What do Helsinkians want for their city? “A trash bag vending machine for dog poo. ” “Free soda, and more soda machines.” “Designer bird houses in parks, so you could hear birds singing in the winter.”
Text Heini Lehtinen
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
The theme for the Design Capital project makes you think about the use of public space, elitism in the creative field and doing things together like in the good old days.
Text Simo Vassinen
Photos Sasa Tkalcan
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.”
Design is everything that combines usability, form and idea.
Text Simo Vassinen
Clear 
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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