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International events - Event 2011 IDA Congress: Design at the Edges 24/10/2011 The 2011 IDA Congress being held in Taipei in October strives to promote the utilisation of design in different areas of society. The congress brings...	Blogs - Off to Milan! A well-designed journey from Travemünde to Milan A well-constructed road network and well-maintained roads mean it is possible to get quite far in Europe during a weekend.	Programme - Helsinki Encounters Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation ACSI 07/08/2012 Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation ACSI brings together field experts, researchers, entrepreneurs, students and artists from all over the world to co-create...	News - Helsinki Food Abattoir looking for shopkeeper to run grocery store The Abattoir in Helsinki is going to be turned into an oasis for a new kind of food culture. The search is on for an ambitious and open-minded shopkeeper.	Blogs - Off to Milan! An electric vibe By Tuesday, downtown Milan is brimming with energy and crowds, with design shops and showrooms drawing people in from the swarming streets.
News - Partnership Environment An international magazine gives a cross-section of the design capital year World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 publishes a high-class magazine in cooperation with Sanoma Custom Publishing.	Programme - Helsinki Encounters Armi OPEN Workshop - URBS1 (Urban BrainStream) 06/09/2012 We will discuss urban planning. How can multiculturalism be taken into account in the planning of urban environments or accessibility considered in an old...	Programme - International Rethinking design Base of the Pyramid (BoP) 01/09/2010 We promote the onset of sustainable and user-oriented innovations suitable for emerging markets. BoP, “Base of the Pyramid”, as a concept...	News - Helsinki Education Arts and Sciences Partnership Better living through design Aalto University combines its skills in the fields of art, economy and technology to create better living environments.	News - Partnership BMW and Paulig are the Design Capital’s new corporate partners World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 has announced two new corporate partner agreements. BMW is a new Main Corporate Partner while Paulig is a Corporate...
Blogs - Off to Milan! Bye-bye Helsinki! We’ve got 27 hours to find out more about design traditions on freight ships while sailing with Finnlines.	Programme - Helsinki Transforming the city Cityshops 01/01/2012 We promote the operational preconditions of city shops. The aim is to develop and ensure that diverse shopping options and commercial services remain in the...	Programme - Helsinki Encounters Collective Design 25/04/2012 The Design Management Institute of USA is the world’s most respected organisation for design management. The annual European DMI conference in Helsinki...	News - International Competition Community Cooker cleans rubbish-filled streets and produces energy A Kenyan invention which was awarded the first World Impact Prize will ensure cleaner streets, hot water and an important meeting place for the residents of...	News - Helsinki Partnership Corporations eager to join World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 has confirmed five new corporate partners. The project is becoming one of the largest corporate partnership projects in...
Blogs - Off to Milan! Cucina Povera the Finnish way Wednesday, our big day, started with rain. At 9pm, the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 media and stakeholder event dubbed “Cucina Povera” was...	News - Partnership Design Capital gets its own product range We have collected a range of successful classic and future products for the Design Capital. The designers of the products vary from promising talents to...	News - Helsinki Event Design dreams and night-time fun ÖÖ – was it a dream? is a programme of events that introduces the best of Nordic and Estonian design – and recreates the atmosphere of...	News - Media and Communication Design embedded deep within Design makes our everyday lives run smoother, and yet we often take it for granted – so much so that it has almost become invisible to us. Finnish...	Programme - Helsinki Rethinking design Design into profit - Promotion of design know-how 01/09/2011 We promote the competitiveness of SMEs by encouraging them to use design skills in the development of their business operations.
Programme - Helsinki Encounters Design Learning Conference 10/05/2012 Designing is the most enchanting of all human cognitive creations. This conference has a holistic approach to the concept of design learning, which can be...	News - Helsinki Partnership Design Partnership to Improve Life World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 and INDEX: of Denmark have launched a partnership. In addition to Helsinki, the new alliance includes the cities of...	Programme - Helsinki Rethinking design Design Your Own City and Urban Stage 11/11/2011 We will create a new look in areas surrounding youth houses, on fences in building sites, rug washing jetties, and in other locations where young people tend...	Programme - Helsinki Rethinking design Designed Solutions 2012 - The Finnish Cultural Foundation Design Programme 28/02/2012 We promote widespread application of design in new contexts and when seeking solutions to social challenges.The Designed Solutions 2012 programme creates...	News - Helsinki Media and Communication Partnership Designers' video portraits We wanted to give Finnish designers an opportunity to tell their story: to explain what design means to them and how diverse the world of design is.
