Programme of…
School as a Service has received its 7th award, and 2nd international award since its creation in 2015. The Human City Design Award by the Seoul Design Foundation, has selected School as a Service as a winner. The idea of School as a Service (SaaS) was developed by Antti…
Identity of Space From Think Corner To think Buildings, Helsinki University Central Campus After having turned its administration building into Think Corner – an open mixed-use event space with cafeteria, meeting rooms, individual work space, and the gym, Helsinki University wants to apply a similar strategy of openness, encounters and diversity to the other…
This course is part of ‘Lähiöfest’ – a festival of neighbourhoods that aims to create discussion and catalyse new initiatives to empower locality in cities. The festival has been organised bi-annually since 2015 in different cities. Aalto University has the pleasure to collaborate with the festival already for the…
Download the catalogue here The Art of Heat Exhibition is presenting the results from a multidisciplinary studio in the ARTS Department of Aalto University. Developed by the Department of Architecture by joining the fields of Architecture, Interior Design, and Fashion Design. It was carried out for the first time…
Students Think Otaniemi Architecture Stoa is the Greek term for a publicly-used outdoor, covered walkway where the public debate took place in ancient Greece. Generally framed by a wall, a roof and an open colonnade, the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed several stoas for the Otaniemi campus. Nowadays, when…
ARK-E2003 Building Design Studio 2A design course for max. 30 master level students 8.1.-9.4.2019Tuesdays at 13-17 Responsible teachersprof. Antti Ahlava antti.ahlava@aalto.fimain instructor: Alejandro Campos alejandro.camposuribe@aalto.fi course instructors: Pauliina Kujala pauliina.kujala@live.comMeri Wiikinkoski wiikinkoskim@gmail.comOssi Konttinen ossi.konttinen@bm-ark.fiSelina Anttinen selina.anttinen@aoa.fiMatias Kotilainen matias.kotilainen@aalto.fi The task is THE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN MUSEUM in Helsinki. What…
The book Challenging the City Scale: Journeys in People-Centred Design has just been published by Birkhäuser Verlag. Edited by Cité du design Saint-Étienne and Clear Village London, it is the final publication of the European project Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of…
The Exit School of Architecture exhibition will be shown at the 13th Tallinn Design Festival on September 10-16, 2018 at the Balti Jaam pavilion (Toompuiestee 37) in Tallinn, Estonia. The Exit School of Architecture project examines shared local identities and meanings in new Finnish architecture. It looks at the…
The final Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 event will be held in Tallinn during the 13th Tallinn Design Festival (XIII Disainiöö) on September 10-16, 2018. Human Cities is this year’s theme of the festival. The XIII Tallinn Design Festival will be held from 10 to 16 September 2018….
The Thinking Incubator in Otaniemi studio course will hold its Final Review next Tuesday 15.5 at 13:15 at Aalto University Department of Architecture (Miestentie 3, room 211), as part of Aalto Festival 2018, the group of events showcasing the talents of Aalto University. Guest critics in the review will…
The publication Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 / Investigation has just been launched. Published by Cité du design Saint-Étienne, it is the result of the collaborative research work made from all the case studies collected by the European partners participating in the project, including Group X and Aalto…
Group X’s Professor Jarmo Suominen, together with artist Bao Xiying, have received with their artwork “Light of my life” the third prize in the public art competition for the artwork to Alberganportti light traffic underpass in Leppävaara, organised by the City of Espoo. More information about the competition here…
We at Group X have just published the catalogue of the exhibition “Exit School of Architecture”, held in the Dipoli building on the Otaniemi campus in September 12-29, 2017, within Human Cities Helsinki 2017, the group of activities held at Aalto University last September as part of the European…
A new form of platform economy is revolutionising teaching at the Aalto University campus. The School as a Service model is spreading. Read the full article here.
