Department of Design

Empirica: Exhibitions, Talks, and Workshops

Browse exhibitions, public talks, and workshops organized or participated in by Empirica Research Group members.
An industrial site with tall silver tanks, blue structures, a bulldozer, and a fenced area. Trees are visible in the background.

Expansive frontiers: tracing wilderness

Expansive Frontiers: Tracing Wilderness is a research project developed over a period of three months by doctoral researcher Ana Ribeiro, during her time as a Visiting Researcher in the Empirica Research Group at Aalto University

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Purple coneflowers in front of a perforated brick wall, with a building and greenery in the background.

Alusta Research Pavilion

The Alusta pavilion, located in the courtyard of Helsinki’s Designmuseum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture, offers a space for multi...

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A modern art gallery with pottery, hanging art, and a projection. A person walks past a lavender wall with text.

EMMA (Espoo Museum of Modern Art) showcases evolving processes and artistic research in a ceramic art exhibition

Ceramics Facing the New presents twelve artists and two artist groups specializing in ceramic art, all of whom use materials and techniqu...

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An art gallery with large ceramic vases on a tiled pedestal. White arched ceiling and walls with text panels.

Soil Matters exhibition at the Design Museum Helsinki explores the materiality of soil and how it is interwoven with human activity.

4 September–10 January 2021 The Design Museum Helsinki Soil Matters exhibition at the Design Museum Helsinki’s Gallery presents craft and...

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A gloved hand holds a tool over a metal pipe, with a white bucket containing soil in the background.

Soil Laboratory

Soil Laboratory is a concept and practice that brings together artists, designers, craftspeople, researchers, and local human and nonhuma...

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Abstract drawing with various figures and objects, including people, plants, and tools. Yellow accents throughout.

Traces of Care: Exhibition by the students of the ‘Personal Exploration’ Course

Traces of Care is a virtual exhibition of 15 Master’s students of the Aalto ARTS Contemporary Design program under the course Personal Ex...

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Reindeer in a snowy forest. The trees are covered in snow, and the ground is white. The scene is serene and cold.

Utilizing local reindeer bone waste from Lapland in ceramics

The number of reindeers in northern Finland reaches over 200,000 each year, which is even greater than the population of people in the re...

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A yellow wooden house on a grassy hill surrounded by leafless trees under a clear blue sky.

MakerStudioPeda Summer School, 23–25 May, 2022

The core research team had their first summer school in Björkboda to discuss pedagogies related to design studio and craft teacher education

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