OHO, a creative approach on Helsinki, Helsinki Design Week

09 1 - -2016 PB

OHO

A creative approach on Helsinki #1

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Jälki

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Maya Pillai

Jälki

If you live in Helsinki, then walking through a forest is a part of your daily routine.

There are so many wooded areas in the city that sometimes we forget the gems that it holds. In this project I have marked some clues inside a forest, that if you decided to investigate you would find a spot for mushroom picking, a trail that may lead you to rabbits or if lady luck were on your side, you’d spot a fox or two.

The idea was also to keep the markers as subtle as possible and ensure that they do not become an eyesore in the forest.

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Retno Hadiningdiah & Larissa Matheus

The Winter Blues Watcher Project

The Winter Blues Watcher Project dwells on the long and dark winter days in Helsinki, Finland where energy level is low and humans are prone to isolation.

We examined the struggles that come from this dark period and how locals have coped with this issue in the past, and came up with a lighter approach on how to stay warm both on the outside and on the inside this coming winter.

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Retno Hadiningdiah & Larissa Matheus

The Winter Blues Watcher Project

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Bazaar

Itäkeskus is a quarter in the eastern part of Helsinki. The district’s main attraction is the largest covered-in shopping mall in the Nordic countries, Itis.

Separated by the highways, there are three different of nodes: one is the STOA cultural center and public library, Itis is the main node and the third one is for small shops and a supermarket.

Transition from cultural public space to a consumption-orientated shopping Transition from big brands to local shop-owners.

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The story of Bazaar starts from an ordinary pedestrian bridge!

Chau Nguyen

Bazaar

BAZAAR is the story about an eccentric market which is situated from the connection brigde between Itis and the K-supermarket mall. This unconventional bazaar exists in-between and within the mall. The feeling of “bazaar” remarkably differs to the commercial shopping mall.

My name is Mansoor Jalali, from Afganistan.

This is a household shop.

I have been in Finland just for 1.5 to 2 years.

Helsinki is a nice place for business. I also get a lot of Finnish customers.

The food is boring, but fish is delicious.

Finnish is difficult to learn. Sometimes I go to Itäkeskus library to join the discussion group to practise Finnish.

I have been in Finland for 10 years in different cities.

Moving from Kuopio to Helsinki, I feel the capital more well-serviced.

However I feel bored in the city. - the Vietnamese waiter.

I am from Turkey, already 15 years in Finland. I run this restaurant for four to five years. Here we offer all good dishes of kebab.

I am living in Mellunmäki, an area close to here.

- the restaurant owner

I am Mehmet from Turkey.

This is our family business with my brothers. I have been 18 years in Finland.

Currently I am living in Hämeenlinna, 100 kilometers from Helsinki.

Why do I live there?

Because I bought my private house in that town.

Here we sell products from everywhere. Have a nice day! - Mehmet the grocery man I am from Estonia. I speak fluently Finnish. How do I think about Helsinki?

A nice place. - the shop owner

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This projects consists of a number of photos taken through interviews with people in Helsinki. Tourist far away from Japan, girls enjoying wonderful sunshine in the new opened sea pool, kids performing their instrument on the street, native couples and backpackers.

We are concerned not only with the expressive, communicative possibilities between people but also with the social, cultural consequences of living within the city. To find out how a city can reflect itself in different eyes.

Yuzhou Wang & Yi-Hsuan Li

For me, Helsinki is “ �

Helsinki is a city with a rich mixture of colors. From forests and lakes to historical architectures, a variety of colors leave a deep impression in people’s minds.

But if you have to choose one color that can represent Helsinki. Which color would it be?

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Yuzhou Wang & Yi-Hsuan Li

For me, Helsinki is “ ”

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Yuzhou Wang & Yi-Hsuan Li

For me, Helsinki is “ ”

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Yuzhou Wang & Yi-Hsuan Li

For me, Helsinki is “ ”

This color charts shows people’s preference of colors of Helsinki from 83 interviewees.

To know more on https://www.facebook.com/For-Me-Helsinki-is--1087224024648828/

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Spark Life

Kilian Kottmeier, Leena Närekangas

Is a project that explores how the aged people of Helsinki could take ownership of the city parks. We visited nearly 20 parks in Helsinki and found a lot of grass and benches - located far from each other. We also went to the Kamppi Service Center to interview their customers during their weekly dancing routines and found out that they have plenty of ideas on how to spark life in parks.

Kilian Kottmeier, Leena Närekangas

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You can dance anywhere if there is music It doesn’t have to be dancing it can be anything that draws people together Ritva and Paavo

Ritva, 71 and Paavo, 75

« It looks deserted and lonely, it definately needs something » Eila

« I don’t go to parks because the benches are so uncomfortable » Anneli

Anneli, 79

« I would like to have more flowers and trees and related information.

That would spark discussions with strangers » Eila

« I wouldn’t want to take part in activities but I would like to watch them » Anneli

« I visited parks in japan and did morning exercise there, that was fun. I think people would be interested in doing that here too » Marita

Spark Life

« Oh dear there is only one bench… uh there is another one but its too far » Marita

Marita, 82

« One bench is not enough in a park, at least when its not within a group. Ther are so many different kind of benchens and this one is not appealing » Ritva, Paavo

Eila, 76

« It would be nice to have tablesets and a street coffee, then I would sit down and have a cup of coffee and iceream well then things become complicated but then you would spend time there » Ritva and Paavo

«It would also be nice to have bird houses » Eila

« Swings like the ones where you can sit opposit each other… that would be lovely » Ritva and Paavo

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Vision

Bird Swings are the answer to the need of having attractive and functional benches in parks. Swings for all ages have a long history in Finland. The swaying motion has been found to have a calming effect and it strengthens deep stomach and back muscles.

