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Designs for a Cooler Planet 2021— Event programme

See the virtual event program.
Cooler planet

The Designs for a Cooler Planet presents glimpses of a resource wise future with thirteen virtual events. Everyone is welcome to participate in our online events.

Welcome!

The Cooler Planet Event Programme:

All events are on Finnish time (Eastern European Time, EET).

Events will be in English unless mentioned otherwise and registration links will be updated below.

Designs for a Cooler Planet logo
Cooler Planet logo design: Milja Komulainen & Olga Elliot

The opening ceremony of Designs for a Cooler Planet

Wed 08.09.21  |  16.15–17.15

Let’s celebrate together the opening of the Cooler Planet event.

Helsinki Design Week at Aalto University.

Location: online at Zoom

  1. REGISTER

Designs for a Cooler Planet
Photo: Eeva Suorlahti

Materialising the Future: CHEMARTS with Datemats@Material Village

Thu 09.09.21  |  16.00 - 17.30 EET

Seminar on new materials and technologies.

In collaboration with Milan Design Week and Datemats initiative.

  1. REGISTER

See also the 'Materialising the Future – CHEMARTS'exhibition at Väre 8.-29.9.2021.

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Main Street Project

Fri 09.09.21  |  16.00-17.00

Talk, speaker Professor Antti Ahlava

Join Zoom Meeting: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69939096814

See also the 'Main Street Project'exhibition at Väre 8.-29.9.2021. 

Designs For a Cooler Planet
Photo: Ghost Ship by Laura Beloff

LASER Talk: Adaptation and Interconnected Agencies

Thu 09.09.21  |  17.00-18.30 
Talk & Panel

Location: Livestream via Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89960884103

To the event page.

Designs for a Cooler Llanet
Photo: Chun Carluccio

Fashion Lab: Exercising Alternative Narratives of Fashion through Confession, Action and Discussion

Mon 13.09  |  17.00-18.30 

Two day event, the closing day is on 20.9.

  1. REGISTER

To the event page.

Designs For a Cooler Planet

NPHarvest – Resource recovery in action

13.–20.9.2021 Video available, watch on Youtube

To the event page.

Creative resourcefulness for sustainable futures

Creative resourcefulness for sustainable futures

Thu 16.9.2021  |  11.00–14.00 EET

Public seminar

  1. REGISTER

To the event page.

NODUS TALKS: Multispecies Sustainability with Emilija Veselova and Elisa Vainio

Nodus Talks: Multispecies Sustainability

Thu 16.09  |  16.15–17.45

Online presentations and panel discussion.

  1. REGISTER

To the event page or watch the event's recordings on Youtube.

Organised together with Design Museum.

Designs for a Cooler Llanet
Photo: Chun Carluccio

Fashion Lab: Exercising Alternative Narratives of Fashion through Confession, Action and Discussion

Mon 20.09  |  17.00-18.30

Presentation & Discussion

Two day event, the opening day is on 13.9.

  1. REGISTER

To the event page.

Original illustration by Savannah Vize, Hannah Roche, Amir Tahvonen, Shuaijun Zhang from Design for Government course
Photo: Katriina Kenttämies, Naiquan Gu, Senni Alho & Ondřej Zajíc

Design for Government: Two cases of designing sustainability policy in Finland

Tue 21.09  |  14.00–16.00

Seminar | Location: Zoom

  1. REGISTER

To the event page.

Designs for a Cooler Planet
Photo: Philip Myrtorp, Unsplash

Towards net-zero emissions in shipping and aviation

Wed 22.09  |  14.00–17.00

Panel discussion & Workshop

  1. REGISTER to the Expert Panel with Audience Q&A 14:00-15:00
  2. REGISTER to the Student Workshop 15:15-17:00

To the event page.

Creative resourcefulness for sustainable futures

Creative resourcefulness for sustainable futures

Thu 23.09  |  11.00–14.00 EET

Workshop

SofiaIlmonen_Juhu Huttunen
Outfit: Sofia Ilmonen Photo: Juho Huttunen

Sustainable textile system: Data-driven business and design

Thu 23.09.2021 | 12.00 - 14.00

Webinar

  1. Register to the event.

To the event page.

See also the Other Kinds of Fashion exhibition at Väre 8.-29.9.2021.

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NPHarvest – Resource recovery in action

Fri 24.09.2021 | 13.00 - 14.30

Q&A session with the researchers

  1. Link to the Zoom event: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62335967673, Meeting ID: 623 3596 7673

To the event page.

We love our Partners

The event is an official part of Helsinki Design Week, New European Bauhaus and Year of Research-based Knowledge 2021 programmes.

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Resource Wisdom - Designs for a Cooler Planet 2021

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.

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