Soil Matters exhibition at Designmuseum

The design industry steers consumer habits, thus contributing to the contamination and transformation of the land. Soil Matters highlights how, among other factors, the glass and porcelain industries and new technologies have left their mark in the soil. In the exhibition, designers, artisans and artists explore the relationship between human and soil through experimental design projects.

The exhibition is being curated by Maarit Mäkelä, ceramic artist and Doctor of Arts, and Riikka Latva-Somppi, curator and artist. Mäkelä works as an associate professor in the Department of Design at Aalto University, where she is the head of the new master’s degree programme in Contemporary Design and the Empirica research group. Latva-Somppi has worked in various professional roles in the field, including a post as a part-time teacher at Aalto University which she has held for over two decades. At the moment, she is completing her doctoral studies as a member of the Empirica research group in the Department of Design at Aalto University.

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Soil Matters will open in September for Helsinki Design Week. It will mark the end of the three-year Design Club Open Call series, in which impressive new curatorial content has been sought for Design Museum’s Gallery.