Helsinki Design Week 2012

Helsinki Design Week 2012 brings together the international design community and local artists.

The themes of the design festival, embracing the challenges of the Design Capital year, are built on by a new international team: design curator Jane Withers from London, design critic Kaj Kalin, the founder of the brand communication agency Gannaca, Christopher Peterka, the Director for Arts and Culture at the Finnish Institute in London, Hanna Harris, and Thomas Ermacora from CLEAR Village Foundation, specialised in developing sustainable and self-empowered communities. The event will spread from the Cable Factory to the Old Customs Warehouse.

"Helsinki Design Week can be an urban change catalyst. We are not just showing design to designers, but to find new ways to benefit society and the local city itself. An important theme for design week is fulfilling social innovation through participatory design. Future designers will become the vehicles of change, allowing nondesigners to play with their toys. "

-Thomas Ermacora, Clear Village, Helsinki Design Week's International Advisory Board

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