Design Club’s upcoming season is full of design-oriented treats for our members. For example, Design Club’s members can get to know Design Museum’s new exhibitions and attend to the Online Talks by Design Club and Aalto University. Save the dates below and keep your eyes open for our updates and registration links.
Visit the new exhibition: Soil Matters
Free entry on September 4th to 6th
Use the code: Design Club at the counter
Picture: Tzuyu Chen
Opening in September at the Design Museum, Soil Matters studies how changes in soil are interwoven with human activity. Soil Matters will mark the end of a three-year series of exhibitions, the purpose of which has been to seek out important new curatorial content to feature in the museumâs Gallery. The exhibition will be held at the Design Museum from 4 September 2020 to 10 January 2021.
Due to the COVID-19 virus, we will not be hosting any large exhibition openings here at the Design Museum. During the opening weekend (Sep, 4th – 9th 2020) the members of the Design Club and their families can visit the new exhibition for free!
Online Talk: System Innovations for Business Sustainability
Thursday, September 10th: 1 pm – 2 pm
To adequately address sustainability challenges and climate change businesses need radical transformations. These will inevitably take a long time to unfold, and we need to start right now as the window of opportunity is closing fast. Businesses need new methods and tools for generation of long-term innovation strategies for transformation towards sustainable, post-carbon futures. This means development of âshadow track strategiesâ so that short-term innovation can be aligned with long-term requirements. Currently the research at the intersection between business innovation and sustainability transformations is significantly underdeveloped. Idil Gaziulusoyâs research builds theory and practical tools to help businesses achieve alignment between design and innovation efforts with long-term societal visions through mediation of business strategy.
Get to know Dr. Idil Gaziulusoy
Assistant Professor, Sustainable Design Aalto University
Ä°dil Gaziulusoy is a design researcher with a PhD in sustainability science from University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research is situated within the emerging area of design for sustainability transitions. She is interested in the new ways of designing and the agencies enabled, enacted and embodied by design that emerge in transformations/transitions contexts. In her work she develops theories, tools and methods to link the day to day activities and strategic decisions of design and innovation teams to the longer-term, systemic and radical transformations which need to take place at the societal level to achieve sustainability.
Online Talk: Creative practices for transformational Futures
Wednesday, September 23rd: 9 am – 10 am
Tuuli MattelmÀki Photo: Liina Nurmi
Get to know Tuuli MattelmÀki
Associate professor Tuuli MattelmÀki is the Head of Department of Design at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Trained as an industrial designer she has applied her design expertise in enhancing creative approaches that are inspired by human experiences and everyday practices. The starting point of her research is in empathic and collaborative design and her current interests focus on the role of creative practices and service design for societal and sustainable impact.
