Exhibition events
From waste clay to carbon sink: Building a greener future
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Biocarbon earth aggregates turning construction waste into climate solutions.
Changing the world through crafting
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: The Marvelous Materials book encourages children and young people to experiment creatively using nothing more than nature’s resources and household biowaste.
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025 exhibition
Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition presents visionary cross-disciplinary work. Come explore prototypes, experiments and solutions.
Future wooden architecture will turn apartment buildings into carbon stores
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Students' visions show how beautiful, sustainable, and adaptable multi-story wooden construction can be.
AI accelerates seamless knitwear design
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Technology brings new inspiration to creative textile design processes.
Nature’s wonder materials are entering everyday life
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: What happens when material experiments move from the lab to stores and homes?
Waste-based eco-concrete saves energy and resources
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: A super-strong alternative to traditional concrete works in both ceramic art and construction.
A joint effort to bring sustainability and efficiency to Finnish construction
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: The Building 2030 consortium, led by Aalto University, brings together 20 partners from the construction sector.
Canopy map reveals whether your neighbourhood has enough trees
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Aalto University researchers’ canopy cover map highlights the striking differences in tree coverage across the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.
A gem of a building made from demolition waste
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Closing Loops is top-tier architecture that respects nature - most of the materials are salvaged from demolished buildings.
Looking back to think ahead
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: The Nokia Design Archive reveals the time, thinking and human effort behind everyday technology—challenging us to reflect on the past and consider the acts that will lead to a future we want to live in.
The Nordic Ownership Miracle
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: The financial literacy and ownership of Nordic citizens is among the best in the world.
Living Panels: Reimagining Materials with Nature
The exhibition showcases design artefacts that reimagine how we work with living and post-living systems, offering new ways to think about sustainability through partnerships with the more-than-human world. These student-led projects explore how design objects can evolve, adapt, and participate in ecological processes beyond human needs.
These projects are a result of "BioMakerStudio Summer Course" - a cross-institutional collaboration between Aalto University and IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) - supported by the EU-funded COCOON Project.
These projects are a result of "BioMakerStudio Summer Course" - a cross-institutional collaboration between Aalto University and IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) - supported by the EU-funded COCOON Project.
Mobile imaging technology reveals dementia risk
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: A wearable EEG cap and body sensors monitor brain and physical activity in everyday life—researchers analyze extensive data using artificial intelligence.
A unique protein-based adhesive that works even underwater
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Inspired by mussels and barnacles, this adhesive challenges toxic, petroleum-based alternatives—and thanks to its biocompatibility, it could have medical applications too.
Events programme – Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025
Attend open seminars, talks, tours, film screenings and workshops.
Real stories reveal absurdities in construction and circular economy
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Demolition and new construction accelerate biodiversity loss and climate change. So why are recycling targets still so far out of reach?
Tiny House Shadow: Living within planetary boundaries
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: The 34-square-metre Shadow incorporates fossil-free steel, old windows, and recycled car tires. And when the residents move, the home moves with them.
A fusion of architecture, chemistry, and biotechnology gives rise to ultra-ecological yeast construction
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Yeast biomass can be shaped using a 3D printer into desired forms — even directly at the construction site.
