Designs for a Cooler Planet

Exhibitions in Marsio

Opening hours:
Mon–Thu 8–21 and Fri 8–20, closed on weekends
Oct 3 at 8–19

Magnificent materials

Material literacy as an antidote for climate anxiety.

Transparent materials made out of wood

Entangled – Reimagining textile functionalities

Interdisciplinary collaboration transforming smart textiles.

Bobbing lace butterfly, an interactive textile piece part of Entangled exhibition.

BioColour: sustainable colour aesthetics

Transforming fashion by getting rid of toxic colours.

Sofia Ilmonen Biocolour

Bioeconomy 2.0

Unseen bio-based materials.

Wooden crystals

New landscapes in textile design

Sustainable textile production by innovative technique combinations.

Fabric design by Maija Fagerlund, Emilia Kuurila, Maarit Salolainen and Anna Semi  Photo Mikko Raskinen

Building with misfit wood

Revealing the potential of underutilised whole wood.

Whole oak sawed by Jaakko Torvinen to create custom joinery.

Materials for change

Surprising bio-based experiments.

Example of materials for change project, yarn made out of fireweed

Innovation in health care

From unmet medical needs to innovations.

Aura Pyykönen pitching in the ice hole, photo by Polar Bear Pitching

Fostering bioinnovation

Tomorrow’s textiles and packaging.

Fostering Bioinnovations exhibition sneakpeak

Future Pack-Age visions

Sustainable packaging alternatives.

Woamy

Using satellites to save our peatlands – how and why?

Monitoring peatland rehabilitation from space.

Landscape from the Finnish peatlands.

Future visions in fashion

Imagining and making alternative fashion futures.

Piece from a Näytös24 collection designed by Petra Lehtinen.

Cybersecurity skills for Europeans

Learn to safely navigate in the digital world.

Screenshots of a cybersecurity game.

Satellite exhibitions

Kudos – a library for material relations

Architecture as a collaboration between humans, clay and fungi.

Fungi in a glass jar, part of Kudos by Elina Koivisto.

Aalto ARTS Student Show 2024

The Aalto ARTS Student Show brings together a selection of student projects from all over the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Aalto ARTS Student Show visual

Flowing carbon

Different methods of carbon sequestration in urban green areas.

Exhibition boxes Biochar Project

Alusta pavilion – Environmentally conscious architecture

A place for encounters between humans and non-human animals.

Alusta pavilion

Huoju-A – a multi-sensory wooden pavilion

Mindful, experiential architecture.

HuojuA pavilion photo

Transforming Education to Reach Global Impact

An exhibition on the Aalto journey through case-based teaching and learning in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Intercultural student teamwork in Tanzania, PBL East Africa project in 2020
Events programme – Designs for a Cooler Planet 2024

Makers of the Impossible 


Many things we now take for granted seemed impossible just a few years or decades ago. 

The Makers of the Impossible exhibition encourages you to dream big, roll up your sleeves and start experimenting. We talk a lot about our footprints, yet a more sustainable future is shaped by our hands, in the now. 

In our current quest for perfection, we often overlook potential solutions and ignore the beauty of fading, aging and irregularity. 

Challenge your perception of the possible by exploring the handprints of the Aalto community's cross-disciplinary experiments. 
 


'Many think it is impossible to build sustainably. Although it might be difficult, it is not impossible.’ 
– architect Elina Koivisto / Kudos pavilion 


Visit the exhibitions 6 Sept – 3 Oct 2024 in Marsio  – Aalto's brand-new, open-to-all meeting place – and satellite locations, and join the events to get a glimpse of a better tomorrow!

From space technology and shimmering wood to shapeshifting textiles – explore world-changing research in the brand new Marsio building
Broaden your perspective with the latest research at the Marsio exhibitions

Designs for a Cooler Planet is an official event of Helsinki Design Week and part of the EU Commission's New European Bauhaus initiative.

Contact Cooler Planet team

Enni Äijälä
Senior specialist, Outreach with partners 
+358 50 359 4810 
[email protected] 

Tiina Toivola
Communications manager, Radical Creativity
tiina.toivola@aalto.fi

Collaborators: Radical Creativity, Aalto Networking Platform, Advancement and Corporate Engagement, Aalto Communications team, Sustainable Solutions, Entrepreneurial Mindset, Leadership Support Services, Väre Takeout, Strategic Events, and the School of Art, Design and Architecture.

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