Designs for a Cooler Planet
Discover tomorrow at Aalto University's biggest exhibition! Open 1 September – 30 October 2026.
Apply to Designs for a Cooler Planet by 27 January, 2025
Enhance the impact of your research by presenting it to broad groups outside the university. Aaltonian, apply and show how your research or project is changing the world.
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:
- Apply to the main exhibition at Marsio building
- Organize an event open to everyone
- 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.
Designs for a Cooler Planet highlights
Designs for a Cooler planet highlights from the previous years
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International educational project at Aalto University funded by the TFK Programme
The Bio-Design for Low Carbon Architecture (Bio-LCArch) project is a collaborative initiative between Aalto University in Finland and Beijing Jiaotong University in China, geared toward demonstrating how bio-based materials can facilitate the construction industry's transition to net-zero emissions.
A!BP attends the 14th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics
On 08.06-10.06, the A!BP research group attended NSB 2026 in Tampere, contributing to the conference with scientific presentations and collaborative workshops on bio-based materials.
The company established by three anthropologists relied on strong research expertise
Etnografinen tutkimustoimisto Kenno Oy was established in 2014 when its three founders were finalising their master's degree studies at the University of Helsinki and wanted to create an interesting job for themselves.