Helsinki Design Week

Helsinki Design Weeklyn radio-ohjelmassa vieraana tänään säveltäjä, tuottaja, muusikko ja äänisuunnittelija Matti Ahopelto. 👂👂Millaisiin asioihin äänisuunnittelulla voidaan vaikuttaa, entä miten hiljaisuutta voidaan käyttää tarinankerronnassa? Miltä Helsinki kuulostaa? 🌆Kuuntele suora lähetys Radio Helsingissä klo 12 tai podcastina vähän myöhemmin.

Yhteistyössä, ystävien seurassa:

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Our Main Venue’s Studio space was created in collaboration with Franckly, a marketplace for pre-loved quality design♻️

Stay tuned for Studio interviews of Helsinki Design Week’s creative community 👀

Books provided by & .editions
Furniture

📸 Justus Hirvi

If your thirst for exhibitions wasn’t fully satisfied during Helsinki Design Week, fear not!

A group exhibition at Hotel AX’s public spaces is bringing forgotten works by emerging and established artists back into the spotlight. Curated by Niklas Hallman, the exhibition presents artworks in dialogue, creating a fresh context and platform beyond their original displays. This autumn, you can explore works by Taru Happonen, Timo Andersson, and other notable artists.

Helsinki Design Night was the perfect way to celebrate the closing of our main venue last night!

🪩As the space transformed into a club, Jori Hulkkonen, the GOAT 🐐 of electronic music, delivered an epic three-hour improvisation set. The after-party continued at none other than

Ideas born at night are often freer and wilder than those that come in the light of day.

📸Justus Hirvi

Last night, we closed the doors to our main venue at Paasivuorenkatu 3, but don’t worry – Helsinki Design Week continues until the end of today!

A BIG thank you to everyone who has visited the events so far! 🫂

Thank you also to
Antilooppi
Marimekko
Let Me Wine .fi
Apartamento
Artek
Vaarnii
Nikari
&Tradition
Reeta Laine
Tatu Laakso .laakso
Plantagen

And of course, our super team of volunteers!🫶🏻

📸 Justus Hirvi

Today’s Open Studios will take place in the districts of Hakaniemi, Kallio, Sörnäinen, Vallila and East Helsinki. Studios will be open between 3–7 PM and everyone is welcome!

🚴‍♂️The recommended route is:

⭐️Heikkiläntie: Heikkiläntie 7 00210 Helsinki, Lauttasaari
⭐️Ark-byroo, : Työpajankatu 10 A 49, 7th floor, Kalasatama
⭐️Wienerberger tiilistudio, : Kumpulantie 15, Vallila
⭐️Minestrone, : Pälkäneentie 3, Vallila
⭐️Werklig ,: Siltasaarenkatu 18-20 D2, Hakaniemi
⭐️Nordkapp, .fi: Kaikukatu 2 C, Hakaniemi
⭐️Balmuir, : Siltasaarenkatu 8-10, Hakaniemi
⭐️Aina Valmis, : Siltasaarenkatu 12, Hakaniemi

The main venue of the festival, Paasivuorenkatu 3, will host an after party! 🪩

Photos from last week’s Open Studios at Veneentekijäntie 12,

📸 Justus Hirvi / Helsinki Design Week

Friday 13 is a day of INTERDISCIPLINARY CREATIVITY at Paasivuorenkatu 3! 🪄🪐

The day starts with a panel discussion between four creatives. Free entry!✨

4–5 PM: Panel discussion: Habitare & HDW.
Helsinki Design Week programme director Anni Korkman❣️, Habitare creative lead Päivi Helander❣️, Marimekko’s Design Director, Home & Print Design Minna Kemell-Kutvonen❣️ and illustrator Ulla Donner❣️ discuss the mystery of the creative process.




The day continues with the popular PechaKucha Night and live music (also an afterparty for Open Studios!).

Come and get inspired!

