D-Ark Lab = Design + Architecture + exploring together
Join us in creating the museum of the future! D-Ark Lab is an experimental space that invites you to explore our collections in exciting new ways and to share your views and input on our exhibits. By employing fresh, interactive approaches in our future exhibitions, we hope to offer our visitors a more inspirational museum experience and lively encounters with architecture and design.
What will you find in our D-Ark Lab?
The A&DO Lab is an interactive exhibition that inspires learning and invites you to reflect on things you cherish in your local neighbourhood. A&DO Lab, which toured Finland from 2021 to 2023 as part of Designmuseum’s Museum Vision project serves as a dedicated hub for school group visits. The school program will be announced in August.
The Exhibition Lab presents regularly refreshed temporary exhibitions on changing themes.
The Dialogue Lab invites you to engage all your senses and interact holistically with our objects, both familiar design classics and also some surprising highlights from our collections.
D-Ark Lab
The communal museum work laboratory is open at the Design Museum Studios, 25.5.2024–31.8.2025.
Curators:
Petteri Kummala, Leena Svinhufvud
A&DO Lab Curators and pedagogical concept:
Arja-Liisa Kaasinen, Hanna Kapanen, Leena Svinhufvud, Linda Zweygberg
Exhibition Lab: Samples of Perfection research and curating by:
Leena Elina Valkeapää
Interior design:
Marjut Alitalo, Kerttu Lundell
Graphic Design:
Salla Bedard, Dog Design (A&DO Lab)
Thanks to:
Eero Aarnio Originals
Emil Aaltonen Foundation
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences: Tania Chumaira, Markku Luotonen
Finnish Cultural Foundation
other museum professionals who participated in the development of D-Ark Lab
everyone involved in the co-design process
