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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, Väre

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, Väre

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 Väre building.

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

Read more / Tickets 22,50 €/11,50 € / Free student tickets (limited)

Wood crystals on a black fabric.

Designs for a Cooler Planet

This fall, the festival celebrates innovative and collaborative designs addressing the impossible sustainability challenges. Experience tomorrow in Otaniemi on 6 Sept – 3 Oct 2024!

Further information

Enni Äijälä, Senior specialist, outreach with partners, [email protected]

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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