Programme - Helsinki Year of events Designing for New Realities -seminar 06/03/2012 A world that is becoming ever more unpredictable touches us all. Things happening on the other side of the globe affect our everyday life. At the same...	News - Helsinki Education Arts and Sciences Designing teaching and teaching design Design Learning Conference presents new ideas and solutions for design learning.	Programme - Helsinki Rethinking design Dirikka 2012+ 01/11/2011 We will adopt design and design tools which support sustainable development. Dirikka 2012+ is a new type of business, research, training and product...	News - Helsinki Services Electronic registration system makes life easier for event organisers The City of Helsinki has launched a new electronic event registration system which provides an easier way to submit permit applications and to organise fun...	News - Web Economy and Industry Enabling the business world to recognise the importance of design Design ROI, a joint project of Finnish design agencies, is developing a model for measuring the benefits of design to businesses. The Finnish Design Business...
Programme - Helsinki Transforming the city Fiilari 15/03/2012 The city is shaped by how we move around in it. Cycling is an important part of city planning and design.	News - Helsinki Event Find out about Otomi Indians and day-to-day life in Mexico City The Ice Cellar, located in Helsinki's Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, is hosting an event devoted to Mexico today.	Programme - Helsinki Transforming the city Finnish Design Market 01/06/2012 We are livening up market trade and creating new conditions for finding Finnish products. Finnish Design Market is a special area to be opened at the...	News - Helsinki Urban culture Finnish Design Market offers design discoveries to residents and tourists alike Finnish Design Market, which will open on the first day of June, will showcase a diverse range of Finnish design from illustrative art to jewellery.	News - Media and Communication Gloria Design showcases diverse design with style The new Gloria Design magazine enjoys a spot of lunch in Helsinki's hidden backrooms, examines the intricacies of design and captures the everyday lives...
News - Helsinki Media and Communication Grafia announced its shortlist for the Best of the Year Original design work produced in the fields of design and advertising will again be showcased during the Best of the Year competition.	News - Helsinki Product Design Guided tours of the INDEX: Award Exhibition You can now take an expert-guided tour of the outdoor exhibition on Helsinki's Keskuskatu.	News - Helsinki Urban culture Harvesting honey in your own balcony This Saturday, it's time to learn about urban bees.	Programme - Helsinki Rethinking design Helsinki Aeroport – Perfect Design Destination 01/01/2012 We will develop the service design of the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, product and service offering, and service concepting of airports.	News - Helsinki Event Helsinki to become the world’s best student metropolis The Helsinki University World Student Capital(WSC) project starting today will turn our capital into a unique and desirable college town.
Programme - Helsinki Year of events HEL_FWRD/ Fashion Village 04/08/2012 We are showcasing Finnish fashion in a new, modern, fresh and inviting surrounding. HEL_FWRD/ Fashion Village gathers together the top Finnish fashion...	News - Helsinki Partnership How does the City of Helsinki utilise open data? The Smarter Cities Challenge programme examines and creates ideas for the use of city data.	Programme - Helsinki Rethinking design Hyrrä – new elementary school community services 01/01/2012 What is a digital-age, communal and healthy school like? How can we develop new services for the school?	News - Helsinki Technology Partnership IBM joins World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 The Redesigning 925 project will redesign the working week and the City of Helsinki visualises better use of open data.	News - Helsinki Urban planning Ideas for a city of dreams on Pasilaan day The Pasila of tomorrow designed through a collaborative effort.
Programme - Helsinki Exhibitions INDEX: Award Exhibition 10/05/2012 Today, a widening field of designers and manufacturers is turning inspiration, skills and industrial capabilities to issues of improving life – both in...	News - Helsinki Event Product Design INDEX: Award Exhibition – an open-air exhibition highlighting significant design Danish design organisation INDEX: is taking to the street on Keskuskatu, Helsinki, with design that has the capacity to improve people's lives all across...	Programme - International Exhibitions INDEX: Design to Improve Life 28/03/2011 The City of Helsinki has launched a partnership with the Danish organisation INDEX: to improve quality of life through design. INDEX: is a non-profit...	News - Helsinki Partnership INDEX: launches revolutionary partnership with Helsinki, Singapore and Copenhagen INDEX:’s mission is to promote and to apply design and design processes that have the capacity to improve people’s lives worldwide. By entering...	International events - Event Introducing Finnish architecture to New York 20/04/2012 NEWLY DRAWN – ‘Emerging Finnish Architects’ is a network of new-generation architects, which will be providing busy New York with two...
