Aalto Media Lab
Demo Day
Spring Demo Day 2026 #
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 13:00–19:00
Väre
1st Floor Kitchen (near Media Lab Homebase)
Otaniementie 14, Espoo
Recent Projects
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Aevitas: Last Light
Amélie (Dodo) Dell’Oro
, Liana Sagon Del Castillo
, Mikko Aaltio
, Tuomo Tiainen
, Roosaliisa Manninen
Game Project
An atmospheric platforming journey about atrophy, loss, and acceptance.
Audiovisual Staging of Financial Transactions in XR
Jānis Garančs
Research
Exposed and hidden dynamics of financial markets—trends, cycles, and micro‑events—translated into immersive, real‑time audiovisual XR environments.
AURORA
Tino Selić
Master's Thesis
AURORA is an interactive experience that uses the ZED 2i stereo camera and Unreal Engine 5 to create virtual auroras that follow users’ movements.
Foghorns Drown
Eelis Koivusaari
, Umut Soudan
, Axel Kulomaa
Game Project
Foghorns Drown is a psychological thriller where you play as a ferryman, bringing passengers across a foggy lake to a town drenched in mystery and folklore. The old ferryman has disappeared, and a murder has been committed. How to tell real from dream when the dead speak again?
I Died in this House
Aaro Koiso-Kanttila
, Amélie (Dodo) Dell’Oro
, Anna Elizabeth Borisovich
, Diandra Kathyusha Herli
, Emil Backlund
, Filippa Sandberg
, Mikko Aaltio
, Pauliina Huotari
, Sabrina Wong
, Tung Nguyen
, Zhehao Fang
, Zsu Oláh
Game Project
I Died in this House is a detective puzzle game where you must solve murders by analyzing floor plans, talking with the murder victim, and connecting evidence.
Paperino
Ziyu Zhao
Digital Fabrication
Paperino is an interactive robotic parrot inspired by an African grey parrot I lived with for two months in Italy.
The Structural Sounds of Uzbekistan’s Big Solar Furnace
Heikki Vastiala
Master's Thesis
During 2025–26, Heikki Vastiala has been recording the structural vibrations and resonances of Uzbekistan’s Big Solar Furnace, a monumental Soviet-era solar thermal research facility located in the Tian Shan mountain range.
Theta
Aaro Koiso-Kanttila
, Adolam Cohen
, Haiqi (Rooster) Gong
, Iso
, Kanhong (C14) Zhong
, Suyang Meng
, Tuyen Nguyen
, Yidi Mao
, Yuhan (Violet) Shi
, Ziyu Zhao
, Ziyuan (Bryce) Qu
Game Project
An asymmetrical interface co-op for two with cute aliens & Earth’s fate at stake!
What We Crop
Valerie Jeyeon Yong
Art + Media Studio
What We Crop is an interactive web experiment developed within the Art + Media Studio: Latent Museum course and its accompanying research paper exploring indirect ways of thinking about museums, generative AI, and latent space.
XENOETIQUETTE
Fiona Keil
, Niklas Malinen
, Miro Aurela
, Mariia Makushina
Game Project
An asymmetrical interface co-op for two with cute aliens & Earth’s fate at stake!