The world is changing at a pace like never before. Our focus of development is to build an outstanding creative community for new thinking. The actions we need to take to reach this include empowering an experimental culture by building the spaces and practices that encourage us to break boundaries and create novel perspectives.
Radical creativity is one of the three cross-cutting approaches in our living strategy. Over the next years, we will invest in developing creative mindsets, capabilities, processes and spaces that support radical creativity.
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Creativity is experimenting, and therefore a valuable skill for us all to master in a constantly changing and complex world. Radical creativity does not appear overnight, but we can build capabilities for it, says Dean Tuomas Auvinen.
Aalto aims to take an internationally leading position concerning radical creativity and its leadership.
Research on computational intrinsic motivation could answer some fundamental questions about the nature of creativity, but also improve household robotics or even self-driving cars
Creativity is an important capability as we spark the game changers of tomorrow, and renew our society. A culture of radical creativity supports learning from exploration, experimentation and failure.
Creative people, like artists and scientists, invent and create the new by stepping from the visible world into the invisible world of imagination, and then returning back into the visible. We all can develop our sensitivity, intuition and leadership capabilities to increase creativity.
Creativity is a buzzword – but what does it mean?
An idea that may sound crazy at first can be the key to solving significant challenges. Aalto University provides a favourable environment for daring initiatives that can lead to the discovery of some genuinely novel solutions.
A wood-structured windowless greenhouse consumes only half as much energy as a traditional glass greenhouse. In addition to producing food, Pasi Herranen’s invention could generate electricity and excess heat in the future.
Failure is an unavoidable part of life, but does failure have to be all bad? How about failing upwards and forwards?
As a student, Professor Adam Foster dreamed of studying the stars, but an over-running holiday interrupted the countdown.
Professor of Practice Sawhney examines the role of technology and cooperation in crisis using transdisciplinary human-centered design practices.
Head of Radical Creativity Riikka Mäkikoskela witnessed the power of creativity while leading a workshop.
Join us for our open lecture series discussing about the relevance of design in different contexts.
‘The low hierarchy and open labs of Aalto build a foundation for our community, as we’ve seen through the number of patents, ventures and initiatives not only from our staff but students, too.’
Tua Björklund
Professor of Practice, Design Factory
School of Engineering
The first Finnish satellite was a creative and very risky project.
Julia Lohmann considers design a bridge-building discipline that enables collaboration and communication across disciplines.
Radical creativity is my elixir, it motivates and revitalises my interest in research and the world at large, says assistant professor Elisa Mekler.
Mixing people with different backgrounds is a nutrient for creativity, says professor Tapani Vuorinen.
Leading creativity can be paradoxical because it often includes destruction, uncertainty, and conflicts, says professor of practice Niina Nurmi.
Henri Weijo focuses on what creativity is and how it can benefit both individuals and society as a whole.
We benefit from online learning approaches that bravely cut across all schools at Aalto University, says Tomi Kauppinen.
Professor of Practice Lauri Järvilehto says that radical creativity is an important part of entrepreneurship.
Curiosity breeds creativity says professor of practice Tua Björklund.
Creativity is a continuous possibility to think and act differently.
Creativity is a continuous possibility to think and act differently.
Aalto University’s new strategy encourages us to spark dialogue, build understanding, and boost creativity in the different fields of pedagogy.
Juuso Tervo is urging us not only to learn new things, but also to unlearn the already learned.
Design offers tools and new perspectives that would not be found otherwise. . It can help make a difference in every field. That is why Aalto University wants all students to have access to design education.
U-Create 2020 will be organised as an online event and invites keynotes from Aalto University professors and international researchers on the topic of Creativity amid Crisis.
Aalto University’s blog series Creativity Unfolded focuses on insights linked to creativity in a multitude of ways. Topics include design, technology, media, architecture, film, games, art theory and more. Read and join the conversation.
Aalto University UNFOLDED magazine focuses on contemporary issues dealing with creativity, experimentation, and transdisciplinary co-creation.
