Exhibition Design

Ambicube (2018)

While working as a research assistant in the Towards Digital Paradise -project I was given a task to design a demonstrator walk-through cube that would include diverse set of technologies that were developed during the 5 years of the project. The cube was designed and done for the final showcase of a project Towards Digital Paradise which was a continuum for Naked Approach project.

In the Ambicube our challenge was to bring together smoothly different technologies developed by researchers and companies such as VTT & Skandal Technologies and to still have an easily approachable but compelling look.

“TDP -projects develops new businesses that related to sensor technology, help to solve societal problems and are based on Nordic values such as trust, privacy and participation. In the project researchers and companies are working together to find the wats to commercialize the new technologies the NA researches.”

https://nakedapproach.fi/2017/03/11/towards-digital-paradise/

Design & construction: Vertti Virasjoki, Katriina Matikainen, Veli Kouri & Pasi Kelahaara

Displayed at Business Finland's HQ at Helsinki from 03.12. - 17.12.2018

Materials: birch plywood, laminated veneer lumber, birch, tarpaulin

Dimensions: 3300mm x 3300mm x 2500mm

Skandal Technologies CEO Tapio Rosenius' silhouette

The graphics on the plywood were done with laser

Exploded view on the structure

Kota as part of DARKTIC exhibition (2018)

Kota was the physical core of the exhibition stand we designed with 12 undergraduate students during a project course in 2017 – 2018. The course’s aim was to design an exhibition stand to showcase our university of Lapland’s Design and Art faculty in three different design events around the world: Wanted Design in NY, Habitare in Helsinki and Arctic Design Week in Rovaniemi.

My part in the project was to be main designer of the structural parts of the stand. The requirements for it were: easy to move around, can be packed in a comparatively small space, modular so that there would be 5 to 8 different demos on it to be showcased, robust and to represent the theme of our exhibition which was the northern lifestyle. The project was named DARKTIC and it was to show our group’s take on arctic approach to design. The demos showcased were mostly based on different technologies such as AR, VR and projections but also a few physical objects too.

For the shape and functions of Kota I used the idea of the traditional kota that was meant to be moved around and hide stuff inside of it. In the Kota the technologies were hidden in the structures of it and it was easily put together and pulled apart again. The cargo box also served as a stand for the zines we handed out as well as a storage for our personal stuff during the exhibition days.

Exhibited: Habitare (Helsinki 2018), Wanted Design (Brooklyn, NY, 2018) & Arctic Design Week (Rovaniemi 2018)

Design & construction: Vertti Virasjoki, Katriina Matikainen, Jenni Martikainen & Pasi Kelahaara

Materials: plywood birch, Osmo mattalumi, steel

Dimensions: height 2440 mm diameter 2200 mm