Column

Technological creativity and the love of natural forms

By Kivi Sotamaa

Just like the electric guitar and Jimi Hendrix created a new psychedelic sound in the 1960s, computers and the manufacturing robots they control are now enabling the discovery of new forms of expression in architecture and design for the third millennium.

A beautiful moment in Helsinki

By Suvi Saloniemi

“I claim that Helsinki is one of the best places to play in the world. Helsinkians are at the same time the best audience and the best hosts. But why? We aren’t as suave, bold and numerous as many Central European audiences.”

Grab a basket!

By Meri-Tuuli Lindström

When I tell foreigners about Finns, I start off by describing how in the wintertime everyone just wants to sit on their couch at home. “But when the spring comes and the snow has melted, before the grass is even dry, everyone is out on picnics in the city’s parks,” I say.

Thanks, guys!

By Samu-Jussi Koski

The US reporter looked at me in amazement as I blurted out my reply to his jovial question. I was so exhausted that when the reporter asked me what it was like working in the fashion business in Finland, I didn’t have the energy to muster up a politically correct reply. So I just spit out “Bullshit. Utter bullshit.”

The essence of well-being

By Prof. Rolf Nordström

I’m delighted that the late Pope John Paul II already in 2000 held a congress to research how aesthetic plastic surgery could improve the quality of life.