Welcome to the Demoday event 11.5.2023 – the 2023 program is published!

Demoday 2023 is an event for the Design, Conservation, Film and Television, Live Performance Engineering and Clothing degree programs of the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, which will be held at the Arabia Campus on Thursday, May 11, 2023.

At the event, students present their projects, such as animations, games and short films, graphic and digital design, as well as a wide variety of design, conservation, and event technology projects.

On the day of the event, a Demo Exhibition presenting the students´ work will open in the Exhibition Hall. Demoday main stage will host presentations and talks from 12.00 to 16.00. The day will end with mingling in the Exhibition Hall and the Event Hall.

The Demoday 2023 program can be seen on the event website.

The event is supported by GrafiaOrnamo and Helsinki Design Week.

You are warmly welcome!

Metropolia at Habitare 2019

Metropolia’s design students’ works are visible at Habitare Design Fair 2019. Metropolia has an own stand at the Block area, where you can explore furniture designed by our students, and a VR model with different interior decorations of the new education spaces for XR Design students. At Protoshop exhibition you can see two lighting products made … Read more

Extra summer tip: ORNO – Light and shape exhibition

ORNO – Light and shape -lighting exhibition at Art and Museum Centre Sinkka in Kerava presents Orno’s famous design lighting as well as lighting prototypes by young designers from Aalto University. Two alumnis of Metropolia, Saara Ollila and Simo Lahtinen, have their lighting prototypes at the exhibition.

The balance between classic, well-known lamps and new, more experimental student designs, works well and keeps the visitor interested. The exhibition consists of a handful of sections divided by themes, such as design drivers or functional goals.

The exhibition is open at Sinkka in Kerava until August 25th, 2019.

Photos: Nora Anttonen & Eerika Minkkinen

Opening of the Urban Life Exhibition

  The works from the innovation project course of Metropolia’s third-year industrial design and interior architecture students are presented at the Urban Life exhibition at Iittala & Arabia Design centre. The exhibition shows eight groups’ projects, where students discuss urban life and environment from different points of views through service design.   The innovation project … Read more

Japanese Design Workshop 6.-8.3.2017 – Tsutsumi, the Art of Wrapping

Professor Takaaki Oe from Metropolia’s partner institution Kyoto University of Art and Design held a Japanese workshop for the design students from the 6th to the 8th of March. He brought with him 22 Japanese students who also took part in the workshop. The itinerary of the Japanese students also included a trip to the Marimekko … Read more

Success in the Fennia Prize 2017 Competition

Industrial Design alumnus Antti Väisänen and Consair Oy received the €5 000 Fennia Prize Winner award for their CAMU 1200 – Clean Air Management Unit. Interior Architecture alumnus Sonja Lepistö and her team received the Fennia Prize Honourable Mention for their Home Store Concept. CAMU 1200 Design: Industrial Designer Antti Väisänen, Pekka Silen, Frank Russi, Innvolve Oy … Read more

Metropolia and Aalto’s Team Wins Design Sprint Competition for Stations

Metropolia’s Interior Architecture student teamed up with students from Aalto University and won a competition organized by Sito Oy. The task in this competition for design students was to find new innovative ideas to ease the use of stations, terminals and other junctions of transportation. The winning team was the only multidisciplinary one in the competition, including … Read more

Thesis Projects in Design

Students in Industrial Design, Textile Design and Interior Architecture have created thesis projects, of which ones related to urban design are on display 1.9.-1.10.2016 at Laituri. Short introductions to the thesis projects can be found below.   Design and Productization of Knitwear Collection for R/H By: Amanda Halonen, Textile Design Thesis: Design and Productization of Knit … Read more

Degree programme in Design, Metropolia at Helsinki Design Week 2016

Young, innovative and bold degree programme in design is taking part in many activities of Helsinki Design Week (HDW): 1.-10.9.: City planning by using the techniques of design – thesis fair at Laituri 5.-11.9.: The city installation Emotion – “Tunne” 7.-11.9.: Habitare exhibition The Block (6b89) This forum is an excellent opportunity to see the works … Read more