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Our workshop with Wärtsilä was organized on board the Vision of the Seas while cruising between Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. The main idea was to find a concept for an environmentally sustainable cruise ship for the year 2020. In keeping with the Aalto spirit, there were three aspects to consider: the technologies […]

Juho Hellsten from Aalto University ran a series of collaborative art workshops, some of which started already on the cruise.  Here is the latest result 🙂  

On Friday, December 2nd, we returned to UFRJ for an open talks seminar day. First, Peter Tapio and Mikelis Studers gave a presentation of the Aalto Design Factory. The Brazilians were positively surprised of the fact that DF offers support to all students in the different faculties of Aalto University. Pedro Nascimento and Henrique Gomes […]

This lively, engaging and passionate lecturer talked about a controversial subject in FAU USP on the first day of our AoW Final Exhibition: The porbelms of multidiciplinarity in the field of design. The message was, that multidisiplinarity is good if it brings new ideas to a field, but when outsiders present themselves as experts in a […]

We arrived in Sao Paulo on Monday evening.  Some of us had visited Penedo, a small Finnish colony on the way, and some of us visited a nuclear power plant at Angra.  Yesterday was Independence Day, so we were invited by the Finnish embassy in Brazil to celebrate.  Right now, the AoW Exhibition is going […]

On Thursday December 1st – our first day in Rio de Janeiro – we visited the university of Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. During the day we visited three different sites on the university campus. First destination was school of fine arts, where we visited a drawing class and several exhibitions. […]

The course Passenger ship architecture (2 ECTS) was held during the cruising part of AoW. The course is the first part of the Cruise & Ferry Experience module provided by Aalto University School of Engineering. The course was lectured by M.A. Markus Ahola and contained five lectures covering themes of what is a cruise ship, […]