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
Every Finn has eaten out of dishes designed by Kaj Franck. This year marks the centenary of the great designer’s birth.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Kaj Franck 100 years / Several exhibitions
Design Museum, 15 June–25 Sept 2011 / Habitare Fair, 14–18 Sept 2011 / Design Forum Finland, 16 June–18 Sept 2011
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
First there was an ecological chair, then a light and now multifunctional furniture.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
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EcoDesign / Exhibition
14–18 September, 2011
Habitare Fair, Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre, Helsinki
Just spending a moment in an allotment garden makes your imagination run wild. The cottages are highly sought-after, but everyone is invited to walk around in the green oases or enjoy the public saunas.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photos Hanne Granberg
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
Organic food for kids, farming in the city, great parties, pop-up restaurants and new food stores. Food strategy of the City of Helsinki seems to be all that is up-to-date in food.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photos Sanna Lehto
Statistics can also be sexy. Open data produced by the cities within the Helsinki Region will now be available to everybody through an online service that is part of the Helsinki Region Infoshare project launched in March.
Text Ida Kukkapuro
Photo Anna Kiuru
Clear 
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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