Dietmar Eberle, Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich Department of Architecture and founding partner of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten, visited Aalto University last October to give a lecture titled ‘200 100 50 20 10’ at the Department of Architecture. Read a recap on his visit here. Picture courtesy…
WORKSHOP AT AALTO UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE November 24, 2017, 10:00-18:00 / Miestentie 3, room 127 INSTRUCTORS > Belinda Tato > José Luis Vallejo HOST > Dr. Fernando Nieto, fernando.nieto@aalto.fi (enrollment) Urbanism is the mirror in which the many aspects and layers of society are reflected. Cities were first…
Bilbao 15-18 November 2017 The travelling Human Cities exhibition in 2016-2018 presents the process and results of co-creating activities in the experimental Labs of all the Human Cities partners in ten different European cities. The next upcoming Exhibition is landing in Bilbao during the Bilbao Design Week. Every exhibition…
WORKSHOP AT AALTO UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE November 10, 2017, 10:00-18:00 / Miestentie 3, room 127 > 10-12 Introduction > 12-13 Lunch break > 13-16 Work in progress > 16-17 Critical session > 17-18 Visualization development INSTRUCTORS PhD Architects > José Manuel López Ujaque > Francisco García Triviño >…
Light & Space Academy holds a new course called “Introduction to Lighting Design” this Autumn Semester 2017 at the University College of Southeast Norway (USN) organised by Professors Hannu Tikka and Julle Oksanen. Through lectures and workshops, the course is tackling the essentials of architecture, architectural lighting design history…
Find in the next link the summary of the past Human Cities Helsinki 2017 group of events held in September: Sharing Playfulness – Human Cities Helsinki 2017. Here is the video summary: Other stories of the cities involved in the project can be found filtering by category or city…
Group X is collaborating again with the Professorship of Building Design (Prof. Pirjo Sanaksenaho) in the studio course on the topic Psychiatric Hospital in Laakso (Helsinki), to be held at Aalto University Department of Architecture during this Autumn Semester 2017. The Building Design Studio task is to design a…
We are happy to announce that Group X member M.Sc.(Arch.) Julle Oksanen, one of the Light & Space Academy leaders, has just become PhD in Architecture, D.Sc.(Arch.), with a dissertation titled “Design Concepts in Architectural Outdoor Lighting Design Based on Metaphors as a Heuristical Tool”. Julle defended his doctoral…
In September 2017 Group X representing Aalto University, Helsinki partner in the Human Cities network, welcomes the other partners from ten European cities to a unique international creative event “Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale/Helsinki 2017” featuring an exhibition and a collaborative workshop. Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 is…
Aalto University and MIT Media Lab wish to use Aalto University Otaniemi campus and its surroundings as a Living Lab to test and evaluate urban innovation. To foster a mutually beneficial collaboration, MIT and AU have initiated a cooperation on the creation of the City Science Lab @ Aalto…
Group X will participate in the Sri Lanka Hambantota International Cultural Exchange Centre and Innovation Expo Action Plan Workshop, an international workshop with local government and Universities to be held in Sri Lanka from June 21th to 27th, 2017. Academic institutions taking part in the workshop are the Shanghai…
Human Cities Event / Ljubljana 23–27 May 2017 PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE / Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces. A joint event of EU Human Cities: Challenging the city scale project (Creative Europe 2014-2020) and AESOP’s thematic group…
Architecture Building Design Master Course exhibition presents projects, which are based on a real initiative and need for spaces for a media education centre as part of Aalto University. The University has suggested a site in the centre of Otaniemi, near the new building of the School of Arts,…
Final Review for Studio Hong Kong: Diversifying Forms of Living with the Aalto University Department of Architecture presents the Master of Architecture student designs for hyperdensity and verticality in housing in Hong Kong. The studio is organised by Group X at Aalto and funded by the EU Human Cities…
Group X’s postdoctoral researcher Fernando Nieto is the new innovation agent for Aalto ARTS in 2017. He will represent the Department of Architecture in the Innovation Scout project, a Tekes KINO project owned by Tuija Pulkkinen from Research and Innovation Services and Aalto University’s Vice President of Research and…
Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale/Saint-Étienne 2017 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 9th March – 9th April 2017 After the launch of the project and a first workshop in 2015, Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale comes back in Saint-Etienne for the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2017, to share with the audience…
Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 March 13-14, 2017 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2017 Context The Cité du design, which leds the European project Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale, has carried out experiments on the subject of the “Urban scale in question” since 2015. In the contemporary urban context,…
Belgrade Design Week welcomes its partners from eleven European cities to a unique international creative event “HUMAN CITIES/ SHARING CLOUD – Kragujevac 2017”, inviting the broadest public, citizens and citizens initiatives, architects, urban planers, the creative community, artists, economists, municipal administrations, media, academia and students from Serbia and the…
The project School as a Service (SaaS), developed conceptually by Group X at Aalto University Department of Architecture in collaboration with the City of Espoo, has been awarded with the Quality Innovation Award 2016 in the category of Education. More information about the prize here. The project keeps on…
PhilaU – Aalto – UofO – Sustainable Luminaire & Lighting Design Competition 2016 The International Lighting Competition “InnoLight” has been celebrated as a student design competition between universities in Finland and USA. Students from Aalto University, Philadelphia University and University of Oregon have taken part in the competition. The…
