Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2026
3 Sept – 7 Oct at Väre building on Aalto campus, Espoo. Explore the inspiring work of our graduating students in architecture, design, film, art and media!
Join events
Aalto University and its partners organise hundreds of events every year, open to alumni, partners and the general public. You can also find the exhibitions below, after the events.
Event highlights
Warm Clouds over the Cool Planet — Workshop
Workshop for critically engaging with material realities behind "the cloud", by turning the planetary resources behind our digital systems something we can see and touch.
Designers in Materials Research – From CHEMARTS to Biodesign
How does design shape the future of bio-based materials? Join us to hear experiences, practical insights and ideas for the future.
Department of Computer Science, MSc Thesis Presentations, Henri Vuorinen
Henri Vuorinen will present their Master’s thesis on Thursday 24 September at 13:15 in Zoom
Department of Applied Physics Career Evening 2026
Department of Applied Physics Career Evening at Maarintie 8 on Thursday, September 24th 2026 from 3.30 pm - 7 pm.1.9. - 31.10. Marsio & Väre, Otaniemi
Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition and events
24.9. 10:15 Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Analysis seminars:
Exotic mean oscillation and compactness of commutators
24.9. 13-16 verkossa & Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Designers in Materials Research – From CHEMARTS to Biodesign
24.9. 13:30-15 verkossa
Industry and Society Webinar: AI in robotics & autonomous vehicles
24.9. 14-17 Otaniemi
IESM 60 years jubileum for alumni who started over 50 years ago
24.9. 15-17 Vuorimiehentie 2, Otaniemi
Space21 & TiLa! Open Doors
24.9. 15-16 CS building, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi
Mind meets Machine Seminar series: Designing computational tools for behavioral and clinical science
24.9. 15:30-19 Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
Department of Applied Physics Career Evening
25.9. 10-11 T-talo, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi
ELLIS–FIMM talk: AI, Automation, and Phenomics for Mechanistic Insights: From Data Generation to Intelligent Agents
25. - 28.9. Otaniemi
Dissertations e.g.: film and television, computer science, design, neuroscience and biomedical engineering, architecture , landscape and urbanism
25.9. 13-22 online & Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Phenomena: Celebrating the Influence and Legacy of Juhani Pallasmaa
Cinema Sheryl, Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
25. & 26.9. Chungking Express
26. & 27.9. Happy Together
26. & 27.9. Resident Evil
27.9. Spider-Man: Brand New Day
28.9. 14-15 online & Konemiehentie 1, Otaniemi
Aalto Quantum Physics Seminar: Advancing quantum science with hybrid atom arrays
29.9. 15:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Guided tours at the Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition (In English)
29.9. 17-18 Marsio, Kide, School of Business, and Väre
Cooler Planet: Guided public art tours
30.9. - 2.12. 14:45 online & Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
Computer Science Theory seminars:
Approximation schemes for Subset TSP and Steiner Tree beyond planar graphs
30.9. 16-17 online & Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
The Convergence of AI and Quantum Technologies
1. & 15.10. 14:15 Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Mathematics and Analysis seminars:
* 1. & 15.10. Algebra, Number Theory and Applications seminars: On my Recent Work on Noiseless and Noisy Group Testing
* 5. & 19.10. Algebra & Discrete seminars
* 21.10. Analysis seminar
2.10. 15:30-16:30 Marsio, Otaniemi
Aalto Junior: Science Theatre - Meren uudet aarteet (in Finnish)
2.10. Helsinki
Prodeko 60 documentary premier (for IEM students and alumni)
3.10. 18:00 Sigyn hall, Turku
Polytech Choir & Malechoir Naskali concert: Iltarusko
Guided tours at the Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition
6.10. 15:30 Finnish
13.10. 15:30 English
20.10. 15:30 Finnish
27.10. 15:30 English
6.10. & 10.11. 17-18:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Aalto Ahaaopen lectures (in Finnish): Kasvun tulevaisuus
7.10. 10-11 online
Aalto EE webinars: From AI Experiments to AI Operating Models
7. - 14.10. 10-11 online
100STARTUPS Masterclasses
7.10. Marketing & Branding
14.10. EU Funding
15.10. 17-19 Build with Lovable
7.10. 13-14 CS building, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi
Aalto Computer Science Talks:
* Learning from the Past Without Being Trapped by It: Towards AI That Continues to Learn and Adapt.
