Helsinki is known for good design and longstanding traditions in design. Design is a method for Helsinki to build the most functional city in the world. Design is a tool to understand the needs of citizens and to solve meaningful challenges.
Read more about Helsinki as a City of DesignHelsinki is known for good design and longstanding traditions in design. Design is a method for Helsinki to build the most functional city in the world. Design is a tool to understand the needs of citizens and to solve meaningful challenges.
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Oodi is the biggest design project of Helsinki. Here successful service design is combined with contemporary Finnish architecture.
Design education brings design thinking to schools to support teaching and learning. Design supports creative problem solving and inspires learners to explore and to reshape the world around them.
The City of Helsinki Urban Environment Division moved into a new office building in summer 2020. From the beginning, the personnel were heavily involved in the design of the facilities and the development of a new kind of working environment.
Helsinki is the Guest City of Beijing Design Week 2021. Helsinki’s Design Week programme Designing Better Life presents sustainable and smart solutions for education and urban development to international audiences.
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Helsinki has established traditions in designing good everyday life. Over the course of a ten-year design journey, design has earned a permanent place in the city’s core functions.
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Organised on 7 December 2021 by the City of Helsinki, the Designing Better Life – Helsinki Meets Japan hybrid event brings together Finnish and Japanese health and education pioneers.
The annual Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. The 2022 festival takes place 8-18 September 2022.