Bio Materiality
As biomaterial is a broad and currently widely used term, the students learn to explore and discover new perspectives to biomaterials and understand how to create their own creative approach towards these materials.
MUO-E5021
Contemporary Design
Professor Pirjo Kääriäinen
Professor in Design driven fibre innovation, CHEMARTS
Pirjo Kääriäinen works as professor between two Aalto University Schools, the School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS) and the School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM).
Since 2011 she has been facilitating interdisciplinary CHEMARTS collaboration together with professor Tapani Vuorinen. CHEMARTS is aiming to inspire students and researchers to explore bio-based materials together, and to create new material concepts for the future. Before her career in academia, Pirjo Kääriäinen worked eighteen years for Scandinavian textile industry and commerce, and gained experience also as an entrepreneur and consultant for creative industries. Her background is originally in textile design. Her professional interests are: Bio-based materials, interdisciplinary collaboration, design for sustainable materials, experimental design, future textiles.
Webpages related to her work:
http://chemarts.aalto.fi
www.CelluloseFromFinland.fi
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News
Bacterial bandages and recycled fibres: Aalto brings a materials revolution to Slush
New materials play an important role in sustainable development and combatting climate change. New uses for old materials can also be a major industrial opportunity: for example, the value of biomass from forests in Finland can be doubled if used for manufacturing products of higher added value.
Jenni Haukio’s Independence Day gown sets the stage for Finland’s next 100 years
Designed by Aalto students Emma Saarnio and Helmi Liikanen, the dress evokes nature with exquisite materiality and minimalist lines
Companies want to develop innovations from biomaterials together with FinnCERES
A large group of representatives of industry took part in the Industry Meets FinnCERES event on 5 November 2018 at Paasitorni in Helsinki.
Aalto-Helsinki awarded gold medal in iGEM 2018
Multidisciplinary student team from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki made it to the top category out of three in iGEM Giant Jamboree 24–28 October in Boston.
Jenni Haukio to wear gown made of sustainable Ioncell material at December’s Independence Day reception
Ioncell is a new technology that creates high-quality textile fibres from wood or recycled materials.
The next material revolution will start in the forest
Plastic straws and utensils will soon be history but they will not be missed, as something much better will replace them.
Fibre technologies revolutionising the textile industry win the European Commission's Regiostars Awards
VTT and Aalto University’s TeKiDe project won the category Achieving sustainability through low carbon emissions.
What happens when you mix cellulose with wool or rice straw? CHEMARTS students spent the summer finding out
Students in this year’s CHEMARTS summer school have spent three months in the lab learning how to use biomaterials in fresh ways.
Aalto students’ eco-art exhibition opens at Helsinki Airport
The exhibition From Nature to Future combines material experimentation and art with surprising results.
Seed funding led to a multimillion strategic collaboration between designers and chemists
ChemArts, which brings together students of biomaterials and design, is already looking into business opportunities and preparing for world domination.
Latest publications
Materialising the Future: A Learning Path to Understand, Develop and Apply Emerging Materials and Technologies
Venere Ferraro, Pirjo Kääriäinen, Paz Morer-Camo, Anke Pasold
2023
Behind bioinnovations / Dutch Design Week (curator)
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Anna van der Lei
2023
Unlikely materials: Experimenting with underutilised bio-based materials / Designs for a Cooler Planet
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Enni Äijälä
2023
Applying DATEMATS Methods and Tools to Experimental Wood-Based Materials: Materiality in an Ideation Process
Tarja-Kaarina Laamanen, Pirjo Kääriäinen
2023
Materialising the Future: A Learning Path to Understand, Develop and Apply Emerging Materials and Technologies
Integration of Carboxymethyl Cellulose Waveguides for Smart Textile Optical Sensors
Sofia Guridi Sotomayor, Ari Hokkanen, Aayush Kumar Jaiswal, Nonappa Nonappa, Pirjo Kääriäinen
2022
Proceedings of IEEE SENSORS 2022
CHEMARTS at Design Festival Bern
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Tatja Jakovlev, Tapani Vuorinen, Janika Lehtonen
2022
CHEMARTS at Dutch Design Week 2022
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Liisa Tervinen, Tapani Vuorinen, Nina Riutta
2022
CHEMARTS at Dutch Design Week 2022 (curator)
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Anna van der Lei
2022
Designers – the agents of change
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Kirsi Niinimäki
2022
Designing Change : New Opportunities for Organisations
Facilitating the future of sustainable textiles and packaging: Aalto University Bioinnovation Center
Pirjo Kääriäinen, Michael Hummel, Susanna Ahola, Greta Salonen
2022
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