Helsinki designs good life

Helsinki is known for good design and longstanding traditions in design. Design is a method for Helsinki to build a functional and equal city. Design is a tool to understand the needs of citizens and to solve meaningful challenges.

This is how Helsinki designs

10.05.2023

Helsinki City Museum

The Helsinki City Museum is one of the most popular museums in Finland. The City Museum updated its concept, vision and customer profiles with the help of design professionals.

27.04.2022

Playgrounds

Playgrounds are one of the main services of families with children in Helsinki, bringing families and children together. The playground design project addressed the appeal, accessibility and communications of the playground services.

31.03.2022

Digital design

Helsinki strives to be the city that makes the best use of digitalisation in the world. Design lies at the heart of digital services development and the implementation of the City of Helsinki digitalisation programme. With more than 1,000 digital channels, the City tackles a major design task.

New Museum for Architecture and Design

A new museum of architecture and design is coming to Helsinki. It will offer a setting for Finnish design and architecture and international dialogue.

World’s first computer-themed playground

Helsinki has built a computer-themed playground, reportedly the first of its kind in the world, where children learn about computers and programming through play.

Blog posts about design

Welcome to read articles about design and how cities are developed through design!

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Events

03.10.2025

Winner! Finalists in the Design Competition for the New Museum of Architecture and Design

The "Winner!" exhibition offers a glimpse into the museum of the future. It presents the winning design and the four other finalists, while exploring the competition’s many stages and the remarkable diversity of ideas submitted. Exhibition is open 3.10.2025–8.2.2026.

28.08.2026

Helsinki Design Week

The annual Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. Next festival takes place 28 August - 6 September 2026.

Helsinki designs good life

Helsinki designs good life

This is how Helsinki designs

Helsinki City Museum

Playgrounds

Digital design

New Museum for Architecture and Design

World’s first computer-themed playground

Blog posts about design

Events

Winner! Finalists in the Design Competition for the New Museum of Architecture and Design

Helsinki Design Week

What's on

Helsinki Biennial 2025 attracted over half a million visitors

The design competition for the Hermanninranta Biodiversity Park has started

JKMM Architects’ Kumma wins competition to design Finland’s new Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki

Renovation of Ylä-Malmi Market Square to begin in September

Helsinki Design Award to Aalto University’s Designs for a Cooler Planet

Helsinki investing in market squares – individual profiles for 13 squares