Co-Creating a Sustainable City breakfast discussion, organized with Punavuori based +Studio in September focused on pioneering sustainable lifestyles and businesses, and on how everyone could contribute in building a more sustainable way of living in the city and beyond. Photo: Arsi Ikäheimonen
Dear Readers - It’s the last day of 2012 and it’s been terribly silent at the blog front. That of course means that the year has been exciting and busy in other ways. 2012 has passed so fast and so full of events it’s hard to believe it’s been only one year.
After touring with Helsinki Beyond Dreams in London, New York, Helsinki and beyond, and participating in numerous inspiring events and discussions, it’s finally become time to start new projects. In the previous years I have been spending a lot of time with grassroots and especially working on the question of how to create better dialogue with citizens, planners and policy makers. A logical step now is to learn more about how the world of policy making works. This logic has led me to a new and exhiting project: I have become a bureaucrat for a year and moved my office to the Ministry of the Environment. The new project is part of Sitra’s Design Exchange Programme, which aims to offer goverment new tools and new ways of thinking through strategic design. (more…)
Overview of the HEL YES! interior in London. Photo by Adam Laycock
The HEL YES! project, which has recently gained a lot of publicity in London, is now travelling towards Helsinki. In January 2011, an industrial hall in the former harbour area of Kalasatama will be transformed into a temporary restaurant. The project was first organised by the Finnish Institute in London, in order to promote Finnish culture during the London Design festival in September 2010. In Helsinki, the project will be presented as it was in London. (more…)
During the past summer of 2010, the Londoners have had the chance to witness an ingenious example of turning a derelict petrol station into an exciting public space. The Cineroleum is a project by a collective of young artists, architects and designers, who have transformed a empty petrol station on Clerkenwell Road, London, into a hand-built cinema. The space is constructed with primarily donated and found materials. The theatre space, enclosed from the street only by curtains, is truly a street-side cinema exposed to the city – but at the same time a very intimate interior. (more…)
© Johnny Gao / LCDC
In the context of London Design Festival 2009, AA school grad students presented a pop-up installation with a portable, self sufficient cinema. This giant glow-worm structure was originally designed for an Ethiopian town, Lalibela. In December 2008, the Lalibela Cinema Design Collective (LCDC) organized a 5-night “Lalibela Touring Film Festival”. The Ethiopian community was presented with David Attenborough’s documentary of the oceans, the Blue Planet. The LCDC is now seeking funding for a permanent cinema in Lalibela, along with other long-term aid projects.
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© StudioSuperniche
I found this project at dezeen.com, one of my favourite architecture blogs. A London design students’ group StudioSuperniche is designing an “Olympic Legacy Toolkit”, a set of temporary structures made of the blue plywood fence that has surrounded the London 2012 Olympic Games’ site since its construction began in 2006. The fence is now being displaced with wire mesh and StudioSuperniche has tackled the opportunity. (more…)
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