”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
Industrial Design student Saara Ollila is currently on exchange at the University of Ljubljana. Below you can find her description of Ljubljana in the eyes of a student. I began my student exchange at the University of Ljubljana in the beginning of October. However, I moved into the city already in the beginning of September to … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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
The fair stand by Metropolia designers is presented in Habitare-fair, The Block-area (6B89). Wellcome to see the products of the design students and alumni! More Information: firstname.lastname@metropolia.fi Alumni: info@simolahtinen.com liliansokolova@hotmail.com emmi.pesari@hotmail.com
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
Matias Lehmusjärvi (Industrial Design student, Metropolia) has been implementing the robot buses -project. The busses will start running in southern Helsinki 16th of August, 2016. More information about the project at Metropolia’s website.
Finnish inventions have been awarded in Germany at the KWF-Tagung forestry fair 9-12.6.2016. Metropolia’s and UPM’s joint Biofore Concept Car received the KWF-Vision Award. Biofore car was praised as “a brilliant example of innovative use of wood” and was described as a pioneering development project.
The Netherlands is renowned for its innovative design culture. We Finns, too, are often held to a high esteem for our tradition in design and architecture. Yet, practicing design today entails much more than pursuing functional shapes and timeless aesthetics – it is a set of tools to understand and solve real life challenges and … Read more