KIRSI NIINIMÄKI focuses on holistic understanding of sustainable fashion and textile fields and connections between design, manufacturing, business models and consumption. ANNIINA NURMI is developing a "clothing as a service system" which brings new sharing economy business models to the fashion industry.

Open Design relates to both designing things as well as communities: self-organizing groups who decide what to design and how to do it.

MIKKO JALAS will focus on the time-intense, dedicated care for wooden boats. HEIKKI HÄYHÄ is engaging with wooden boats first through a self-built Optimist-dinghy, which never turned to be water tight, he currently serves at boards such as the committee for classic boats at the Helsingfors Segel Sällskap.

PEKKA MURTO shows how seemingly ’wrong’ design processes in a shipbuilding project led to the right outcomes from the perspective of good design. JUTTA NUORTILA-JOKINEN will consider the challenges and rewards of implementing sustainable business ideas.

SAMPSA HYYSALO examines the Internet based peer-to-peer discussion forums on heat pumps and how they have helped the diffusion of this technology. LILLI LINKOLA will consider the role of open data in the energy transition in her talk.