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Aalto University and its partners organise hundreds of events every year, open to alumni, partners and the general public. You can also find the exhibitions below, after the events.

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Text ‘DESIGNS FOR A COOLER PLANET’ on a bright white circle with green glow on a dark background
Exhibitions –

Designs for a Cooler Planet 2026 exhibition

Curious to catch a glimpse of tomorrow? Welcome to experience our largest exhibition of the year!
White passenger plane flies over forest with tall white wind turbines under clear blue sky
Exhibitions –

A sustainable hydrogen landscape: A scale model of the pathway to produce synthetic aviation fuel in Finland

1.9.-31.10. Aalto Design Factory, Espoo. See how the hydrogen economy intersects with landscapes, communities, and the wider energy system.
Blue Aalto CS Talks banner with white slogan text: Come curious — leave inspired
Lectures and seminars, Networking –

Aalto CS Talks

Corinna Coupette: Crafting Computational Institutions: Designing, Debugging, and Deploying Legal Systems in the Age of AI
Sebastian Szyller: Adversarial or Modelling Problem? Two Cultures of Trustworthy Machine Learning
Poster for Aalto University talk ‘We Design, But We Are Not Designers’, text over cropped portrait.
Lectures and seminars –

We Design, But We Are Not Designers

In this Design Interrupted panel discussion, we delve into the limits of design as seen from outside its professional confines.
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1.9. - 31.10. Marsio & Väre, Otaniemi
Designs for a Cooler Planetexhibition and events

1.9. - 31.10. Design Factory, Puumiehenkuja, 5, Otaniemi
Sustainable Hydrogen Valleys - H2EnergySCAPES exhibition

2.9. 15-16 CS building, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi
Aalto Computer Science Talks:
 * Crafting Computational Institutions: Designing, Debugging, and Deploying Legal Systems in the Age of AI 
 * Adversarial or Modelling Problem? Two Cultures of Trustworthy Machine Learning

2.9. 17-19 online & Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
We Design, But We Are Not Designers - Design Interrupted panel talk

2.9. 17:00 Stockholm, Sweden
Aalto Alumni event (full)

3. - 4.9. Hietsun palviljonki, Hiekkarannantie 9, Helsinki
Unfolding Design Culture: practical investigations explores possibilities for a new praxis of design and enquiry

3.9. 15-17 Väre, Otaniemi
Aalto ARTS Grad Show exhibition opening

3.9. 15:15 Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Aalto Stochastics Seminar: How ordering policies shape the upstream demand signal: a distributional analysis

4. - 11.9. Otaniemi
Dissertations e.g.: photography, new media, visual communications design, computer science

4.9. 15-18:15 online & Otakaari 1X, Otaniemi
Affordable Housing in the 1910s–1930s: New Narratives on Unbeaten Tracks?

Cinema Sheryl, Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
4.9. 18:30 & 6.9. 14:15 & 11.9. & 12.9. & 13.9. In the Mood for Love
5.9. 14:00 & 9.9. 17:45 & 11.9. & 13.9. The Invite
5.9. 16:00 & 6.9. 18:30 & 10.9. & 12.9. The Odyssey
5.9. 19:00 & 6.9. 16:00 & 12.9. & 13.9. Spider-Man: Brand New Day

6.9. asti 12-18 Levyhalli, Suomenlinna, Helsinki
Darkness Libraryexhibition

7. - 8.9. Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Mathematics and System Analysis seminar
 * 7.9. 14:15 Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar: Posets of trek polynomials for directed graphical models
* Multiobjective network optimization

7.9. 18-20 Glasgow School of Art, UK
Alumni get-together

8. & 16. & 29.9. Marsio, Kide, School of Business, and Väre
Cooler Planet: Guided public art tours

9. - 14.10. 10-11 online
100STARTUPS Masterclasses
9.9. Business Finland funding opportunities for early stage startups
16.9. Legal responsibilities of an entrepreneur 
23.9. Accounting and payroll
30.9. TBA
7.10. Marketing & Branding
14.10. EU Funding
15.10. 17-19 Build with Lovable

