Urban coworking – offering temporary office space for those who need them – can be used not only for business purposes, but also to educate and combat marginalization.
Text Simo Vassinen
Photos Vesa Mäkinen
Arkadia Bookshop is not only a bookstore, but also a stage for culture. Despite its short history, this international bookstore is known as the living room of Töölö district.
Text Sirje Niitepõld
Photos Sanna Lehto
Many people bought frozen yogurt from the white Kippo Yogurt truck seen at public events last summer. The next phase is Café Kippo, which opened its doors at Iso Roobertinkatu at the turn of the year.
Text Juhana Hurula
Photos Jussi Puikkonen
Islaja is one of the biggest names in the Finnish forest folk genre. Despite this, her music is nothing like forests – or folk.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Hertta Kiiski
Consisting of designers and fine carpenters, the Woodism group produces wooden products made from trees felled in parks and private yards that would’ve otherwise ended up chopped or dumped.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Column by Pauliina Jalonen
“We know where to find park benches in Helsinki, where to go for an easy Sunday stroll, and where to head to find some action during the weekend. The city can’t be experienced just by driving past it.”
Photos Anna Kiuru
Shine 2009 makes dance pop with emotion and logic.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Kaarle Hurtig
The post-Madonna era of Jätkäsaari could well be an urban utopia that has been dreamt of since way back when. As the Low2No project takes flight, old ladies, families with children and young night crawlers grow their food together and relax at the neighborhood sauna.
Text Simo Vassinen
Images Sitra/Low2No/ARUP
A yellow building at the corner of Senate Square is uncovering after a renovation. In a year, it will be the epicenter of Helsinki’s World Design Capital year.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Juuso Noronkoski
Pintandwefall’s music is so full of pop sensibility and catchy hooks that it can grab even people who aren’t fans of trashy rock.
Text Teemu Fiilin
The album re-imagines the imagery (and especially soundtracks) of 1970s and 80s hilarious trash horror and sci-fi films, but also has elements of Vangelis’ and Jean-Michel Jarre’s slightly deeper sounds and even progressive rock.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Uusi Fantasia moves effortlessly from moody electro to trash jazz to rubbery disco to shady pop to cosmic funk and all the way back.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Shotgun Club takes minimalistic post-punk bass runs and overdramatic wailing, adds some garage rock flakiness, and sinks the whole thing in a marsh of reverb.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Mostly Cloudy 
20X0 – A Journey into the Future
8. October 2011
Heureka – The Finnish Science Centre
Yellow City – Illustrated Stories from Helsinki
16. January 2012
All around the city
20. January 2012
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art
Outi Heiskanen – Primordial Sea
11. February 2012
Didrichsen Museum
15. February 2012
City Museum Helsinki
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