Helsinki Design Week Events vol 2

Check out also these events on Helsinki Design Week:

Fashion Photo Helsinki
Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23
Free entry
Fri 27/8 - Sun 19/9
tue 11:00 - 20:00
wed - sun 11:00 - 18:00
Through the interpretation of Daniela Talvitie, a Brazilian fashion photographer, Fashion Photo Helsinki presents the audience with the hottest Finnish fashion. By mixing fashion with familiar urban spaces, the exhibition creates new world views in presenting top Finnish designers.
Fashion Photo Helsinki will premiere within the distinguished walls of the Design Museum during Helsinki's Night of the Arts on 27 August 2010.

Glass Design Update
Design Forum
Erottajankatu 7
Free entry
Fri 27/8 - Sun 19/9
mon - fri 10:00 - 19:00
sat 10:00 - 18:00
sun 12:00 - 17:00
Aalto University, School of Art and Design opened the touring exhibition Glass Design Update in Autumn 2009 as a part of Tokyo Designers Week. The selected participants are 13 MA degree students and professional young designers. Their fields are not only glass design but also painting, architecture, furniture design and product design.

FINLAND'S WORLD EXPO 2010 PAVILION FEATURED AT DESIGN FORUM
Design Forum
Erottajankatu 7
Free entry
Tue 1/6 - Sun 5/9
mon - fri 10:00 - 19:00
sat 10:00 - 18:00
sun 12:00 - 17:00
During the summer, the Finnish pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai and its content will be featured in an exhibition at Design Forum Finland. This miniature exhibition will present the pavilion, designed by JKMM Architects, and its design exhibition, created by the Muotohiomo agency. The showing at Design Forum has been designed by Mari Relander of Muotohiomo.
Opened to the public in the beginning of May, the pavilion at the World Expo 2010 presents a broad selection of Finnish design to the Chinese public. The World Expo's theme, Better City – Better Life, is an opportunity to display Finnish skills and know-how through the immediate human environment and the objects and artifacts of everyday life, an area of design in which Finland has always been prominent. In addition to the exhibition at Design Forum Finland, Finland at the World Expo 2010 is also presented on the Internet at www.finlandatexpo2010.fi.

Finnish Architecture 0809
Suomen rakennustaiteen museo
Kasarmikatu 24
Wed 9/6 - Sun 26/9
tue 10:00 - 16:00
wed 10:00 - 20:00
thu - fri 10:00 - 16:00
sat - sun 11:00 - 16:00
The biennial survey presents pickings from the leading edge of current Finnish architecture. This time the numerical emphasis is on housing and offices, but represented are also production plants, buildings for culture, education and infrastructure, and town planning projects. In addition to architectural quality, the works selected are united by their carefully considered relation to their context: culture, time and place. Besides new buildings, on display are some renovations.

Myötätuulessa - Helsinki Horizon 2030
Laituri
Narinkka 2
Fri 11/6 - Sat 4/9
tue - fri 10:00 - 18:00
sat 12:00 - 16:00
The Myötätuulessa (Fair Wind) exhibition unfurls the transformation of the old Helsinki seaport areas to future residential areas.

Multicoloured Dreams -Street Art Worksite
Available 24/7
Free entry.
Thu 26/8 - Sun 5/9
Multicoloured Dreams turns plywood fences of selected Helsinki worksites into street art galleries. The idea is to bring art to the streets and to create a more interesting and lively city environment.
Locations: the fences of Parliament House, Stockmann, Kluuvi and Makkaratalo.

UT Zero Energy House
Fredrikintori
Available 24/7
Free entry
Thu 26/8 - Sun 5/9
Next year a group of American universities will take part in the Solar Decathlon competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy. The aim of the competition is to design and build a zero-energy house. One of the teams participating in the competition is from the University of Tennessee. The team has designed and built a house in cooperation with interior design students from Helsinki’s Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. They have been asked to create the lighting and interior design for the house.
During the Helsinki Design Week, there is an opportunity to visit the house through an experiential exhibition at Fredrikintori. Big screens will show the team’s progress, from its first test house to the actual UT Zero Energy House that will participate in the competition. The story can be followed from a café in Fredrikintori in an atmosphere created by lighting specifically designed for the event. A platform will be built at the location with umbrellas hanging above which will aid the atmospheric lights.