Full programme at helsinkidesignweek.com

Last night was a beautiful blend of art, design, live music, and friends – thank you all for joining us at the Blau Showroom!💫🎷

If you missed it, don’t worry! The exhibition is open until 15 September (today until 6 PM, and over the weekend from 10 AM to 5 PM). Stop by and admire the joint exhibition of ceramic artisan Teppo Honkala and visual artist Mirja Ilkka, where nature and the human experience are given profound expression; craftsmanship and art merge, inviting the viewer to explore the depth and layers of both materials and the mind.

Blau Interior is part of the Showrooms Habitare x Helsinki Design Week event series. Learn more at helsinkidesignweek.com

📸 Justus Hirvi / Helsinki Design Week


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House by an Architect at the Main Venue Paasivuorenkatu 3! 🧩📐🔨💭

Thursday 12 will culminate in the popular House by an Architect evening event, where well-known architects will talk about their favorite residential buildings – those they wish they had designed themselves. Free entry! 🎈

8 PM: House by an Architect. Featuring architects Timo Karasalo, Esa Laaksonen, Anu Puustinen, Miia-Liina Tommila and Henrik Ilvesmäki, among others.🗝️

The event will be held in English.

Come by, have a drink and enjoy the talks!🧃🍷

Full programme at helsinkidesignweek.com

Thursday 12 Sept is an ARCHITECTURE DAY at Paasivuorenkatu 3!🩶

Dive into inspiring discussions around the theme architecture. Keynote by Paola Antonelli❣️
Free entry!

The day will be kicked off by AD museum with the following talks:

4:15 PM: Introduction: Kaarina Gould

4.30 PM: Panel discussion: Don’t forget to play. A session with rapid-fire presentations, moderated by New York-based DVDL’s Associate Director Maria Budtz Sorensen, on inspiring and radical concepts for the new museum.
Presentations by Liza Chong, Ervin Latimer, Linda Liukas, Johannes Suikkanen and Teemu Suviala. ‍

5.30 PM: Panel discussion: How can a functional museum be built for the communities of this century?
Speakers: Tommi Laitio, Héctor Noval and Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen. Moderated by Amos Rex director Kieran Long (in English).

6.30 PM: Keynote: Paola Antonelli: On Creating Change: Museums as an R&D Tool for Society (in English).



Join us at Paasivuorenkatu 3 and see the full programme of the day at helsinkidesignweek.com!

DESIGN NEWS FROM HELSINKI! The winner of the Helsinki Design Award is Reaktor!🏆💐

The largest design and architecture festival in the Nordic countries, Helsinki Design Week, together with the City of Helsinki, annually awards professionals in the design fields who contribute to making Helsinki a great place to live, study and work. This year, the Helsinki Design Award highlights business operations that utilize design expertise. The award has been granted to the Helsinki-based consultancy Reaktor, which operates in nine countries.💫

“In these times, the world needs companies that, together with their clients, strive to solve global wicked problems by fearlessly leveraging creative thinking and rapidly advancing technology. Helsinki needs more companies like Reaktor if we are to succeed in attracting international talent here,” says Kari Korkman, Chair of the Helsinki Design Award jury and Founder of HDW.❣️

Want to meet the winners? Reaktor’s designers Panu Korhonen and Minttu Paukkunen will be interviewed by Helsinki Design Weekly at HDW Main Venue Paasivuorenkatu 3 on 13 September from 5:00 to 5:30 PM. 💥

The discussion will be in Finnish, and the event is open to the public with no prior registration required.
You can find the entire discussion programme for Paasivuorenkatu 3 at helsinkidesignweek.com.

Paasivuorenkatu 3 is hosting two installations inspired by HDW’s annual theme Underneath.🧊
Introducing:

Aalto ARTS Summer School
EMBODIED REFLECTIONS
(2024)

The interactive installation consisting of multiple screens describes the international, multicultural and multidisciplinary learning and co-teaching process of the Aalto ARTS Summer School, as well as the ideas and questions emerging from it through reflections. This installation highlights relevant, timely topics such as collective practice-based learning, brave experiments, multidisciplinary collaboration and the need to produce solutions for major global issues through art, design and digital media.