News - Lahti Art Lahti's colour chart An exhibition at Muotohuoltamo is presenting the graphic interpretation of Lahti's colour chart by the city residents.	Programme - Helsinki Year of events Lapin Kulta Events 01/01/2012 We are combining design, food, drink and nature into a new, even surprising, experience. The unique Lapin Kulta Events are part of Lapin Kulta's Design...	News - Helsinki Partnership Launching of the Finnish Cultural Foundation’s notable design programme From an international perspective, Finland is an important design nation, yet the general understanding in the country of the possibilities of design and its...	Programme - Helsinki Exhibitions Metamorphosis and Inspiring Encounter 13/09/2011 Two exhibitions present works by design students from the Lahti University of Applied Sciences Institute of Design and Konstfack, the University College of...	News - Helsinki Event Product Design MoA’12 – designing the future Opening today, in Jätkäsaari's Rantamakasiini L3 building, Masters of Aalto (MoA’12) is an exhibition showcasing the theses, diploma...
News - Web Media and Communication Partnership New website for Aalto University programmes The Aalto University World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 series of programmes has launched a website at living.aalto.fi. The website introduces all WDC...	Blogs - 925 Ninetofive – redesigning the work week Each of us has to grapple with the problems of the work week. We’re always busy. There are too many emails.	News - Helsinki Partnership Nokia joins the design capital year Nokia is the latest Main Partner of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. The design capital currently has a total of 20 corporate partners. This is one of the...	International events - Product Design Partnership Nordic Design Award Exhibition 08/11/2011 The Finnish Embassy in Brazil is co-operating with the embassies of other Nordic countries to organise an exhibition of award-winning Nordic design. The...	Programme - Other City Rethinking design Now, Citizen meets Sustainable Design 01/08/2011 We are highlighting the diversity of design and how products, services and the environment can be improved through design. Now, Citizen meets Sustainable...
News - Helsinki Urban culture Park volunteers needed in Helsinki Beautiful parks play a vital role for the wellbeing of people living in cities. Residents of Helsinki can make a difference in maintaining their local parks...	News - Helsinki Urban culture Pavilion's week Welcome to the Pavilion, the World Design Capital's living room. Open Tue-Sun from 11 am to 9 pm, Ullanlinnankatu 2. Attached highlights of the Pavilion...	News - Helsinki Art Event Photograph Laboratory opens its doors in Helsinki On Friday in the centre of Helsinki, right next to Design Forum Finland, a temporary exhibition facility called Laboratory is opening.	International events - Education Arts and Sciences Event PICNIC 2011 14/09/2011 The PICNIC Festival is an annual 3-day event that breaks down the barriers between creativity, science, technology and business and explores new, creative...	Programme - Web Rethinking design Promoting Accessibility in Communications Services 02/01/2012 How to ensure that a barrier-free information society becomes reality? A monitoring group for accessible communications services promotes and ensures that...
Programme - Lahti Rethinking design Ready Steady GO! Finland 01/01/2012 We’re colliding design with exercise. Ready Steady Go! Finland creates an activity model that aims at improving competitiveness and promoting co-...	Blogs - Off to Milan! Returning from one design city to another: Milan – Helsinki After our own World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 media and stakeholder event on Wednesday evening, it's time to return home via Travemunde on a freighter...	News - Other City Event Visitor Rovaniemi Design Week – the World’s Northernmost Design Week Action packed days at the Arctic Circle. The theme of this year’s Rovaniemi Design Week, now being organised for the fourth time, is Arctic Design...	News - Espoo Event Socially responsible design This exhibition at the Helinä Rautavaara Museum highlights the communal effects of design, responsible design and ethics in business.	News - Helsinki Event Sounds of Copacabana The “Design Backstage” discussion series will delve into the story behind the Copacabana Guitar, designed by Eero Aarnio.
