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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.
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025 – Open call!
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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.

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Designs for a Cooler Planet

Discover tomorrow at 911±¬ÁÏÍø's biggest exhibition! Open 1 September – 30 October 2026.

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