Partnership

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...
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A well-constructed road network and well-maintained roads mean it is possible to get quite far in Europe during a weekend. 
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...
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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.
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By Tuesday, downtown Milan is brimming with energy and crowds, with design shops and showrooms drawing people in from the swarming streets. 
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World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 publishes a high-class magazine in cooperation with Sanoma Custom Publishing.
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...
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...
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Aalto University combines its skills in the fields of art, economy and technology to create better living environments.
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World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 has announced two new corporate partner agreements. BMW is a new Main Corporate Partner while Paulig is a Corporate...
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We’ve got 27 hours to find out more about design traditions on freight ships while sailing with Finnlines.
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...
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...
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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...
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World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 has confirmed five new corporate partners. The project is becoming one of the largest corporate partnership projects in...
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Wednesday, our big day, started with rain. At 9pm, the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 media and stakeholder event dubbed “Cucina Povera” was...
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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...
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ÖÖ – was it a dream? is a programme of events that introduces the best of Nordic and Estonian design – and recreates the atmosphere of...
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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...
01/09/2011
We promote the competitiveness of SMEs by encouraging them to use design skills in the development of their business operations.
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...
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World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 and INDEX: of Denmark have launched a partnership. In addition to Helsinki, the new alliance includes the cities of...
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...
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...
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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.
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...
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Design Learning Conference presents new ideas and solutions for design learning.
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...
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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...
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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...
15/03/2012
The city is shaped by how we move around in it. Cycling is an important part of city planning and design.
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The Ice Cellar, located in Helsinki's Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, is hosting an event devoted to Mexico today.
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...
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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.
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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...
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Original design work produced in the fields of design and advertising will again be showcased during the Best of the Year competition.
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You can now take an expert-guided tour of the outdoor exhibition on Helsinki's Keskuskatu. 
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This Saturday, it's time to learn about urban bees.
01/01/2012
We will develop the service design of the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, product and service offering, and service concepting of airports.
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The Helsinki University World Student Capital(WSC) project starting today will turn our capital into a unique and desirable college town.
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...
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The Smarter Cities Challenge programme examines and creates ideas for the use of city data.
01/01/2012
What is a digital-age, communal and healthy school like? How can we develop new services for the school?
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The Redesigning 925 project will redesign the working week and the City of Helsinki visualises better use of open data.
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The Pasila of tomorrow designed through a collaborative effort.
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
20/04/2012
NEWLY DRAWN – ‘Emerging Finnish Architects’ is a network of new-generation architects, which will be providing busy New York with two...
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An exhibition at Muotohuoltamo is presenting the graphic interpretation of Lahti's colour chart by the city residents.
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...
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From an international perspective, Finland is an important design nation, yet the general understanding in the country of the possibilities of design and its...
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...
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Opening today, in Jätkäsaari's Rantamakasiini L3 building, Masters of Aalto (MoA’12) is an exhibition showcasing the theses, diploma...
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The Aalto University World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 series of programmes has launched a website at living.aalto.fi.  The website introduces all WDC...
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Each of us has to grapple with the problems of the work week. We’re always busy. There are too many emails. 
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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On Friday in the centre of Helsinki, right next to Design Forum Finland, a temporary exhibition facility called Laboratory is opening.
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...
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...
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-...
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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...
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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...
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This exhibition at the Helinä Rautavaara Museum highlights the communal effects of design, responsible design and ethics in business.
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The “Design Backstage” discussion series will delve into the story behind the Copacabana Guitar, designed by Eero Aarnio.
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.
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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...
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The largest, most international architecture event of the Design Capital year will be arranged next summer in Suvilahti, Helsinki. The two-week festival...
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 Svenska kulturfonden (Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland) has joined the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 project as one of its financiers and...
01/09/2009
We bring dispersed players together, promote innovation, and offer young people experience in entrepreneurship. SYMBIO Living Lab is an open development...
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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...
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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...
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Bird box and wash graffiti workshops, shell suit discos and parkour training – the World Design Capital year of Itä-Pasila is full of activity.
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This weekend we celebrate the opening of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012's new living room – come and party with us!
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The University of Helsinki new social and interactive wall invites everyone to discuss and comment.
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The Arabianranta neighbourhood in Helsinki is focusing on improving tourist information boards in the area. The new information boards will make it easier...
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...
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Kiitos kyydistä!, or "Thanks for the ride!" is a new kind of car-sharing service, which offers company on business and shopping trips.
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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...
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UPM will partner with the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 as one of its main corporate sponsors. UPM’s business areas manufacture various materials...
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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...
01/01/2012
We bring citizens, authorities, designers, university researchers, companies and students together to discuss city planning.
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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...
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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.
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Completed on the plot between the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum, the Pavilion will be welcoming everyone throughout the summer from...
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...
30/04/2012
The Wuxi Grand Theatre, designed by PES-Architects, is a great example of Finnish architecture around the world today.
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The first corporate partnerships with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 were announced on Monday, November 29, 2010. Main partnership agreements were signed...
The functionality of the society can be greatly impacted through design, but the available options have not yet been used sufficiently.
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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.
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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...
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This year, you can support the Finnish ice hockey Lions with design products.