On the occasion of We Are Helsinki magazine’s style issue, we set out to explore how artists and designers can affect the style of a city. “With spontaneity and magic”, say designer and artist Nene Tsuboi and fashion designer Daniel Palillo. …(more)
Paavo Lehtonen
Photographer
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Making Places
Dressing up Helsinki
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Oivallus – A project on future education
Projects / 06-12-2009Oivallus (‘a sudden insight’ in Finnish) project explores the future of education in a networked economy. It is conducted by the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK. The project builds on critical dialogue within multidisciplinary groups of specialists, including Anni, Jenna and Martti from OK Do.
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Home-Work-Home
Happiness resides at home – Interview with Tuula Pöyhönen of ONNI
Articles Series: Home-Work-Home / 17-11-2009Tuula Pöyhönen is one of my favourite Helsinki figures for two reasons: she is uncompromising in both what she says and what she does. Fashion designer by background, Tuula runs a family, a studio and a shop called ONNI (happiness or luck in Finnish) in her home, an old textile factory turned into loft apartments. I visited Tuula to discuss the meaning and impacts of working at home. …(more)
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Strategies of Participation
Everyday strategies of participation – Food and aerogamies in Tokyo
Diary Series: Strategies of Participation / 12-11-2009Last week, I curated a retrospective exhibition for the design agency Kokoro & Moi at Utrecht’s NOW IDeA gallery in Aoyama, Tokyo. The exhibition revolved around two events: organising a paper airplane workshop of the printed exhibition material with Mr. Takuo Toda, a local aerogami expert and the holder of the world record for the longest paper plane flight, and cooking Finnish food for Tokyo Design Week visitors at the gallery with Apartamento magazine. Focusing on people, the events depict a change of focus from strategies of display to strategies of participation. …(more)
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Making Places
See, think, do pt. 1 – Tuomas Toivonen on architecture
Articles Series: Making Places / 06-10-2009Tuomas Toivonen is an architect and musician. He is the founder of NOW for Architecture and Urbanism, a spatial practice based in Helsinki. In the tradition of architectural writing, See, think, do is a series of texts attempting to articulate the relevant elements in the work of an architect today. The series explores both the context and the content of the work as well as related design processes and changes in the profession and working life as a whole. …(more)
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The cross-bench practitioner – Markus Miessen around and about architecture
Articles / 23-09-2009Markus Miessen is an architect, spatial consultant and writer commuting between Berlin, London, and the Middle East. He has two offices: Studio Miessen, an agency for spatial strategy and cultural analysis and nOffice, an architectural practice in Berlin. He’s also a board member of the Zürich-based think tank W.I.R.E.. I met with Miessen to talk about work and life of the contemporary designer that he is. …(more) -
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Dance around the subject – Momus on place and the creative process
Articles Series: Making Places / 11-09-2009I recently met with Nick Currie aka Momus, a Scottish writer, design journalist and musician who has lived in London, Paris, New York, Tokyo and now Berlin. Exploring his “inner Scotlands” as well as the country’s current efforts towards independence, he just released a book on one hundred and fifty-six Scotlands, which currently do not exist anywhere. …(more)