Enabling people to have a conversation, the swings are located close to each other. In an ideal situtation you could find several groups of them around the park; sometimes in a group of two or three swings or solo swing those who want to have some quiet time for themselves.

The birds sitting on the top bar are lamps, a playful element that also increases the feeling of safety by bringing more light sources to the park.

Kilian Kottmeier, Leena Närekangas

Spark Life

Park Stages Having several parks distributed across the city equipped with a small stage and shelter could help bringing life into Helsinki city parks. The stage could be booked by associations, groups or teams for small events. Thereby the parks could be integrated into a larger infrastructure which would ensure that people from different parts of the city could meet and interact within the otherwise empty parks.

Activities could include dancing events, or singalong events, or any kind of workshops such as building birdhouses.

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Marko Mrkobrad

Users guide for Helsinki buses

One can find tricky to use public transport in Helsinki for the first time. This booklet is supposed to help tourists, in avoiding difficulties in the Helsinki area.

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HOW TO PLAY (DIGITAL EDITION): Go to the starting place and launch the app (yet to be released). Select if you are playing individually or as a group. Join the current game session and start a new turn.

Every day a new sessions starts at 4pm and ends at 4am.

SCORING POINTS: 1 points for each location check-in 2 points each time you ‘sell’ a location 3 points each time you ‘buy’ a location 5 points if two people join each other to form a new team 10 points if two teams join each other to form a new team Note: you can score the same location again, if it has been owned by someone else since you last checked in.

Jose Jacome

Kallio pub crawl™

PURPOSE OF THE GAME: The purpose of this game is to get to know the bars in the Kallio area and meet people. It can be played by single individuals or in groups. This is not a heavy drinking game, it’s a game for human interaction.

You score points for moving around, exploring and entertaining others.

HOW TO PLAY (PRINT EDITION): Grab a printed copy of the map and two dice. Decide if you are playing individually or as a group. To join a session, look for other players using the app or maps. Every day a new sessions starts at 4pm and ends at 4am.

GAME TURN: 1. Choose if you want to travel clockwise or anti-clockwise on the map. 2. Throw the dice to see your next destination and find your way there. 3. Take a selfie or group photo in front of the entrance to check in. 4a. If the location is free you now ‘own’ it. 4b. If another player ‘owns’ it you HAVE to ‘buy’ it: - Buy a location by amusing other player(s), doing a dare or buying ONE drink; - Once the other player(s) accept your efforts you become the new ‘owner’ of the location. 5. Once you are ready to leave or ‘sell’ your to location to someone you should start a new round.

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Jose Jacome

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Kallio pub crawl™

SPECIAL CASES MERGING: If two people (or teams) are happy with each other’s company they can merge and play toghether. They are now a new single team and their points are added up.

DISPUTES: There is no special mechanism to solve disputes, players agree that they are willing to take part in the game in good faith. You cannot kick-out anyone from any location and ‘buying’ and ‘selling’ locations is done by mutual agreement. If you find yourself in an unsolved dispute just start a new turn and move along.

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Hazal Alkan

Talk!

Today’s technonogical advancements bring our voices closer, but ourselves further. In an urbanized place like Helsinki, people have difficulty to interact with others. Throughout the history of Finnish culture, sauna has been always a socially connected place . Therefore, Talk! is inspired by the sauna environment where people communicate and open themselves. It uses wood and stones to stimulate the feelings of warmness and comfort.

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Kotryna Naraškevičiūtė

Explore Helsinki

Do you enjoy running in the city? Do you want to run 5km, 21km or full marathon in one of the Nordic capitals - Helsinki? Would you like to explore Helsinki as well? Do you want to know where to go, what to see? Do you want to track your running time and the places you have visited? Get the Explore Helsinki map or app and start your route!

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Kotryna Naraškevičiūtė

Explore Helsinki

A approach 40creative - PB on Helsinki

During Helsinki Design Week students of visual communication, product design, and architecture at Aalto University spent a week exploring Helsinki neighbourhoods and local topics from different perspectives.

The participants developed themes and concepts referring to the neighbourhood based on social issues, personal experiences, and visual language.

Design thinking, design skills, and public participation are key tools and drivers for this project. They are all used as the methodology to explore, analyze, visualize and respond to the neighbourhood’s life and its people. The workshop aims to encourage social change-makers within this community. Once sensitised to their social and cultural context, participants are encouraged to take an active and responsible role towards a complex urban environment they live and work in.

Helsinki Design Week presents the new faces and phenomena of design, promotes design internationally in collaboration with various partners, and offers city citizens a design forum to discuss and develop the city and its culture. The festival programme contains around 200 events every year and includes both events targeted for professionals and the general public.

A big thank you goes out to all who made this project possible: Helsinki Design Week, Aalto University’s Department of Media, the Dutch Embassy in Helsinki and, of course, to all the student participants. The social design workshop is an initiative from andrews:degen, a researchbased graphic design agency located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

For all the results check www.mappingthecity.com