9.9. 14:15 online & Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
Computer Science Theory seminar: A Simple Construction of Locally Checkable Problems Filling the LOCAL Complexity Gaps in Graphs with Arbitrary Large Degrees

10.9. 12-16 online & Helsinki
Tutkimuksesta toimeen: Ihmisläheisillä ilmastoratkaisuilla kohti 2030-​lukua (in Finnish)

10. - 11.9. Väre, Otaniementie 13, Otaniemi
Workshop: Earth as Surface, Stone as Point - Tangible Gestures in Space-Making through Kyoto Craft

10.9. 13-18 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
The Creative Advantage

14.9. - 31.10. Kide, Konemiehentie 1, Otaniemi
ArchiBioFoam - Biomaterials in Living Breathing Buildings 

15. - 25.9. Otaniemi
Dissertations e.g.: interactive systems, computer science, mathematics and statistics, chemical engineering, film and television, neuroscience and biomedical engineering

15.9. 13-16:30 Onlinen & Otaniemi & Oulu
Tomorrow's wardrobe & fashion futuring

15.9. 14-15:15 Ekonominaukio 1, Otaniemi
Intrapreneurship in Media Organizations – Designing Research Projects with Practical Impact

Guided tours at the Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition
15.9. 15:30 English
15.9. 16:30 Finnish
22.9. 15:30 Finnish
29.9. 15:30 English

16.9. 10-12 online & Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
The Nordic Tipping Point

16. - 17.9. Dipoli, Otaniemi
Nordeep - Deep Tech Business Summit

17.9. online
Meet the professor Tiina Nypelö Resource-efficient materials biorefinery

17.9. 16-17:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Aalto Founder Talks #9: Milda Mitkute, Co-Founder of Vinted

17.9. 17-19:30 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Aalto Alumni Network Council meeting 

18.9. Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
SciSustain (Science Translation Framework for Sustainable Bioproducts Innovation): Beyond the Bench seminar

19.9. 10:30-14 Otaniemi
Espoo Rantamarathon  (discount for Aalto alumni, students and staff)

21.9. 11-12 online & Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
FCAI SIG AI in Energy Seminar: Transforming Data Centers into Artificial Trees: NSGA-III Optimization CO₂ Capture and Utilization

21.9. 17:30-19:30 verkossa & Kilta-sali, Lapinrinne 1, Helsinki
Business leader of the year award event 2026

22.9. 13-16 Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Open Call: Stakeholder Workshop on Circular Construction and Building Component Reuse

22.9. 13:15-15 online
Biobased materials in industry

22.9. online (& for School of Business alumni Ekonominaukio 1, Otaniemi)
Better Business Better Society seminar - Digital Business Growth

23.9. 10:15 Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Analysis seminar

23.9. 15-18 Space21, Vuorimiehentie 2A, Otaniemi
Warm Clouds Over the Cool Planet: Collective Map-​Making Workshop

24.9. 13-16 verkossa & Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Designers in Materials Research – From CHEMARTS to Biodesign

24.9. 13:30-15 verkossa
Industry and Society Webinar: AI in robotics & autonomous vehicles

24.9. 14-17 Otaniemi
IESM 60 years jubileum for alumni who started over 50 years ago

24.9. 15-17 Vuorimiehentie 2, Otaniemi
Space21 & TiLa! Open Doors

25.9. 13-22 online & Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Phenomena: Celebrating the Influence and Legacy of Juhani Pallasmaa

30.9. 16-17 verkossa & Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
The Convergence of AI and Quantum Technologies

 

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Exhibitions

YUIMA NAKAZATO, GLACIER, March 2025, photographed in Hailuoto.

Tomorrow's wardrobe & fashion futuring

We need a fashion futuring approach and a new mindset—how we design and manufacture, and how we understand fashion—and this seminar aims to offer that.

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Keuhkot_Lungs_installation at LUX Helsinki

Lungs of the City: an exhibition on the carbon cycles of urban green

The exhibition in Think Corner, presents the special characteristics of the carbon cycles of urban green, and also shares tips for home gardeners.