The contents of the work have been compiled together into a coherent whole based on the documentation produced by the summer school participants. The installation was designed and produced by Heidi Uppa, a designer and coordinator of the summer school.

⭐️Heidi Uppa is a Helsinki-based designer specialised in concept design, food experiences, branding, visual communication research and the development of design education.

Helsinki Design Week has commissioned the work as part of the ”Underneath” festival theme and its main event programme at Paasivuorenkatu 3. Explore the works and their creators at helsinkidesignweek.com.

Free entry!✨

📸 Justus Hirvi

Paasivuorenkatu 3 is hosting two installations inspired by HDW’s annual theme Underneath.☁️
First up we have:

CEILING UNDERCURRENTS
Liisa Ryynänen, Matti Ahopelto
(2024)

Ventilation ducts are modern building artifacts. They are constantly present in our everyday environments, attached to the underside of ceilings, and on and beneath surfaces. In design processes, ducts are often concealed and made invisible. Their architectural essence is defined by their hidden presence. The site-specific work, created in collaboration between artistarchitect Liisa Ryynänen and sound artist Matti Ahopelto, explores how objects that are indirectly perceived in everyday experiences enter into a new kind of interaction with space and the visitor.

⭐️Liisa Ryynänen (b. 1994, Rovaniemi) is a Helsinki-based artist-architect who works with site-specific and situation-specific installations. In recent years, Ryynänen’s work has focused on experimental fieldwork conducted on demolition sites of modern buildings, during which they document the buildings and collect building materials for their works.

⭐️Matti Ahopelto (b. 1987, Alajärvi) is a Helsinki-based composer, producer, musician and sound designer. Ahopelto is known as a multidisciplinary artist working in pop music, experimental music, contemporary art and film. His sound works have been heard at EMMA, Kiasma and Amos Rex.

Helsinki Design Week has commissioned the work as part of the ”Underneath” festival theme and its main event programme at Paasivuorenkatu 3. Explore the works and their creators at helsinkidesignweek.com.

Free entry!✨

📸 Justus Hirvi

TODAY 11 Sept is a Fashion Day at Paasivuorenkatu 3! ❤️‍🔥 Come by! Free entry!

4:30–5:30 PM: Nordic fashion experts discuss the opportunities offered by developing materials for creative design and new business models in the industry. 🧢
Speakers: Founder of Swedish brand Main Nué Maja Freiman❣️, Icelandic fashion designer Sól Hansdóttir❣️, stylist Claudia Cifu❣️ and doctoral researcher and designer Noora Yau❣️. Moderated by designer Anna Semi❣️.

6–7 PM: Keynote by the director of the Nordic organization ALPHA Ane Lynge-Jorlén❣️. The keynote will present experimental work by emerging Nordic fashion designers and share how the Nordic fashion organisation, ALPHA, empowers them through exhibitions and strengthens the wider Nordic fashion culture.

7–9 PM: Music played by friends of HDW! 🪩

Little Market with Tactic was a blast! 💥❣️

Tactic Games’ Picasso Tiles ensured inspiring entertainment for the playful minds from all ages.
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Thank you !

