EXHIBITIONS

• PROCESS 2026 is an exhibition and event entity that showcases the activities of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in design. PROCESS 2026 aims to engage in dialogue with the theme of Helsinki Design Week and seeks to raise questions about encounters. The exhibition spaces on the Arabia campus and the Ilona Gallery feature the thesis projects and practice works of design students.
  • Venue: Exhibition Lobby, Hämeentie 135 D, 1st floor.

• Galleria Ilona's exhibition: Käsiltä kankaaksi - Tätä on tekstiilisuunnittelu.

  • Venue: Gallery Ilona, Hämeentie 135 A, 3rd floor.

• 1.9. klo 14 - 15 Speech: Anssi Almgren, kehityspäällikkö. Creativity, imagination and future dialoque.
  • Venue: Event Halls, Hämeentie 135 D, 1st floor.

• TOUCH OF HUMANITY – Textile art exhibition 28 August–6 September.
  • “Touch of Humanity” is an exhibition series that explores the unfinished nature and multi-layered complexity of humanity. The exhibition’s theme is examined from multiple perspectives, focusing on topics such as body image, identity, our relationship with nature, feminism, intergenerational continuity, and humanity’s relationship with artificial intelligence. Through the medium of textile art, the artists explore the traces humanity leaves on us and our environment. The exhibition, created by Metropolia’s textile design students, is based on a universal perspective on humanity, with a target audience of the oncoming other. The exhibition was created as part of the International Project series.
  • Venue: Gallery Kolmas Kerros, Hämeentie 157, 3rd floor.

EVENTS

• 29 August, 12–2 pm: WORKSHOP: Let’s redesign the mother – as a service
  • WHAT IF MOTHER WERE A SERVICE? This event presents the YAMK thesis I’M YOUR MOTHER – What If Mother Were a Service? by Jonna Mannila, a Master of Arts and Metropolia student in the Master’s Degree Programme in Service Design. In her thesis, Mannila explores motherhood as a service through the framework of service design, using two separate Helsinki Design Week events as part of her research.
  • Venue: Rikhardinkatu Library, Rikhardinkatu 3, 00130 Helsinki.

• 1–2 September: Borrow a Mother from the Library Is your mother far away, or perhaps no longer here? During Helsinki Design Week, you can borrow a Finnish-speaking mother from Rikhardinkatu library. The mother is an experienced parent of four. With the mother, you can chat about this and that or have coffee in the library’s summer courtyard. You can also choose from the options what kind of service you need from her during the borrow. Please note that the mother cannot be taken outside the library building. The age limit for borrowing a mother is 18. The booking link.
  • Venue: Rikhardinkatu Library, Rikhardinkatu 3, 00130 Helsinki.
  • For more information, contact Service Design student Jonna Mannila at +358 40 560 3409 or mari.mannila [at] metropolia.fi (mari[dot]mannila[at]metropolia[dot]fi).