Residents can remote control the environment of WDC Helsinki 2012 café

Today, WDC Helsinki 2012 will open a remote controlled café at the Forum shopping centre. The café is used to illustrate the significance of good design in everyday life.

Sections of Café Kauko (i.e. Remote Café), which is free to all, can be remote controlled in real time online at www.youdesign.fi. Visitors to the website will be able to control the café's design – chair and table height, lighting, music and other sounds. When a passer-by sits down at Café Kauko, another person can at the same time control and follow the visitor’s coffee break on the café’s website.

– With Café Kauko, we wish to stimulate discussion on how design can make residents' everyday lives better, more convenient and functional, WDC Helsinki 2012 Director Pekka Timonen who will be working at the café on 9 January at 14–17, states.

From 9 January until the middle of February, this WDC Helsinki 2012 mobile café will be located on the 2nd floor of the Forum shopping centre in Helsinki. The café offers free coffee, a wireless connection and weekly magazines for perusal. Café Kauko will also appear in several other locations during 2012.

From 9 January, the WDC Helsinki 2012 café can also be seen in advertising films on TV. Café Kauko, www.youdesign.fi website and the TV clips are part of the awareness campaign which also consists of outdoor notices and online visibility. The campaign has been designed by hasan & partners and produced by Perfect Fools from Stockholm.