Is it real?
Kamppi subway station,
Exhibition follows subway stations timetable.
Free entry.
Thu 26/8 - Sun 5/9
The unexpected events in everyday passageways - patterns forming on solid surfaces, seats in subway blooming…
The prints designed by the textile students are displayed in Kamppi subway station and subway train during Helsinki Design Week 2010.
“Is it real?” has been created in cooperation with Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, HKL, HSL and Pixmill Oy.

Kalevalakehto Opening
Southern tip of Seurasaari island, Helsinki
Thu 26/8 at 18.00 - 22.00
In August 26, the Kalevalakehto will open in Seurasaari; designed and built by American and Finnish students of architecture and design, it is inspired by the Kalevala as a modern design. The project will be located at Seurasaari, a natural place removed from the bustle of Helsinki, yet at its heart, a nexus of folklore, culture, and nature. What better place to create a 'legacy marker' to call forth all that makes Helsinki unique in the modern world: a crossroads of innovative ideas and networks, ancient mythology, and deep-rooted culture, with a strong legacy of modern design.
2009’s MyHelsinki project fostered the connection to Travis Price Architects and the Spirit of Place-Spirit of Design university design-build expedition program, which for fifteen years has brought architecture students to create meaningful places to echo and celebrate the most ancient cultural lyrics of place within a modern design. All the creations were at remote sites as diverse as the mountains of Machu Picchu to the rugged west coast of Ireland to the sacred sites of Nepal.
Spirit of Place-Spirit of Design stirred a heartfelt resonance in Helsinki, steeped in its deep ancestral mythology, the Kalevala, while celebrating its identity as a world-class design city. The timing of the Kalevalakehto is ideal with the foundation of Aalto University, and the celebration of Helsinki as 2012 World Design Capital.
Guidance to the site starts on the bridge of Seurasaari at 5.30pm. The opening ceremony starts on the site at 6 pm.

Tiia Vanhatapio 5 Year Jubilee Showcase!
Hotel Katajanokka, Merikasarminkatu 1a
Free entry.
Thu 26/8 - Thu 26/8 at 19.00
Tiia Vanhatapio's five-year jubilee catwalk show at Hotel Katajanokka courtyard. Presenting the best of her best!

Windows Installations
Confirmed locations inside event.
Free entry.
Opening times may vary.
Fri 27/8 - Sun 5/9 at 17.00 - 21.00
Windows Installations is multiple venue exhibition across downtown Helsinki. Artists and designers are being commissioned to create a piece for the participating shop windows based around the theme of Storytelling, allowing art to temporarily take over these traditionally commercial spaces.
Open times will vary depending on the shop, but the installations should be viewable through the windows even if the shop is closed.
Find out more here: http://www.helsinkidesignweek.com/designmarket/event/8/77---windows-installations

HIT happens!
Design Forum
Erottajankatu 7
Free entry
Fri 27/8 - Sun 19/9
mon - fri 10:00 - 19:00
sat 10:00 - 18:00
sun 12:00 - 17:00
John Void, Kamui, Kaamos. An energetic exhibition from three design groups. On display is furniture designed for use and living.

ilusion 2010 -exhibition
Remanderin talo, Aleksanterinkatu 16-18
Opening 27.8, 20-24
Free entry.
Sat 28/8 - Sun 12/9 at 12.00 - 20.00
Illusion 2010 exhibition displays most interesting visual designs used in Finnish theatre during last couple of years.
Exhibition is a collaboration between The Union of Finnish Scenographers and Association of Finnish sound and lighting designers.

Eat&Joy Farmers Market at Harri Koskinen's studio
Saariniemenkatu 8 D
Free entry
Sun 29/8 at 12.00 - 18.00
Designer Harri Koskinen opens his studio to the public together with the Eat&Joy Farmers' Market and HarriKoskinenWorks = food and design from Finnish small producers!