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!

Students’ lights at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2020

Lights of students of industrial design and textile design from Metropolias degree programme in design were exhibited in the international Furniture fair in Stockholm. The stand of our design students’ products was located in the Greenhouse area, which is a specific, juried area in the annual Furniture & Light Fair for young designers and the schools … Read more

Success in Lekolar Design Competition – Pattern for Inclusion

Metropolia’s textile design student Eveliina Hamari’s work was selected as one of the three winning patterns in Lekolar Design Competition called Pattern for Inclusion. Congratulations, Eveliina! These winning patterns will together create a limited edition collection as a part of Lekolar’s Inclusion campaign, that will be launched at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2020! Read more about … 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

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 … Read more

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 … 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

Japanese Design Workshop

Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulun muotoilun tutkinto-ohjelmaan saapui maaliskuun alussa 2016 vieraileva professori Kiotosta pitämään opiskelijoille suunnittelu-workshopin. Takaaki Oe on tuotemuotoilija, joka opettaa Kioton taiteen ja suunnittelun yliopistossa. Workshop oli jaettu kolmeen eri tehtävään. Osa opiskelijoista osallistui vain ensimmäisen suunnittelutehtävän tekemiseen. Osa opiskelijoista puolestaan suoritti koko workshopin tehden kolme suunnittelutehtävää. Suunnittelutehtävät kestivät kukin kaksi tai kolme päivää. Japanilaisessa … Read more