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The Fourth Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale Explores the Sense of Water
The Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale opens on 7 June 2026 and runs until the end of August. Now in its fourth edition, the international event for contemporary art, design and architecture once again brings a thought-provoking program to the historic ironworks village of Fiskars. The exceptionally well-preserved village environment and the river that…
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The main venue for Helsinki Design Week is Suomitalo
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Helsinki Design Week festival (5–14 September) will open the doors of Suomitalo. This historic commercial office building, completed in 1911, is located right in the heart of the city at Lönnrotinkatu 5, by the Old Church Park (Vanha kirkkopuisto). The event will feature the Designing Happiness main exhibition,…
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Helsinki Design Week and Habitare join forces
Helsinki Design Week and Habitare join forces as creators of the future – aiming to offer one strong platform for design industry. Helsinki Design Week and Habitare are joining forces and starting an extensive and long-term collaboration. The aim is to strengthen the design industry and to promote a dialogue between designers and companies in…
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The main venue of Helsinki Design Week 2023 is Merikortteli
The design and architecture festival Helsinki Design Week presents the city again from a new angle. This September the festival will gather people together in an industrial block of buildings, a maritime quarter full of character in the shipyard district of Punavuori. Storytelling is an important element in successful design, and Helsinki Design Week’s (8–17…
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The winner of the Helsinki Design Award is Päivi Raivio
A joint award by the City of Helsinki and Helsinki Design Week recognizes a designer or a design team for making Helsinki a better place to live in. The winner of the 2022 Helsinki Design Award is designer Päivi Raivio. During her career, Päivi Raivio has dedicated her work to creating better public spaces. Together…
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Helsinki Design Week 2021
HDW brings its main exhibition U-JOINTS, the Office of the Future installation series and the What Is Wise to Design Now? programme as well as the super popular Design Market under one roof at Glasshouse Helsinki in the centre of Helsinki. As always, there will be fun things to explore and do for the children,…
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The Helsinki Design Week programme has been published
Helsinki Design Week 2020 will be held from 3 to 13 September. Its main venue will be the recently renovated Helsinki Olympic Stadium including an exhibition open to the public from 11 to 13 September. See the programme here The main exhibition, PechaKucha Night and Children’s Design Weekend will take place at the Stadium. The…
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Helsinki Design Week celebrates design in September
The 16th annual Helsinki Design Week will be held on 3–13 September 2020. The festival events will again spread throughout the city: from museums to markets, from seminar halls to secret shops, from studios to showrooms and from offline to online events and encounters. Helsinki Design Week is a series of responsibly organized events of…
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Helsinki is Beijing Design Week’s Guest City 2020
Helsinki has been selected as Beijing Design Week’s Guest City in 2020. Helsinki will organise diverse events in Beijing over three weeks to present Helsinki as a design city and as a pioneer in the utilisation of design expertise. Beijing Design Week 2020, held from 22 September–7 October 2020, is the largest and most notable…
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Kari Korkman „there is a wide grey area in-between art and design”
Din 2010, promotori ai industriilor creative