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Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023: Opening event

The fifth annual Designs for a Cooler Planet festival opens on September 6, 2023. Come and celebrate with us!
Designs for a Cooler Planet hero image. Graphic design Veera Kemppainen.
Visual identity: Veera Kemppainen

Let's celebrate the opening of the fifth annual Designs for a Cooler Planet festival together!

This year, the festival explores the Invisible – What don't we see even though we should? If we knew better, would we make differend choices? Over 20 projects aim to shed light on the hidden and noteworthy, and encourage us to look beyond the surface and consider what lies beneath.

Register – Welcome to the opening event!

 

Event programme – 6 September 2023

16:00

Opening words and a toast

Vice President for Innovation Janne Laine and Senior Specialist Outreach Enni Äijälä

Limited amount of seats

Kipsari restaurant, ³Õä°ù±ð

16:30

Exploring the exhibitions

Everyone is welcome to join as the evening continues with exploring the exhibitions. This is also an excellent opportunity to meet and discuss with some of the project teams, researchers and students behind the exhibitions!

Exhibition spaces, ³Õä°ù±ð

18:00

Recommended – carry on the opening evening in PechaKucha Night at Aalto

A fun night filled with inspiring and entertaining presentations from top ten speakers. Each of them has exactly six minutes and fourty seconds – what will they use this precious time for?

Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1, Espoo) only 100 meters away from the ³Õä°ù±ð building.

Tickets sold separately. Helsinki Design week offers 150 free student tickets.

Read more / 22,50 €/11,50 € /

In this bird’s-eye view photo, three people are exploring the Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition. They are examining materials and accompanying descriptions displayed on white tables.

Designs for a Cooler Planet

Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition presents cross-disciplinary experiments. Come explore students’ and researchers’ acts of change.

Further information

Enni Äijälä, Senior specialist, outreach with partners, enni.aijala@aalto.fi

The event is a part of Helsinki Design Week’s official programme. Aalto University is one of the EU’s New European Bauhaus partners.


 

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