Helsinki will be the World Design Capital for 2012. In order to make Finland visible before the World Design Capital year, the city and Finnish design are already being displayed abroad.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photos Bernhard Ludewig, Perttu Saksa
Workspaces are joining forces in Helsinki. The Mushrooming network is expected to bear all kinds fruits of cooperation – or should we say mushrooms.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photos Veikko Kähkönen
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.
Photos Juuso Noronkoski
The OpenHouseHelsinki event will open doors to places where you normally can’t get into and will bring some relief to those of you with a hunger for architecture.
The OpenHouseHelsinki tours take place on 2−4 September 2010.
Chinese architect Zhang Ke represents a new and emerging generation of Chinese architects. He will also give a lecture at the Cable Factory at Helsinki Design Week.
Zhang Ke at the Cable Factory, 1 September 2010.
Helsinki’s strategy for its year as World Design Capital could include a battle against zero-content terminology, says Helsinki-based designer-architect Bryan Boyer.
Text Simo Vassinen
Photos Kaarle Hurtig
How can artists and designers affect the style of a city? “With spontaneity and magic”, say designer and artist Nene Tsuboi and fashion designer Daniel Palillo.
Text Anni Puolakka & Jenna Sutela
Photos Paavo Lehtonen
Architects Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala are setting up house all over the world with music project Renaissance Man.
Text Teemu Fiilin
Photos Juliana Harkki
The Newly Drawn exhibition in Helsinki Design Week and the book of the same name take a closer look at the new wave of Finnish architectural firms founded by 1970s-born designers. They are the ones planning the surroundings of our future.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Kai Kuusisto
What do the fashion designer Daniel Palillo and the architecture company NOW Office have in common? Palillo and NOW Office founder Tuomas Toivonen tell us about each other.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Kai Kuusisto
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20X0 – A Journey into the Future
8. October 2011
Heureka – The Finnish Science Centre
Seven Connections – Finnish Architecture Abroad
11. January 2012
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Yellow City – Illustrated Stories from Helsinki
16. January 2012
All around the city
20. January 2012
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art
DesignWorld – Designing the New World
27. January 2012
Design Museum
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