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… Continue reading Opening of the Urban Life Exhibition
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Sustainable Material Lecture and Workshop
On Friday 23 March Barbara Pollini gave a lecture and workshop at the Degree Programme in Design. In the workshop students worked with different DIY bioplastic recipes. Barbara Pollini is an ecodesigner and a professor at NABA Design University in Milan. She teaches “Materials and New Technologies for Project Innovation” and is also a co-founder of… Continue reading Sustainable Material Lecture and Workshop
Angelica electric car
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and AET Corporation announced the new electric car Angelica in 29.9.2017 at Arabia campus. Industrial design alumni Juha Tuomola and Toni Grönmark participated in designteam. The result of the co-operation between Metropolia and chinese AET, the new electric supercar Angelica as well as the electric vehicle technology R&D center Eurosina… Continue reading Angelica electric car
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… Continue reading Japanese Design Workshop 6.-8.3.2017 – Tsutsumi, the Art of Wrapping
Textile Design Students at the Heimtextil Fair in Frankfurt
A group of Metropolia’s Textile Design students spent a week in Germany, at the Heimtextil fair in Frankfurt. The students participated in the planning and implementation of the Micro Factory and Feels Like Home segments of the Campus exhibition. The Digital Textile Micro Factory was implemented in cooperation with Leeds College of Arts (England) and The Strzemiński Academy… Continue reading Textile Design Students at the Heimtextil Fair in Frankfurt
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… Continue reading Success in the Fennia Prize 2017 Competition
Yarn Visions 26.11.-5.3.2017
”In the Baltic Sea, as in any other ecosystem, everything is connected.” (the Chain made by Sonja Tanskanen, Gerli Kotkamets and Iida Kopio) We textile design students got our first real art exhibition project few months ago. The job was to create and execute crochetted art pieces made of Novita’s yarn to Sinkka’s art show ”Yarn… Continue reading Yarn Visions 26.11.-5.3.2017
Fresens Concept to Tackle Food Waste Problem
Last spring a team of Industrial Design students (Miika Lehtinen, Jaakko Ranne, Marianna Salminen and Laura Lerkkanen) took park in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge competition. This is an annual competition organized by the US Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson foundation. Metropolia’s team entered the competition with Fresens, which consists of a service,a… Continue reading Fresens Concept to Tackle Food Waste Problem
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… Continue reading Metropolia and Aalto’s Team Wins Design Sprint Competition for Stations
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… Continue reading Thesis Projects in Design