Our Main Venue Paasivuorenkatu 3 is OPEN!⭐️

This old bank hall is filled with lively afterwork discussions, music and more on 11–14 September.✨

Come for treat by .fi at Bar Unikko and enjoy the inspiring events!🎪

During the week, we’ll dedicate each day to a specific field of creativity; from fashion to graphic design, from architecture to urban planning.
See the full programme at http://helsinkidesignweek.com and join us – no tickets or pre-bookings needed!🪄

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❣️The family-owned, third-generation, and female-led company, Painotalo Niini, specializes in high-quality printed products and marketing materials.❣️

Their super team of professionals really made HDW 2024 look stunning💫

Thank you ! 🫶🏼

🍭PECHAKUCHA NIGHT is BACK!❣️

This Friday 13 Sept the Paasivuorenkatu 3 stage will present six different presentations with twenty images shown for twenty seconds. The content and presentation style are completely free, and usually a surprise!🪄

Put your party pants on and join the ride!👖🎠
Meet the speakers below ❣️

13 Sept
8 - 10 pm
Paasivuorenkatu 3, Helsinki
Free entry!

⭐️Noin Seitsemän is a creative collective founded in 2022 with a focus on graphic design and live visual performances.

⭐️Liisa Ryynänen is a Helsinki based artist-architect who works with site-specific and situation-specific installations. Their latest work is an installation exploring the aesthetics of modern ventilation ducts, which is currently on display in the former bank vault at Paasivuorenkatu 3, which also serves as the main venue for Helsinki Design Week.

⭐️Kasper Strömman is a Finnish design expert whose forte has always been showing pretty pictures and talking about them. He was elected graphic Designer of the Year in 2013.

⭐️Antero Jokinen is a Helsinki based Creative Director. His wide interests have led him down various creative avenues, including branding and visual design, scriptwriting, agency founding, chairing an organization, and even designing an exhibition for the Venice Biennale of Architecture – making him a bit of a Renaissance person.

⭐️Pietari Pyykönen is a Helsinki-based creative director and strategist whose agency, the idea atelier Ui ui (.studio), specializes in cultural relevance. Pyykönen values honesty, interdisciplinary thinking, meta-meta-meta, healthy audacity, intimate spectacles, and stretching conventions.

⭐️Dora Dalila Cheffi lives and works between Tunis and Helsinki. Her work encompasses painting, video and installation. Much of Cheffi’s work centers around observations and immediate experience, which are translated into works characterized by vivid colours and forms. She’s currently working on a new body of work that consists of a video piece and series of paintings.
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BIG NEWS!☄️

🌔Helsinki Design Night will wrap up Helsinki Design Week with a communal party open to everyone!✨

Saturday 14 September 8–11pm Paasivuorenkatu 3 FREE ENTRY👾

The evening’s surprise performer has now been revealed: it’s the one and only Jori Hulkkonen🪐, a living legend, who will treat the audience to an unprecedented three-hour improvisation set. The main venue will be completely transformed for the final evening – and we can’t wait for you to experience it. The event is free of charge, and everyone is welcome. The after-party will be held at Post Bar. ⚡️

Ideas conceived at night can sometimes be freer and wilder compared to those coming in bright daylight.🌙💫

Visual identity by ⭐️

Helsinki Design Night at the Main Venue - Helsinki Design Week 14.9. klo 20–23, Vuoden 2024 Helsinki Design Night muuttaa jälleen päätapahtumapaikan ihan uudeksi – ihan samoin kuin tutut kaupunkikulmammekin saattavat näyttää hämärässä toisenlaisilta. Paasivuorenkatu 3:n Bar Unikkoon tuodaan yllättävä kattaus live-musiikkia ja jatkot vietetään...

The Design Market 2024 is officially wrapped📦🚙🛒

🎪Thank you to all the vendors and visitors❣️
The weekend was a huge success. Hope to see you next year! 🫂

Helsinki Design Week continues until 15 September. Check out the full programme at helsinkidesignweek.com 🔗

Special thanks to






Espoon Kuriiri Oy

⭐️Aarteita ja tarinoita Collectors’ Marketilla!⭐️

Johanna ja Daniel Bruunin tuoli sekä m***a muuta aarretta ja tarinaa löydät Design Marketin Collectors’ Marketista. Tänään auki vielä klo 18 saakka.
Vapaa pääsy!🎪

