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Aalto Design Factory

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Aalto Design Factory

Aalto Design Factory is an interdisciplinary product design and learning hub uniting students, teachers, researchers, and industry. You are welcome to join us!

We aim to build a new kind of passion-based learning culture for Aalto University.

01/10/2026

What can a student team learn about a product development challenge in a single day? Quite a lot.

This week we had PD6 🎉 PD6 is a six-hour sprint in the early stage of the PdP course. Multidisciplinary teams take a real company brief, define the right questions, build a prototype, talk to stakeholders, and present a demo. All in one day🙌🏻

It's not about finding the perfect solution. It's about learning to move forward despite uncertainty, making ideas tangible, and discovering things you didn't know in the morning.

This is how the nine-month PdP journey begins 🔧

30/09/2026

Did you know 🏭 Aalto Design Factory hosted around 2,200 visitors on 130+ introduction tours over the past academic year? 🌍✨

From universities and government delegations to ministry groups across Asia, Europe and the Americas, our guests come to DF to see, feel and learn from our ways of working in action.

What draws the visitors here?

🛠️ Our facilities & prototyping environments – especially the workshop spaces and infrastructure that support collaborative innovation

🤝 Our culture of co-creation, interdisciplinary collaboration & learning-by-doing, + how we support team learning

🎓 How we connect technology, business, art & design in multidisciplinary education & real-world impact

🏭 University–industry interfaces, company partnerships & projects such as

🚀 The Finnish innovation mindset, new venturing & the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem around Aalto-yliopisto

🌱 Sustainability related to product development & innovations supporting it

🌍 Design Factory Global Network & possibilities for future collaboration

For us at DF, every tour is a reminder of how special this place is – and how much you, as students, are part of what makes it worth visiting🙏

Read more on DF’s academic year on our Annual Report ’25-’26, link in bio!

28/09/2026

Let's welcome our new teaching assistant, Ira 🎉

She is a master's student in Information Networks, and joining as a TA for Product Sustainability. She is excited about interdisciplinary collaboration and the societal and human side of technology.

In her free time she enjoys singing in a choir 🎶, spotting cool plants🪴, and spending time with friends.

Dont be shy and say hi to her when you see her!🙌🏻

27/09/2026

🏭 Aalto Design Factory Labs, facilities & staff will be tied up on Monday with the project development sprint PD6 Product Development Project taking over the venue, so please hold your horses until Tuesday to get things done in regular mode!

25/09/2026

Why does product development matter for Finland’s future? 🇫🇮✨

Pekka Pokela, jury member for the Product Development Path Makers Award 2026, puts it simply:

“Finland is a small, open economy where society and well‑being depend on exports. The success of exports relies on the competitiveness of products and services, and on companies’ ability to continuously develop new ones.”

For Pekka, the people behind that work are the real heroes: ”The professionals working on products, services, and product development must be among the best in the world. This work and its significance deserve to be made visible.”

For 2026, the jury is looking for projects, experiments or initiatives that:
💡Create new customer value through pioneering product development practices
💡Carry out bold, successful experimentation that challenges established norms
💡Demonstrate potential to generate opportunities beyond the original activity

The award is open to project teams or communities working on physical or digital products, services, or processess.

🏆 Four finalists receive €8,000 each
🗳️ The public chooses the Ekman Award winner for an extra €8,000
📅 Deadline: 21.10.2026
🔗 More info & submissions: adf.fi/award

Who in your network is redefining how product development is done in Finland? Tag them or share this post!📌

24/09/2026

We are excited to welcome Edward 🥳 He is joining the DF Research & Teaching team as a Teaching Assistant for the Engineering Impact course!

He's currently a master's student in Mechatronics, focusing on the latter part of his thesis work (building a mobile robot!)🤖. His favorite past-time activity is to consume as much information as humanly possible, by reading books, watching debates, asking questions, etc. His favorite machines include anything with two wheels and an engine, the rower at the gym, and the coffee-maker.

If you see him, don't hesitate challenging him for a chess game♟️

23/09/2026

Sustainable product design practices took over 🏭 Aalto Design Factory’s new light prototyping space The Sandbox! ♻️

In Product Sustainability (MEC-E3007), interdisciplinary student teams take an everyday product, deconstruct it, analyze its lifecycle, and redesign it to be more eco-friendly.

Yesterday, students disassembled second-hand household electronics to analyze materials, identify manufacturing barriers to recycling, and gather data for their sustainability redesign!

21/09/2026

Sanni is joining df as an PdP Teaching Assistant☀️ handling the course practicalities, student purchasing and helping Tuomo with team coaching💪🏻

She’s a master’s student in the Advanced Energy Solutions programme majoring in Conversion Processes. Her specialities in the major is electrification of heating systems, thermal energy storages and CFD.

Outside of Aalto Sanni enjoys attending jams with groovy music🎶 and loads of improvisation. Her favourite album is the Chick Corea Elektric Band, she enjoys fishing 🎣 and makes delicious home wine!🍷

18/09/2026

The Ekman Award – celebrating the people’s choice in product development🏆

Meet Kalevi “Eetu” Ekman, Senior Advisor at Aalto-yliopisto & founding creator of 🏭 Aalto Design Factory, and a jury member for the Product Development Path Makers Award 2026.

Eetu has shaped Finnish product development and innovation education for decades, from founding the Design Factory to leading the flagship pdp course that brings together engineering, design and business students with industry partners. His work embodies the award’s core idea: real‑world, interdisciplinary experimentation that creates lasting impact.

“I’m concerned about the distorted perception of product development that emerges from biased or incomplete information. What do people actually know about product developers and their work?” Eetu reflects.

“In Finland, we tend to place strong trust in competence gained through education. However, the critical success factors in product development are curiosity, creativity, persistence and determination, an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and ingenuity in prototyping and testing ideas – as well as, of course, how product development is managed.“

For 2026, the jury is looking for projects, experiments or initiatives that:
💡Create new customer value through pioneering product development practices
💡Carry out bold, successful experimentation that challenges established norms
💡Demonstrate potential to generate opportunities beyond the original activity

The award is open to project teams or communities working on physical or digital products, services, or processes. 4 finalists will each receive €8,000, & the public will choose an Ekman Award winner for an additional €8,000.

📅 DL for submissions21.10.2026
🔗 More info & submissions: adf.fi/award

Who in your network is redefining how product development is done in Finland?
Tag them or share this post! 📌

Organized by 🏭 Aalto Design Factory, Tekniikan akateemiset TEK, Espoon kaupunki, Teknologiateollisuus, Kemianteollisuus - Chemical Industry Federation of Finland, & TT‑säätiö.

17/09/2026

Meet Toivo, one of the new additions to the PDP team☀️ Toivo is a mechanical engineer trained in the dark arts of product design and development🐦‍⬛, and has a passion for creating all things new and interesting.

As a PDP alumnus, Toivo is at home at the DF labs getting his hands dirty in any way possible. When not at the DF office taking care of the day-to-day PDP business you might see him making sparks at the machine shop.

Outside of work, Toivo spends his free time on all sorts of creative hobbies from photography to DJ-ing and music production🎧

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