* Eight years of noise2noise
7.10. - 2.12. 14:45 online & Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
Computer Science Theory seminars:
* 7.10. Dynamic 3-coloring of bipartite graphs with tight local update radius
* 14.10. It does not matter how you define locally checkable labelings
until 7.10. Väre, Otaniemi
Aalto ARTS Grad Show exhibition
8.10. 8-9:30 Design Factory, Puumiehenkuja 5, Otaniemi
KOSKE goes Cooler (Competence Centre for Highly Educated Immigrants)
8.10. 16-17:30 online & Otakaari 3, Otaniemi
Aalto Brain Center ABC seminar: Controlling the dose in transcranial brain stimulation
8.10. 16-17:30 Dipoli, Otakaari 24, Otaniemi
HAIC seminar: Full-Stack Software Supply Chain Security: From Keyless Signing to Supply Chain Intelligence — with Santiago Torres-Arias
8.10. 17-18:30 online
Finland – Latin America Alumni Network Launch
8.10. 17-19 Demos Helsinki, Mechelininkatu 3d, Helsinki
Design Interrupted - undesigning luxury
9.10.
Diskonttaus(annual gala for IEM students and alumni)
until 11.10. Art museum, Kasarmintie 9, Oulu
Tomorrow's Wardrobe exhibition
20.10. 9-18 Dipoli, Otaniemi
AI Day
20.10. 16:30-19:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
School of Chemical Engineering alumni seminar:Innovation Driven Defossilisation
21.10. 8:30-18:15 Think Corner, Helsinki
Global AI Governance in the Public and Planetary Interest
21.10. 13:45-16 Ekonominaukio 1, Otaniemi
Organizational Communication Research Seminar with Ellen Nathues: Carefully constituted: voices, care, and the (counter)spaces we enact
21. - 22.10. A Grid, Otakaari 5, Otaniemi
100STARTUPS
22.10. 15-17, Vuorimiehentie 2, Otaniemi
Space21 & TiLa! open doors
22.10. 18:30-21 Zollstrasse 80, Zurich, Switzerland
Aalto Alumni After Work
22.10. 19:00 Ritarihuone, Helsinki
KYL: Me emme kuole koskaan concert
28.10. 13:15-14:30 online
Architecture Speaks!
Carles Baiges, Lacol
28.10. 14-15 Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
From Observations to Insight: Measuring Networked Systems under Constraints
28.10. 14:15-17:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Tenured professors' Installation Talks
28. - 29.10. Otaniemi & Helsinki
Health Design 2026 Conference
29.10. 15-17 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Doc+ -panel: Thriving in Academia (for doctoral alumni, students and staff)
1.9. - 31.10. Marsio & Väre, Otaniemi
Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition and events
1.9. - 31.10. Design Factory, Puumiehenkuja, 5, Otaniemi
Sustainable Hydrogen Valleys - H2EnergySCAPES exhibition
14.9. - 31.10. Kide, Konemiehentie 1, Otaniemi
ArchiBioFoam - Biomaterials in Living Breathing Buildings
10.11. 17-18:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Aalto Ahaaopen lectures (in Finnish): Kvanttimullistus ja uusi aikakausi
11.11. - 10.2. 13:15-14:30 online
Architecture Speaks! - Local Memory
* 10.11. Clementine Blakemore
* 18.11. 08014
11.11. Espoo Cultural Centre, Espoo
Polytech choir & Retuperä WBK concert
12.11. 11-17 Dipoli, Otaniemi
Aalto Talent Expo (for students and recruiters)
16. - 20.11. Otaniemi
Aalto Innovation Week
18.11. Marsio, Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
SLUSH studio & Community Challenge
19.11. 18:30-21 Zollstrasse 80, Zurich, Switzerland
Aalto Alumni After Work
21.11. Espoonlahti church
22.11. Porvoo church
27.11. Old church, Helsinki
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi: Salvat 1701 - Dominante-kuoron concert
25.11. 19:00 Uusi Paviljonki, Kauniainen
27.11. 18:00 Espoonlahti Church
The Polytech Orchestra: Autumn Concerts
27.11. 15:30-16:30 Marsio, Otaniemi
Aalto Junior: Science Theatre - Luonnon supervoimat (in Finnish)
28.11. 14-22 Catapult campus, Singapore
Aalto Alumni Event
29.11. 19:00 Musiikkitalo, Helsinki
KYN & KYL: Korkea Laulu – Startup Finland poem concert
DECEMBER
until 2.12. 14:45 online & Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
Computer Science Theory seminars:
Adaptive Special Soundness: A new framework for knowledge extraction with applications to Kilian's protocol
14.12. Helsinki cathedral
Dominante choir Christmas Concert
until 15.12. A Bloc Mall, Otaniemi
Noraebang - Korean karaoke booth
until 31.12. 14-14:45 CS building, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi
Mind meets Machine Seminar series
Meet the Professor webinar
Cinema Sheryl, Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
2027
20.1. - 10.2. 13:15-14:30 online
Architecture Speaks! - Local Memory
* 20.1. Jonas Janke, B+
* 27.1. Helga Blocksdorf
* 3.2. Dominik Campanella, Concular
* 10.2. Søren Linhart, Seiler Linhart
26.1. 11-17 Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Summer Job Day -rekrytointitapahtuma
28.4. & 27.10. 14:15-17:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Tenured Professors' Installation Talks
31.4. Otaniemi
Declaration of the Wappurieha & May Day Sima for alumni at Schools
6.12. Dipoli, Otakaari 24, Otaniemi
Alumni Independence Day Reception
- Back to Work Sessions:
- FCAI webinar serie: AI and Data Science against COVID-19
- Decarbonize Design by Aalto University & Yale University
- Aalto 10 - Alumni Studio & Science show (in Finnish)
- Aalto Ventures Program: Thought Leader’s Talks
- Games Now! Lectures
- Better Business – Better Society seminar series
- Tenured Professors' Installation lectures
- Way Out There – Secrets from the lab and beyond
- Climate University
- Philosophy and system thinking lectures by professor Esa Saarinen (In Finnish)
- Sosiaalisen median ilmiöt (In Finnish)
- Aalto University Executive Education webinars
- Podcasts in English e.g.
