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Main Courses at Contemporary Design MA

Courses Highlight at Contemporary Design MA
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Materials and Living Systems

As biomaterial is a broad and currently widely used term, the students learn to explore and discover new perspectives to biomaterials within their systems and understand how to create their own creative approach towards these materials.

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Experimental Design

The course follows a pre-determined and changing topic that establishes the frame inside which the students work. Each time a different corporate partner is involved in determining the characteristics of the introduced course case.
MUO-E5009

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Product and Form I + II

The topics of the course belong to the fundamentals of design capability. The course gives the students an opportunity to focus on form and aesthetics and deepen their skills.
MUO-E5025
MUO-E5026

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Glass Challenge 2018

Glass Challenge

The aim of the course is to encourage students to refine and articulate a personal approach to the discipline and improve skills in communicating ideas and getting familiar with the co-operative nature of glass making practices.
MUO-E5023

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Ceramic Laboratory

The course is studio-based and includes the practical realization of an experimental art or design project in ceramics. The theme and standpoint changes yearly.

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Parametric CAD

During the course the student is introduced to the basics of parametric 3D CAD modeling.

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Reflective Practices

This 6 week long reflective practices course introduces critical and reflective approaches to design, which we consider to be an evolving, political and activist field. We look at different practices of critical design including speculative design, transition design, design activism and their theoretical and historical foundations.

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Creative Digital Design

Want to experience VR, really focus on 3D printing or maybe you would like to design purely virtual goods – feel free to join the course!

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Woodstudio: Design Project

Woodstudio: Design project CoDe

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Personal Project

This course is a journey around a theme of the student's choice, supported by tutors and multidisciplinary network of workshops at Aalto University.

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Various natural materials and textures arranged on a white background, including dried plants, fabric, and woven items.

CHEMARTS Project

The aim of this course is to develop a sustainable material or innovative product idea in the CHEMARTS lab, using renewable sources, waste streams, or plant biomass.

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