Aalto University invites you to the fourth Designs for a Cooler Planet festival that explores what Life 1.5 could be by showcasing over twenty research-based projects during September 7 – October 12, 2022.
Ten speakers including: Tua Björklund, Marketa Dolejsova, Sanna Lehtinen, Idil Gaziulusoy and Aalto students Milja Komulainen,
📎Read more: PechaKucha Night at Aalto
Designs for a Cooler Planet Opening Event
At the same day we are celebrating the opening event of the
Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition.
The opening program:
Call for Participation at food design workshop
(in-person event in Oodi Library, September 27th )
If you are interested in co-creative ways to address eco-social challenges in food systems, please welcome to join our PDC 2022 workshop ‘Feasting on Participatory Methodologies for Regenerative Food Transitions’.
The free, in-person workshop invites contributions – case studies submitted as 1-page expressions of interest (pdf) – from designers, researchers, and others interested in exploring possibilities of creative collaborations to address food-related eco-social challenges. Aligning with the PDC 2022 theme ‘Embracing Cosmologies’ (
https://pdc2022.org/), the workshop welcomes especially those cases that reach beyond the scope of human-food perspectives, to explore intricate, relational multi-species entanglements that constitute the global food web.
Students are especially welcome!
Submission & workshop details:
https://ecosocialfeast.wordpress.com/cfp/
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Fluff Stuff: Re-imagining common peatland management practices
in Finland
Fluff Stuff hosts a live talk with great speakers Kristiina Lång (LUKE), Hermanni Viljanen (Aalto University) and Lukas Schuck (Aalto University / Fluff Stuff) with topics ranging from challenges related to current Finnish peatland management practices, opportunities of wetland agriculture, and ongoing research projects.
More information and registration:
Register latest 14.9.!
Location: Harald Herlin Learning Center, Espoo
