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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.

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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.

Read more about Helsinki as a City of Design

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.

Blog posts about design

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

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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.

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World’s first computer-themed playground

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

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Events

06.09.2024

Helsinki Design Week

The annual Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. The 2024 festival takes place 6-15 September 2024.

03.10.2024

Service Design Global Conference 2024

The Service Design Global Conference 2024 (SDGC24) is a global event for professionals and design enthusiasts alike, which will be organised in Helsinki in Autumn 2024. 

What's on

Proposal for an architectural programme for Helsinki published – next step is political decision-making

19.04.2024

Cabriolet proposal wins Autotalo architecture competition

18.04.2024

Design competition begins for new Architecture and Design Museum in Helsinki

15.04.2024

Seventy applicants in bid to design the Meri-Rastila multi-purpose building

04.04.2024

Competition proposals for the Autotalo block open for public comments

13.03.2024

Winners of the Heart of Helsinki student competition propose bold measures for the area reaching from Helsinki Market Square to Töölönlahti Bay

13.03.2024 All news