Makers of the Impossible
Visit our Designs for a Cooler Planet festival in Otaniemi on 6 Sep – 3 Oct 2024 to challenge your perception of the possible.
Exhibited projects
The exhibition has ended. See you again in September 2025!
Magnificent materials
Material literacy as an antidote for climate anxiety.
Entangled – Reimagining textile functionalities
Interdisciplinary collaboration transforming smart textiles.
BioColour: sustainable colour aesthetics
Transforming fashion by getting rid of toxic colours.
Bioeconomy 2.0
Unseen bio-based materials.
New landscapes in textile design
Sustainable textile production by innovative technique combinations.
Building with misfit wood
Revealing the potential of underutilised whole wood.
Materials for change
Surprising bio-based experiments.
Innovation in health care
From unmet medical needs to innovations.
Fostering bioinnovation
Tomorrow’s textiles and packaging.
Waves from afar – 50 years of space observations with radio waves
World-class astronomical radio observatory.
Future Pack-Age visions
Sustainable packaging alternatives.
Using satellites to save our peatlands – how and why?
Monitoring peatland rehabilitation from space.
Future visions in fashion
Imagining and making alternative fashion futures.
Cybersecurity skills for Europeans
Learn to safely navigate in the digital world.
Satellite exhibitions
Kudos – a library for material relations
Architecture as a collaboration between humans, clay and fungi.
Aalto ARTS Student Show 2024
The Aalto ARTS Student Show brings together a selection of student projects from all over the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Flowing carbon
Different methods of carbon sequestration in urban green areas.
Alusta pavilion – Environmentally conscious architecture
A place for encounters between humans and non-human animals.
Huoju-A – a multi-sensory wooden pavilion
Mindful, experiential architecture.
Transforming Education to Reach Global Impact
An exhibition on the Aalto journey through case-based teaching and learning in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Makers of the Impossible
Many things we now take for granted seemed impossible just a few years or decades ago.
The Makers of the Impossible exhibition encourages you to dream big, roll up your sleeves and start experimenting. We talk a lot about our footprints, yet a more sustainable future is shaped by our hands, in the now.
In our current quest for perfection, we often overlook potential solutions and ignore the beauty of fading, aging and irregularity.
Challenge your perception of the possible by exploring the handprints of the Aalto community's cross-disciplinary experiments.
'Many think it is impossible to build sustainably. Although it might be difficult, it is not impossible.’
– architect Elina Koivisto / Kudos pavilion
Visit the exhibitions 6 Sept – 3 Oct 2024 in Marsio – Aalto's brand-new, open-to-all meeting place – and satellite locations, and join the events to get a glimpse of a better tomorrow!
Designs for a Cooler Planet is an official event of Helsinki Design Week and part of the EU Commission's New European Bauhaus initiative.
Contact Cooler Planet team
Enni Äijälä
Senior specialist, Outreach with partners
+358 50 359 4810
[email protected]
Tiina Toivola
Communications manager, Radical Creativity
tiina.toivola@aalto.fi
Collaborators: Radical Creativity, Aalto Networking Platform, Advancement and Corporate Engagement, Aalto Communications team, Sustainable Solutions, Entrepreneurial Mindset, Leadership Support Services, Väre Takeout, Strategic Events, and the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Partners
Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. Held annually in September, the festival presents new designers and multidisciplinary phenomena, promotes design internationally in collaboration with various organisations, and provides a platform for citizens to participate in the development and discussion of the city through design. Collaboration with Aalto University brings the academic voice and multidisciplinary way of doing to that discussion.
New European Bauhaus is an initiative launched by the European Commission to develop new policies that reduce the carbon and material footprint of housing and construction and promote human and natural well-being. The aim is to create a new European way of life and attractive societies that work in harmony with nature, and to bring the European Green Deal into our living environments. Aalto University is a partner in the New European Bauhaus initiative.
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