Aalto Creative Sustainability Master's Programme

More-Than-Human Futures 🌱
In May, NODUSTalks brings a conversation on more-than-human perspectives to Oodi Helsinki Central Library.
Professor Ida Nilstad Pettersen (NTNU) explores how alternative ways of relating to non-human nature can challenge human-centred approaches.
Artistic researcher Gloria Lauterbach (Aalto University) reflects on darkness as an urban condition and its role in supporting ecological and human health.
📍 Oodi Helsinki Central Library (Saarikoski rug, 3rd floor)
📅 28 May 2026
⏰ 16:15 – 17:45
Free event. Registration appreciated (link in bio).

You’re invited to the next NODUS TALKS lecture!

🌱 Sufficiency-based Futures in Finland
🌱 Thursday, 20 November 2025 | 16:15–17:45
🌱 at the Architecture and Design Museum (Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki)

Seona Candy (Demos Helsinki) and Taina de Carvalho (University of Eastern Finland) will explore sufficiency as a principle for living well within planetary boundaries — and how it connects to cultural, social, and arts-based approaches in Finland.

The event is in English, free, and open to the public, but please register as seats are limited.

Registration link in bio!

You’re invited to the next NODUS TALKS lecture:

🌱 Creative Practices for Transformations
🌱 Thursday, 25th September 2025 16:15 - 17:45
🌱 at the Architecture and Design Museum (Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki)

Aalto University’s Andrea Botero (Professor on New Frontiers in Design) and Julia Lohmann (Professor of Contemporary Design) will discuss how creative, practice-led approaches can shape sustainability transformations with care, accountability, and imagination.

The event is in English, free, and open to the public, but please register as seats are limited.

Registration link in bio!

🤩 Wow!! That’s a BLAST!! 💐 Last Wednesday, Creative Sustainability had the opening of its first inaugural show.

The evening began with a series of PechaKucha presentations where graduating students from all CS tracks (BIZ, CHEM, ARTS) shared with the audience their projects. After the presentations, guests explored the pieces exhibited in Väre. Congratulations to all the graduates!

💚 Many thanks to the whole team and people involved making this show possible, and to our sponsors and for providing us with some vegan snacks.

🌱 The Creative Sustainability Grad Show willl be part of the Aalto ARTS Grad Show’s opening this Wednesday 3th September 4:00 pm.

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Nadia Weißkopf : 1,2,4,5,10-18
Jason Selvarajan: 3,6-9

4 days to the opening of the first ever Creative Sustainability Graduation Show!

🌏 This show brings together 10 interdisciplinary Design projects that bring about not only questions, but open up new imaginaries of living more consciously in this world. Through diverse formats and media, the projects presented in the exhibition highlight urgent challenges we are facing in the 21st century while offering glimpses into just, resilient, and hopeful futures.

❓Creative Sustainability as a master’s programme is about analysing and rethinking sustainability issues through different disciplines and methodologies.

🌟 This exhibtion is a part of Aalto University's ARTS Grad Show 2025, Designs for a Cooler Planet festival, and also of the Helsinki Design Week official programme.

🔗 Check the entire programme in:



📍VÄRE Building — K-corridor Gallery, Otaniementie 14, 02150 Espoo
📅 27th of August 5:00 pm – 6th of October 2025
🌟FREE & OPEN TO EVERYONE

📸 Image Credits:

1. Fragments from the field and the distance by Sh*ta Padmi *tapadmi
2. From Waste into a Precious Crafting Medium: Exploring the Material and Systemic Potential of Used and Damaged Particleboard by Jaana Pippola .nana
3. Visual emissions: communicating city climate data to policymakers by Jamie Smyth
4. The Roof Is on Fire: Housing Companies Motivation for Adapting to Climate Change by Tuomas Laakkonen. Image credit: Maija Astikainen