As part of the Helsinki Design Week Designs for a Cooler Planet festival showcases radical ideas and creative prototypes under the theme of ‘Invisible – what don't we see even though we should?’ The festival will take place at Otaniemi and online on 6.9-6.10.2023, and we are showcasing more than 30 student and research projects from different schools of Aalto. Main venue for the exhibitions is at the Väre building.

We are now looking for an Exhibition designer trainee for the festival.

Your role

You will work in a team with other students who focus on graphic design and communications. Your responsibility is to do the main structures for the festival and visitor wayfinding plan to Väre. Your duties will be:

• Design the exhibition structures and construct them yourself using Aalto’s studios

• Ask quotes for materials and make material orders

• Help in building-up and taking down the festival

• Other general production tasks for making the festival to come alive

Please notice that you are not responsible for the exhibition design of every project that we exhibit at the festival. Your main task is to make the materials for the festival brand and only possibly help some specific projects to exhibit.

What we value?

We are looking for a design/architecture/interior architecture student who has ability to turn this year’s theme ‘Invisible’ to an interesting festival/exhibition look. To succeed in this, you need:

• Skills to design and build exhibition structures (stands for posters etc.)

• Ability to work in Aalto’s wood studio or other needed studios independently

• Ability to draw layout drawings of the exhibition area

• Planning and scheduling skills

• Fluency in English or Finnish

• Can do attitude and a sustainability-oriented mindset

What we offer?

This is a 50% part-time job for the period 9.5-10.10.2023. The starting date can be negotiated.

The salary is appr. 980–1150 €/month (with 50 % work time), depending on your experience and level of studies. Your working hours will be flexible and thus well combinable with your studies. In addition, you will have access to Aalto employee perks and benefits like, for example, occupational health care and staff training.

Ready to apply?

If the position sparked your interest and you would like to work with us this summer, please submit your CV, short letter of interest and portfolio through our recruiting system by April 16, 2023. If your portfolio’s size is more than 5MB, the job application form has a separate step where you can share a link to it.

Aalto University’s employees and visitors should apply for the position by using their existing Workday user account (internal jobs). 

More information

See what we are planning for the festival this year: Invisible – what don't we see even though we should? https://www.aalto.fi/en/coolerplanet23

If you have any further question, specialist Enni Äijälä is happy to answer, enni.aijala(a)aalto.fi.

Take a look at the previous events:

Cooler Planet 2022 – Life 1.5, exhibition design by Baldur Haraldsson

Cooler Planet 2021 – Resource wisdom, exhibition design by Markus Koistinen

Cooler Planet 2020 – Race for the future, exhibition design by Markus Koistinen

Cooler Planet 2019 – Climate crisis, exhibition design by Dayong Song

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