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.


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Training to support research offered in AI, ethics, data management, software – register now
New topics included! Registrations for spring 2025 are open.
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.
Urban Travel Machines: Cosmos Met Poetry
Unique fusion of poetry and immersive digital art at the Brussels Planetarium
Last chance to nominate for 2024 Aalto University Open Science Award
The deadline for submissions is 3 Dec, 2024.Events
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, Mar 11, 2025
Get to know the basics of RDM with experts from Research Services.
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, 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.

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 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 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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