Cloud Reachers about Future of learning
Magnificent life by Esa Saarinen
Discover Finland & Working in Finland
Operations Leadership with Gautam Basu
Future-led Learning
Painting energies
In Finnish e.g.:
Työmatkalla - Lauri Järvilehto hosts alumni and students,
Puttonen & Vilkkumaa- asiaa paremmasta busineksesta,
Alustatalouden faktat ja myytit
Kuituus,
Kahvit näppikselle
Ratkaisujen tarpeessa
Entä jos...? - Pirjo Sanaksenaho ja Tiina Heikka
Kestävät tekstiilisysteemit
Paras hetki päivässä
Osaamisen Aalloilla - More lectures at Aalto University YouTube channel
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Exhibitions
Lungs of the City: an exhibition on the carbon cycles of urban green
The exhibition in Think Corner, presents the special characteristics of the carbon cycles of urban green, and also shares tips for home gardeners.
Caring for and Commoning the Urban Dark (external link)
1 Sept – 28 Oct at Levyhalli, Suomenlinna. An exhibition on urban light pollution and the importance of darker environments for people, wildlife and ecosystems.
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2026 exhibition
Curious to catch a glimpse of tomorrow? Welcome to experience our largest exhibition of the year!
Designing sustainable hydrogen valleys – H2EnergySCAPES
1 Sept – 31 Oct at Aalto Design Factory, Espoo. The hydrogen economy and the land use required for sustainable aviation fuel production come to life in a scale model that illustrates the interplay between communities, nature and the wider energy system.
ArchiBioFoam – Bio-materials in living, breathing buildings (external link)
14 Sept – 30 Oct at Konemiehentie 1, Espoo. From material samples to architectural prototypes, the exhibition showcases recyclable and compostable biofoam structures for future construction.
Research becomes real-world solutions in autumn exhibition – Designs for a Cooler Planet showcases work by researchers and students
Aalto University’s largest annual exhibition, Designs for a Cooler Planet, will point the way to the future this autumn. It will feature more than 20 practical solutions, experiments and ideas from researchers and students.
Public art collections at Aalto University
The aim of public art across Aalto is to create a vibrant environment for experiencing the world through various perspectives and for embracing imagination, intuition, and exploration.
Väre Exhibitions
Väre Exhibitions, School of Art, Architecture and Design
Aalto galleries and exhibition venues
How can we make space for unexpected ways of looking at the world? Galleries and exhibition venues are co-produced spaces for action, bringing together the knowledge, content, vision, and passion of different agents.
See more exhibitions online
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025 exhibition
Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition presents visionary cross-disciplinary work. Come explore prototypes, experiments and solutions.
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 – Exhibitions
What don't we see even though we should – or could? Explore the exhibitions of Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 to discover what Aalto students and researchers should be made visible.
DIALOGUES Creating New Textile Futures | Aalto Virtual Exhibitions (external link)
DIALOGUES – Creating New Textile Futures by AaltoTEXTILES
Life 1.5 – an exhibition of planet-friendly materials, fashion and food
Designs for a Cooler Planet is a five-week-long festival celebrating experiments in planet-friendly materials, fashion, and food.
Near futures – online exhibition
Near futures, exhibition tribute to the academic year 2019–2020 graduates
Breaking ground – 8 ways research shaped our world
Breaking Ground is an exhibition which highlight the interconnected histories of long term and fundamental research and their impact on society
Exhibition in honour of Aalto's 10-year anniversary highlights student impact over the decades
‘Creativity in Action: The Spirit of Student Life’ exhibition opens at the Dipoli Gallery and online on 27 August.
Re-imagining the Past exhibition Vol. 2 online
The stories and images from the exhibition celebrating Aalto 10 are now available for online exploration.
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