Main Street Project: Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition

Antti Ahlava; Nicolas Rebolledo

Main Street Project: Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition

Antti Ahlava (Curator), Nicolas Rebolledo (Curator)

Department of Architecture

Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review

Abstract

We want to correct the legacy of modernist traffic planning in a city environment, where there are no streets – just roads. A car-oriented traffic milieu can become a lively street and a site of community and various user groups. In the spirit of circular economy, we hack the habitat.
Project team: Aalto’s master-level architecture course (degree programme of Architecture with Urban Studies and Planning) and Service Design Programme from Royal College of Art, London.

Project lead
• Antti Ahlava, professor, Department of Architecture, Aalto University
• Nicolás Rebolledo, lecturer, Master’s Programme of Service Design, RCA, UK
Project group
• RCA: John Makepeace (service design)
• Aalto: Karoliina Hartiala (architecture), Jaana Tarma (service design)
• Invited visitors: Teemu Nojonen & Jarmo SuominenPartners and commitments
• ACRE, AYY, TF, KY, TOKYO
• Alvar Aalto Foundation
• Afry Ltd• Xigrid Ltd
Students
• Aalto: Meng Xu, Yanxia Qiu, Tamara Fajer, Kerttu Kaisanlahti, Maija Pakarinen, Karoliina Mäenpää, Milla Norman, Jingyi Mao, Anna Li, Shenyu Sun
• RCA: Valeska Noemi Mangel, Kristof van der Fluit & Benedetta Locatelli, Valeska Noemi Mangel, Giulio Ferrato, Yi-Tzu Chang, Kenjiro Taniguchi, Isabelle Horlings, Xinyue Ruan, Nick Talbot, Saitej Pisupati, Sara Monacchi, Yaxin Zheng, Hongyu Wang

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Espoo
Publisher	Aalto University; Aalto-yliopisto
Publication status	Published - Sep 2021
MoE publication type	F2 Public partial realisation of a work of art
Event	Helsinki Design Week: Designs for a Cooler Planet - Espoo, Finland Duration: 8 Sep 2021 → 29 Sep 2021 https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/helsinki-design-week-2021-has-landed-in-otaniemi-showcasing-three-paths-to-resource-wisdom

Field of art

Design
Architecture

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Main Street Project: Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition

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