Better to Wear
We get dressed each and every day: clothes protect us and help us express ourselves. We can dress better when we re-design the whole textile process from manufacturing to use to recycling.
Helsinki Design Week 2021 has landed in Otaniemi, showcasing three paths to resource wisdom
Radical ideas and prototypes contributing to a resource-wise future. The exhibitions and online lectures are open to everyone, and they belong to the official Helsinki Design Week programme.
When
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Where
Otaniementie 14
Event language(s)
English
Resource wisdom means using raw materials, energy, products, time, and facilities with care.
Wise design respects our common future. It advances wellbeing and carefully considers the impacts of our choices on future generations, society and biodiversity.
In Finland, our close relationship with nature is combined with high technological and design expertise.
Under three subthemes, Designs for a Cooler Planet presents glimpses of a wiser future with thirty of Aalto's research-based projects. Take a look into the future!
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2021
Due to corona restrictions, please book your visit beforehand. Aalto students and staff can visit the Otaniemi campus exhibitions without a pre-booking.
Loving Environments
Construction gobbles up half of the world’s natural resources. Collaboration between scientists, designers, architects, the public sector and companies generates ideas that can make living environments and the construction industry more sustainable.
Infinite Materials
We need to radically cut our consumption of materials and energy by creating materials that are not just renewable but forever reusable.
Better to Wear | Virtual exhibition (external link)
We make fashion sustainable.
Loving Environments | Virtual Exhibition (external link)
More sustainable and liveable living environments.
Infinite Materials | Virtual Exhibition (external link)
Fascinating biomaterial experiments.
Read this before your visit our exhibitions and online events
We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely, and the event will follow all of the rules and regulations set by the Finnish authorities. The safety of the employees, students and visitors is always prioritised <3 !
> Registration to the exhibition tours
You are welcome to visit our exhibitions. All exhibitions are located near by each other at Väre building in Otaniemi. Please notice that you need to book a visit in advance. Visitors will visit exhibitions independently, the tour lasts about an hour. There will be a host with you who speaks Finnish and English.
The Aalto students and personnel can visit the Otaniemi campus exhibitions without pre-booking.
In September, we will organise a wonderful series of online seminars, discussions, workshops. Everyone are welcome. Most of the events are in English.
Additional information:
Enni Äijälä
Specialist, partners and outreach
+358 50 359 4810
[email protected]
Tiina Toivola
Communications
tiina.toivola@aalto.fi
The event is a part of Helsinki Design Week’s official festival programme and Year of Research-Based Knowledge. Aalto University is one of the EU's New European Bauhaus partners.
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Have a look at our previous events
Designs for a Cooler Planet — Helsinki Design Week 2020
Helsinki Design Week at Otaniemi showcases inspiring future designs related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Designs for a Cooler Planet – Helsinki Design Week 2019
During September 2019, Aalto University's exhibition programme for Helsinki Design Week, titled 'Designs for a Cooler Planet' will introduce solutions for more sustainable lifestyles in Otaniemi
Beyond sustainability-as-usual: co-creating transformative change in sustainable living
Aalto's main event in New European Bauhaus concentrates on radically bold questions.
The Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition showcases 30 projects for a more sustainable future
What is wise to design for future generations in a world of plenty?
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