Aalto Media Lab

Aalto Media Lab

The Media Lab was founded in 1994 and is now a part of the Department of Art and Media at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture of the Aalto University.

The mission of the Media Lab is to explore, discover and comprehend the new digital technology and its impact in society; to find and exploit the possibilities it opens to communication, interaction and expression and to evaluate, understand and deal with the challenges it poses to design and creative production.

Aalto Media Lab
Aalto Media Lab Demo Day December 2018

News

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Research & Art Published:

Koneen Säätiö Grant for the Centre for Text Margins

Significant Koneen Säätiö grant awarded to the project led by Associate Professor of Visual Communication Arja Karhumaa and their team.
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Research & Art Published:

Urban Travel Machines: Cosmos Met Poetry

Unique fusion of poetry and immersive digital art at the Brussels Planetarium
Aalto Open Science Award 2024. A light blue podium hovering over a blue-pink gradient background with the help of squishy-looking balloons with colored lights inside.
Awards and Recognition, Research & Art Published:

Last chance to nominate for 2024 Aalto University Open Science Award

The deadline for submissions is 3 Dec, 2024.

Events

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Academic events, Lectures and seminars

Seminar: How do we make sense of the world? Perspectives from Predictive Processing and Enactivism theories

How do we make sense of the world? Perspectives from Predictive Processing and Enactivism theories
Introduction to research data management
Lectures and seminars, Staff trainings, IT & digital tools, Support for teams, Training to support research

Introduction to Research Data Management, Mar 11, 2025

Get to know the basics of RDM with experts from Research Services.
DMPs: Online workshop for researchers
Lectures and seminars, Staff trainings, IT & digital tools, Support for teams, Training to support research, Workshops

Data Management Plans: Online workshop for researchers, Mar 12, 2025

Learn about writing a DMP with Information Specialist Lucie Hradecká and Data Agent Enrico Glerean.
Generative AI and copyright
Lectures and seminars, Staff trainings, IT & digital tools, Support for teams, Training to support research

Generative AI and copyright, Mar 17, 2025

Come join this timely discussion on generative AI and copyright by one of the most prominent experts in Finland, Legal Counsel Maria Rehbinder.

Latest Theses

The theses from the Media Lab are on public display at the Aalto University library as well as some of the latest ones also online. First recorded theses are from 1995 up to this date.

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Theses from the Media Lab

Media Lab Demo Days

Already in the late 1990s we adopted the slogan, ‘hands on with minds on’ to explain our work. We also adopted the ‘demo or die’ attitude of other Media Labs and formalised this into bi-annual Demodays, organised at the end of each term.

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Media Lab Winter Demo Day 2018. Work by John Lee. Photograph by Janne Koivisto.

Apply to Media Lab

Media Lab at the Department of Art anf Media offers interdisciplinary studies in design and production of new media, games and sound. Also various areas and amounts of design, arts, computer science, communication, cognitive science, sociology etc. are present during your studies in Media Lab.

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Department of Media Demo Day

Department of Art and Media

The departments of Art and Media at Aalto University School of Arts, Design & Architecture have merged as of 1st January 2022. Professor Harri Laakso has been appointed as Head of the new Department of Art & Media.

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School of Arts, Design and Architecture

One of the most prestigious universities in its fields. We educate our students to create imaginative, collaborative, compassionate and unconventional approaches to the most pressing challenges of today.

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