Latest Student Projects
Rethinking Portable Bluetooth Speakers by Dario Aguet
Disassemblability and Reparability in Product Design.
Kuitukasveja tienpientareelta - Fiber crops from the roadside by Iines Jakovlev
Material research on roadside plants and their suitability as design materials.
Metamorphosis of a sauna stone by Lennart Engels
Storytelling through investigative design & material development
Regenerative Binderless Panels from Baltic Reed by Hana Rehorčíková
How design-led material innovation can contribute to ecological restoration.
Crafting with Fungi by Harvey Shaw
Proposing a reimagined relationship between humans and fungal materials, within craft and design.
Exploring the inner landscape: A creative's journey to a deeper connection with self by Nina Naveršnik
Authenticity is the foundation of a sustainable and fulfilling creative career - by deepening our connection with our true selves, we unlock new ways of making, expressing, and thriving as creatives. This thesis explores how embracing both our light and shadow shapes a more authentic and meaningful creative practice.
ESSENCE by Iines Lahtinen
Through stillness, repetition, and the almost unnoticed details, fundamental emerges: something quiet but deeply felt.
Animal Concoctions by Daniel Kohvakka
Ceramic bottles inspired by fantasy role-playing games and how humans perceive different animals and give them attributes and significance that don't always have any scientific background.
TAMED DISSONANCE: Grasping our tumultuous nature by Marcelo Guajardo Dávila
Humanity is inherently chaotic, where order and disorder constantly intertwine, one cannot exist without the other. Through photographic experimentation and overlapping images, I capture everyday chaos from our “new nature”, the human-made ecosystem of the city.
Gender specimen by Vladimir Elia von Arx
Species, gender, categorisations to make our world easier to deal with. During my work with understanding my own gender identity, I completely lost my grasp on what femininity and masculinity mean. What is it to feel feminine or masculine? What makes an object seem masculine or feminine?
What Remains by Alarik Rantala
When trying to look for commonalities between species, only one factor unites them all: the inevitability of death.
Layers of being by Minchen H Stenersen
If we recognize our similarities with the living world around us, would we treat it with more empathy?
Carefull by Maike Panz
In times of war and climate change – at a time when trauma is on the rise, it is more important than ever that we honestly care. That we take care of ourselves, of each other and of nature.
Forest Printer by Márk Nagy-Mihály
Spending time in the winter forest surrounded by both visual and auditory silence transforms the space into a canvas for thoughts and emotions. But what happens when we leave? Can we bring this connection home?
Lingonberry-Glazed Reindeer Dish by Suthasinee Naktnasukanjn
The project represents my journey of following curiosity towards unconventional materials I encountered in Kaamanen.
Reflective Practices
This 6 week long reflective practices course introduces critical and reflective approaches to design, which we consider to be an evolving, political and activist field. We look at different practices of critical design including speculative design, transition design, design activism and their theoretical and historical foundations. We also discuss how to use our agency as designers in line with our values and learn to incorporate new reflective practices into our work.