”Olemme asuneet 28 vuotta samassa osoitteessa. Asuntomme on pikkuhiljaa muuttunut minimalistisesta ja tyhjästä tilasta lähes Tutankhamonin hautaa muistuttavaksi kokoelmaksi erilaisia huonekaluja. Yksikään esine ei ole päätynyt sattumalta kotiimme, vaan kaiken takana on ajatus muodosta, tarinasta, tekijästä, tapahtumasta tai jostain muusta meille merkityksellisestä asiasta.”
Johanna ja Daniel Bruun

Tervetuloa käymään!⭐️

Design Market DAY 2 let’s go!
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Last day to make great findings at the Cable Factory.
Come by!

Open today 11 am - 6 pm
Cable Factory
Sat & Sun 7 - 8 September

🍎Free entry!

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🎪Design Market täydessä vauhdissa!🎪

Tänään ja huomenna Kaapelitehdas on taas täynnä löytöjä!🪄

Aukioloajat:
La 7.9. - Su 8.9.
Klo 11-18

Vapaa pääsy, tervetuloa!🍎🎪

Tule kuuntelemaan keskustelua kaupunkisuunnittelusta ja muotoilusta HDW:n päätapahtumapaikalle! 💭🎪

Kartalla. Kartalle. -tapahtumassa kolme designosaajaa keskustelevat Helsingistä arkkitehtuuri- ja muotoilukaupunkina. Tilaisuudessa lanseerataan myös Helsingin kaupungin design- ja arkkitehtuurikartta🗺️Panelistien esittelyt löydät alta!❣️

Lauantai 14.9. klo 16-17
Paasivuorenkatu 3, Helsinki
Vapaa pääsy!
Keskustelu käydään suomeksi.

Panelistit:

Maisema-arkkitehti Janne Saarion suunnittelemia skeittipuistoja löytyy useista maista, ja yksin Helsingissä niitä on 14. Saario yhdistää puistoissaan toiminnallisuuden, esteettisyyden ja ympäristöystävällisyyden kokonaisuudeksi, jonka tavoitteena on inspiroida luovaan
liikkumiseen.

Helsingin designjohtaja Hanna Harris on erikoistunut arkkitehtuurin ja designin
näkyväksi tekemiseen sekä niiden tarjoamien mahdollisuuksien hyödyntämiseen
yhteiskunnassa.

Annaleena Hakola on intohimoinen muotoilun ja muotoiluosaamisen puolestapuhuja,
yli 60-vuotiaan perheomisteisen huonekaluyhtiö Hakolan luova johtaja.


Moderaattoreina toimivat Finnish Design Infon toiminnanjohtaja Kirsi Juva sekä Archinfon viestintäpäällikkö Miina Jutila.
Keskustelun järjestävät Finnish Design Info & Archinfo.


Kuvat:
Sakari Röyskö
Suvi Kesäläinen
Arto Saari

Tapahtuma on osa HDW:n päätapahtumapaikka Paasivuorenkatu 3 -keskustelusarjaa.
Päätapahtumapaikan päiväkohtaisen ohjelman löydät: helsinkidesignweek.com.

Join us this weekend for the Design Market at the Cable Factory! 🎪

Explore quality furniture, stylish interiors, and fashion. Discover unique treasures at the Collectors’ Market, find delightful children’s products at the Little Market, and get creative at Print Corner workshop in the Print Market.

Our detailed floor plan and vendor list makes it easy to find your favorites and navigate the event. And when it’s time for a break, will be serving up delicious treats to keep you going. 🍰☕

Design Market 7–8 September, 11 am - 18 pm at the Cable Factory. See you there! 🎈

Design Market is happening in a few days! We are ready to welcome the smallest of the family with toys provided by at Little Market. 🧸🎈

Please remember that strollers aren’t allowed inside the event space, but we’ve got you covered with a convenient stroller park near the M1 door in Merikaapelihalli.

