Helsinki Design Week turns eyes to the future
Helsinki Design Week 2010, from August 26 through September 5, celebrated storytelling on the themes Past-Present-Future, gathering design professionals and the general public together to explore dimensions of design.
“We achieved the broad scope we looked for in this year’s programme, and we sharpened our teeth for next year,” said Kari Korkman, the creator and director of Helsinki Design Week, wrapping up the 2010 events. “The 2011 Helsinki Design Week will be a dress rehearsal for the Design Year 2012, when Helsinki is World Design Capital.”
Helsinki Design Week 2011, to be held from September 9th to 18th, will be marked by many collaborations. Part of the planned programme is a touring exhibition under discussion between the Helsinki and Dutch Design Weeks and London Design Festival. Universities will have a marked presence: Aalto University’s School of Art and Design, Lahti Institute of Design and the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences will all be part of the programme.
Some 100 separate events were organized across the city during Helsinki Design Week 2010, built around design, architecture and fashion.
The Week was kicked off by the dedication ceremonies of Kalevalakehto / The Shaman’s Haven of the Kalevala, a student design-build installation echoing the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The installation celebrated the theme Past.
The theme Present was apparent in many offerings familiar from previous Helsinki Design Weeks. The popular Design Market put on sale design product prototypes, end-of-line items, and samples. Treasures from people’s wardrobes were given a new lease of life as they became fantastical DIY fashion creations.
For the first time, the Designpartners exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Habitare furniture, interior decoration and design trade fair at the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre, bringing to the fair industrial design and items not part of the traditional Habitare product range.
For the first time, the Designpartners exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Habitare furniture, interior decoration and design trade fair at the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre, bringing to the fair industrial design and items not part of the traditional Habitare product range.
Windows Installations put art and design into shop windows in a pilot project that looked to the future with deeper collaboration next year between Helsinki Design Week and businesses and galleries in the city centre.
One of the many events held at the Cable Factory, The End of Story brought to the stage young talent and offered glimpses to the future of design, thus representing the theme Future.
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