A summer school systems design exercise at Aalto University, Finland, exploring alternative futures where new construction is banned, culminating in an exhibition.


YEAR
2025
ROLE
Speculative Design
Systems
Exhibition Design
Critical Futures Thinking
About the project
"Two Sides of Tomorrow" is a speculative exploration into sustainable spatial practices, born from an Aalto University course focused on a critical question: how do we shape our world without new construction? The project confronts the severe environmental impacts of the construction industry by imagining a future of limited resources. Using transformative futures methods like Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), my team and I deconstructed the paradigms that drive current construction practices. Our work centered on a real-world case study: Maarintalo, a vacant postmodern building on the Aalto campus. We developed a project brief for a fictional "spatial practitioner," proposing a conceptual intervention for the site. The project culminated in a final exhibition of our proposed future, designed and installed within the vacant spaces of Maarintalo itself.




This will hide itself!
A summer school systems design exercise at Aalto University, Finland, exploring alternative futures where new construction is banned, culminating in an exhibition.


YEAR
2025
ROLE
Speculative Design
Systems
Exhibition Design
Critical Futures Thinking
About the project
"Two Sides of Tomorrow" is a speculative exploration into sustainable spatial practices, born from an Aalto University course focused on a critical question: how do we shape our world without new construction? The project confronts the severe environmental impacts of the construction industry by imagining a future of limited resources. Using transformative futures methods like Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), my team and I deconstructed the paradigms that drive current construction practices. Our work centered on a real-world case study: Maarintalo, a vacant postmodern building on the Aalto campus. We developed a project brief for a fictional "spatial practitioner," proposing a conceptual intervention for the site. The project culminated in a final exhibition of our proposed future, designed and installed within the vacant spaces of Maarintalo itself.




This will hide itself!
A summer school systems design exercise at Aalto University, Finland, exploring alternative futures where new construction is banned, culminating in an exhibition.


YEAR
2025
ROLE
Speculative Design
Systems
Exhibition Design
Critical Futures Thinking
About the project
"Two Sides of Tomorrow" is a speculative exploration into sustainable spatial practices, born from an Aalto University course focused on a critical question: how do we shape our world without new construction? The project confronts the severe environmental impacts of the construction industry by imagining a future of limited resources. Using transformative futures methods like Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), my team and I deconstructed the paradigms that drive current construction practices. Our work centered on a real-world case study: Maarintalo, a vacant postmodern building on the Aalto campus. We developed a project brief for a fictional "spatial practitioner," proposing a conceptual intervention for the site. The project culminated in a final exhibition of our proposed future, designed and installed within the vacant spaces of Maarintalo itself.




This will hide itself!