Kari Korkman, Founder and director of Helsinki Design Week:
Our news is that we have our “own house”. We have rented the picturesque sorting room area of the Old Customs Warehouse, which had stood empty for nearly 40 years.
The international advisory board has been put together in the background of Helsinki Design Week and its purpose is to develop HDW and its events for 2012.
Text Heini Lehtinen
Jussi Pajunen, Mayor of Helsinki:
Design is an integral part of the Finnish identity and society. The ability to renew this valuable resource of expertise is an important part of our international competitiveness.
The World Design Weeks project which will be launched at Helsinki Design Week aims to create and strengthen the cooperation and synergies between different countries’ design weeks. Helsinki Design Week will be the engine of the project together with the London Design Festival, Dutch Design Week and a couple other design weeks.
Text Heini Lehtinen
A one hundred-year-old building sitting idle was found in the heart of the city. It now offers a fabulous setting for new design, art, fashion and music. This year the Old Customs Warehouse located in Katajanokka will be the main venue for Helsinki Design Week.
Text Taru Torikka
Kaj Kalin is one of the most brilliant people in the Finnish design world, but he prefers to stay out of the limelight.
Text Petra Vuolanen
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To Declare / Exhibition
14-18 September 2011
Old Customs Warehouse, Helsinki
Did you know that only one percent of the world’s water is drinkable? Combining design and awareness of the limited amount of drinking water, Wonderwater Café will be launched at the Beijing Design Week this year and in 2012 it will arrive at Helsinki Design Week.
Text Heini Lehtinen
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Wonderwater Café Tian Hai at Beijing Design Week, 26 September–3 October 2011 and in Helsinki in 2012.
Finnish fashion will take over the brand-new Helsinki Music Center. Helsinki Design Week LIVE will present not only the iconic designer Vuokko Nurmesniemi, but also new designers and artists.
Text Emma Vuorinen
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Helsinki Design Week LIVE / Fashion show with live artists
17 September 2011
Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki
A Finnish-British artistic couple’s weather-proof work of art will color the new cultural center in Katajanokka.
Text Petra Vuolanen
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Heart / Installation
8-19 September 2011
Old Customs Warehouse, Helsinki
More popular than ever, the Design Market will once again fill Merikaapelihalli with a market atmosphere. With the right preparations you’ll find the best stuff.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
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Design Market / Sales event
10–11 September 2011
Cable Factory, Helsinki
PechaKucha was created as an antidote to boring presentations and has since provided entertainment, laughs and inspiration.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
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PechaKuchaNight
14.9.2011 ja 16.9.2011
Old Customs Warehouse, Helsinki
Helsinki is known for its architecture and unique urban milieu, but many of the interesting places are not open to the public. OpenHouseHelsinki will change that for four days.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
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OpenHouseHelsinki / Open doors/tours
15–18 September 2011
Around Helsinki
Recently a group of Guggenheim Museum staff from New York visited Helsinki. They were wondering why the internationally renowned design city doesn’t have up-to-date and appropriate spaces for displaying design. Exactly. Maybe it’s a “shoemaker’s children have no shoes” phenomenon.
Text Aila Svenskberg
Photo Juuso Noronkoski
The different programs which the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences runs speak of new technology and a better urban environment as part of Helsinki Design Week.
Text Petra Vuolanen
Helsinki was appointed as the World Design Capital for 2012 in the fall of 2009. The city was only given two years to organize the giant project, which is less than half the time that Turku had to prepare for their year as European Capital of Culture.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Images Tuomas Toivonen & Nene Tsuboi
Hub Helsinki organized a World Design Capital 2012 brainstorming day in Helsinki at the end of May. During Helsinki Design Week, it is exploring urban gardens and communal construction. What Hub Helsinki?
Text Heini Lehtinen
Photos Tanja Korvenmaa
Interior design students of Metropolia have designed a zero-energy house with students from the University of Tennessee.
Metropolia’s UT Zero Energy House exhibition at Fredrikintori on 26 August – 5 September 2010.
A special Tiia Vanhatapio fashion show will be presented in the unique surroundings of Seurasaari.
Tiia Vanhatapio’s 5-year retrospective fashion show at Seurasaari on August 26, 2010.
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.
In the world of organic advertising the citizens decide which companies deserve an advertisement.
The Organic Advertising advertisements can be seen in Helsingin Sanomat on 30 August – 4 September 2010.
20 images and 20 seconds to talk about each image, that’s a total of six minutes and forty seconds to talk about a topic. What would you talk about?
PechaKuchaNight (theater) 28 August 2010, The Korjaamo Culture Factory.
PechaKuchaNight (design) 2 September 2010, The Cable Factory.
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 Design Week brings together twelve Helsinki designers and artists and their creations to form the Windows Installations project to shop windows around the city centre.
Windows Installations on 27 August–5 September 2010.
It is a major challenge for designers to keep up with the trends. This challenge is met by the global material library, Material ConneXion, a source of inspiration and innovative materials for designers.
Material ConneXion at the Ahead! area of the Habitare Fair, 1–5 September 2010.
Creative professionals from both Finland and the Netherlands will share their views on future trends in Trend Book which has been created by Helsinki Design Week in cooperation with Dutch Design Week.
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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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