About

The Department of Seaweed is a community of practice exploring algae as a source of sustainable materials for making. Through practice-led research in design, the arts and education, we build knowledge on algae and promote ocean literacy, encouraging multi-species empathy and care, as well as advocating action to protect and regenerate marine ecosystems.

Installation Talk Prof. Julia Lohmann, Aalto University, February 2024

Talks & Videos

Bending the Curve Exhibition at Frankfurter Kunstverein

Exhibition

Hidaka Ohmu and Corpus Maris II in the 'Bending the Curve' exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. 2023/2024

Seili, Finland

Excursion

Sleepy Islands, Iceland

Excursion

Session #5 of the Nordplus Collaboration was an intensive working session on the Svefneyjar islands (Sleepy Islands) in Iceland, involving project partners from Estonian Academy of Arts, Aalto University, Iceland University of the Arts as well as two graphic designers. We were hosted by Áslaug Magnúsdóttir and Sascha Tueni on the Svefneyjar Islands in Iceland.

Nordplus Collaboration

Collection

“Algae for Design-led Transition Towards Blue Bio-economy” was a two year project supported by the Nordplus Horizontal Programme, that brought together design students from four Universities (EKA in Estonia, Aalto University in Finland, The University of the Arts in Iceland and Design School Kolding in Denmark. We also cooperated with seaweed scholars, scientists and companies in Sweden and Lithuania.