See you there for a day full of design and play! 🌟

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Helsinki Design Week and Antilooppi, both known supporters and developers of vigorous city culture, share a similar set of values, which continues to make a strong ground for collaboration for the second time round. ✨
The common goal has this year been to get to know both the identity of the Hakaniemi area and the venue location, while developing it together with design professionals and the residents of the city.
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For HDW, it feels meaningful that Antilooppi refrains from simply leasing out premises and instead, focuses on creating flexible property solutions that are in a close connection to their surroundings. This means sustainably developing existing properties by bringing them to life, while not only developing the site but the whole area around it.
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Helsinki Design Weekly met Antilooppi’s Director of Customer Experience and Concepts Johanna Sarekoski and Markus Viiperi, Interior Architect and CEO of Franz Design Studio to discuss the possibilities of the space.
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“Paasivuorenkatu 3 is a prime example of our actions. It is a location that is very typically Helsinkian in that it was left under-utilised. It is also quite quirkily hidden behind a somewhat busy marketplace and a corner that hides a miniature park. The locale also comes with a bundle of history––which we cannot wait to uncover and bring back to life,” says Johanna Sarekoski. “Something which Helsinki Design Week are also extremely good at as event organisers!”✨

❣️See you next week! ❣️

Find the full story as well as the main venue programme schedule at helsinkidesignweek.com.

🖤Helsinki Design Weeklyn radio-ohjelma palaa aalloille!

Syksyn ensimmäinen vieras on Iittalan luova johtaja Janni Vepsäläinen!❤️

Helsinki Design Weekly on Suomen inspiroivin muotoilumedia, joka tarjoaa viikoittain ilmiöitä, uutisia ja keskustelua muotoilusta ja arkkitehtuurista. Ohjelmaa toimittaa Helsinki Design Weekin ohjelmajohtaja Anni Korkman, jonka seurassa ääneen pääsevät tämän hetken kiinnostavimmat luovat tekijät Helsingistä ja muualtakin.🖤

Uudet jaksot tutulla ohjelmapaikalla Radio Helsingin taajuuksilla torstai-iltapäivisin klo 12–13 ja podcastina pian lähetyksen jälkeen.
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Yhteistyössä:

The Embassy of Spain is taking over aperitif slot on 12 September in the Design Diplomacy series.🎈

🇪🇸 – The Residence of the Embassy of Spain in Helsinki is one of the emblematic works of the famous architect Aarne Ervi, designer of other buildings in Helsinki and in other Finnish cities. The building, which bears the name “Villa Himberg”, is considered one of the most representative buildings of Finnish architecture from the 1950s, with large glass surfaces. Built in 1954 for Arvo Himberg, it includes the Chancellery designed by Spanish architect Ángel Fernández Alba.

Raisa Álava is an artist based in Bilbao, working in the fields of illustration, printmaking, and ceramics. Her work is inspired by both lived and imagined experiences, collective memory, and especially random thoughts.
Some of her recent projects include editorial illustrations, artwork for music bands, solo shows, workshop programming, and site-specific installations like mural paintings.

Maija Louekari is a Finnish print designer and illustrator. After studying interior architecture and furniture design at Aalto University, she has designed patterns for Marimekko, mainly for home decoration, but also for fashion, bags and accessories. The patterns have been seen in big collaborations like Adidas x Marimekko.
Maija works with hand-drawing, paper cutting and painting. In work and also in personal life, Maija trusts in intuition and love.

12 September, 16-18pm

Register now at helsinkidesignweek.com

🍎Löytöjä Joutsenen Design Market -osastolla🍎

Laadukkaista untuvatuotteistaan tunnettu Joutsen on pehmentänyt käyttäjiensä arkea vuodesta 1936.

Upeat untuvankevyet lämmittäjät ulko- ja sisäpukeutumiseen sekä kuohkeat unituotteet odottavat juuri sinua.

Design Market Kaapelitehtaalla 7.-8.9. klo 11-18.
Vapaa pääsy!
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