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We are looking for thought-provoking, radically creative, and multidisciplinary research, experiments, and solutions to showcase to our stakeholders at Marsio and the Otaniemi campus. 

In 2024, Designs for a Cooler Planet reached over 10,000 visitors, and several of our projects were featured in both international and Finnish media.

Designs for a Cooler Planet will be held in Otaniemi from 2 September to 28 October, 2025. We want to showcase, through concrete examples, how Aalto's researchers, students, and research-based companies are creating sustainable change.

Share what important change your research or project is advancing. The content can be part of a larger research initiative, a course, or an individual smaller project.

Three ways to participate:

1. Apply to the main exhibition at Marsio building
2. Organize an event open to everyone
3. Register a satellite exhibition

You can present your idea in various ways: models, prototypes, installations, devices, material experiments, simulations, visualisations, or art. 

Designs for a Cooler Planet is a meeting place, a conversation starter, and a window into the university's creators: its latest experiments, innovations, phenomena, visions, and research findings.

Propose an exhibition or event using the application form below by 27 January 27, 2025. This could be a seminar, workshop, or a lab tour, for example.

Designs for a Cooler Planet will be held in Otaniemi for the seventh time as part of the official program of Helsinki Design Week.

Additional information

Enni Äijälä, senior specialist, Outreach, Aalto exhibitions +358 50 359 4810

Log in with your Aalto ID to see the application instructions below.