Designs for a Cooler Planet: (In)visible

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When Fri 08.09.2023 - Sat 16.09.2023

Time The festival and its exhibitions are open for visitors 6.9-6.10.2023
Opening hours for the main exhibition venue at Väre building:
Mon - Thu: 7:45–21:00
Fri: 7:45–20:00
Sat: 9:00–17:00
Sun: Closed

Where Aalto-yliopisto, Väre, Otaniementie 14, 02150, Espoo

Accessible Yes

The exhibitions in the Väre building can be accessed both by elevator and stairs.

Language English

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Experience Helsinki Design Week at Aalto University.

Designs for a Cooler Planet: Invisible
6 Sept – 6 Oct, 2023

This year we are exploring the Invisible – what don’t we see even though we should?

Aalto researchers and students invite everyone to the Otaniemi campus to get to know more than 20 research and study projects.

The five-week long open festival showcases research-based experimental and creative projects, samples and prototypes that have the potential to transform the way we see, think and live.

Check out the entire festival programme here.

EVENTS

Check our entire events and seminars programme, buy a ticket to the fabulous PechaKucha Night at Aalto or participate to the guided exhibition tours.

Coming up on this week:

Tue 19/09/2023
9:00–12:00
A hybrid seminar: Evolutionary architecture for social innovation
@AaltoUniversity (Otaniementie 14, Espoo)

16:30–18:30 
Webinar: Lessons in transforming society and the self

14:30–16:00
Public art tours
@AaltoUniversity (Otaniementie 14, Espoo)

Wed 20/09/2023
12:00–13:00 
Public art tours
@AaltoUniversity (Puumiehenkuja 3, Espoo)

Thu 21/09/2023
15:00–17:00
A talk show and a demo event: Electricity trader challenge – BatteryMonetizer
@AaltoUniversity (Otaniementie 14, Espoo)

17:45–18:45
Cooler Planet – a guided tour to the more than twenty exhibitions in English
@Aalto-yliopisto (Otaniementie 14, Espoo)

EXHIBITIONS

Väre building (Otaniementie 14, Espoo)
Mon–Thu 7:45–21:00 | Fri 7:45–20:00 | Sat 9:00–17:00

*Conceptual illustration of the LF-MRI unit inside an emergency medical vehicle. Image: Niilo Kämäräinen, Aalto University*

1 Time out! Rethinking construction

2 Accessible magnetic resonance imaging – AMRI

3 Wireless connection to the human brain

4 Making Finnish genome visible

5 Only way out is in

6 Sustainable change through global encounters

7 Reusable – Visions of wood architecture circularity

8 Grasping creativity

9 Ground truth, or how to resurrect a tree

10 Structuring irregularity

11 Sustainable timber floor systems – Concepts from circularity for circularity

12 Critical approaches to fashion – Showcasing Aalto Fashion collections, related event NODUS Talks 7 Sept.

13 Exploring the sustainable future of digital textile printing

14 Textile circularity, related online event 28 Sept.

15 Designing experiential futures: Hidden dimensions of fashion, related event Video screening 15 Sept.

16 Behind bioinnovations

17 AGATE: Beyond human vision

18 Fantastic Lypsy stools

19 WUUD – Novel wooden cladding solutions

20 Unlikely materials

21 Circular panels – Biofoam acoustics

22 Radical ceramics: Rethinking geopolymers

SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS at Espoo and Helsinki:

a wooden pavilion – Huoju-A

Outdoors (Otakaari 1 X, Espoo)

Wood construction for any environment on earth

Outdoors, in front of Väre building, (Otaniementie 14, Espoo)

Going dark – Reimagining artificial lighting in public for a return to natural rhythms

06/09/2023–11/09/2023 Mon–Fri: 10:00–16:00

Aalto Studios Visualization Hub (Otakaari 7, Espoo)

Energy Futures – Critical minerals, climate neutrality and transition pathways

16/03/2023–15/09/2023

Mon-Thu: 7:45–20:00, Fri: 7:45–18:00

Dipoli building (Otakaari 24, Espoo)

Alusta pavilion – Environmentally conscious architecture

01/06/2022–10/10/2023

the Museum of Finnish Architecture courtyard (Kasarmikatu 24, Helsinki)

Grasping creativity – exhibition about examining radical creativity and framing

25/08/2023–06/10/2023, Mon-Fri 8:00–15:30

Aalto Design Factory (Puumiehenkuja 5, Espoo)

DIALOGUES – Creating New Textile Futures
Showcasing textiles as a medium for future solutions
08/09 – 01/10/2023
Central Library Oodi (Töölönlahdenkatu 4, Helsinki)