Programme - Helsinki Encounters spACE 16/09/2012 Promoting the utilisation of design and the growth of design ideas. spACE is especially designed for Aalto University students and start up companies.	News - Vantaa Arts and Crafts Spring in Vantaa - full of interesting experiences The Designwindow will be full of art when an exhibition of diploma work from Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and works from the Vantaa Art...	News - Helsinki Event Partnership Students of architecture to chart Design Capital wasteland areas in summer The largest, most international architecture event of the Design Capital year will be arranged next summer in Suvilahti, Helsinki. The two-week festival...	News - Helsinki Partnership Svenska kulturfonden makes a major contribution to World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Svenska kulturfonden (Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland) has joined the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 project as one of its financiers and...	Programme - Other City Rethinking design SYMBIO Living Lab – Young creative entrepreneurs 01/09/2009 We bring dispersed players together, promote innovation, and offer young people experience in entrepreneurship. SYMBIO Living Lab is an open development...
News - Helsinki Event The French-Finnish Chamber of Commerce and Industry's seminar encouraging businesses to get inspired by design The upcoming Business Forum, an event that challenges business people to find new ways of doing and seeing things, will be focusing on the importance of...	Blogs - 925 The hold of the past The duty of museums and other memory organisations is to preserve, promote and interpret the heritage left by the human race. Information on the past is...	News - Helsinki Event The Itä-Pasila rising! project will bring life and joy to the residents every day Bird box and wash graffiti workshops, shell suit discos and parkour training – the World Design Capital year of Itä-Pasila is full of activity.	News - Helsinki Urban culture The Pavilion has opened! This weekend we celebrate the opening of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012's new living room – come and party with us!	News - Web Education Arts and Sciences Think Wall collects thoughts The University of Helsinki new social and interactive wall invites everyone to discuss and comment.
News - Helsinki Urban planning Those who seek design shall find it in Arabianranta The Arabianranta neighbourhood in Helsinki is focusing on improving tourist information boards in the area. The new information boards will make it easier...	Programme - Lahti Year of events Trashcarnival 03/09/2011 We are learning to discover new ways of using trash and rejected items. Pimping s means learning sustainable development and new design concepts: a single...	News - Helsinki Urban culture Travelling companions on offer Kiitos kyydistä!, or "Thanks for the ride!" is a new kind of car-sharing service, which offers company on business and shopping trips.	News - Helsinki Event Turn Table – The Urban Garden opening on Saturday! An urban oasis for cultivation run by Dodo ry., Turn Table – The Urban Garden will be kicking off the spring season with planting and cultivation tips...	News - Partnership UPM to partner with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 UPM will partner with the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 as one of its main corporate sponsors. UPM’s business areas manufacture various materials...
News - Helsinki Urban culture Urban farmers taking over the courtyard of a former abattoir Plans are presently in progress to redevelop the site of an old abattoir and turn it into an oasis for food and urban culture. Urban farmers will be given an...	Programme - Lahti Transforming the city Urban Wheel – cyclists as city planners 01/01/2012 We bring citizens, authorities, designers, university researchers, companies and students together to discuss city planning.	News - Helsinki Public administration Wanted: a designer for Finnish wellbeing The City of Helsinki and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra are looking for a strategic designer to fill a position to be established in the city’s...	Blogs - Anna Häkkinen & Heli Hakala WDC weekend update: Arctic Carnival brings warmth and cheer We did it! The World Design Capital weekend drew in over 40,000 people in the Capital Region and Lahti despite record-breaking sub-zero temperatures.	News - Helsinki Urban culture Event Welcome to the Pavilion! Completed on the plot between the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum, the Pavilion will be welcoming everyone throughout the summer from...
Columns - Tyyne Pennanen Why become successful? In the picture that goes with this column I am wearing a Samuji dress. Samuji is a few years old Finnish fashion brand designed by Samu-Jussi Koski who...	International events - Architecture Winning Finnish architecture in China 30/04/2012 The Wuxi Grand Theatre, designed by PES-Architects, is a great example of Finnish architecture around the world today.	News - Helsinki Partnership World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 announces first corporate partners The first corporate partnerships with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 were announced on Monday, November 29, 2010. Main partnership agreements were signed...	Columns - Pekka Timonen World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 looking for permanent changes The functionality of the society can be greatly impacted through design, but the available options have not yet been used sufficiently.	News - Helsinki Urban culture World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Pavilion offers open programme for everyone for 105 summer days The World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Pavilion opening in the centre of Helsinki for the summer months will be a meeting place open to everyone.
News - International Event World Design Capital presents Finnish design at the Milan Design Week The World Design Capital is heavily involved in the Milan Design Week, and at the same time, promotes the visibility of the field of Finnish design. The...	News - Helsinki Product Design Young Finnish design takes over the stands This year, you can support the Finnish ice hockey Lions with design products.