Public defence in Design, MA Leonardo Hidalgo Uribe
Colours also grow from the land: rethinking dominant textile colour practices through ethnographic research on bio-based dyeing crafts.
Doctoral Studies at Aalto Design Research
Interested in studying for a doctorate with us? We offer an international doctoral programme for those seeking careers in design. Admission period is in early spring each year. A special feature of the programme is that the thesis can include art or design productions.
We supervise and support a lively community of doctoral researchers.
Apart from individual programmes of research, doctoral activities include:
- access to a varied set of doctoral courses across the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and beyond at 911±¬ÁÏÍø;
- courses on methods, contexts and presentation in design research;
- a monthly departmental seminar programme;
- opportunities for exchange visits to partner institutions.
Nearly all doctoral students at Aalto Design Research are located within departmental research groups, benefitting from close contact with their researchers and specific research cores.
Applications for doctoral study in the Department of Design open in March each year. There is just one annual intake of students which is in September. Applicants are encouraged to consider how their proposed research addresses the department's research pillars, research groups or the research of particular professors.
Further information on the Doctoral Programme in Arts, Design and Architecture
Contact us regarding research and doctoral awards
Andrea Botero Cabrera
Professor (Associate Professor)
Department of Design
Head of Doctoral Education
Upcoming Public Defences in the Field of Design
Public defence, Design, MA MarÃa Ferreira Litowtschenko
Design and governance: Political dimensions of public sector innovation labs in Latin America
Public defence, Design, MA Emilia Tikka
Design in between worlds. Bioscience imaginaries and living relations of reindeer worldsPrevious Public Defences in the Field of Design
Public defence in Design, MAA Kata Fodor
Understanding urban food environments: How to accommodate sustainable diets in the space between our plates and the planet?
Public defence in Design, MA Nathaly Pinto Torres
Indigenous pictograms as devices for knowledge, identity, and resistance, pushing participatory design toward communal,
territorial practice
Public defence in Design, MA (New Media), M.Sc.(Arch.) Jaana Hyvärinen
Prototyping for service – collaborative, transformative and translational practice (title of the thesis).
Public defence in Design, MA Noora Yau
Shimmering Wood – Experimenting with Nanocellulose-Based Structural Colour (title of the thesis).
Aalto Design Research