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Join us in raising a toast to the Alusta pavilion’s new life as part of the evolving Otaniemi campus! The widely awarded and published research pavilion for multispecies encounters was relocated over the winter from the Architecture and Design museum to the Aalto University campus.
The opening program includes the pavilion’s designers (architects and doctoral researchers Maiju Suomi and Elina Koivisto) and cultural and architectural theorist Elke Krasny from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Alusta pavilion explores nature-culture relations and offers a place for encounters between humans and non-human animals. The pavilion functions as a platform for environmental discourse, both on the level of its form and materiality and the different activities which take place there. Alusta is part of architect Maiju Suomi’s practice-led doctoral research at Aalto University Department of Design. It also acts as a test laboratory for architect Elina Koivisto’s inquiry into natural materials in construction.
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More information:
Elina Koivisto (Aalto University)
elina.2.koivisto@aalto.fi