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White window with six panes on dark wall, light beam falling to the left

Caring for and Commoning the Urban Dark (external link)

1 Sept – 28 Oct at Levyhalli, Suomenlinna. An exhibition on urban light pollution and the importance of darker environments for people, wildlife and ecosystems.

Text ‘DESIGNS FOR A COOLER PLANET’ on a bright white circle with green glow on a dark background

Designs for a Cooler Planet 2026 exhibition

Curious to catch a glimpse of tomorrow? Welcome to experience our largest exhibition of the year!

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Photo from the top of the nacel of a wind turbine.

Designing sustainable hydrogen valleys – H2EnergySCAPES

1 Sept – 31 Oct at Aalto Design Factory, Espoo. The hydrogen economy and the land use required for sustainable aviation fuel production come to life in a scale model that illustrates the interplay between communities, nature and the wider energy system.

Close-up of a light wooden geometric sculpture with repeating folded petal shapes

ArchiBioFoam – Bio-materials in living, breathing buildings (external link)

14 Sept – 30 Oct at Konemiehentie 1, Espoo. From material samples to architectural prototypes, the exhibition showcases recyclable and compostable biofoam structures for future construction.

Designs for a Cooler Planet

Research becomes real-world solutions in autumn exhibition – Designs for a Cooler Planet showcases work by researchers and students

Aalto University’s largest annual exhibition, Designs for a Cooler Planet, will point the way to the future this autumn. It will feature more than 20 practical solutions, experiments and ideas from researchers and students.

News
Renata Jakowleff «Blue» 2017, 190 x 160 x 40 cm, glass and steel, assembled Photo: Mikko Raskinen

Public art collections at Aalto University

The aim of public art across Aalto is to create a vibrant environment for experiencing the world through various perspectives and for embracing imagination, intuition, and exploration.

Research & Art
Wood and Clay course exhibition organised by Nathalie Lautenbacher, Väre Main Lobby, March 2019

Väre Exhibitions

Väre Exhibitions, School of Art, Architecture and Design

Research & Art
Aalto betaspace, an exhibition venue for students at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture / photo by Julia Weckman.

Aalto galleries and exhibition venues

How can we make space for unexpected ways of looking at the world? Galleries and exhibition venues are co-produced spaces for action, bringing together the knowledge, content, vision, and passion of different agents.

Research & Art

See more exhibitions online

Visitors at an exhibition exploring sustainable materials. Displays include furniture, small plants, and design elements.

Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025 exhibition

Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition presents visionary cross-disciplinary work. Come explore prototypes, experiments and solutions.

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Colourful abstract graphics for Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 visual identity.

Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 – Exhibitions

What don't we see even though we should – or could? Explore the exhibitions of Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 to discover what Aalto students and researchers should be made visible.

Designs for a Cooler Planet
Image from remote site: virtualexhibitions.aalto.fi

DIALOGUES Creating New Textile Futures | Aalto Virtual Exhibitions (external link)

DIALOGUES – Creating New Textile Futures by AaltoTEXTILES

Life 1.5 in black font and Designs for a Cooler Planet logo on a white, fragmented background.

Life 1.5 – an exhibition of planet-friendly materials, fashion and food

Designs for a Cooler Planet is a five-week-long festival celebrating experiments in planet-friendly materials, fashion, and food.

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Near futures, exhibition tribute to the academic year 2019–2020 graduates

Near futures – online exhibition

Near futures, exhibition tribute to the academic year 2019–2020 graduates

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Tienraivaaja Breaking Ground näyttelyn mainos

Breaking ground – 8 ways research shaped our world

Breaking Ground is an exhibition which highlight the interconnected histories of long term and fundamental research and their impact on society

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Creativity in Action exhibition graphics by Emery Norton

Exhibition in honour of Aalto's 10-year anniversary highlights student impact over the decades

‘Creativity in Action: The Spirit of Student Life’ exhibition opens at the Dipoli Gallery and online on 27 August.

News
Re-imagining the Past Vol. 2. Photos: Kitty Norros

Re-imagining the Past exhibition Vol. 2 online

The stories and images from the exhibition celebrating Aalto 10 are now available for online exploration.

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