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• Admissions Results 2012
• Student projects
  • Look boldly to the ceiling
  • Animals visiting the city
  • A game helping deaf children to learn
  • A home in the eye of the storm
  • Shopping makes a difference
  • Talk the talk or walk the walk?
  • Welcoming the future brands
  • Building a well for an elementary school
  • From computer mice to hamsters
  • Full steam ahead

Student projects

Burkina Faso – Building a well for an elementary school

A well for an elementary school in Burkina Faso, West Africa provided clean drinking water and enabled the locals to practice agriculture. Read more about this project

A home in the eye of the storm

The Wooden Refugee Shelter, Liina, is an ambitious project by students at Aalto University. The number of refugees worldwide is expected to exceed 1 billion by 2050. Liina shelter is one step forward in helping them to survive. Read more about this project

Look boldly to the ceiling

A group of students at Aalto University created a revolutionary new solution, where a robot operates on the ceiling instead of the floor. Read more about this project

Animals visiting the city

An animal parade across the Helsinki city centre with bears, wolves, moose, and owls. A project with a declaration of love to the City of Helsinki and its inhabitants. Read more about this project

Welcoming the future brands

The average consumer receives about 5,000 commercial messages per day. "Brand in Space" Spatial Design project studies how private and public spaces can be used to commit both the customers and employees emotionally. Read more about this project

Talk the talk or walk the catwalk?

The Aalto students of Fashion and Clothing Design arranged a fashion show for a prestigious international audience. The catwalk was even visited by a polar bear! Read more about this project

Shopping makes a difference

“Hypermarket Nation” by an Aalto University film student Paula Korva tells a moving story about a small local shop which pursues to fight over its existence among the rise of the hypermarkets. Read more about this project

A game helping deaf children to learn

'The Brave Little Troll' is a visual rhythm game by a team lead by an Aalto media student Juho Jouhtimäki. It is designed for deaf and hard of hearing children aged between 4 and 7. Read more about this project

“Full Steam Ahead!”

With severely corrosive salt water and storms, the northern climate has another surpise up its sleeve: temperatures plummeting to even -40°C. Aalto University students, in co-operation with Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc., generated some new, revolutionary ideas. Read more about this project

"From computer mice to hamsters"

Thinking beyond mouses and keyboards! Whack-a-hamster game is a game in which several types of hamsters must be evicted by using different kinds of hand movements and voice commands. Read more about this project